Getting out of bed is hard, actually. And has been hard for weeks now. What a cruel twist that depression, by its very definition, actively prevents you from doing anything that might make you feel better.
I kind of really want a Cricut.
Obama and Mamdani telling a story to children. They have their hands raised and they look surprised,
"And then all the right-wingers heads exploded like BOOM!"
So, his DUI+theft do make deportation plausible (if my perspective's off, someone please enlighten me)...but not in such a inhumane, barbaric way. ICE is monstrous.
And the temporary lapse of his visa wasn't a criminal act and shouldn't be held against him. But of course they're doing exactly that.
SEATTLE: sign the letter for our representatives to voice our dissent against the proposed 5 new datacenters, which will use 1/3 of the city's energy, and also generally contribute to the scourge that is generative AI.
actionnetwork.org/letters/18b9...
I wonder if The Pitt has impacted Pittsburgh’s tourism numbers?
The exterior shots are all the real thing. PGH Trauma Med Center = real-world Allegheny General Hospital. They even use actual Allegheny Health Network choppers!
It’s such a great city. I’m grateful for all my years there.
shoutout to all the people calling The Pitt just Pitt
hail to Pitt, I guess, right
Pittsburgh has a TON going on. A history of jazz, an underground punk scene, hipsters, tech, and a bit of extreme granola. This is absolutely plausible.
Ironically, at least when I moved away a few years ago, Pittsburgh had the last remaining reproductive health services within a wide radius.
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.
![“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:guthikarwozoldkzhueivkl6/bafkreihklvhtymho7wpemo5mj2f7xaiq6ulvfvcwnzo6hjstg3wixzgesy)
“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”
Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
Also, “academia and the left wing”…lol. Racists perpetuate anti-Indian stereotypes. End of story.
All these absolute winners belong in the #DesiHallOfShame, though I daresay they’re all in there already.
I keep hearing people say
that this pandemic
broke our society,
that this pandemic
profoundly broke our society,
and while that may be
I cannot help but think
that what this pandemic
has truly done to our society
is reveal
just how profoundly broken
it already was.
Awesome! Thanks for that. Take care, I hope things work out this month for you. 💜
WHAT, there was a waterspout over Puget Sound within the hour?!?? #tornado #waterspout #seawx #wawx #seattle #PugetSound
www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...
(Of course if not, I’ll gladly send you $$ via ko-fi, too.)
Hi, are you still selling prints or stickers? I’ve had a few of yours in the back of my mind for a bit, and if buying them would give you financial support, I’ll gladly do so!
Every other politician in the United States RN
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
I’ll confess that I’ve kept up with this on-and-off, via Atozy on YouTube. He did some horrible things in Japan as well, prior to his 1.5 years in SK, and in general he’s been an obnoxious public nuisance.
He disrespected the judge of his own trial repeatedly.
And his parents disowned him.
He’s in prison with labor for 6 months, and he’s barred from being anywhere with women, children, and vulnerable groups for 5 years.
Prison labor might = factory work. Kind of shitty to use incarcerated people for cheap labor. (US brands have done the same.)
But, GOOD RIDDANCE.
#JohnnySomali
Cook off = cork off, like a wine bottle cork popping off? Or was it really hot? I’m not familiar with the phrase.
FUCKING LEAVE SUBSTACK
NO SHIT THEY SUPPORT NAZIS
IF YOU BIG PUBS LEFT SUBSTACK
THEY WOULD HAVE LESS $$ FFS
a lot of us already made the leap because we believe that fighting fascism is more important than doing the easy thing and complaining about it
hey support NAZI-FREE liberatory writing:
a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position
Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
Aaahh Ikea! Thanks - I knew I was forgetting something obvious. Seattle’s Ikea is a pain in the ass to get to, but that’s what weekends are for…
Ooh, thanks! I have never shopped there - I’ll look them up!
What non-problematic stores can I go to for trash cans and home organization stuff? Target, Home Depot, and Lowe’s are out. Walmart was never in. Ace Hardware doesn’t have the types of trash cans I’m looking for. I flat-out can’t think of anyone else.
Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon all have headquarters in Seattle. This year the Seattle School District has an 80 million dollar shortfall.
www.amazon.in/Tackling-Con...
I just discovered that #Amazon is charging for a Kindle copy of my e-book, which the publishers and I published CC-licensed and free of cost. We didn't list it on Amazon, only on Archive .org, the publisher's site, and Google Play.
