Codex O'Healey Melcher

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

update: this worked

an important #queerhistory & #transhistory follow—Zagria’s work is fantastic and informative, and has been essential for @badgayspod.bsky.social

That near-50/50 split before 10 years old followed by a PLUNGE in the transfem rate taking it down to just 30% of referrals at 10-19 is... a lot of transfem suffering condensed into one graph, that's for sure

cool how the Nobody Wants To Work Anymore guys are also the We Don't Want Human Employees Anymore guys. we're working as hard as we can to replace you with an iPad but until then let's see some hustle out there

she posts videos of them trying to get away from her on tiktok that are sped up yakety sax style and scored by norteno music, theyre hilarious

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

Digital art piece of a dragon. The big lizard is made with a symmetrical tool and it's black against mustard yellow background. She has two swords crossed under her chin and some floral dark ornaments around the swords. There is lighter circle behind her head and there are borders on both sides of the image with individual images of plants. Those backgrounds are red and dark green. The dragon looks very pissed and is holding both of her front legs up. There are some dark red blood dripping under the swords.

Digital drawing of a cream colored lioness that has some tack on. Especially ornamental bridle with lots of different colored fabric and gold details all around. The lioness is standing firmly in the center of the picture, on a dark red canvas. She is showing teeth to the viewer and is salivating. The animal also has a nose ring, earrings, big yellow eyes and sharpish red nails.

Digital drawing of a white unicorn with dark grey mane unicorn standing in front of a tree that has green foliage. There is a shallow berry bush behind the brown tree stem. Light grey hands are growing from the said tree and each of the palms have yellow eyes in the middle of them. In the black background there are pale stars in the sky. On both sides of the unicorn there are a pair of yellow-red flowers.

Digital art piece of a raven and rowanberries. The raven is standing on the left side and there is a simple rowan tree next to it. The tree has big red and orange berries and pale leaves. The raven has mouth open and there is one berry in its beak. The raven has patterns and ornaments over it and the main colors are dark blue and brown.

howdy! i'm bern, queer artist and designer from finland. i create flora and fauna art with fun shapes, patterns and frames. my main media is digital but i continuously discover new shapes for my creativity! 🌼

🍀 portfolio! berneri.horse
🍀 commissions! berneri.carrd.co
🍀 store! ursalutra.storenvy.com

Photo of a painting with a goat. The background is bright yellow and the goat is red. There are dark teal borders on the left and right sides of the painting with yellow and red leafy-ornaments. The red goat in the middle is branching on teal grass and has a blanket on its back and also a thick collar. The whole painting only has four colors, yellow, red, white and dark teal. The goat is blowing on a horn that emits white fog.

*insert a fog horn sound*
#art ✧ #painting ✧ #goat

Anthony Grafton · No Cheese Please: The First Bibliophiles The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described...

Lovely essay in the @lrb.co.uk on Renaissance era libraries and their influence
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Timeline cleanse: Insta video of Allen Dershowitz being told by Martha's Vineyard police to stop harassing vendors or be charged with trespassing after three different sellers refused him service. 1/3

www.instagram.com/reel/DMvVG1S...

Medieval painting I think where a woman is holding up her finger to a skeleton. Caption: "You're not allowed to talk to me that way"

"Why did I get blocked?" Well,

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

Heat Death A newsletter about yesterday, tomorrow, and all the crises in between.

Hey, writers! We're commissioning guest essays at HEAT DEATH. We want to showcase your weird deep dives into history, ecology and culture, and intersections between them. We pay a $75 honorarium per piece, edit carefully, and you keep all rights.

Pitch me at aelbein@gmail!

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.

But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

YouTube video by Edgar Aldrett Tom Lehrer - "Silent E"

you know Tom Lehrer was the realest of the real because he brought his full heat to Sesame Street

YouTube video by Arnesen Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park (live, 1998).

Stephen Sondheim introduced his childhood pal Tom Lehrer in 1998 for an exceedingly rare stage performance, part of a tribute to Cameron Mackintosh.

(This will always be my favorite Lehrer song. Interestingly, he here changes one word: "squirrel" becomes "sparrow.")
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-e...

Tom Lehrer, Musical Hero gave away his songs before he passed. Even more reasons to love this man.

"All copyrights to lyrics or music written or composed by me have been permanently and irrevocably relinquished, and therefore such songs are now in the public domain. " tomlehrersongs.com

I just got done updating the events page on my website with all my updated tour info!

www.charliejaneanders.com/events

There are links to RSVP for my events in:
San Francisco (8/19)
Portland (8/20)
Chicago (8/21)
Los Angeles (8/22)
Seattle (8/25)

Please do RSVP! It helps the bookstore prepare. <3

Again we see the incoherence of right-wing policy. Rounding up homeless people and imprisoning them *is* housing them! Punitive solutions to this problem also cost a shitload and require a massive bureaucracy.

They are fine with providing housing, but only if it is ineffective and dehumanizing.

he is so obsessed with how erudite he thinks he is that he has forgotten how to actually communicate

Me when I watch Jeopardy

Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.

One parent, Rebecca Sanchez, disagrees with the new policy. She said her 10-year-old daughter got sick a lot last year. "Between the strep throat and the flu, I can say she missed about 17 days," Sanchez said. If her daughter is absent for even half of that time this coming school year, it will now result in a referral to Lawrence County Juvenile Court for truancy. "I have never been for or against homeschool, but because of this new policy, it has definitely changed my mind," Sanchez said. Under the Lawrence County School System's new attendance policy, doctor's notes will no longer excuse an absence. Students will now just be marked absent or present. The policy states that after just three absences, schools will start intervention. If the student misses school for eight or more days, they will be referred to juvenile court.

Staggering how many adults hate kids with post-infectious chronic illnesses/disabilities and punish/harm them, never provide safe accessibility in education

I was one of those kids in the 1990s, epidemics and a pandemic since yet many adults haven’t improved www.newschannel10.com/2025/07/23/s...

Screenshot of tumblr post by maerossi Screenshot: Google Sheets We're sorry. You can't access this item because it is in violation of our Terms of Service. Find out more about this topic at the Google Drive Help Center. Tumblr post text: Everyone: Please please please don't write your books in Google Docs. Frankly don't use Google Drive for personal stuff. Their terms of service say they take down stuff like content related to terrorism and trafficking, but this Google Sheet was literally a list of movies I'd watched this year and books l'd read.

Tumblr post from maerossi Holy smokes, guys. It's way worse than I thought. Google actually took away access to every single file of fiction writing l'd made on that account. BUT I backed it all up on Scrivener yesterday by coincidence. So I haven't lost my work, but I could have just lost the 12,000 words l've written this month after a year of really intense writer's block. I honestly don't know what that would have done to my psyche. Please be careful out there, folks! <3

#WritingCommunity If you haven’t jumped ship with google drive/docs yet, this is your sign to do so…

If you have alternatives for sharing/collaborative work via cloud (that respects privacy and doesn’t work for the police state), please drop them below!

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#WriteSky

For years comfy suburban white guys who couldn’t be bothered to learn history, who lacked discernment, who never dismissed politics, & knew nothing about the toxic & dangerous move of white supremacy in this country, were sure that their funny, transgressive “takes”made them truth-tellers.

Did youse see @lnbdublin.bsky.social the legend shouting me out on The Tonight Show let's goooo

“Demonism served not just as a useful frame for the assimilation and comprehension of difference, it was the filter through which to process their observations and experience.”

A brilliant book.