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I do my best.

If you think public defenders are only doing their work because of false convictions/innocence - you're wrong. yes, that can be a part of it but the Bill of Rights extends to *everyone* and *everyone* deserves a defense. Yes, even them.

Right, like I’m not sure I could even tell you much about the plot of the last one in this series that I read (except maybe “three musketeers but with fairies”) but I am CRUSHED that there aren’t any more after the one I’m on.

I wish I could live forever in the peaceful security of having six hours of a very enjoyable audiobook left.

Speaking as a DC resident: statehood now. It is absurd that Trump can do this in our city.

Fandom remains a fathomless well of clownery.

a young man holds a young boy and girl in front of rubble

a man holds a microphone with an al jazeera logo while wearing a vest with the word press on it

a young man in glasses wearing a protective vest with the word press on it leans against a car

a collage shows three young men smiling

The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right):
-Anas al-Sharif (correspondent)
-Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator)
-Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist)
-Mohammed Noufal (camera operator)
-Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)

Doesn’t she have sex in the show with her cop girlfriend *while she is imprisoned?*

Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.

Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.

#NotATarget

Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

dsa really going out of its way to prove all of its bad faith critics are absolutely right

We are going to circle back around to writing poetry for the Imperial Exams.

Anyway I don’t feel like I can do much on Bluesky against the evils of the world but I CAN tell the kanej fans that Adagio updated. 17k words. It was a nice way to spend my afternoon.

I signed myself out of Bluesky so I would see less terrible news but then it signed me back in again.

In fairness I often find that when I look it up on the webpage, it’s actually cheaper than a credit.

Oh yeah; that series is so enjoyable!

Adore this film. Visually looks like a period romance, but tonally is 100% cosmic horror in the truest sense, something Weir achieves solely through actor performances and sound design, without a single special effect shot. A film about mysteries than cannot be solved.

20 people at $15, minus $30 for incredibly cheap wine, $40 for two hours of an employee’s pay, $10 for name tags and pens, and I’m not sure quite how much to keep the lights on after hours but that’s still like $200.

Another thing they used to do — and I’m not sure why they don’t anymore because I could calculate several hundred dollars profit from it just standing there — was human dating nights. They charged $15 and you got a glass of cheap wine and a name tag you wrote your favorite book on.

Unlike Sam Altman, the people behind Gemini actually do understand what it means to have five Ph.D.'s in your pocket

Thank you so much! 🩷🩷🩷

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Mamdani and Warren are so well matched, actually, much as Mamdani and Lander are. If you really and truly want a functioning city, you need people who will tell you when the numbers don’t add up.

I had a supervisor who assigned me to a task based solely on my birthday and then, when I didn’t do especially well at it, implied I must have sabotaged it. It functions very well as a way to avoid regarding other people as human beings.

When I was a teenager I wrote Tony Kushner a fan letter and he wrote me a very nice letter back. My opinion of his work is already so high that that barely figures in. Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy fucked me up bad in college.

L. Frank Baum said “I am going to write an American fairytale” and oh boy did he ever.

UN experts call for immediate dismantling of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed grave concern over the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) operations, saying Palestinians are paying the ultimate price of the international community’s legal, p...

A damning indictment from some of the world's leading human rights experts -- 25 UN special rapporteurs, independent experts, and working groups -- call for the immediate dismantling of the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Honestly, with hindsight, Radcliffe, Watson and Grint's public statements where they sided with trans people, expressed their support with no caveats, and willingly blew up any chances at future ties to the franchise has only gotten more and more noteworthy as more actors are revealed to be cowards

I am mad about so many things this morning.

a swirling composition of patterned feathers

a sculpture made of patterned feathers that appear to be serpentine and knotted inside of a glass vitrine

A solo exhibition opening next month in Nottingham surveys two decades of Kate MccGwire's striking feather installations and sculptures.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/08/kate...

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