massage therapist played a piano cover of “pink pony club” while absolutely eviscerating my upper back. no notes.

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Hulu ruining the Oscars is really poetic coming after Sean Baker’s speech about streaming services killing the movies

12/ The decision to stop having a public editor was a bad one, one that I think has done the NYT's broad reputation damage.

I want the NYT to be healthy and strong. I wish we had scores of newspapers/news orgs that were. We don't.

But a public editor would be a good start to rebuilding trust./30

1/ The reason this is particularly bad—and undermines all the great journalism the Times does—is that it a) treats lives like a game b) will be seen as the view/cavalier attitude of the entire NYT, and not just 10 columnists, many of whom should have been put out to pasture long ago.

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Just saw a post where someone said that use of em dashes (—) was a giveaway that you're using AI for writing. Uh, no. It could just mean you like to use em dashes.

him & hers using Childish Gambino "This is America" for a weight loss ad. This can't be real - I must be having a nightmare.

A love suden and love Gaza flag during Kendrick’s performance

The image of the night.

A MINOR

I think it's notable the whole Project 2025 thing simultaneously treats American pop culture as a final boss (slash "regime") and a thing that can be defeated by ultimately forcing capitulation through law. They have never come up with a solution for changing the culture organically. Or tried!

Kendrick Lamar and dancers forming US flag at Super bowl

Powerful 🔥

saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

It's also not true. White maternal death rates are also not great when compared to other countries. The downside of using the people you systematically opress as your benchmark is you fail to recognize how your own policies are killing you.

Many people are asking me if Elon Musk is stealing tax-payer money or using our private information to enrich himself?

I’m a Member of Congress on the committee for Government Oversight and I can’t tell you that he’s not. That’s a problem.

Anti-DOGE rally getting underway now outside the U.S. Department of Labor, where DOGE was reportedly scheduled to have a meeting today.

Big turnout from AFGE, one of the federal unions in Trump’s crosshairs.

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Elon Musk claims to have "deleted" the office in the IRS which has enabled people to file their tax returns electronically, simply, and for free.

I’ve noticed a lot of people on here overemphasize TV when discussing news and info channels. TV is still important. But it’s really social media content that is the most important, by far

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

Janelle Monáe, the performer that you are

there’s no way to say this without sounding like a bowl of extra useless crunchy granola i realize that but my god is it ever important to turn that panic energy into caring-for-your-communities energy

It’s a coup. That’s what’s happening. It doesn’t matter if it’s only been two weeks. Impeachable offenses aren’t like wine. They don’t need to age.

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