rebekah entralgo

well after making it to the semifinals, my time on pop culture jeopardy has come to an end.

excited to see who wins tomorrow! equizabeth moss forever

they explained on reddit that they 1) didn't think they would know the answer bc they dont watch real housewives and 2) they were exhausted. which may not be a satisfying answer but I get it! we filmed our quarterfinal and semi final games back to back while being jetlagged and it was a lot!!!

they didn't say but one has to wonder!

the producers almost made us change it!!

what is.....see me on pop culture jeopardy next month?

it's a community choir! i sang a lot in high school and wanted to get back into it

genuinely depressing to me how few people have hobbies these days. like i'm about to go to choir rehearsal and then come home and needlepoint.....divine!

Gen X: calls without notice on teams or even checking your availability

Millennial: messages “hi” on teams and waits for your response

Gen Z: records your interaction for a new TikTok called “making coworker buy me coffee part 85”

need to know your thoughts on the tiktok mac n cheese discourse ("soupy" mac VS "old head" mac)

i saw a tiktok telling young people to move out of dc bc of the incoming trump admin. i moved to dc before inauguration day 2017 & pretty much nothing really changed during that time? people yelled at trump admin officials in public which was pretty cool and shophouse shut down (not cool)

yes cryptocurrency is horrible for the planet but more importantly it bores me

this is like steve nash hanging them up after his laker seasons

If we want to protect democratic values, we’ll have to convince the American people that democracy can work. And first, we’ll have to convince ourselves ⁠— to either rediscover our first principles about why democracy matters to begin with or develop some. For me, the case is simple. I believe in democracy because I believe each of us deserves a measure of control over the conditions that shape our lives. I believe we must expand the power and agency of ordinary people in our society to that end, not just at the ballot box, but within the economy. None of this requires us to believe that people are intrinsically wise or innately given to making good collective decisions. Obviously, people often won’t. But both history and a bit of common sense give us good reasons to doubt surrendering our agency to arbitrary hierarchies or those who might imagine themselves society’s betters will work out reliably in the interests of most. The benevolent autocrat or aristocracy, possessed of all the knowledge governance requires, administering an otherwise egalitarian state out of principle is a fantasy, no less ridiculous than the idea of a perfectly informed electorate.

Even in our imperfections, we’ve worked miracles together. In the last century in this country, millions of women, minorities, and immigrants gained the franchise for the first time. The vast majority of them would have been less informed and less ready for political participation on average than the men already participating; some, in fact, could not read or write. If democracy’s critics are to be believed, this was a recipe for total societal collapse. Instead, we grew stronger and more prosperous, a story repeated with expansions of the franchise across the Western world. The democratic project is not easy. It doesn’t pull us in a straight line towards progress. It will, quite often, break our hearts and do much worse. But when it does, we have an obligation to remember its promise ⁠— that through it, we might perform the difficult and maddening but vital work of enlarging ourselves. Of choosing lives beyond the ones that have been handed down to us by the powerful or by circumstance. This is what democracy means to me. Take it or leave it. One thing, though, is for sure ⁠— the civics lessons aren’t going to cut it anymore.

I wrote some more about the election and the point of democracy for the newsletter. www.ositanwanevu.com/an-election-...

Replying “kill yourself” every time someone posts a cross stitch in the embroidery subreddit

when Bright Sun Travels drops a new hotel review on YouTube I sit my problematic ass down and LISTEN

fight night

my planet baltimore is so beautiful when the sun is low

share your letterboxd top 4 🔫 boxd.it/2KVEt

Marcel Breuer - Hooper House II - 1959
a Marvel of the mid-20th Century
Baltimore County, Maryland
#architecture

monitor 1: meta business suite
monitor 2: youtube video of orson welles on dick cavett

sorry but it will never not be funny to me that the new government efficiency department has TWO bosses

audibly gasped when I saw bald ann dowd on here.....now it really feels like Home

I think the Dead Herman Cain account should be allowed on here

deeply unserious university

matter of fact, who is brave enough to do an investigative piece on burning spear at fsu

really need some former tallahassee/florida statehouse reporters to start dropping all the matt gaetz goss

i also promised hunter i would make buffalo chicken dip for the game on sunday so.....that

it's honestly beautiful you still do this on bluesky

(going to watch conclave and work on a needlepoint project)

This is why Threads is not a viable alternative to Twitter. Unfortunately, free speech is dead on the largest platforms. Here’s to a bright future with Bluesky.

Let Connor O’Malley host Info Wars