erica

i’ll do the local pick up for ya 🫡 just to hang with her once more.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

correct, obviously

Yes my beautiful boys
#gophils

this tells me you have no community if you don’t know who needs help. try finding that, maybe?

they’d really hate it if you stayed focused on helping people in need

Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, new AP-NORC/Harris poll finds A new AP-NORC poll finds that most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, while fewer blame a lack of government support.

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity.

As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

@raxkingisdead.bsky.social ireland is gonna need an essay

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

lmaoooo jeff on air drums

If you think the people in a state that went for Trump deserves whatever happens to them but you are exempt from this as a citizen of a country that went for Trump you gotta break that down for me

shitting on people in crisis, in grief, just because they’re in a red state — don’t. ever. it’s fucking wrong. like the whole point of the left is that everyone deserves a path to some fucking dignity, some protection. solidarity in a hard ass world. if that’s your impulse, fix your heart.

mewithoutyou archive is my favorite account

Stopped by the (closed) Free Library on the Parkway to check in on the striking library workers there. They’re mad!

“The mayor gave herself a 9% raise! Why don’t we deserve the same?”

i love to see @summerbruise.bsky.social

we are in fact more cooked than previously thought

you got me with this, i RAN to google

🗣️ we’ve been saying

hunting season out now. home is where forever

red alert dog outside the gig

hiw forever

oh, 100%. he knew you weren’t saying no to that face!

this is a baby!!!

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

I did not know what to expect from this show and it’s ended up being one of my favorite things for this year so far!

Another fine outing, pointing and shouting
“Look, it’s baseball!
Look, it’s baseball!”

from “Look, It’s Baseball” by Guided By Voices, Tonics & Twisted Chasers (1996)

people are back to cryptic posting… good, i never wanted to know your business but i do want to theorize about it, don’t take that from me

this is very, very good.