Out of groceries, car insurance coming up, and I have to either pay out of pocket for my doctor or wait at least another month to get seen. Unemployment denied me. Denied cash assistance and food assistance through the state. I’m drowning here.
protesting in this outfit is a real “heads I win, tails you lose” moment when it comes to the optics
A white sign with black text: And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. -Terry Pratchett
Forward.
I think everyone needs think about their obsession with Trump’s cognitive abilities (I won’t repeat all the ableist cutesy phrases you’re all constantly making up for that) and why you’re not more focused on his INTENTIONAL maliciousness.
Yes he’s cognitively impaired, but he’s ALSO a violent man.
I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them
LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)
A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...
Cover of Sunday Mag featuring Taika Waititi laughing with his eyes closed and his hands in his pockets. He’s wearing a navy suit and a light blue lining shirt. Text on cover reads “SUNDAY 29.03.26 TAIKA WAITITI ‘I have zero interest in Hollywood' TURN OVER FOR travel SUNDAY STAR*TIMES Sid Diamond's sleep paralysis • The art of layering • Adult mac & cheese
New interview with Taika about the release of Hunt for the Wilderpeople and other things! 🐗
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Gandalf describing the afterlife to Pippin as someone who’s been there
It's up to every pro-Palestinian/anti-Zionist person to be EXTREMELY DILIGENT in not falling for or perpetuating antisemitism. I know the accusation has been weaponized but it doesn't mean it isn't a real thing that is extremely bad and DANGEROUS.
One of the most odious developments of the last two decades is the adoption of "woke" language by certain sections of the right wing and of hawk foreign policy think tankers when discussing stuff like this. If you object to bombing Iran they invoke "local voices"— aka conservative Iranians from LA.
Thinking about how Ian McKellen is old enough to remember WWII, and Christopher Lee was old enough to have actually served
Bro, you’re scaring the ho…rses
“All of my friends have gone to battle. It would be shame to be left behind” ohhh he’s like Steve Rogers
*well
You, too, can have hair like a wel-groomed Elf
I think the least-jarring ad during this movie is the one for shampoo lol
Pippin’s face when he realizes he doesn’t know when he’ll see Merry again 🥺#LotR
I had a neurologist suggest Botox for me for my “headaches with migrainous quantities” are not fully resolved by what I’m doing. (Ended up not doing it bc of side effects)
Bald eagle, state capitol dome
Stolen from Reddit
A bald eagle circles the Minnesota state capitol during the No Kings protest
the best part about being autistic is the long road of fixations and special interests laid out before me for the rest of my life. there are things that exist today that I have yet to become obsessed with and that’s beautiful
Afternoon Boost: Still stalled at needing $950 by the end of the day today, March 28th, in order to pay this month's rent. I have to pay my balance off this weekend, this is extremely urgent. #MutualAidRequest
The grievance faire is good because it lets leftists and liberals cohere around broad principles while sharing their ideas and particular causes
I was gonna say, if you’re gonna steal chocolate, it might as well be from Nestlé
Letterboxd recent activity: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, boy (2010), Springsteen: deliver me from nowhere, the testament of Ann Lee
Yeah, that’s more or less what I was gonna say… The real guy the movie was based on turned out not to be autistic
This is brilliant news: when I went to the Congo with MSF about 20 years ago, doctors were still having to do lumbar punctures on kids with no anaesthetic, and using an antiquated treatment based on strychnine that was fatal to half the patients...
I don't agree with a lot of the left criticism of No Kings. The idea that the protests are in some way bad is odd to me. Of course they are moderate/insufficient/could be better, but some folks start at protests, meet others, and go on to do more, and we need to be able to put people in the streets.
Yeah true, I think a lot of people also miss that for a really broad protest like this it's actually more of a grievance faire where people table and recruit people and connect and so on. This has its own utility in addition to the general idea of showcasing a kind of baseline dissent.
No Kings is pretty cool in my experience. I see Palestinian flags all the time, younger and older people wearing keffiyehs, the local SJP tables next to the local Indivisible, etc.