Winter Arc Beefcake 🍉

“I’ll feel better if I eat” “I’ll feel better if I drink water” “I’ll feel better if I write” shit man did I always have to be so pursuant to Feeling Decent?

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

a woman wearing glasses and a white sweater holds a marker to her forehead ALT: a woman wearing glasses and a white sweater holds a marker to her forehead

Sammie walked into that church looking like he’d just escaped a lynching, and his daddy seamlessly added his presence to the sermon as a cautionary tale about the devil’s music.

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky

please join me in the fight to save our libraries.

EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

one response to these horrifying ICE kidnappings is “this shouldn’t happen without due process.” but the correct response is and always has been abolish ICE — this is not an entity that should exist period

When Amazon launched in 1995, there were 5,500 indie bookshops in the U.S., with 7,000 locations. By May of 2023, that number had decreased to 2,185 indies & 2,599 locations.

When you purchase audiobooks via Libro.fm vs. Audible, you directly support indie bookshops. Let's make that number grow ❤️

life hack: you don't need to go to therapy so long as a pot of stock is simmering on your stove

There was a time I got permission from my parents *and* teacher to be on my phone in class the second tickets dropped for Endgame so I could buy tickets for my whole family because we were *that* excited about the MCU and now it’s like “I guess I’ll see captain america 4 for discount Tuesday”

Only 3 more hours and 4 more days and the rest of your life to go

so re: these two kids who died, as best i can tell, israel conducted an airstrike that annihilated the kids and hamas recently repatriated the bodies as part of the cease fire agreement. but israel needs new propaganda so they’re saying the kids got tortured to death. am i getting this right?

wish more of Film Twitter had moved over here, because the ratio of politics to nonsense fun things is way out of whack

okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again

See me personally I think having a machine that I can instruct on computational tasks that it executes exactly as specified is amazing. Having it access databases on other machines is incredible. I don't need it to also expend resources to talk like a human and be wrong more often.

I will take my Best Girlfriend award now 🙂‍↕️

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Education published the information collection for the 2026-27 Free Application for Federal Student Aid ( FAFSA®) form in the Federal Register, the first public step in the FAFSA development process. The Department is on track to launch the 2026-27 FAFSA by Oct. 1, 2025 as mandated by the FAFSA Deadline Act. The Department also announced that current and future FAFSA forms will rightfully reflect the biological reality that there are only two sexes: male and female. Department officials will remove “nonbinary” as a gender identification option from the current year’s FAFSA form. “The Trump Administration will correct the failures of the last Administration and ensure students and families can easily access the FAFSA form in a timely manner,” said Acting Under Secretary James Bergeron. “Resolving ongoing problems with the 2024-25 form, reflecting biological reality by referencing sex identifiers, and beginning the process for the 2026-27 form on-time will allow the Department to earn back the trust of the American people. Families and students depend on the FAFSA form to plan their futures, and any release delays or unnecessary politicization of the form is wholly unacceptable.”

Screenshot showing open comment form on federal register site

Department of Education FAFSA changes are open for public comment. The changes include requiring trans students to misgender themselves and removes the nonbinary option on forms. Note: comment period is 60 days, and comments are publicly visible.

Form here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

$15 and 25 FULL minutes of waiting outside in the cold for two lattes at a flea market. Insane.

Service post Covid is fucking dead I’m sorry

State of the world got me pondering the nature of creativity and revolution at least 3 times a day

trump’s latest is an absolutely obscene case study in how the american press launders the words and actions of its dear leader. words like “resettlement” and “rebuilding” are used to describe the expropriation of land, destruction of homes, and wholesale displacement of millions

My friends and I set aside Friday evenings to hang out, play video games, and share a meal our second year of college. That was in 2020 and some of us are in different states now, but whoever’s around still does it and it’s amazing

And if you don’t, check Libby or hoopla! But I have a feeling hold times on those are going to be long for a while.

Just fyi yall, audiobooks for a people’s history of the United States and parable of the sower are both included with Spotify premium

Actually you’re thinking of Instagram

A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Departme...

A 15 year old Palestinian boy said he was raped in Israeli custody. When a nonprofit tried to expose it, Israel raided their offices, labeled them a terrorist organization, and shut them down.

I am sick of living on a planet where everyone's fate is in the hands of a nation that's half open fascists and half worthless fucking hang-wringing liberals who get horny over ceremony.

Acting like you can boredom your way out of a phone addiction in this stage of capitalism - especially if you’ve monetized your media in any capacity - is like trying to budget your way out of poverty

Like you’re not going to personal discipline your way out of the fact that these companies have invested millions of dollars into learning exactly how to commodify your personal attention span and you were unprepared for that. Mass marketing is a huge part of “you are not immune to propaganda”