Rachel Avery

They're NOT Dropping Bombs Because of Fentanyl The real reason has nothing to do with a war on drugs.

Does someone have a more detailed source explaining petrodollars? I haven't heard the word since the Reagan administration and I was a kid then. I want to be able to think this article through more carefully.
open.substack.com/pub/theresis...

So strange that this comes up just a couple of days after I was discussing Nancy Reagan with friends. No wonder men of status really want traditional wives to make a comeback!

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep… The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

Pretty interesting commentary on artificial "intelligence"
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

Oh, those are what you meant. The journals are completely insane now!

If it's WaPo or WSJ, I read it at archive.ph.

Petite Deaths, by Blood Lemon 5 track album

I'm stepping away from doomscrolling. But I will share music and things. Here is Blood Lemon, and sort of sludgy, 90s inspired thing that also reminds me a bit of early Heart. They're so good! bloodlemon.bandcamp.com/album/petite...

She looks like she's going to dinner on a cruise ship.

Yes, the blog is wonderful!

In seriousness, she probably got laid off recently and is on the job market trying to look "enthusiastic" and "dedicated".

I dunno, it all blurs together!

Can confirm it is nothing to get excited about, which is probably why there's so much coke involved.

For my spooky friends! This wonderful artist has a shop up now (maybe has for awhhile; I haven't been here enough and I'm probably behind). Check them out!

Cocktail waitress in a caberet?

"Trump has liberated a lot of people from the last vestiges of the Sermon on the Mount. A lot of people turn out to have been sick and tired of pretending to be good." Wallace Shawn: "Developments Since My Birth" The New York Review of Books, October 27, 2020

Bingo. I always come back to this quote:

These remind me very much of a beautiful tarot deck I have. You might enjoy these artists.
kahnselesnick.biz/tarot-of-the...

2) He just thinks it's a waste of time to learn to play the physical instrument and learn to read and compose. He should be able to make music now, not after years of practice like some peasant!

1) It's resentment and envy. They can't accept that it takes time and effort to develop the skills and patience to work through all the trial and error. There was an article another person shared with me about a guy who created an "AI guitarist" of some kind.

All you really have to do is look at how he handled his loss in 2020. That made things plenty damned clear.

I think we could all use a happy time (besides the Marine le Pen news).

Today I used a bathroom that a trans woman also used simultaneously. We both emptied the fluids from our bladder, washed our hands, and reapplied our lip balm. It was touch and go for a minute, and I thought it may come to blows because her shoes were better than mine. But we all got through it safely, without incident.

Betrayed and frightened seem appropriate, if you're Muslim.

Donate to Aid Anna Maul's Fight Against Breast Cancer, organized by April Arndt My good friend and fellow adventurer, Anna Maul Ripley, has had a rough go … April Arndt needs your support for Aid Anna Maul's Fight Against Breast Cancer

Only mildly panicked about running out of cat litter yesterday. Please share the gofundme link so this dang cancer keeps the destruction limited to my boobs.

It’s been 8 days since a donation and bills are hitting.

gofund.me/18d4ef7d

#fuckcancer #cancer #boobs #cats

Pete Hegseth’s Arabic tattoo stirs controversy: ‘clear symbol of Islamophobia’ Critics say US defense secretary’s tattoo of the word kafir, meaning ‘infidel’ or ‘non-believer’ could offend Muslims

We need to stop using "offended" as the blanket term for any negative reaction. This kind of symbol undermines the trust that citizens of all faiths ought to have in their leaders. It's not just a stinky fart in a car
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

oh, look, color me NOT surprised. When you vote in a rapist it's extremely telling....

Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…

I'll be making sure Techdirt stays in my reading rotation. Many important points here!
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

Pentagon Flags WWII Plane That Nuked Japan as Woke The Department of Defense is flagging photos of the Tuskegee Airmen and "Enola Gay" bomber in its purge of DEI content.

Today, in news of the stupid, the DoD everyone!
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump BUILD A WALL & CRIME WILL FALL! Wanda Sykes ✔ @iamwandasykes Replying to @realDonaldTrump You resign and We'll be fine!

Fuck yeah, Wanda! ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

The US Government Is Not a Startup Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.

'Move fast and break things' doesn't work when it's an entire country.

So the only asylum seekers the US will now admit are White people from former apartheid South Africa.