Queequist

Totally! It so strongly pushed back against the disdain expressed by some of the people in the waiting area, for example. He was just someone who needed some help!

I'm very open to having things I like critiqued but in order to do that - to point to details, characters, dialogue & explain how it's problematic - you have to have seen it. Like, I just want one concrete example from the partner who's seen it so I can try to understand this viewpoint.

Yes! The Louie storyline is such a good antidote to the temptation to blame patients and disregard them!!

One of the doctors is complexly and empathetically portrayed as a benzos addict, hardly some nobler-than-thou condescensio, while...I mean...I need to know what patient in particular is portrayed as parasitic? Like, I honestly am scratching my head at this.

"According to a 2014 study, which surveyed and observed 3,000 university students, students engaged in off-task activities on their computers nearly two-thirds of the time."

Yesssssss, it's infuriating to watch allll the time.

Everyday, I want to throw Chromebooks into the sea.
We have done something terrible to students.

Honestly can’t think of a single thing in it that would encourage contempt for the suffering. If anything I’m surprised at the extent to which it humanizes and respects people usually denigrated (I think of it’s treatment of a chronic alcoholic for example. Absolutely not vilified).

“But God promised me women would submit to me!”

Yeah well Mother Nature promised me she would weed out the men with shitty attributes through natural selection, so none of us are getting what we want today.

A cat would’ve fixed the Pequod
🐋

I don’t hate any fruits?

(I haven’t tried durian tho)

Oh wait, no, red delicious.

Pssst - Awayuki strawberry gin shaken with fresh kiwi chunks, a little lemon, a little sugar. You’ll thank me. 🍸

I'm sorry but I can't help myself: the best fruit discourse is poisoned by conflating "average one you get at the grocery store" with "best you've ever had.". The classic example is peach, the average grocery store peach is dogshit and the best you've ever had is a transcendent experience

The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil

"none of you...are smart?? none of you can recognize...murderers?? you can identify a problem but you can't fix it...??"

“Hard work” and “constant work” are not the same thing, and it’s a social sickness that we exist in a system that has deliberately conflated them to convince us to reject our own humanity

This is why it is an important political project to force lawyers, bankers and tech bros to work fewer hours. They *will* make a lot of money, and then use that money to influence politics, and influence it for the worse because, having never had the time to read a book, they are stupid and evil

#alysaliu
WOKE IS BACK BABY
MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

The Olympics but one event at a time, spread out over a whole season so we don’t have to try to cram 200 hours of sports watching into a couple free evenings.

Everyone is Maxxing when they should be Marxxxing

They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom. An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

My latest, with @propublica.org + @nytimes.com:

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

www.propublica.org/article/okla...

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

More footage- Student led peaceful protest in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. The police chief showed up in plain clothing and assaulted two students.

I reeeeeally want to hear from teachers in these states. Like, how do you navigate this? I cannot even imagine trying to teach history in an environment like this.

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Oh cool, cuz earthquakes and massive wildfires weren’t enough.

"I seem unreliable, but I'm actually very reliable. You just have to trust the process." Alysa Liu, U.S. Olympic figure skater

When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.

It’s a Wonderful Life bank run scene.

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

Also then he wouldn’t have any money, and I’d pay $2,000 to make that happen