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Google News screenshot of Amazon Prime Day Coverage that pretends they had to do research to "find the best deals"

in recent years there's been this new attempt to portray being a soulless blogspam affiliate hack as something that requires serious effort and research in order to "find the best deals" (a ton of these are usually AI)

Every time someone talks to me about Amazon and I tell them I haven't bought anything on Amazon in ~ a decade they get so defensive about things they "have to" buy on Amazon because they can't afford not to and the things they "have to" buy are always, like, 4 backup Halloween costumes. Essential.

@daumari.bsky.social nudge nudge

A Fairfax Connector bus with a Halloween wrap featuring two mummies gathered around a cauldron with jack-o'-lanterns

The other side of the bus wrap, featuring a jack-o'-lantern with an eye patch, one with a witch hat, and various skulls

It's spoopy season 🎃🧟‍♂️🦇🕸️

A theater program for Damn Yankees at Arena Stage September 9 - November 9. Behind it is the stage with outlines of baseball players

It's theater season, baby! 🎭

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Incidentally, something surprisingly hard with book reviews is classics? Like what the fuck are you supposed to say about Pride and Prejudice?

yes

It's literally the phrase "defund the police" – not the actual concept behind it – that voters oppose.

Autism Has No Single Cause. Here’s How We Know Scientists will not find a simple answer to how autism arises, despite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s promise to announce its causes sometime this month. Here’s what makes the condition so staggeringly comp...

Scientists rarely proclaim absolutes. Yet autism researchers are all but certain that there is no simple cause of the condition. Here's why the idea of finding a "smoking gun" for autism is so absurd. www.scientificamerican.com/article/auti... 🧪

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

These two beliefs are at odds with each other. It cannot both be the case that our only solution is to court Trump voters and also that people who abstain from voting because of policy mismatch can cost you the election.

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

The Washington Post wrongly fired Opinions columnist Karen Attiah over her social media posts. The Post not only flagrantly disregarded standard disciplinary processes, it also undermined its own mandate to be a champion of free speech.

I just got a no-cost COVID vaccine at the Walgreens in Pentagon Row, no prescription required!! They're a hot mess in there but they got the job done.

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

I recently loved the audiobook of The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles. It's a queer historical romance about a lord who falls in love with a smuggler and ALSO falls in love with the marsh and bugs

An impulsive liar very obviously lied again and we’re going full CSI on his signature like he hasn’t been impulsively lying for literally decades.

I just got a no-cost COVID vaccine at the Walgreens in Pentagon Row, no prescription required!! They're a hot mess in there but they got the job done.

Book lovers don’t just love reading… they love riding Metro too! 🚇📚

Over 14,000 riders took Metro to the National Book Festival last Saturday, where they heard from best-selling authors and celebrated the joy of reading with other book enthusiasts.

Happy #NationalBookFestival Day!! 💙📚

PSA: RFK Jr is a eugenics-supporting piece of shit. He ALSO has spasmodic dysphonia, which is why his voice sounds the way it does.

There are endless ways to express what a piece of shit he is WITHOUT mocking his disability.

RFK Jr won’t see what you say about him, but other disabled people will

all the Trump death rumors are just proof that everyone is susceptible to misinformation, no matter their political affiliation

Book covers: Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy by Martha Wells One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad Human Rites by Juno Dawson A Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite A Little Queer Natural History by Josh L. Davis The Sensational She-Hulk by Rainbow Rowell and Andres Genolet Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls Devil's Gun by Cat Rambo For Never & Always by Helena Greer

August reads! 💙📚

In 1933 the Nazi Party looted and destroyed the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sex Research) in Berlin, the first clinic for modern gender-affirmation surgeries in the world. The Institute's library and archives were publicly burned.

I always pack 20-30 things I definitely don't need

"This changes EVERYTHING!" - me to my meticulously organized TBR list as I bring home yet another fat stack of library books

some guy off the street: "yeah this is pretty fucking bad"

most of our green room pundits: "ah but you see, trump has an advantage on crime so democrats should be careful not to sound too opposed"