Alexis!

Ultimately, each one of us must decide for ourselves what is too fast or too furious

Photo of a border patrol officer shooting pepper spray at the face of a peacefully protesting UCC clergy member. Photo by David Bacon.

“The escalation of aggression against peaceful protestors is another reflection of the cruelty & lack of regard this current administration has for the constitution & law. No one is safe from tyranny.”

-Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson, GMP/CEO, UCC

Photo credit: David Bacon

Getting yelled at by an unreasonable man is a good reminder that I love my job and how rarely that happens. Food service was the hardest work I ever did and I salute those of y’all still doing it.

Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

Here’s a list of some fellow native owned shops and artists from last year that y’all should still check out!

Judy Blume quote: it’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

The real danger of censorship isn’t just the books we lose today, but the stories that will never be written tomorrow.

When fear silences creativity, we all lose, especially young readers searching for connection, comfort, and truth. Let’s make sure every story still has a chance to be told.

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

@nytimes.com please add GLOAM to your Spelling Bee word list!

Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

Y’all tired? I’m tired.

Bulbasaur Game Boy 🌸✧˚.🍀⋆ #pokemon

screenshot of a chumbox link that reads "Chuck Norris: This Night Routine Makes Me Feel Years Younger" and a photo of chuck in front of a microphone superimposed over a blurry photo of two grilled corn cobs

(nodding) night corn

Rainbow crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub removed overnight “We did everything according to state law, everything was compliant,” said Patty Sheehan, the city’s first openly gay elected official. “FDOT never moves that quickly with anything.&#82…

Workers under cover of night removed a rainbow crosswalk outside of the former Pulse nightclub, apparently as part of state and federal transportation officials’ aim to wipe “political banners” from public roadways. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...

Quote with a gif from the last show/movie you watched

The point was never really to save money. The point was to speed run the 60-year old GOP dream of dismantling of the New Deal administrative state using Musk as the tip of the spear, his unearned reputation for being a “non-ideological, former Democrat, techno-whiz, problem solver” as a shield.

I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.

sweet joke you just posted on the internet, be a shame if someone took it 100% serious and responded like your grandma on facebook

Photo showing three swords or maybe daggers with these are in an archaeological Museum in Greece it's close up on the hilts and a little bit of the blade the hilts are all cleaned up to show off the gold decoration on them which contrast beautifully with the corroded, verdigried blades

Mycenaean Daggers, 16th - 14th century BCE

When you strip away humanity

Vic Michaelis wearing the exact same outfit as an American Girl doll.

don't talk to me or my son ever again

love when a paywall sounds like it’s drawing a gun on you

bro they're playing your leitmotif pizzicato. there's a slow clarinet lurking beneath it. you better not be about to betray me right now i swear to god bro

YouTube video by popuppoets Abena Koomson performs "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes

“Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)”

A lot of other confusing things make sense when you internalize this somewhat non-intuitive part of the process.

In case you can't tell what just happened, JK Rowling instructed her followers to take photos of anyone in a women's restroom who doesn't match their idea of Western feminine beauty standards. Short hair? Thick cheekbones/jaw? Too tall or broad-shouldered? You're now "a man" and will be harassed.

It’s so so good!

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

I like therapy but please leave the load bearing trauma alone I need to stay funny