Well, I guess I didn’t hold back the urge I’m SORRY I REALLY TRIED!!!!!!!

Every English major you know is holding back a violent physical urge to say “Ozymandias”

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.

Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"

Ok here’s the real problem with AI

When you start parsing what work is unimportant enough for the AI to do and what only you can do, you are making the assumption that you know what parts are “important.” This is unknowable opportunity cost. What discoveries would you have made writing the outline?

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

HBO should fire Bill Maher and give his time slot to Stephen Colbert.

First thought: we should get back to mailing raccoons to the president
Second thought: I cannot bear to watch an Instagram reel of a MAHA influencers head approvingly nodding over a video of RFK eating a raccoon, hashtag make america raccoon again

Imagine shitting away your integrity for what is, essentially, Kohl’s cash

A protest sign that reads “US Constitution article 1, section 9, clause 8: Trump violates 1/20/17 12:01 pm”

A white woman holds a sign at a protest that reads “Emoluments: not just a funny word.”

I still have the sign, actually.

*chuckles darkly* I literally carried a protest sign about the Emoluments clause at my city’s Inauguration Day women’s march in 2017. He was violating it day 1 of his first term. I don’t know, we all knew he was horrible but this one thing just seemed so… straightforward to me, you know?

the single most insane person in Congress should threaten to read every ICE agent's home address into the Congressional Record the moment they get their hands on them

Hate to be this person (I don’t) but his analysis (to the extent it’s informed) starts CORRECT — we buy a lot of junk we don’t need for cheap. Trump takes a correct analysis & then completely screws the pooch on DIAGNOSIS.

This isn’t to his credit (god forbid) but it reflects how voters reason.

Oh my god another post in that thread says it’s a REVENGE FANTASY? I was *literally* already sold but now it’s EVEN BETTER???

That clattering crashing cat yowling sound you heard was me scampering and comically tripping over things to go to @2ndflightbooks.bsky.social to preorder this

This tortie is really smart. My tortie just screams at birds and tries to eat the cream cheese off my bagel.

I don't think people really grasp that sewing is a skill and that textiles are a legitimate subject of study. The whole point of Elle Woods studying fashion merchandising is that it was supposed to be frivolous but it's actually hard and those skills were transferable to Harvard Law.

financial advice in a weird time:

-- develop a plan
-- find friends who support you
-- preferably 10 of them
-- steal $160 million from the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand
-- yes those are Terry Benedict's casinos
-- get your wife back
-- one of the friends should be Don Cheadle btw

simple

Courtney Milan has written a fantastic explainer of the tariffs and she ALSO writes beautiful, thoughtful, hopeful, powerful, sexy historical romance novels.

When dems say they want a "big tent" so as not to "alienate anybody," they're not referring to voters. They're talking about wealthy donors. So prepare for candidate Newsome to lose every swing state. At this point I think they could even lose the midterms if it weren't for Sanders & AOC

democrats all had 4.5 GPAs and took briefcases to class but we really need some bathroom smoker energy rn

When Mona Parsons, from Nova Scotia, was imprisoned for being a part of the Dutch Resistance during WWII in Holland, she was tasked with knitting socks for German soldiers. She knit knots in the soles to create blisters on their feet as an act of defiance. I think about that a lot. Knots.

You’ve underestimated her persistence and I fear you will be dogged by relentless O-H -es henceforth

Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you.

Do something

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story