Josephine Stewart

There are SO many writers I would subscribe to if they weren't on Substack. I've objected from the start for business-practice reasons (no transparency about their paid program). Platforming monetized white-supremacy material...also not great! Maybe *this* will move the needle for a few more people.

A Maryland hero (and gone too soon)! Looking forward to this.

(Standard disclaimers about very valid criticisms of FDR, but:) If they want to do FDR numbers perhaps they should try doing FDR things! But what do I know, I'm just a marginally employed person who likes healthcare and the occasional nice building!

And it's such nonsense, *known* nonsense. My seventy-six-year-old father who grew up raising dairy cows didn't even drink raw milk back then. Even for household use, they had a separate small pasteurizer, and people have been scalding milk for safety for ages.

I am sad that I missed it the first time around and hoping that I will be home for the 22nd, yessssss. Putting it on the calendar.

It's fiction, but these things matter (in much the same way that "cop shows" matter and have warped public consciousness around policing). I decided not to watch season 2 specifically because of this. And for reference, here's what some actual nurses say about ICE: www.kuow.org/stories/ice-...

Omg no, you’re not going to make Anthropic into “resistance tech.” Nope nope nope

I am not a Taurus, but that tea has so many of my favorite things, damn!

No obligation to follow back, and a disclaimer, because I think this stuff matters: I've been masking in indoor public spaces since 2020, but I have made rare exceptions for performance work.

(And yes, I do think it's a bit wild that audiences don't mask for the good of all arts communities.)

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

I have what amounts to an allergy to the Martin stuff and associated media juggernauts, but I keep hearing people whose taste in TV intersects with mine saying really great things about it! Gonna give it a shot, and I'm looking forward to it as a reward when I return from latest family-help trip.

Note regarding the last repost: Also, the test is ongoing.

I feel this so strongly. Covid was a test of our moral integrity & decency -- *not just elites, but all of us* -- and we failed.

I genuinely think one reason Covid has been memory-holed so hard, & so crusted w/ myths & conspiracy theories, is that on some level we know this & are ashamed.

This is so very true. Bad strawberry tastes like pond water with a piece of Juicy Fruit floating in it. Good strawberry tastes like pure sunshine and rainbows condensed into a berry.

I literally just bought a dead-stock Sansa Clip because I am so tired of not having simple music hardware. If they did a "retro" Nano with up-to-date storage specs, real headphone jack, enough oomph to drive just-decent headphones, and USB=C, it would print money.

"They just don't want to do it" explains a great deal of what's wrong in Democratic politics, policymaking, and governing -- far more than most people realize.

See, if I said something like this I would be afraid that an actual punk might see me for a credulous bootlicker and cause me to have a bad day.

Look, now that we're trying for real consequences for the Epstein files, maybe we should also take another look at the Panama Papers

Hey, why are there posts from people I don't follow in my Following feed? I've double checked: I do NOT have the experimental setting that mixes in posts from saved feeds turned on, and I'm not scrolling back super far. This is bullshit and I specifically tailor my media use to avoid it. What gives?

We grade on a curve.

Doing a "Softsoap buys an entire year's manufacturing output of soap pump bottles" but to the whole tech industry. Great stuff. Surely this should be allowed.

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

Winifred really needs a car to help her catch babies. I do not have an extra car to give her. Let's help her get a car!

<chinhands>

Seriously. The primary benefit would be him *not having* $600 billion and all it entails; me getting $2,000 is almost a side benefit, but yes, give it to me, I am paying my elderly father's utility bills and I could definitely use it.

OMG

do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh

Restore Customs and the Secret Service to the Treasury.

Restore TSA and the Coast Guard to the Dept. of Transportation.

Restore FEMA to its original independent status - hell, make it a whole Department, we're going to need it.

Restore all the small random agencies to Justice.

Be done with it.

This is a fun distraction.

A classic!