CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

My favourite Jane Goodall quotes....so many, so to the point, so wise. How different the world would be if enough people listened to her.

Thank you for holding the line!

Devastating news. RIP Jane Goodall, but what a legacy she leaves behind.

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

COLLINS: So you're telling me you're willing to vote no every time?

BERNIE SANDERS: Damn right

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

What's so remarkable about this is how it acknowledges Sanger's turn into eugenics, and explicitly rejects it, and then pushes for alternative caregivers like doulas and midwives. As someone deeply interested in how male politicians talk about bodily autonomy, this is REMARKABLE.

Never take the warranty! My brother made that mistake, something broke a few months before the warranty was up, they dicked him around so much for two weeks he just gave up and traded in the car to be rid of the hassle.

We don’t call everyone who disagrees with us a Nazi, JD, just the ones doing Nazi shit like:

-masked secret police kidnapping people off the street
-creating concentration camps
-attempting to eradicate trans people
-banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books
-murdering fishermen in open waters

The end of that episode had me tearing up on the way to work 🥺

the lesson of the kimmel thing is that a corporation that previously caved to trump was forced by its audience to defy him.

they're afraid of him but they're more afraid of you.

The way I see it is it’s important to find joy where you can when things suck so bad, and if Disney had doubled down I would have to keep boycotting all their stuff. I really didn’t want Star Wars taken away, especially with Visions releasing soon. So this victory helps.

Canceling #DisneyPlus was hard. I've been a subscriber since launch. I don't watch a lot of TV, but when I do it's usually re-watching Star Wars stuff. I have a ritual of watching The Village Bride before bed if I've had a bad day.

I really hope #Disney reverses course so I can re-subscribe.

Donate to my campaign to make Laura Loomer’s day worse: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-bluesky

Another week, another record broken by KPop Demon Hunters!

I was skeptical so I looked into this, and tear gas is indeed known to cause miscarriages.

The anti-abortion party is heavily employing tear gas at protests, potentially causing involuntary abortions.

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Dutch late night TV has its take

I’ve been struggling with the reactions that a friend (who I’ve not spoken with in years, life gets busy and all) has been posting on social media. I was shocked at how personally devastated she was, how much she was praising Kirk. This thread probably explains what’s going on there.

Our society has gotten so incredibly lost.

How the fuck did we get to this point, where the immediate reaction to that statement wasn’t abject horror? To the point where he felt perfectly comfortable stating that on live TV?

Absence of empathy DOES NOT EQUAL presence of malice.