wrinkles the clown.....

what the fuck was that.....

Emotions are a type of information

The thing about these religious exemptions to public accommodation civil rights law that the court is creating is that they have no limiting principle. If commercial enterprises can refuse to serve me because my marriage is gay, why not because it’s interracial? Why not because I’m a woman in pants?

if you’re in seattle and need these services or know someone who does - spread it. my friend goes often and says the volunteers wear vests with all the languages they speak displayed on the back. they even have acupuncture and speech therapy. they get dental and vision and the services are quality

“Funded by grants and donations, this four-day clinic transforms facilities on Seattle Center’s campus normally used for performances and events into a fully functioning healthcare operation offering dental, vision, and medical care to anyone who struggles to access or afford services.”

seattle folks:
april 23-26th seattlecenter.org/skcclinic/

“Seattle/King County Clinic brings together healthcare organizations, civic agencies, nonprofits, businesses, and thousands of volunteers to produce the largest community-driven free health clinic of its kind in the United States.”

Tent labeled "this is student housing" outside Seattle Central College

“This is student housing”
A person wrote on their tent outside Seattle Central College, USA.
When your home becomes a site of protest, viral art installation and indictment of the capitalist economic system.
Instead of hiding class violence, they chose to highlight it for all to see.

for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.

I have a loved one who says he was self-made and then he talks about his family getting food assistance when he was young and taking advantage of public school vocational programming to learn job skills and it’s like… You’re not self-made. We made you. And it was worth every fucking penny.

I consistently repeat to folks that they do not in fact ever *succeed* on their own. Sometimes the assistance is visible, often it is submerged. None of the USian billionaires *succeeded* on their own. In fact, most of them continue to benefit from your money, labor, etc....

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

Johnny Depp is in a lot of cologne ads for someone who looks like they just hit a Febreze bath after a smoke break

nah, they should continue to lose customers
fuck that

like my week couldn’t get worse i just saw a dead cat run over on the street

FUCK, this is why you don’t let your cats roam outside and why you need to neuter and spay your pets.
people don’t let their dogs roam free alone but our society disregards cat safety

one wonderful thing about being a man is there's always a worse one

“Okay but you’re joking. That’s far too simple.” It is literally always that stupid.

It’s a political movement with no principle besides the performance of domination, and as such it is very attuned to appearances. And the Catholic converts within it are Catholic converts because they think the Catholic appearances are cooler. (They are correct about this.)

What you have to understand is that Catholics have much better drip

A Greenway in Chicago

Drivers should be tolled for every block of Greenway they drive on. These streets could be soooo much prettier and safer if we got drivers off of them and onto the arterials.

vivace is THE OG coffee spot
you can thank them for your latte art

the money dried up or something

who knew that words and behavior have meaning

It’s tempting to look at my white Gen X friends, who all remain lefties, and think it’s not true. But then I remember that when we met in the 80’s and 90’s, we flocked so close together precisely because everyone else was SO reactionary. Brett Kavanaughs everywhere you looked, then and now.

Like we literally are the owner gen of OG Bros - first they were mullet wearing john hughes bros, then frat bros, then tech bros, now billionaire bro simps…it’s literally not hard to see how we got here people.

I blame Reagan for everything.

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

Is AI the greatest art heist in history? New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it

"We are replaced by digital homunculi, trained on our stolen creations. And no, the work is not good, but that scarcely matters. Generative AI is a tool to discipline, then eliminate, the human worker. The audience will just have to get used to it. This is sold as progress," writes Molly Crabapple.

magnolia trees going hard in chicago and they are beautiful, but nothing beats rhododendrons in seattle.

just saw a video of someone eating at a restaurant in massachusetts that serves clam chowder AND sushi…..

i’m so glad im from the west coast