Adam Fiver

Food: chicken katsu curry
Season: spring
Drink: hojicha
Color: amber
Anime: The Disastrous Life of Saiki K

A debate without rules or moderation is just a rally. Stop giving fascists the podium

An American pope means there’s a high chance he’s eaten in the Buca Di Beppo Pope room

Do I love Bridgit Mendler’s music? Yes! Am I suspicious of a space tech start up? Also yes! 😬

Using AI to make fun of AI doesn’t negate the cost of its exploitation of labor, artist theft, and acceleration of climate change. It just normalizes it. Stop using it!

I can't believe I used to support this man.

At a Sanders rally, some of his supporters unfurl a Free Palestine flag and cops come to arrest them.

The whole crowd erupts in boos for the cops! Huge pro-Palestinian solidarity moment!

What does Sanders do? He tries to shut the protestors down 🤮

If you’re heading out the door to go to a protest and you have decide between grabbing a mask or your clever sign, go for the mask

Dentist picking his rap name: what do you mean Fluoride-a is too similar?

The existential horror of your captcha image not loading and being unsure if it’s your internet or if you really are a robot

I still think about the email I once received of someone starting the message with a “Happy Friday!” sent on a Thursday afternoon. They had to walk it back in their next email 😞

Realizing that although ai might not have been used when filming the commercials this year, it was definitely used in the idea generation part of the process 😞

Are we so out of commercial ideas that two separate Super Bowl ads had flying facial hair featured?

How the most unpopular US president got reelected Polygraph | Newsletter n°288 | 24 Jan 2025

How did Kamala Harris lose to the most unpopular US president on record?

Winning wasn’t Harris’s primary concern; winning without the left and anti-war movement was.
www.stephensemler.com/p/how-the-mo...

Mask Bloc LA member Abby Mahler poses with a wagon full of free high-quality masks The text on the image reads, “THE SICK TIMES: COVID-19 advocates are distributing masks to protect Californians from wildfire smoke. By Sam Rhodehamel.

“We knew it had to happen from us. There was no one else doing it. No one to call,” Abby Mahler, a member of Mask Bloc LA, told The Sick Times. “We deserve to breathe clean air. That is not being provided to us by the government that we pay for.”

As the skies of Los Angeles filled with smoke this week from multiple raging wildfires, COVID-19 advocates and mutual aid groups stepped in to fill the gaps left by local and state governments, providing respirators and crucial information about clean air. bit.ly/4jaTnYs

a woman sitting at a table with the words girl who is going to be okay below her Alt: a woman sitting at a table with the words girl who is going to be okay below her

Browsing vinyl in a well ventilated record store:

What are the puzzle games 👀

A screenshot of a manga panel with the caption “Or should I take it further” and then below it a drawing of a Tanuki saying “bruh LMAO. I’m so getting canceled”

I feel like this image from the manga Akane Banashi has meme potential

Have been watching this unfold through the year. Glad something is finally happening just wish it was taken more seriously sooner. If you stopped wearing a mask, keep yourself and others safe by starting again today

I used to work on the memory floor of a senior living center and may have some of my old resources from our guidebook. Will have to look for them

Call me an old, but I’m starting to miss when “looking it up” meant checking a 1986 version of Encyclopedia Britannica and if it wasn’t there, you knew you didn’t know it, as opposed to being sure you know it and being completely wrong.

I know our main meme focus is elsewhere, but I feel like this shouldn’t be ignored

Update: he has now done the bare minimum and did an Instagram post to promote a blind box plush www.instagram.com/reel/DDNtzK-...

Does my doctor telling me that eating less rice might help clear up my eczema count as Asian hate?

A big green head with black arms and feet wears a big blue beanie and walks around a festival.

Kitekero-kun, mascot of Yamagata Prefecture, is shaped like the outline of Yamagata. He has a big winter hat now.

An ad from Mattel of the squid games robot girl doll yassified - showcases the doll in full makeup, a short red dress and yellow top version of her standard outfit, knee high socks with the squid games shapes on them, and her heels which are the heads of the masked guards

Kind of obsessed with the yassified Squid Games robot doll. The masked heads as heels? *chef’s kiss*

The Phantom Tollbooth
Speaker for the Dead
If on a winter’s night a traveler
The Appeal
Dandelion Wine

Taipei is a drag queen in dramatic smoky eye makeup and a blonde wavy wig. She wears a hot pink patterned blouse and stands in front of a dark blue background. She describes her personal experience as a drag artist living with Long COVID, and explores how many in person drag shows are inaccessible to her. Reference images and footage are shown on screen.

In our first video essay for The Sick Times, drag artist Taipei talks about how #LongCOVID impacts her work as a performer and how many spaces are inaccessible for disabled performers due to a lack of COVID-19 precautions. bit.ly/4i4Iw1x

“One for the Angels” and “Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up”