M.E.

Buying concert tickets through ticketmaster is still the most unnecessarily anxiety-inducing nonsense I have ever gone through.

WALKING

at the speed of gay

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump

A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Being disabled is walking the tightrope of proving you're competent enough to matter and disabled enough to require support

I genuinely can't think of anything worse. I have a hard enough time as it is getting mail. I'd never get any mail if USPS stopped servicing the rural area that I live in.

Do you possess a uterus?

**POINTS**

Benjamin Netanyahu says Golan Heights will remain part of Israel ‘for eternity’ PM’s words follow Israeli takeover of previously demilitarised zone in Syrian-controlled territory * Syria live – latest updates Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel for almost 60 years, will remain part of Israel…

Benjamin Netanyahu says Golan Heights will remain part of Israel ‘for eternity’

South Korea’s leadership unclear as Yoon struggles to retain power South Korea’s defense ministry insisted that President Yoon Suk Yeol remained in charge of the country’s armed forces on Monday, even as the justice ministry enforced a travel ban against him followin...

As we begin another day of political uncertainty in Seoul,

- It's still unclear who is running what in the country
- No details about any power sharing arrangement that allegedly exists
- We don't know the legal rationale for any such deal
- The presidential office has essentially gone dark

Amid very real questions about who is running South Korea, the country's defense ministry has just announced that "currently, the president holds the command of the military," according to Yonhap.

the fuck

For everyone saying that SCOTUS can’t constitutionally end birthright citizenship… look, they’re not going to come outright and say “we overrule the 14th amendment of the United States.”

They’ll to do it the way they’ve overruled our other rights: by chipping away at it until nothing’s left.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to justify your reading preferences and choices to anyone. Audiobooks count as reading. Also, you don't have to finish books you don't enjoy. Don't read to impress, read for yourself. Life's too short, love yourself, ok?

Signed, a librarian.

Sednaya prison outside of Damascus is called the human slaughterhouse. The things that I read happened there will never leave me. Just the absolute most twisted things a human can come up with.

The fact that we’re counting down the minutes to it being obliterated is beyond. Just incredible.

A moment that will be captured in the history books.

Saydnaya personifies the terror of the Syrian regime. Known as the "human slaughterhouse," it was site to the secret executions of 13,000 people in a single 5 year period & continued to hold thousands of unjustly detained.

not to suggest that it hasn’t been this way already, but the name “People’s Power Party” rings particularly hollow today

Photo of medium wash jeans that are about 5 inches too long for the wearer. The jeans extend past the wearer's toes.

Photo of dark wash jeans that are about 6 inches too long for the wearer. The jeans extend far past the wearer's toes.

I went to buy new jeans yesterday. The universe loves giving me the tiniest of tests. God bless the people in my life who learned sewing skills beyond messily reataching dance shoe straps. Lord knows I can't hem worth a damn.

“‘정치인 체포’ 지시 받았다는 홍장원 1차장, 정치적 발언 문제돼 국정원 차원 인사 조치” 정치인 체포 지시 받았다는 홍장원 1차장, 정치적 발언 문제돼 국정원 차원 인사 조치 정보소식통 尹, 洪차장에 직접 전화로 지시

Korea's preeminent *conservative* paper of record exclusively reports that President Yoon ordered someone at the National Intelligence Service (Korean CIA) to arrest the head of his own party (who would later vote against martial law) and when the NIS man refused, ordered his dismissal.

US: Agents Block, Mistreat Mexican Asylum Seekers United States Border Patrol agents are denying access to asylum to families fleeing violence in Mexico, in violation of US and international human rights law.

US Border Patrol agents are denying asylum access to families fleeing violence in Mexico, treating them abusively and dismissively, and returning them to the country they fled in fear.

Current practices violate US and international human rights law.

LOOK AT MY BOYFRIEND IM SO PROUD OF HIM please hire him for more VO roles so he can scream in the closet and scare our cats more often ❤️

Once again, OUR MISSING HEARTS is not (and never was) a dystopia. bsky.app/profile/pron...

spotify wrapped feels less summary statistics and more capturing periods of psychosis listening to a particular string of songs on repeat

Daily life in Seoul ticks on, but in shock, after six hour martial law drama South Koreans went to offices, businesses and schools as usual on Wednesday with scarcely any visible signs in the capital Seoul that six hours of surprise martial law and high political drama overnight had spilled into everyday life.

South Koreans went to offices, businesses and schools as usual on Wednesday with scarcely any visible signs in the capital Seoul that six hours of surprise martial law and high political drama overnight had spilled into everyday life reut.rs/41jLSYU

A screenshot of Spotify wrapped that states the song "Nuts" by artist RM was the user's top song with 46 total streams. The user was in the top .1% of listeners worldwide.

A summary of the User's Spotify wrapped. Top five artists were Stray Kids, BTS, RM, Hozier, and Lady Gaga. Top five songs were Nuts, LALALALA, Domodachi, Chk Chk Boom, and Right People, Wrong Place.

Mind your business, Spotify. No need to tell me I hyperfixate on music. I already knew.

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

Han Kang’s Nobel Prize speech next week is going to be VERY interesting

respect to all the people and lawmakers that jumped out of bed in the middle of the night, climbed walls, and got in the face of police and military to protest this insanity