Daria Somers
@darias.bsky.social
Opera singer. L.A. born & raised, Brooklyn experience. Fantasy novels, genre TV, progressive politics. She/her.
I would argue that we need around-Christmas movies that aren't Real Christmas movies to break up the saccharine monotony in December. A few of my Christmas-adjacent comfort watches:
Saved!
Auntie Mame
Starter for 10
Serendipity
Bridget Jones
The Sure Thing
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Saved!
Auntie Mame
Starter for 10
Serendipity
Bridget Jones
The Sure Thing
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
People get soooooo angry about this and by people I mean everyone who wrongly thinks it’s not a Christmas movie.
December 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I would argue that we need around-Christmas movies that aren't Real Christmas movies to break up the saccharine monotony in December. A few of my Christmas-adjacent comfort watches:
Saved!
Auntie Mame
Starter for 10
Serendipity
Bridget Jones
The Sure Thing
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Saved!
Auntie Mame
Starter for 10
Serendipity
Bridget Jones
The Sure Thing
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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Years of this, it must end. But for now let’s help @nurseehammamingaza.myatproto.social while we can.
December 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Years of this, it must end. But for now let’s help @nurseehammamingaza.myatproto.social while we can.
This sounds like most of the companies still hiring for remote jobs these days. They're making it so the only way to get treated and compensated well is to do evil—building your own comfort and prosperity on the suffering of others, and camaraderie through complicity and atrocity.
avg linkedin user like "i'm happy to announce i'm starting a new position as part of the how to kill superman by blocking out the sun research team at luthorcorp" & the comments are all goons from similar branches of the legion of doom going "omg congratulations 🎉"
December 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This sounds like most of the companies still hiring for remote jobs these days. They're making it so the only way to get treated and compensated well is to do evil—building your own comfort and prosperity on the suffering of others, and camaraderie through complicity and atrocity.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Of course I couldn't stop at Lost last night. I just had to fit in "Beers and Weirs."
Of course I couldn't stop at Lost last night. I just had to fit in "Beers and Weirs."
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 AM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Of course I couldn't stop at Lost last night. I just had to fit in "Beers and Weirs."
Of course I couldn't stop at Lost last night. I just had to fit in "Beers and Weirs."
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If you can, in the spirit of including someone for the holidays, please help Hammam.
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
If you can, in the spirit of including someone for the holidays, please help Hammam.
AI images and video mean we are all Peeta now
Is this real or not real
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
AI images and video mean we are all Peeta now
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Please help if you have the funds🙌🏾
November 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Please help if you have the funds🙌🏾
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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This is an amazing thread, and the template early on is 100% worth saving for regular use.
Frame: food stamps are used by undeserving / Black people
Negation: actually many people on food stamps are deserving / white
Kirby: THEY ARE STARVING PEOPLE ON PURPOSE. They are using racist tropes to justify it bc many people will find that persuasive. Everyone deserves to eat
Negation: actually many people on food stamps are deserving / white
Kirby: THEY ARE STARVING PEOPLE ON PURPOSE. They are using racist tropes to justify it bc many people will find that persuasive. Everyone deserves to eat
Seeing all the content focused on centering all the people who need help who aren’t “fat, ghetto asses” and we can already see how the deserving/undeserving rhetorical lines are going to fall.
October 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
This is an amazing thread, and the template early on is 100% worth saving for regular use.
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i think every girl should be issued an obedient murder of crows upon reaching the age of 12
September 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
i think every girl should be issued an obedient murder of crows upon reaching the age of 12
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One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.
September 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.
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1/? everyone has their own beef with charlie kirk—mine has to do with his misplaced hype for my lupus pills, but he wouldn’t have been up to that, nor much if his schtick, had it not been for the christian nationalist coordinating body he was part of: the council for national policy.
#ShadowNetwork
#ShadowNetwork
September 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
1/? everyone has their own beef with charlie kirk—mine has to do with his misplaced hype for my lupus pills, but he wouldn’t have been up to that, nor much if his schtick, had it not been for the christian nationalist coordinating body he was part of: the council for national policy.
#ShadowNetwork
#ShadowNetwork
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“Back to normal” has been an act of panic and trauma and selfishness, I get it. Pretending to be disabled or chronically ill to get something for yourself while actively endangering those who are is flat out despicable, there is no moral argument, it is *horrifically* unethical.
August 31, 2025 at 1:07 AM
“Back to normal” has been an act of panic and trauma and selfishness, I get it. Pretending to be disabled or chronically ill to get something for yourself while actively endangering those who are is flat out despicable, there is no moral argument, it is *horrifically* unethical.
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If Covid is a dangerous risk to vulnerable people and that’s true enough to make you protect yourself, it’s also true when it requires you to do something to protect others. *Especially* if you’re going to use our status for your own benefit.
August 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
If Covid is a dangerous risk to vulnerable people and that’s true enough to make you protect yourself, it’s also true when it requires you to do something to protect others. *Especially* if you’re going to use our status for your own benefit.
