It is weird how so many things keep getting worse and everyone is expected to keep sending emails and maintain "normal" levels of productivity.

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

Involuntarily screamed out loud at that quote

Photo of a large outdoor sculpture installation: two large pillars stand ~30 feet apart on a sidewalk at the side of a paved driveway with white vertical bollard barriers spaced evenly along the edge of the sidewalk. Each pillar features horizontal stripes of black and white granite and is topped by a large white sculpted stone hand, one pointing with the index finger and one holding all five fingers together in a slightly cupped shape. Manicured grass and trees are visible in the background.

Huge sculpture outside the bldg (where a lot of Deaf federal employees work so I’ve spent a lot of time in there over the years). These pillars are probably like… 20 feet high? The hands are in roughly the shapes an ASL user would employ for the signs denoting OWE or DEBT. Coincidental & hilarious.

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

I HAVE OPINIONS ABOUT THE NEW CARROLLTON TRAIN (shoutout giant IRS building right there, fyi) send them to meeeeeee

Meme with two images of the same photo side by side. First photo: a blonde white woman smiles brightly while looking down. The word “The” is superimposed over her face. Second photo: much more tightly cropped, showing only the woman’s eyes, nose and mouth. The word “WHAT” is superimposed over the center of her face.

Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

abigail spanberger is out here canceling tax breaks for confederate groups and getting rid of confederate license plates and i for one think this is absolutely wonderful for the centrist wing of the democratic party

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

www.13newsnow.com/article/news...

Holy cannoli. That’s… an unnerving corporate practice.

Team lil treat!!!

I have encountered so many posts today that I’d really love to Like or repost or both, but they don’t have alt text on images and are therefore inaccessible and I’m therefore “stuck” not engaging with them in a positive way. That is a bummer.

Wow, sweetie, you are, like… 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 bad at negging

everyone involved in the dismantling of USAID should be forced to spend their lives watching graphic videos of what they have subjected people to in their callousness, clockwork orange style

We are know the famous “first they came for poem” but this fascist regime went from trans people to the pope really fast

i love trans people

There’s a wave of attacks on the ruling class People have reached a breaking point. American consumer sentiment is terrible, registering at the lowest level ever recorded this week. Gas prices just jumped more in March than they have in any month...

Warehouses on fire, Molotov thrown at Sam Altman’s house, a data center supporting politician’s home shot at — attacks on the ruling class have begun.

Every attacker will now be deemed a terrorist, that’s inevitable.

But what the ruling class doesn’t want you to know is they made this inevitable.

<burp>

Wow. When someone I love and respect shares an album full of “Disney photos” and halfway through, the backgrounds suddenly shift to Universal Studios and the Wizarding World of HP… the disappointment and secondhand embarrassment is intense.

You spent your money where? Oh. Um. Well… Ew.

Women

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

Considering making a beautiful illuminated-manuscript-style needlework of the phrase “and Pete Hegseth cried and cried and cried on the stand”

a cartoon of homer simpson with the words which was the style at the time Alt: gif of Abe Simpson saying “which was the style at the time”

It sure was

pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly:

if feels wrong that four brave brilliant humans over 250k miles from earth, circling a big space rock, are presently the only load-bearing support for joy that our society has

but I’m sure glad we have them

this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly

Heeeee’s about to hit a chestnut tree!

Mortal Kombat was actually based on a Scandinavian church song.

It was a Finnish hymn

The first woman ever to see our planet in its entirety.

Whew.

This part.

THISSSSSS PARTTTTTTTTTT

Cosigned. It’s excellent. Grim, awful, necessary, excellent.

“It’s giving up on the idea that there is such a thing as safe territory. A kid’s book, a magic wand, even the idea of joy itself can be a tool used to club a kid back into the closet. Act accordingly.”

Christ alive