Tarek Rizk

Definitely called the movie “Edward Scissorhands” the more colorful if confusing “Andrew Scissorhead” while buying tickets to said movie.

Trump is unconstitutionally freezing federal funds that Congress sent our constituents and dismantling the democratic system. This isn't business as usual—Congress needs to stop it. I will not support any Trump nominee who will do his illegal bidding. I urge my colleagues to join.

One of the things to know about edtech is that many, many people involved in it have no experience teaching, and particularly not at the grade level the intervention is designed to target. They’re tech guys who think tech is Very Hard and teaching is a skill-free avocation for ladies.

이렇게 수정된 짤 발견! 누가 만들었나 🤣

How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood Here’s a step-by-step guide.

This is a great piece.

"As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

Charlie Brown saying his famous catchphrase, "My idols are dead and my enemies are in power"

Earth Explodes

Earth Explodes
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Barring the mention of one food (candy corn), this article annoyingly doesn’t tell you what actually has red dye #3 in it. This is basically clickbait for someone (like me), who likes Double Bubble, as a treat.

The saddest thing here is that — warts and all — Wikipedia feels both like a semi-unspoiled wilderness of information and a genuine artifact of the old internet. Hounding editors in this space feels more dystopian than...all the other dystopian shit happening right now.

There are 21 million Black people in the US.

Fewer than 6% of us earn over $100K a year.

The median net worth of Black households fluctuates between about $20K and $40K, depending on how much scamming happens that year (eg crypto, asset forfeiture).

Black. People. Are. The. Working. Class.

On top of everything else, now I gotta put up with four more years of y’all shouting about leopards eating faces and cruelty being the point and “let that sink in” over and over and over.

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SHADDUPP!!

We need a more innovative discourse of shared panic! COME UP WITH NEW ANXIETY SLOGANS.

I cooked a dinner and listened to a book and drank two double old fashioneds and now I can believe I did all that and it’s not even 8 PM.

What are Floridians stress eating/drinking?

Unfortunately, yes, the giant vessel of peanut butter pretzel nuggets valiantly gave its life for my election anxiety.

Status update:

Interesting synergy here that history’s greatest war mongering monster posthumously pops into the headlines on a day when we’re all sort of knife-edge-dancing with the darkest timeline…

Current status:

Had to google. WES ANDERSON!

In presidential elections there’s the question of “would you want to have a beer with them?” Well, maybe Kamala Harris’ best answer to this query is that her husband’s first wife is out there defending her in public.

I am worried/tortured by the idea that it was the World Central Kitchen tragedy — and not the uncountable, unimaginable, overwhelming mass of tragedies before it — that made people wake up.

I’m glad so many American Jews who were all-in for Israel are now recognizing that what they’re doing to Gaza is a horror, but I also think you ought to do a teensy weensy smidge of personal reflection on why you refused to see this truth sooner

that’s it I support capital punishment now

Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, facing possible slew of abuse lawsuits, files for bankruptcy Baltimore, the country’s oldest Catholic diocese, joins dozens of other dioceses that also filed. If approved, bankruptcy limits and silences victims.

This is gross, and also, telling. www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...

I am both an American and a Cultural Anthropologist who specializes in semiotics and religion.

I do not understand what is going on in this flag.

At all.

The whole free speech argument looks pretty strange when you go on Twitter and there’s five things you’re allowed to talk about with two variations of opinion and then you come on here and everyone is fighting over lasagna and one guy is saying he’d fuck the pringles man and then there’s a scientist

Realizing today, with the launch of FB’s Bizarro Twitter, that social platforms have dulled our ability to think out loud. We all work within the medium of other people’s opinions or the language of people who are brands. BSky tho, is mostly people posting zany truths, lewds, lists, whatevs.

Breaking News alert from New York Times about Ryan Seacrest being the next host of Wheel of Fortune.

No, this is the opposite of breaking new.

The people that hurt you, that you miss.
You're only missing a version of them that doesn't exist.
Let go

Reskeeting because the piece is smart and hits a sense of search results decline we're all feeling but also for the use of 'enshittification' which we should all use more.

I'm experiencing a unique sense of loneliness, gazing at my luxurious pair of invites and waiting for someone to casually say in my presence 'oh I wish I knew someone cool enough to spare me a Bluesky invite,' while in reality I've texted my wife an invite code three times and she's ignored me.