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If yall start cosplaying as us so you can be safer while you’ve spent the last 3 years screaming at us to stay home, die, shut up, move on, realize it’s over and CONTINUE TO ENDANGER US I am going to lose my very considerable temper.
August 31, 2025 at 1:02 AM
If yall start cosplaying as us so you can be safer while you’ve spent the last 3 years screaming at us to stay home, die, shut up, move on, realize it’s over and CONTINUE TO ENDANGER US I am going to lose my very considerable temper.
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I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.
August 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.
Fav movie: Mandy Moore as a mean girl revelation in Saved! (is this cheating? She was still basically only a pop star + Princess Diaries then)
Fav TV: Michelle Branch acoustic at The Bronze on Buffy (IYKYK)
Most loathed in general: the No Doubt Dawson's Creek episode
Fav TV: Michelle Branch acoustic at The Bronze on Buffy (IYKYK)
Most loathed in general: the No Doubt Dawson's Creek episode
New question for the class: what are your favorite appearances by a musical artist in a film or TV show? Playing live, acting role, whatever. Whaddya got?
August 30, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Fav movie: Mandy Moore as a mean girl revelation in Saved! (is this cheating? She was still basically only a pop star + Princess Diaries then)
Fav TV: Michelle Branch acoustic at The Bronze on Buffy (IYKYK)
Most loathed in general: the No Doubt Dawson's Creek episode
Fav TV: Michelle Branch acoustic at The Bronze on Buffy (IYKYK)
Most loathed in general: the No Doubt Dawson's Creek episode
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Perhaps you are unmoved by Gov Gav’s shittiness toward trans people? Well, fear not! There are so many other ways he’s terrible!
Newsom launches statewide task force to clear homeless encampments
Newsom launches statewide task force to clear homeless encampments
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced the creation of a statewide task force aimed at dismantling homeless encampments on state property and expanding access to shelter and services. The State Acti…
ktla.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Perhaps you are unmoved by Gov Gav’s shittiness toward trans people? Well, fear not! There are so many other ways he’s terrible!
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Yes, this. ALSO I’ll add: we are too damn used to most D politicians standing for nothing. Newsom seems different & exciting because he does stand for something. The problem is that something is **his own ambition** We can do better than Temu Patrick Bateman. He’s a shitty opportunist & will fail 👎🏻
refusing to accept this isn’t just about “purity” or whatever, it’s about effective politics. someone who thinks it’s practical to cave on trans rights misunderstands how politics works, they don’t recognize that public opinion is forged by perseverance
Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader?
I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
August 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Yes, this. ALSO I’ll add: we are too damn used to most D politicians standing for nothing. Newsom seems different & exciting because he does stand for something. The problem is that something is **his own ambition** We can do better than Temu Patrick Bateman. He’s a shitty opportunist & will fail 👎🏻
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Israel is denying entry to foreign doctors as it prepares for a full-scale invasion of Gaza City. Meanwhile, Alaa, a mother I correspond with in Gaza, is caring for a daughter struggling with seizures. Israel acts like "preexisting conditions" absolve the country when it starves disabled kids.
August 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Israel is denying entry to foreign doctors as it prepares for a full-scale invasion of Gaza City. Meanwhile, Alaa, a mother I correspond with in Gaza, is caring for a daughter struggling with seizures. Israel acts like "preexisting conditions" absolve the country when it starves disabled kids.
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@YouTube is using AI to impose online ID checks on users! Stop forcing users to choose between censorship and privacy! www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
Stop YouTube’s Dangerous ID Check Program
www.fightforthefuture.org
August 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
@YouTube is using AI to impose online ID checks on users! Stop forcing users to choose between censorship and privacy! www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
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“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
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This is outstanding service journalism: 'roughly 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases' in California. Enjoy!
California police misconduct records now available in public database
A database of 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 California officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases is now available online.
calmatters.org
August 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This is outstanding service journalism: 'roughly 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases' in California. Enjoy!
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Please support Alaa's family and their fight for survival.
To the respected international and humanitarian organizations,
Greetings,
I am Alaa Salim, a resident of the Gaza Strip, and I appeal to you with an urgent humanitarian request to evacuate me and my family from Gaza due to the catastrophic living conditions we are enduring.
🔗 tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
Greetings,
I am Alaa Salim, a resident of the Gaza Strip, and I appeal to you with an urgent humanitarian request to evacuate me and my family from Gaza due to the catastrophic living conditions we are enduring.
🔗 tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
Help me save my family and escape from Gaza to Eygpt
My name is Alaa, and I am a mother of three precious children: Musa, who is 12 years old, and my twin daughters, Ella and Ellen, who are 8 years old. Before October 7th, our lives were filled with hop...
tinyurl.com
August 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Please support Alaa's family and their fight for survival.
They'll do this, but it will be the inevitable Monk reboot and played for laughs
i want an anti-covid character in a tv series. i want to never see them eating inside. i want them to be a side character and no one makes a big deal out of it. (i know it’s hard to record sound this way but i want it)
August 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
They'll do this, but it will be the inevitable Monk reboot and played for laughs