Paula Harper

Strong contender for the Best Sentence of 2026:

"It's like the domino theory, but in reverse."

Microsoft Teams will under no circumstances believe that I have a webcam! It is 2026 and this is not a problem I will spend a single further minute of my wild and precious life trying to solve.

(if you're the person who just did this to me, you're still so valid and ily)

no greater betrayal than someone asking if you want to jump on a zoom call and then sending a teams invite

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Edgar at it again!!! Always!!!

rip to my mom who has irrationally hated MacArthur Park since it came out, can't wait to tell her that her musical nemesis is having a moment.

oh you all weren't kidding about how fun the MacArthur Park tempo change in Alyssa Liu's routine was!

The NY Times dutifully reporting that the Supreme Court sided with Trump only 42% of the time and with Biden 54% of the time sort of leaves out the necessary context that Biden was doing normal, completely legal presidential stuff, and Trump was doing insane crimes

t.A.T.u.’s music is an unlikely thread of queer resistance at Olympic Games Even though t.A.T.u. themselves were not actually lesbians, their songs have been claimed by the queer community and become anthems of joy and resistance.

So i know @thefrankiedlc.news pitched this so many places, and I hope everyone reads this and realize the story they passed on is just that good and important/timely:

"Money is the only object,
and everything springs from it"

The Longevity Scam Pouring some cold water on cold plunges

“Clean water, sanitation, antibiotics, and vaccines have done more to extend human life than any supplement stack ever could.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/02/longevity-medicine-profit-oversold/686049/?gift=-Fv9R4P6cEEN68vsamhTNGvHCWx1t3AGUNZNqVP7KRg

I'm so bad at bluesky that I found out about Swarovski Shrek via Tumblr

Rediscovered audio captures eerie humpback whale call from 1949 Researchers have rediscovered a 77-year-old recording of a haunting song that now has been determined to have come from a humpback whale

Listen to the oldest known recording of a whale www.scientificamerican.com/article/list...

Like Kendrick, political as hell precisely because it doesn't bother to acknowledge the haters. They're irrelevant, beneath attention. And nothing is more intolerable to fascists than the thought that their enemies are cool, enjoying themselves, and not thinking about them.

People cheer while watching Bad Bunny perform during Super Bowl 60 at a Benito bowl watch party at La Bruquena in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Sunday evening in Chicago.

You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

YouTube video by Bad Bunny Bad Bunny - El Apagón - Aquí Vive Gente (Video Oficial) | Un Verano Sin Ti

For those unfamiliar with Bad Bunny's "El Apagón" (the one with the power poles in the halftime show):

Lyrics: genius.com/Bad-bunny-el...

English translation: genius.com/Genius-engli...

Watch the 23-min music video-documentary El Apagón: Aquí Vive Gente (People Live Here) youtu.be/1TCX_Aqzoo4?...

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The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

they should just put the Chicago Bears out on the field and pretend nothing's different, like a late-season sitcom recasting

What can you do with a history degree?

The Revolution Will Not Be Subtitled

Can't wait to hear how this is deeply un-American

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Imagining wanting less of this in America lol. Skill issue

Fuck ICE