Merry (they/them)

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

This is one of the most horrific and evil things I have ever read. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

This is just to say

I have [fed AI]
the [poems]
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for [a new collection]

Forgive me
they were delicious
and [turned
the robot] so cold.

oh my god he was rooting for Cersei?!

Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...

One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.

Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider

I have a collection of sandwich guy memes.

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca read Letterboxd reviews and guessed which Scorsese movie they were about.

Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

that weird orc from Lord of the Rings: "Looks like woke's back on the menu, boys"

Meanwhile, when asked who better to govern the City than he had previously resigned in disgrace as a sex pest, Stannis Baratheon replied, “Anyone, even the cook.”

Janos Slynt has just endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

Well that sucked

How can you not be romantic about baseball? [DEROGATORY] [COMPLIMENTARY]

is the problem that there is just too much blue happening

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."

Taxing the rich works!

Fuck yeah

“weird” how the government shutdown prevents federal employees from getting paid but does not prevent the White House from getting demolished to build a ballroom

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be? The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

In "the most rigorous test to date of how AI would perform in the real world," researchers found that workers using AI completed tasks 19% slower than when working without it -- but thought they were faster.
#AI #GenerativeAI 🧪
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

If you see this, quote post with your favorite pokemon, wrong answers only!

Love Island? the place that Odysseus tied himself to a mast to avoid?

ANDOR creator Tony Gilroy likes the idea of a Kleya and Vel ‘Nazi hunters’ spin-off series in which the duo hunt after former Imperials following the fall of the Empire with the assistance of Dedra Meero in a Hannibal Lector-esque role.

(Source: youtu.be/mGBXFWvPRsE?...)

I mean it was obvious what the birthday card was before the image was circulated but goddamn seeing it makes it so unmistakable as to what it represents: a high five between pedophiles over their bond of loving pedophilia and doing pedophile shit together. grim

Plato’s Cave Regrets to Inform You It Will Be Raising Its Rent To all inhabitants of Plato’s Cave, If you are receiving this letter, it means you have been designated a tenant of the cave—i.e., you are chained ...

"We cannot wait to work with you as we journey together, but we also want to clarify that we mean real, actual money and not allegorical discussions on the concept of fiat currency."

a puppy is laying on its back on a pile of rocks ALT: a puppy is laying on its back on a pile of rocks

boooooooo, I’m sorry!

Present Tense by Todd Dillard My father’s telling me about his dog, how it fell into a well when they were walking down a wooded path. His dog ran across some rotted planks, the planks splintered, “And whoosh!” my father says. “No more dog.” I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M. “I’m not finished,” he says. He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket, how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down, and yelled for the dog to get in. “But all I pulled up was more barking.” “Dad,” I say. “This never happened.” He says he can’t remember how long he tried to get the dog to shimmy into the bucket. Just that at some point when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“ as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“ he decided to give up. “Dad,” I say. “It’s late. I’m tired. And you’re dead.” “Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!” My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt and pouring the dirt into the well. And I know what he’s getting at, I know he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket he filled the well and the dog jumped out. He’s going to say something about how the dog led him home through the dark. I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence. “Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?” I keep lowering the bucket but all I ever pull up are leaves. Red leaves. Lately, some gold.

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!

“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”