Alternate Histories

if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately

A bookstore in Pittsburgh has been named Pennsylvania's friendliest small business, study shows White Whale Bookstore in Bloomfield is the friendliest small business in Pennsylvania, according to the study by the Advance Funds Network.

A bookstore in Pittsburgh has been named Pennsylvania's friendliest small business, study shows

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So shitty; will keep an ear out for any good opportunities, and fuck your old job

while everyone is looking at me: hello, i am looking for a job! i have 7+ years of experience as a program manager & would love to be fully remote or hybrid in pittsburgh. i can build budgets, curriculum, and programs from scratch. i have experience in STEM, higher ed, podcasting, and community dev.

The amount of events and festivals around the country using genAI for their promotional images is slightly maddening. All about supporting local, except their local artists.

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

it’s wild how everyone hates Fetterman (correctly) and there’s a guy running who’s basically holding a huge I’m The Next Fetterman sign and it hasn’t slowed him down at all

I am a cis straight white American dude born in the 20th century, which means I am unavoidably racist in ways I am not always aware of. Yet I have managed to not get any Nazi tattoos. Trust me. It’s not that hard. You have to go out of your way to get a Nazi tattoo

Because otherwise you’re asking people to vote for the candidate who Had a Literal Nazi Tattoo And Didn’t Think It Was Important To Mention Until Someone Else Mentioned It

This is literally why I keep hammering all these idiots who are like ”Oh Fetterman was fine beforehand wha happa” because we can’t keep repeating these cycles of Shitty White Dudes Who Clearly Told Us Who They Were

Having a gin & tonic and writing an embarrassing instagram DM to a celebrity I love who keeps posting Platner stuff in a vain effort to say, essentially: we surely can do better than Nazi sympathizers. Right? I mean…right?

I'd be more inclined to believe that Graham Platner is merely a dumbass if he was making different kinds of "mistakes" instead of one very specific type of "mistake" over and over

Today my gf said that she is the “Weird Al of our relationship” and it pains me to admit that she is right

Or Malcolm Kenyatta

Tapping the sign once again with this firsthand account from Tony Buba, longtime Braddock resident and filmmaker who starts out: ”I see no difference in the way John behaves now, then when he was the mayor of Braddock.”
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Love to have people from Philly explain things to those of us who actually live in Southwestern PA.

the same thing is happening with graham platner btw. and gavin newsom. never mind that there are always OTHER CHOICES. you'll "he's our guy!" everyone else to death, then be shocked in 3 years when the neo nazi is, in fact, a neo nazi.

yall love to do this thing where you insist that fetterman was a foregone conclusion, from the very beginning. and he was not. he is, as ever, a racist piece of shit. but chasing down a black man with a shotgun, then refusing to apologise, wasn't a dealbreaker for you.

but black people in swpa did, in fact, tell you so. yall chose not to listen because you identified more with the jagoff in gym shorts.

Hard to not feel like a many-headed Ghidorah is attacking on multiple fronts; even worse when that monster is our own government. Just trying to share some of the rage and frustration and sadness and fear; this isn’t normal, this isn’t okay, you’re not crazy or alone, and we are in this together.

I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Anyone in Pittsburgh want some wooden pallets? There’s five outside my studio now; help yourself!

These are all great but "something smart" immediately an all-timer for me. Also "Midnight Kissfight" is a 10/10 band name. Check 'em out, buy it, support independent music!

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

Tapping the sign

Look, @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social, what did I do to get attacked like this?

Settling for mouthing every word and texting all my middle-aged friends "you'll never guess what the young people are playing at the coffee shop!"