Pizza Monster

Accidentally called my office "the library" during a bout of brain fog and since I don't use it for anything resembling office work I'm keeping the name.

Overt Anti-Jewish Hate is On the Verge of Going Mainstream The combination of mainstreamed conspiracy theories and overt hate on X is close to transforming America's relationship with Jews.

New piece.

The data presented by @thejcpa.bsky.social and @counterhate.com about antisemitism on X is stark: it is being spread to hundreds of millions of people.

Not just antisemitism, but OVERT antisemitism. And that shift means far more than people realize. It won't be long before it leaves X.

So tired of hearing “we’re cooked”.

No. I refuse that. In the 1940s 6 million Jews—plus many Roma, disabled and queer people—were killed through via one of the biggest state-run genocide machines in history.

Every one of those communities still exists today.

Outlast them. Whatever it takes.

I have weird phone problems

Once in the early 00s I dropped my Nokia into a huge puddle in Manhattan and the puddle was so deep and dark I was afraid to reach in so my brother called the phone so it would light up. That phone survived too.

I ran my phone through the dishwasher by accident. It is very clean now.

I don't remember much from from AP European history but I do remember that the enemy of my enemy is my friend did not work out well after the wars ended.

Can we stop saying the enemy of my enemy is my friend when the enemy of your enemy is the enemy of marginalized people?

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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have revealed a synthetic glycosystem -a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle- that can BLOCK SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cells, REDUCING infection rates by NEARLY 99%. Acting as a decoy, the molecule BINDS to the spike protein, PREVENTING it from attaching to real cells.

This is the most ridiculous PSA I'll ever type but if you're in a waiting room and there's a cluster of seats with no arms and all the other seats have arms, that's accessible seating for fat people so leave those for folks who need them. Those seats are for big butts not big purses.

New York Post @nypost : Who is Rama Duwaji? Wife of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani he met on Hinge trib.al/vFTHqCO Response to New York Post by Lee (Greater) reactionary blue tick: If your wife doesn't take your last name you shouldn't even be allowed to own property let alone run for office Imao

The Right really is in disarray because they cannot seem to figure out if they should push “Zohran Mamdani is going to bring Sharia Law” or “Zohran Mamdani treats his wife with too much equality” as a smear campaign, so they are doing both.

So the suspected republican assassin in the murder of a state legislator here in Minnesota and the attempted murder of another ran his own private security firm, and multiple members of his family were police.
Someday people will accept that what those of us on the academic side are saying is true

Good news: I successfully replaced my printer toner with an off brand cartridge

Bad news: my printer prints perfectly but it still tells me there's no toner before and after

Solution?: give my printer a name and treat it like an annoying but lovable pet ???

An orange and white cat named Ser Pounce sprawled out on a brown couch, looking at the camera with resting grump face.

Ser Pounce sitting up in a flat, orange and white cardboard box, looking smugly to his right.

This little jerk has lived with me for 10 years and all I got him for his cativersary is an empty box.

It helped pretty quickly so I guess I should probably avoid the mango candy. I can't guarantee I will tho 😭

Yes but not worth it probably. I think I need to take a benadryl

Me 30 mins later: ok my mouth feels fine again let's see what happens if I eat the candies that are grape and raspberry
Me an hour later: mouth feels fine let's have one single probably mango candy
Me an hour and 10 mins later: my lips itch 😭

Me: oh no this candy has natural mango flavoring but it's probably not going to set off my allergy
Me 10 mins later: I'm sure the funny feeling in my mouth is from the natural pineapple flavor candies

A close-up of a blue and white dish with a bit of red napkin beside it. On the dish are several pieces of pizza dough shaped into triangles like hamantaschen, 4 are filled with a meatball, and one is just cheese. Some salad is at the top of the dish.

A green and pink bowl filled with powdered sugar and triangle shaped zeppole that look like hamantaschen.

Pizza-taschen or Haman-pizza? Made some meatball, some cheese, and some zeppole.

A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company | CNN Business Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

I don’t know anything about this Reacher show and I want to be clear that in my head it’s about a nice person at the grocery store who gets things off the high shelves for us short kings. I require no additional information.

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"Immigration rights activists have banded together to conduct patrols throughout Los Angeles, and in a few instances, have stopped raids as they were happening. Community Self-Defense Coalition [said] they’ve busted two raids so far..." www.msn.com/en-us/public...

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Steve Bannon was always a Nazi, what is the disconnect here?

I want to emphasize: If this administration succeeds which it will if organizations like RAINN just bow to the potential loss of funds without a fight, there won't be organizations like RAINN anymore anyway. That's how tyranny works. Obeying in advance leads to the end, even if it delays it briefly.

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NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure.

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI.

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Autonomous anti-ICE demo called for tomorrow at 4pm, Centre & Duane St (Foley Square)