A surprising upside to Taylor Swift's very mid new album:

Galvanizing thousands of extremely online Swifties to campaign against the use of generative AI for creative work.

If you come for my people, you come through me.

This might be unpopular but the pierogies at Hemingway's have always been 🔥. Also Harris Grill before it closed; RIP.

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I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A dark knight.

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

can we get a folk singer on "the ballad of sandwich guy and the inflatable frog man"

I miss custom livejournal filters. these days, I have to write down my most embarrassing and secret thoughts in a private journal like a DWEEB instead of sharing them with a small and select group of close friends guaranteed to respond sympathetically. truly the internet has gotten worse over time

I don’t know much, but I do know that I’m always gonna bop as soon as I hear the first few notes of Yaz - Situation. And it only gets better and better.

I have a soft spot for The West Wing while also acknowledging that it ruined a generation of Democrats who now think that the noblest argument will always win. (I contain multitudes.)

my dog and his girlfriend would like to go bluesky official

Why do at least two of them look like Paul Blart: Mall Cop

Listening to Chattahoochee and am charmed by the lyrics. Things are getting hot and heavy but she's not ready, so he goes and gets a burger and a snow cone instead. That's how you do it. Big fan of the Alan Jackson model of consent over here.

Submitted: completed drafts of introduction, literature review, methods, references, and appendices. 107 pages and counting. Still a lot of work to do. #dissertationjourney

How did I miss this? Trump thinks Portland is on fire and is justified in sending in the troops because he watched a five-year-old clip on Fox? Are you kidding me? We are so in 25th Amendment territory. Biden never did anything close to this:

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

At least it’s opt-in but

Stupidly do*, rather. I’m so annoyed that I’m just flinging modifiers around!

Decided today that in our current political climate we have two categories of villain. There are the Evil Villains - obvious people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem. And then there are the Bumbling Villains like Jake Tapper and James Comey who do stupidly consequential shit and then cry “Who me?”

He’s the wooooorst

THE DEATH OF STALIN (2017)