Mina Li (she/her)

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

nnnnnNNNOOOOOOOO

I have a family member using ChatGPT a lot, and the amount of warnings I've given them about this are many, to put it mildly (ex: the aforementioned fictional restaurants, which I only found out upon cross-reference)

I seem to remember him saying something like "vice presidents don't do anything" to tear down Harris, and fast forward to now...

you'd THINK the Excedrin would have given me some tolerance, but NOOOOO

No worries. Interestingly enough, it's past my bedtime here, so I need to get ready to tuck in. Enjoy your coffee!

Okay. Lorelei lace yoke has been cast on with the crochet provisional, which should be less of a mess to unzip. One repeat in, since I know my way through the pattern.

I remember ordering a huge bottle of oatmilk latte during the pandemic, and thinking erroneously that because of the milk diluting things that I didn't have to really regulate my intake in one sitting.

Huge, huge mistake.

I get it now, it just seemed like you were weirdly disagreeing with me before even though we were aligned.

I don't know whether or not you're trying to argue with me, but since I agree with you anyway, this feels unnecessarily adversarial.

Lord, do I sympathize.

trying to recall if the Versailles lot in the 1700s ever did something like this (not that they weren't hugely extravagant, but)

I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

The opening 22 min of Lawrence O Donnell tonight would be everywhere tomorrow in a just world. It should shame most of the White House press corp (which it clearly wont). Lawrence spoke the truth with a ferocity most of us feel every day but which is nowhere else in the entire media landscape.

Hard agree: you need to watch this, especially the part about the White House press corps.

oh, yikes. the worst I've seen of it is hallucinations of restaurants that were either closed or didn't exist, but this is way worse

Research on reversing Alzheimer’s reveals lithium as potential key Years of investigation by scientists at Harvard has revealed that lithium is deeply involved in Alzheimer’s disease, a finding that could lead to new treatments.

Sounds like this could be a potentially big breakthrough. Hope we haven’t fired all the researchers it will take to mount clinical trials www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

“Nobody came”: Hill Country flooding survivors recount anguish, neglect during emotional hearing Residents told state lawmakers about what they’ve lost and the hardships they’re experiencing almost a month after the July 4 disaster devastated the region.

The MAGA-led response to the Texas floods is going great - so great that locals are still finding rotting human body parts in the debris that no one in government appears to care about picking up:

Pritzker: Neither Texas nor the FBI at the federal level has the authority to arrest these Texas Democrats

They’re welcome to visit to take in the great views and enjoy the incredible restaurants we have. But they won’t be taking anyone home with them, or out of the state.

any movement whose loudest and most listened to voices are white cis men is just going to reiterate existing hierarchies with different white men on top

a white man has so much detoxing to do before he can even *listen* to other people and most won’t do it

it is hours later and I am still stunned at how I could smell this dude coming through a mask even though I was a diagonal parking space length away

Hey nerds if you’re still on IG guess what they implemented without warning ~~
Friends can now see your liked reels in a dedicated feed! Exciting!! 🙃 you can opt out. Go to settings -> Friends Tab -> No One

good morning!

Freedom to cause offense without being jailed or sued is a thing.

Freedom to cause offense without being criticized, shunned, and despised is not. The very concept is incoherent.

my fellow customer:

if I can smell you from at least ten feet away outdoors while wearing a mask, YOU ARE WEARING TOO MUCH FRAGRANCE

I usually wouldn't mind woody scents but bleargh

Afternoon update: called both senators and got their voicemail, as usual. Called congresswoman's local and DC offices and got voicemail for both. Unsure if it's about the mRNA vaccines. Please keep calling!

Call your reps and ask them to push back against this

Good afternoon, folks! Please call your reps about this!