why are all the books i'm reading always talking to each other

continue enjoying! season two is of course also great

the fax machine thing is funny to me specifically because quebec hospitals still use them sometimes

two! I try to vague post about it because I am also generally behind everyone else

Perhaps most importantly... 435 is the number we set because we couldn't fit any more desks in the building.

And we don't need to limit the size of our government to the capacity of one room in a 175-year-old building.

That's... absurd. That's an absurd reason to restrict it.

may everyone have a nurse who makes you say "I'm glad you were here today" (I've had more than one and am grateful to them forever)

I need to know how many takes the last shot of episode 8 of the pitt took and shake everyone's hand

it is a niche I will read! this is the theorizing I enjoy

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

60 schools

you don't get to have a country that treats politics as a mean game you can win with money and lies then say oooh gerrymandering is bad. please, it's all extremely bad, we should do everything differently but let's not lie to ourselves about fairness or ideals of democracy

bsky refuses to load this but I finished your chapter on the silverlake lounge etc and the part about the transformative and possible space of the bar was so beautifully said

they'd say they wouldn't and still do it anyway when the time came, if not next election then the one after!

I want a poll that tells me how sorry they are for the people dead by ICE and an even more unhinged US military, the concentration camps, the casualties of DOGE cuts, the endless list

if it's just oh now they blame him, gtfo

I don't really care if the numbers are
atrocious for him I want a poll that tells me any of these people feel like shit for voting for him, any responsibility or acknowledgement of that at all

irgc once again targeting the heart of american empire: our silly little posts

are there so many dog photos that bluesky can not load them all

those books are just so damn good

how are nurses so cool? also yay glad it went well

The USA continues its long tradition of murdering civilians and then labeling them criminals to justify policy, exploits, and expansion.

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

fun!

if I only read latin american writers the rest of my life I'd be really good with that

does anyone write about how someone like toni morrison is way closer to that tradition? literary realism messed north america up so bad

finally getting into mariana enríquez by reading her big novel in french, as one does

one distinct picture on this side, and another distinct picture on that side; while all between must be profound darkness and nothingness

All hail Avis Rex

local subreddit put up a 22 year old shelter cat and someone gave her a home the same day then shared how sweet she is so just gonna go have tears somewhere

fun fact when the US navy did war games against swarms of small fast attack boats they lost

RFK Jr. just said HHS is "cleaning up the risk pool" (i.e., people who are unhealthy) to bring down healthcare costs.

I do the admin side of things usually (because I offer & I'm neurotic) & honestly this annual shot of dopamine makes all the form filling & deadline hounding worthwhile!