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“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys

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ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday

Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere

If you have any national platform at all

Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

it was a fantastic movie, and frankly I preferred the way it told
the boys’ story over the way the original book did

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.

The law only ever serves capital.

I should attend a ren fair some day

7. The wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation sweeping the United States is not rooted in science or public health—it is driven by a well-funded network of religious fundamentalists seeking to impose Christian nationalist ideals on public policy

There it is…

you want me to “get that bread”? the thing that got Jean Valjean imprisoned?

we should abolish credit scores and replace them with a new system where everyone is given a library card and you receive prizes for checking out a certain number of books. please hire me to run the economy

Splicing part 2 of Dune to the end of A Complete Unknown so I can find out how Bob Dylan ended up careerwise.

at this point I’m convinced that we live in the satire universe, wherein some onion editor in an alternate universe is writing headlines that become our reality

fun fact, Samus is semi-canonically transfem! this is based off of one interview with one of the original character designers who said she was a “newhalf” (possibly jokingly), but hey, I’ll take it.

[quoting a tweet from bad novelist Brad Torgersen complaining about the teaching of The Great Gatsby in schools]

“The Great Gatsby is dated and irrelevant.” You’re right. What could a novel about a generation of young men becoming hustlers and white nationalists because they were sold a lie about the American Dream possibly have to say about our current moment?

“The ‘great books’ are for everyone; autodidactism is something to celebrate, no matter what one’s education level or social status; it would help heal our world if we made an effort to foster a generation of Library Kids and Library Adults.” — Rachel Murphy (my wife)

tonight i hope every Oscar goes to the facial expression Ralph Fiennes made near the end of Conclave when the new Pope announced his Pope name

a collage of lichens, most of them are dark gray to black, one leafy one bumpy, with a smattering of yellowish bumpy lichens

a flat but leafy white lichen with brown cups like little bouquets

a little mini garden of moss and lichen, the lichens are a mix of branching white reindeer lichens, whitish pixie cups and other white leafy types

a spread of a white crustose lichen on a rock with deep red spots

Alright, it's time for a break.

Let's see your best lichens.

These are from a national park in northern Finland where I spent entirely too much time laying on rocks photographing these fascinating lichens while everyone else was gazing poetically at the view.

Pedro Pascal calls out “vile and pathetic” transphobic trolls after defending trans rights Pedro Pascal, whose sister Lux is a trans woman, is a prominent trans ally and he has no time for transphobia.

Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

hang in there everyone, we're almost through it

Nope, just a lot of the emerging literature telling us they're jerks. I wrote to that. They're jerks BUT ALSO they are correct about the power of collective bargaining! Even jerks can have an excellent point.

Reminder that whenever someone says "gender ideology," they're referring to the mere existence of trans people, not an ideology. This is eliminationist garbage.

It's great that my fellow white people are breaking down Kendrick Lamar's use of symbolism in his half time show. Sadly, a lot of them are missing the fact that a black man got brutalized and arrested by white men for waving the flags of people being genocided right now while Lamar was performing.

Vintage image of six British soldiers at a defensive outpost. They're dressed in drag–some of the men are wearing helmets with their frocks and they're moving a large gun into position.

"Home defense troops are left in drag as their Christmas charity performance was interrupted by a coastal alert near Gravesend" 1940 ©John Topham / TopFoto
Location: Gravesend, Kent, Great Britain

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Lots of reasons to only have indoor cats. Now, possibly, another one...

For 500 years people have been coming up with technology after technology to replace, alter or disrupt books and they have all failed because business geniuses are somehow incapable of understanding that people really like reading

Trump just said he’s calling for the full forcible transfer of all 1.8 million Gazans out of the strip and says “The US will take over the Gaza Strip”

Screencap of Google Maps 2/4/25: Gulf of Mexico!

GOOGLE MAPS GULF WATCH

Is it still the Gulf of Mexico?

[x] YES
[ ] NO

Authors if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book.

“Father told me I’m broken.” (The Bone Shard Daughter)