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The Hallmark Channel Presents: Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” INT. BIG CITY HEDGE FUND Tessie Jacobs (30-something, blonde) stares at a bar graph with two columns: “money” and “not money.” Her boss (you know h...

MOM: You can’t spend all day moping. Not on Lottery’s Eve!

TESSIE: I have to find a way to get my life back. I don’t have time for the Lottery.

MOM: There's always time for family. Help your sister roll her wheelchair down to the creekbed to collect some stones for tomorrow.

The Power Fantasy of Superman is you still have a staff job on a newspaper.

One unremarked factor in the “return to office” discourse is that bosses made the actual offices the most miserable places you could possibly be. Even if you didn’t work in a factory they seemed to want you to feel like you did

Any of my friends on Letterboxd?

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Maggie the Pug is majorly, totally, butt crazy in love with Josh. She’s wearing Cher’s classic yellow plaid ensemble.

It happened. Last night I was feeling despair about a lot of different things and I realized I needed to enlist my dog’s help to make me feel better.

I present to you Maggie the Pug as Cher Pugowitz.

I remember when product placement consisted of a mention in the text.

A sign encouraging folks to support the Broadway upzoning

Spotted in Andersonville 👀

Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.

Brown cricket sits on bus handle

Caught up with Jimminy Cricket on his morning commute.

u know Robert Redford was a real one because not only is every woman he every worked with popping out of the woodwork to talk about how much they loved him, but all the child actors are too

Film poster with title, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. A young brunette girl sips from a blood bag and looks askance at the text.

Post a horror movie everyone should see.
(also not super into horror, but I loved this one)

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

The Future Is Coming and It's (Literally) Sunny: Notes on the Solar Revolution I drove home to San Francisco from New Mexico last weekend, and in the western Mojave desert of California I passed in quick succession three vast renewable energy sites: the first was three solar con...

The solar revolution means that power can be decentralized, democratized, distributed far more justly. So it makes perfect and hideous sense, given the nostalgia of authoritarians for a golden age (of exclusion, exploitation, and inequality ), to tie themselves to all fossil fuel's problems.

It takes 5 paragraphs to get to the part where they reveal that this incredibly stupid, ridiculously expensive, and unnecessarily dangerous “raid” was targeting a US citizen since birth. And the DHS Secretary was there playing dress up. The absolute stupidest people, just throwing away *our* money.

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

I miss it so much.

Sent a letter in support of this common-sense upzoning adjacent to the recently renovated Red Line. This change will densify a vital transportation and commercial corridor within the city, which will provide more housing, support local businesses and careers, and strengthen communities.

oh god what an unutterably depressing list of people I used to like

‘It's Just a Mess:' 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby "The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside."

Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc.

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It's getting worse for women, but not for the reasons Curtis Sliwa thinks Curtis Sliwa attempts to stoke up the same old fears about women and crime

Yes, there are dangers out there….but they aren’t the subway or immigrants. lyz.substack.com/p/republican...

love too arrive at a very specific marker of middle age, angrily making charts about trade deficits

it's gotta be crazy for salmon to find out about bears like that

You would think Disney and Universal would be lobbying against the no vaccines mandate in Florida. I can’t help but think a lot of people will choose not to take their kids to Disney if it’s an antivax hellscape.

Right? It's real easy to make fun of how people used to boil the life out of veggies. But given the inevitable "poop everywhere" situation if you're on a small farm raising both veggies & livestock....there's a reason they did that.

We abandoned a hot hero like this for a eugenicist anti science sex pest who eats beached whale and sounds like a kid taking into a fan to sound like a Decepticon

I can't stop thinking about this photo.

How dare Republicans call themselves “pro-life” when this is what their policies do.

The attempt to take over the capital fits with rightwing and authoritarian agendas in so many ways. Modern conservatives love to hate cities because cities are places where diversity and inclusion thrive, where immigrants, people of many ethnicities, queer and trans people, nonconformists, bohemians, independent women and progressives tend to concentrate. A political map of the US mostly shows an archipelago of blue islands in a sea of red, and those islands are blue because they’re also Democratic strongholds. They are threats to the right electorally and because they are hotbeds of tolerance and of cultural, religious, racial and sexual diversity, and most have high immigrant populations. By flourishing, they disprove the rightwing theory that if these things are permitted all hell will break loose. But it is more fun for the right to pretend that these cities are dangerous because they are cesspits of crime and depravity. That notion that cities or ethnic neighborhoods or progressive movements are out of control justifies harsh law enforcement and violations of rights in the name of getting them under control. In other words, it justifies authoritarianism, which claims to be protecting some of us while attacking lots of us. Something that’s also been part of rightwing discourse lately is able-bodied adult men claiming to be afraid to walk down the street in American cities. All through the years when my town, San Francisco, was being demonized by rightwing and some mainstream media, conservative tech dudes would claim to be afraid to take a stroll here, which comes across to normal city dwellers as astonishingly fragile and cowardly.

As I was saying: Modern conservatives love to hate cities... They are threats to the right electorally and because they are hotbeds of tolerance and of cultural, religious, racial and sexual diversity, and most have high immigrant populations.....

This. I am not going to 'debate' women's rights to bodily autonomy. It is not a legitimate viewpoint that is up for discussion.