A. E. Lanier

As someone who still struggles w/ calls the thing that helps is reminding myself how unhinged political discourse has gotten.

If RFK can brag about doing cocaine off of a toilet, my call is fine & not that embarrassing in the grand scheme of things. (Although, like, prolly don’t confess to crimes)

I literally saw it three times. It was brilliant. In fairness tween does their best in a difficult situation and zombie dystopia are also my exact shit.

But it was gorgeous and so thoughtful about colonialism and also brilliant at capturing where Spike is developmentally. So good.

That scene was genuinely one of my favorite viewing experiences I’ve ever had in a theater.

Theodore Roosevelt picture with the text "I hear you've got a new media trust. It'd be a shame if someone busted that in a few years."

I cannot think of a funnier or more appropriate summary of the state of the news industry in 2026 than “the Onion has more subscribers than the Washington Post”

please help make it happen

I actually cannot emotionally handle commuting while it is snowing today. Humans aren’t supposed to live like this. We are not for the snow place and if there is snow we should still be inside. Why.

These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all

As a history teacher I am obvi very skeptical of our textbooks but I would love to reliably access to them 😭

Let kids look at a map, access a glossary, read a summary of an event that I didn’t have to build from scratch or scrounge from someone. We can problematize a lot of it but please 😭

Watermelon. Worst case scenario you are basically eating a sad sponge. Best case scenario you are now consuming an even more concentrated watermelon flavor. Cannot win.

If you oppose the construction of ICE prisons, it’s a good time to also oppose jail construction, even when framed as “improvements” or “updating existing facilities”

For someone who is in a dangerous place in terms of library due dates, I sure am spending a lot of time fucking around.

Yeah it’s basically a crime

Read them in the wrong order the first time bc my mom ordered them for me from the book catalog and I started on the bus.

I was a child and did not care and have never read them in chronological order again but my mother is still livid

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Roof guy is back. Climbing up onto the safety wall to hang out in the 35 degree weather to hang out for prolly the next hour at least.

I’ve seen him out in colder so I don’t know why I’m always surprised.

Sometimes, if I imagine he’s watching me, I can use him as motivation to write. (He’s not)

Two bunnies lie on a gray blanket. A small, brown bunny rests on the larger, white and gray bunny.

Currently listened to 9 year olds complain about how YouTube shorts USED to be good and now sucks. So, like, that’s where the culture is I guess.

A politician saying “I am the only person is our whole government who does X” is a red flag 99% of the time.

Thread. Instead of fearmongering about ICE agents intimidating voters at the polls, direct your energy to becoming a poll observer or poll worker, and to advocating for changes to voter laws. Call your political reps, find grassroots orgs doing this work, etc.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

At the airport and a dude is watching a really loud video about AI teachers and I actually don’t have the emotional regulation skills to deal with this

Wild to listen the director talk about intentions, bc I read the ending as is as very ambivalent.

Maybe Marty changes & steps up, maybe he never sees that kid again. Either way, he’ll be defined by fatherhood & that permanence scares him but I read the tears as emotional overwhelm, not catharsis.

Monster

Why would you do this to us

If anything, feels more like an example of pop culture conquering Mormons

three panel webcomic 1st panel: one man says to another "we invented a robot that answers questions" 2nd panel: he continues "we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day" 3rd panel: the other man asks "but it answers the questions correctly?" and the first man replies "oh my goodness, no. no no no no no."

It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...

To the extent that idealized, more democratic and inclusive "America" has been a reality, it is because of the people in the past who organized and acted and wrote and worked to make it a reality. Such people were no less "American" than the white supremacists they battled against.

Wow I am making really good choices right now about how I am spending my time. I’m so glad.

Tomorrow me will not be stressed out or overworked at all. So impressive. Way to set myself up for success.

You’d think I could at least pick up those socks but noooo.

One of many reasons that tying funding to attendance is fucked.

Kids who miss school need more support, not less. Whether that’s due to illness, absenteeism, family obligations, or avoiding the secret police that’s trying to kidnap people and send them to concentration camps.

Hello, I would like to file a complaint? I just checked and it is 0 degrees? They ran out of degrees?

Can someone please figure out how to put the degrees back? Pretty confident we need more than 0