Most Americans: I’m going to die working this job 😞

Members of Congress: I’m going to die working this job! 😃

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

While obvious, I think it really telling that the “moral obligation” that Silicon Valley has to us only applies to killing people and making war rather than finding ways to feed and house people in our technological future.

A grid photo of 16 different characters all played by the legend Tim Curry.

Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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god, Riker really is the perfect man

Will Riker has two hobbies. One of them is blasting bone. The other is also blasting bone

LA Times Book Awards ...lost to the great Megan Abbott had a blast tho !

I don’t understand how they can panic and then also still hide their LGBTQ/black history displays from anyone encountering them accidentally. 🤔

“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.”

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...

i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics

Adults in charge: the trouble is, little boys just don't like girls
Little boys: I love Rumi and Bluey and Elsa and Ms Rachel and the Lionesses and my friends and
Adults in charge: EW. NO. You're supposed to be a chauvinist by now. Probably because of phones.

Same goes for literally anyone in absolutely any creative profession.

Its not a business! It’s a public good! And it’s not “running out of money,” either. Republicans deliberately created this illusion by requiring USPS to prefund pensions *75 years* into the future. Literally no other agency (or business, lol) requires this.

If in 2026, you are STILL saying 'why didn't X survivor/victim of sexual assault go to the cops or prosecutors?' then you cannot be trusted to drive a car or live by yourself because you are ignorant.

I mean, it’s pretty clear why they’re saying this: he assaulted them. It literally does not matter what their marital status is, their position in space or time, or even how much they drank—at no fucking point is that consent. You absolute saddle goose.

This becomes even more true the more money, influence, and celebrity they have. Stop asking why sexual assault survivors rarely report. One of three things happen: the victim is ignored, the victim is vilified, or the victim is disbelieved. Some times, it’s multiple.

Several people who were mutual friends during our marriage were conveniently deaf and blind upon its dissolution of his abuse and remained his friends. There is no recourse. For sexual predators, there are extraordinarily few consequences.

My ex-husband sexually assaulted me, as he did to several other people—at least five others that I know of—and the only consequence he experienced was that a community he belonged to removed him from the group chat. Plenty of people within that community still associate with him.

Top to bottom, we live in a patriarchal hellscape designed to oppress, control, and punish women. Sexual assault survivors are rarely believed regardless of who the perpetrator is and regardless of evidence.

if you're on here saying fucked up shit about victims of sexual assault speaking out against the politician who assaulted them and I catch you, I'm going to make sure you have a very bad day

This is driven by a huge drop in 13-17 year olds getting knocked up with no recourse so just take that into consideration

I've never watched one. Video essays and I generally do not get along.

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Mayonnaise on its own is repulsive and smells as such. I can't believe people just slather that on food. Mixed with other things as a dressing, maybe, but just... as a condiment? The worst condiment.

As a final point—until grown men leave young girls alone, they can stay out of the conversation about them.

Until we have universal healthcare childcare, quality of life improvements, long term maternal and paternal leave, a substantial increase in wages, access to housing, and a growing list of other material concerns—it is beneath us to blame children for not having children. 😡

Until we address the poverty and financial instability that is what prompts most families out of having more children, I don’t want to hear a single adult in this country talk about teenage girls.

Maybe we can have a conversation about birth rates without putting the onus of child rearing on young, uneducated, and underserved girls and women. Instead, we should be addressing systemic causes that harm women overall when it comes to motherhood.

I have seen several articles today from several different “reputable” outlets about the drop in teen pregnancy rates in the US. In none of these articles is this treated like success or an improvement for the lives of young women country wide.