Katie C

NPR did a whole podcast on Trump taking over DC, and threatening to do the same with Baltimore and Oakland without saying the word Black.

Well I stand corrected, if there's kids popping wheelies we'd better call in the National Guard.

just finished watching The Gilded Age and I need to go to a ball immediately. I want to wear an enormous skirt and waltz. I feel a profound urge to twirl

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is

At a show at the Atlantis a few months ago. Cute little music box of a venue, great show, helpful staff when we needed to find a place to sit down!

GOLDEN 💛🧡💛#kpopdemonhunter

That's my point!

Dems had 60 Senators, needed only 50 (plus VP) to get DC statehood, and had a strong "no taxation without representation" small-d democratic reason, plus a strong political power big-D Dem reason, but some, like, didn't want to. It'd be "unfair" and "divisive."

That. Is. Weakness.

Oh my god I laughed aloud, sorry that happened but lmao

the US divorce rate peaked in 1980-81 and has been falling pretty steadily since, hitting a 50-year-low recently

“oh, you don’t care about crime?” no, no i do not, most major cities are experiencing historic drops in violent crime, no one raising this issue is doing so in good faith and they don’t deserve to be treated with any

Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”

Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

Berger's three laws of chatbotics:

1) The bot should never express emotions.

2) The bot should never praise the user.

3) The bot should never say it understands the user's mental state.

There's no use case for these things, and they're obviously problematic.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

What about the kind with the crunchies in it

I am morbidly curious what even a very cynical political observer would have said a year ago if they were told that Trump was deploying troops in American cities and the response from Democrats was that it was "a distraction".

right, i want dem super majorities but ones that elect like, jasmine crockett to speaker. doesn’t even have to be a lefty! gimme idk von hollen majority leader. we need to jettison these savvy do nothing losers who control leadership and unfortunately lots of the caucus supports them

So is the Mushroom Kingdom a constitutional monarchy or does Princess Peach have absolute authority

Someone joined my infertility discord and immediately started spamming it with porn links. Ladies and gentlemen, the internet.

I set myself a vanishingly small list of tasks today and one (1) farmer’s market trip with a 10-day-old has sapped my will to do all of them

We have a secondhand Vista and let me tell you that was a very popular model at the bougie local farmer’s market

We’re on our first outing with the baby and I’m suddenly so aware of every stroller. It’s as if I became a car guy overnight but for Uppababies.

We have gotten too precious about both masculinity and femininity and it’s a disaster for everyone

Fascinating thread!

Hate when my therapist is right. mine says I should “go to bed earlier” and “do less” and I think that’s silly

Why is he presenting his patents of nobility? Is he about to compete in the joust?

A very cute baby is snoozing in a stroller and covered in a vividly-striped blanket about thrice her size, and I realize that a) I probably should have knit with a gauge and b) I have no idea what size babies are.

Woke up to this pic from @spiffykt.bsky.social and my heart is so full. Enjoy your technicolor dreamcloak, wee comrade!

“Delicate”? Like what, the lingerie section at Kohl’s is protected wilderness and you can’t do anything that might spook the wildlife?

The template is, the right drives this dumb shit into the conversation, the reactionary centrists take the baton and push it into mainstream media, and then everyone asks, "why are Dems focusing on this stuff?"

They aren't, you credulous fucking dipshits! They didn't do this!

I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.

16 bunnies watercolor painting

16 bunnies 🐇
(Prints www.inprnt.com/gallery/knes...)

Utter Madness. Discoveries from mRNA will likely lead to cures for many other diseases…or would have.