god I hate tree bukkake season

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Tbh I would travel. Talk to people in different cultures, experience other ways of life.

the middle one is a troublemaker.

My brain started singing “Hope it brings you hell hope it brings you hellllll” and now I’m wondering if maybe I should start addressing certain emails to government officials this way

I solve this problem by never reading my email until I eventually get overwhelmed by how many unread emails I have and then I just select all unread and delete them 😂😭

What the fuck

R.I.P. Iris Long, a Lifesaving HIV Treatment Activist and Ally A retired pharmaceutical chemist in the early days of AIDS, Iris Long shared vital knowledge with fellow activists in ACT UP New York.

“Long was a retired pharmaceutical chemist living in Queens, New York, when AIDS emerged as a global threat in the 1980s … Long shared her knowledge with activists in ACT UP New York, working directly with them on effective ways to pressure researchers to test and market lifesaving drugs.”

Bird with red head and black and white feathers perched on branch

Bird with black and white feathers perched on branch with budding purple flowers

Gray bird fluffing its feathers while perched on small branch

Red bird with black face perched on branch

Important reminder

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstruction

"Upon their return, the entire team was fired without explanation, though Cellini believes the university was afraid because they had found 'too many slaves' and could be bankrupted as a result, he told the Guardian last year." www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Here’s is the problem with characterizing J6 as viewpoint discrimination: it is not. It was an attempt to overturn a lawful election. We have been here as scholars and we have a choice for history: we cannot rewrite public memory to excuse violent anti-democratic acts.

in my day we used to call this "Sex Tourism" for "Mail order Brides."

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”

― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

Not stupid at all! It’s great to keep these skills up.

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

I really appreciate how that shows up in the book to be honest! I hope it translates to the movie

Kenyan firm sacks more than 1,000 workers after losing Meta contract Meta paused work with Sama last month after allegations about staff viewing private scenes filmed by smart glasses

I’m sure this is unrelated to the fact that last month data workers revealed they were asked by Meta to review video from Meta Ray Bans of user’s intimate moments like having sex or using the bathroom.

I’m sorry he got so blackout drunk they had to ask for SWAT door busting equipment?!

I know, this feels like exactly how Santacon dies, so wildly different from when it was born, almost its polar opposite in fact

I'm going to be honest, 80% of this is probably streaming revenue from the video where he doesn't wear a shirt

SantaCon president allegedly stole $1M to spend on luxury lifestyle The money was allegedly spent on a luxury home, $3,000 meal and other extravagances.

I read this and my first thought was “Santacon has a PRESIDENT???”

I remember when it was anti capitalist anarchic weirdo art rather than…. Whatever this is

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This looks beautiful! I am still mastering sourdough, this gives me hope that I’ll get there

Bad day for anyone who ever used Etsy to print shipping labels.

So, even if you closed your Etsy years ago, make sure they didn't just bill you several hundred dollars for fun and make sure you get your money back.

20 year olds make mistakes. Living this kinda life? That ain't a mistake. That's a series of choices that reflect a necrotic soul.

UPDATE: The LAPD officer at the center of this story -- Vincent Deglinnocenti -- is no longer an LAPD officer. Last month he surrendered his license to be a cop in CA. This comes a year after my reporting pushed the LAPD to investigate Deglinnocenti for pulling a gun on a teen. @lataco.bsky.social

Text says “ oh, you two are a couple? So which one of you is” and a picture of the cast of the 16th season of taskmaster “and which one is” with a photo of the finale of the escape the green room episode of game changer

Gonna start saying this to straight couples

The pitying "oh sweetie" look Adam Hegerty throws him is diabolical. Just soul-ending work.

I can tell the United States does not have the best possible political system because we put a psychotic pedophile with dementia in charge of the most powerful military on earth.

Going up and asking this guy for just a club soda