Niki Dykstra

Turn Down For What hits different when you’re on the couch in your pajamas with your cat

Also realizing with horror that I am the target demographic for this parade. Shaggy and then Jewel and then Busta Rhymes. Who’s next, Celine Dion singing My Heart Will Go On? The Spice Girls?

Break Ya Neck in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. We live in wild times man

Writing isn’t boring!!! If you’re using AI for the parts of your writing that you find boring, WHY ARE YOU WRITING?!?!?

Literally!!! Ask yourself!!! Why are you doing this!!!!

Some delightful reading for fellow orange cat enjoyers:

Super interesting thread!

Yippee ki-yay, Charlie Brown

What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management Grab your umbrella and your tights.

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

Congratulations!!! And also I am so very sorry. You are amazing, fuck the haters

Are those chunks of raw cauliflower in the top right?

these epstein emails are pretty damning. i sure hope that we haven't spent the last couple years in a cultural backslide where men are seemingly allowed to openly and gleefully fantasize about dominating young women without any threat of reproach

Thank you for doing that! I contacted both CT Senators this morning before work

Go volunteer for a progressive launching a “hopeless” campaign against an extremely entrenched incumbent currently squatting in a safe Blue seat. The worst thing that happens, is that you drag the incumbent to the Left. Best case? Zohran Mamdani, who was polling at 6% in January.

Who do you see as a viable replacement? Serious question, not being snarky

Will you publicly call for a change in caucus leadership? It was less than a week ago that voters co-signed a continued fight! This cave is an abomination

Donald Trump has asked his employees on the Supreme Court to overrule lower court orders demanding that he fulfill his duties to feed Americans who are due SNAP benefits

AND

He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.

Imagine an end to doomscrolling into the wee hours, and instead a restful night of sleep, every night until you die

Rosalind Franklin at her microscope

Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.

But beware...

No mention of Rosalind Franklin? Fucking lame

Twelve Citizens and the Social Contract Twelve citizens sat in a room and remembered who they were.

"Strictly speaking, this was misdemeanor assault. He threw an object. It hit an officer. Those are the facts. Any other context, any other time, that’s a conviction. The jury could have found him guilty on the law and the facts.

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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

That looks so peaceful!

A mix of Dem pickups in open seats (like New Britain) and Republican incumbents who lost (like the 6-term Republican incumbent in Ansonia). A lot of clean sweeps across the executive boards. It was a big, big night across the state

There will be some recounts, but early results are that Dems flipped 30 towns in Connecticut. Republicans flipped 1, by less than 10 votes, which will go to a recount.

30 towns.

Average home gardening experience

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

“Oh poor people can buy popsicles with food stamps” shut the fuck up the government gives perverts a trillion dollars in government money each year for pervert factories for billionaires the fucking popsicles are none of your fuckin business

Really great thread! #1u