Hester Pangs

This is just one example of violence that's endemic & *documented* in the criminal legal system & it gives me pause when I hear that we need to hold ICE & CBP to the same standards as other law enforcement.

I get why it's said. And we should interrogate it. Not interrogating it is what got us here.

I don't know why anyone would be surprised that jocks who make loads of money often have certain political alignments. ( I say this as someone who is absolutely not too punk for sports).

Back in 2023, @gabydvj.bsky.social wrote on the magazine’s weird schtick in a longer essay on tradwives, conspiracies, and nostalgic kitsch: thebaffler.com/salvos/land-...

this thrift store pays its people well and rolls the money back into helping refugees with employment / legal issues / citizenship classes and always has great stuff, it's pretty much the only place I shop now.

It will not surprise you that it had a residual beer gut stretch in the front.

Orange Burger King vintage jacket.

found an amazing jacket at the thrift store tonight ( I left it for someone else).

They're such an underrated flower and I didn't appreciate how cool they were until I saw loads of them grown in front yards by Nepali and Mexican neighbors to use for holiday decorations.

Goya chicken taquitos partly because they make me sentimental for late nights in a friend's apartment eating them while drinking High Life and listening to 1970s-era Judas Priest.

I feel so vindicated for being very "nah I'm not doing this" when someone recommended it to me at RCIA.

Well this story blew up. Went to the front page of reddit, hacker news, Gizmodo. People donated thousands of dollars to the legal fund of Jeff Sovern, who dismantled 13 Flock surveillance cameras. The response was near-universal enthusiasm for the project of smashing invasive, exploitative tech.

This is like that umbrella patriarchy illustration but somehow dumber.

if being a "bad apple" means that I called out bad behavior and the people who enabled it while claiming to be allies, I still stand by being a bad apple.

seeing that a band I like is coming back into town to play a show but it's for an event that I was frozen out of because of some boys club music scene politics so I don't want to go.

I don't regret anything I did at all, but it's kind of a bummer.

This past year was the first time I tapped into a rainy day fund that I've kept squirrelled away for years because I had a roof repair and already hadn't financially recovered from having to buy another car.

the best people I rented from were a Jordanian family that lived on West 65th and a Ukrainian guy who came here as a DP after WWII (who is currently renting my amazing old duplex on Clifton to a friend for $700 a month & felt bad he had to raise the rent that much).

I'm a couple years younger and all the Gen X stuff hits the most for me, in part because so much of my music discovery was friends a few years older than me.

This is one of our favorite road trip albums because there's no skips and it's just so good.

Every now and then, I remember that JD Vance smashed the "like" button after reading this tweet, then went back and unliked it five years later when he ran for the Senate.

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today in Russian spambot email signatures.

Everything these guys blame on immigration or other countries, whether it's "taking" housing or dismantling what manufacturing sector we have left, is what private equity donor bros here are doing to the country.

I really wish Nagai sold prints that were affordable because this is the dude's favorite artist right now.

I was trying to find the archivist at another institution and non-management staff was not listed on the website at all (but several dead board members were).

The policy of revoking past grants of permanent settlement to deport settled migrants om a scale unprecedented in any democracy is fairly described as un-Christian in values, & also inhumane from a humanitarian perspective, in its indecent treatment of people of all faiths Inc Christians & of none.

It's a little disheartening to look across the pond and see the same awful stuff.

For the record: I am against all the bad things

Whenever someone says "well what about this other bad thing," just send them here

If it's a Bad Thing™, I'm against it

I am in favor of all the good things

Until too much of the good things make them bad things, at which point I am against them

for every one jd vance-type who converted to catholicism three weeks ago because they thought it’d be white evangelicalism with cool robes, there are like 50 actual catholic leaders advancing the cause of doctrinally sound woke 2 across the globe.

What I love about this too is that it's also simultaneously making a point about the EU's harmful immigration policies too.

my bff's grandma moved down here from Detroit with her kids and because it was syndicated up there, they thought Parma was just some made up town to make fun of and not a real place.

that station used to be so great and now it's only good on a 90's throwback weekend.

I've been seeing those billboards in my neighborhood and they make me really frowny.