Ennui Malmsteen

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

I like mozz sticks but whoever wrote that was high af

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Reading the tales of Mawson before I went to Antarctica is how I learned the term "moist desquamation". No matter how much of a British gentleman you are, don't eat a diet of seal pate. Just don't.

Hope Sinks | Samuel Huneke A state-sanctioned campaign of repression against queer and trans people is underway. How far will it go?

“We are, to put it plainly, in the middle of a state-sanctioned campaign of repression directed against trans and queer people unparalleled since the days of McCarthyism and the Red Scare some seventy years ago.”

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Picture of the OJ Simpson car chase with the caption "millions expected to travel this Memorial day, breaking 20-year-old record"

Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer

FUCK TERFs forever and always

The ground for fascism isn't going to prepare itself.

Nadia Almada winning Big Brother in 2004 did not cause much in the way of the disgraceful discourse we are seeing now. She was seen as groundbreaking

Pretty accurate litmus test for how good you do or do not have it is what you think when there's a low loud helicopter buzzing around your neighborhood.

Really not feeling as good as I used to about my Gryffindor-themed Cybertruck

Trans rights are human rights

One day there might not be a need to post stuff like this, because everyone will respond with "well, yeah" and "yes, obviously" and "what kind of fool do you think I am?"
Until that day comes, though...

A thousand bucks says the Tesla is the "Girl" in this scenario

Hahahaha

When Gary Neville says "you wouldn't see this in under 9s or under 10s football" - you would though, wouldn't you. In an U9s game I once saw a goalkeeper shout to his teammate, as the game was going on, "JAMES, HAVE YOU FINISHED CHARLOTTE'S WEB YET?"

I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance.

Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.

A photo of the NYTimes open on a wood table. It’s a full page ad. The text reads Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing! And then lists 350 names

350 Rabbis took out a full page ad in the NYTimes today opposing Trump’s plan for Palestine and calling it ethnic cleansing.

Cleansing the timeline with 10/10 Letterman musical guests

Shocking but hardly surprising that Fox Sports is putting Cleatus The NFL Robot front and center in its Super Bowl coverage despite his extremely well-documented actions on January 6. That's the country we live in now.

I will hate these mother fuckers for the rest of my life. We gotta be doing everything we can for these kids in the next four years

Not a trans person, not a gay person, not a drag queen

Just yet another cis straight man in a position of power

“At times the destruction of entire neighborhoods and the killing of 300 noncombatants were approved just to target one Hamas leader. This logic renders all Gazan residents legitimate targets…De facto, this is evidence of policy that permits the execution of genocide.”

I bring half a dozen oven chips to work in a reusable snack box. They are defrosted by about 11am, when I'll eat them, uncooked, with my tea.

The PCC is my favourite cinema. My BEST memories of watching films on the big screen are here. I got to watch my #1 movie, Goodfellas, with hundreds of others, for my birthday a few years ago. I threw spoons at the screen watching The Room there.

If you value independent cinemas please sign this.

"every baseball book": A bright-coloured cover with a baseball, martini and old-time baseball player called "PLUNKED! Spitballs, Whiskey, and Other Tales of Baseball Malarkey from the Swingin' 1934 Cincinnati Reds". Keith Law calls it "In-depth!" Every hockey book: A grim black&white closeup portrait of an aged, scarred face with the title "BATTLE BATTLER: My battles with fighting things." By JOHN "KNUCKLES" HOCKEY. Foreword by Stephen Brunt

every book about baseball
&
every book about hockey

WOW LOOK AT THAT, A TRANSPHOBIC CIS MAN WHO ALSO IS A MISOGYNIST, UNBELIEVABLE

American Football (Philadelphia Eagles are the birds in question)