lauren

the white chocolate tamales were always way too cold and solid for what they were and i loved them dearly

I’m always heartened to see fair critiques of leftist politicians in office from the left, because the actual embrace of democratic values like holding people in office accountable is one of the key differences between the right and the left

spring planting: sunchokes, black beans, gold potatoes, red and green amaranth, stinging nettle, milkweed, miner's lettuce, plus some dramatic dark red and brilliant orange nasturtiums i just want around for snacks and pretty flowers

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of futurism

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson •22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

This is so spot on

when i became a section leader in the computer science department i was the only humanities major; when we introduced ourselves and i said "English" for my major, the other section leaders in the room laughed and clapped derisively at me. it was surreal. i was so confused why it was funny

jenna maroney

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

it's like yes on the one hand we are grappling with national myths and the death drive and what the goal
of a man's life ought to be, all these lofty concepts, but throughout all i am experiencing is unmitigated delight and just A Really Fun Time. exceptional! singular!

laughed first at him almost immediately alluding to Adam and Eve as "those two orchard thieves" and have had at least a laugh out loud moment per chapter, frequently more often. i'm upset at myself for not reading american nabokov sooner

i'm reading Moby-Dick for the first time and i'm stunned chiefly by the narrator's voice. so chatty and so idiosyncratic, veering between american colloquialisms and maniacal forays into deep myth -- i am eating this UP

Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.

Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked.

When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

being a volpedcel is not the flex he thinks it is

not as funny as the date on the order

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

Cafe at The Portland art museum has Rothko no. 5 cakes. Something intellectually meaty about seeing the painting in person, and then eating a cake copy. The complete experience. Full spectrum.

the adaptationverse handling of dorne makes me so mad it's such a mangled approach to storytelling! these elements are there because they are critical to the plot!

leaving the dornish plot out of the main series is less like "LOTR leaving out Tom Bombadil" and more like "LOTR left out Merry & Pippin" -- they made the region just be "this is where sexy people play in water gardens" instead of "this was the last kingdom to be imperialized and they have agency"

New Second Amendment doctrine just dropped.

leaving increasingly strange and gloomy messages on my elected representatives' machines

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.

White Americans are learning once again that the *only* thing that has ever made you safe from fascism is being willing to sacrifice non-white people. That is your contract with white supremacy. "Give us someone else so it won't be you."

In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.