Connecticutting

Explaining to my husband my plan to become a successful influencer in order to spark a Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music renaissance despite having zero qualities of a successful influencer

Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Inventing pseudo-academic papers in my head again

“The semiotics of the school uniform: Angus Young vs Britney Spears, a comparative analysis.”

It's going to be hilarious to watch Stephen Miller spend the rest of his life writing stuff like this on the walls of his prison cell.

Your transient receptor potential (TRP) vanilloid 1 receptor mediates your response to capsaicin, but mustard oil and wasabi go through the TRP ankyrin 1 receptor 🥵 🧪

a man wearing a camouflage hat says so i got that going for me Alt: Caddy Shack Murray says “so i got that going for me”

Dinner ended with me yelling “well you’re a bigot and you’ve always been a bigot” at my brother,

Tiger king saying “I’m never going to physically recover from this”

After thanksgiving dinner

LIVE Updated 7 minutes ago Live Updates: D.C. Shooting Suspect Worked With C.I.A.-Backed Units in Afghanistan, Officials Say The C.I.A. said that the suspect, whom officials identified as a 29-year-old Afghan, came to the United States in 2021 after the American military withdrawal. Two National Guard members were in critical condition after the shooting on Wednesday.

wild way to admit the CIA groomed this dude as a child soldier during the war & occupation in afghanistan

Politicians who make political decisions to deploy the military into situations that get service members killed for no good reason. They need to be held accountable.

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

I’m pretty sure I’m safe.

"My library sucks! I can't afford to buy books all the time!"

*checks their TL*

*sees a bunch of discussions of movies they've seen in the theater*

*points out that a trade paperback book costs the same, or less, than most movie tickets*

*dead silence*

The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.

The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population.

How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?

They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.

It’s wild that up until six months ago people would call any of us on the academic and research side talking about the fact that the fascist movement was a transnational criminal organization as much as a fascist organization conspiracy theorists and now they are acting like they just found out

If I haven’t lost count entirely, this was the fourth time Europe was fooled.

So yes it’s about time to finally figure out our own strategy instead of putting all energy into humouring Trump.

when its definitely not a hostage situation

CDC Data Indicates We’re 2 Months Away From America Losing Its Measles Elimination Status

We've talked a lot about measles throughout this year, which is particularly frustrating given that America officially eliminated this disease from its endemic state back in 2000. How we got here is a very…

Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memoThe Streisand Effect strikes again

Wrote another headline with @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/business/828...

DOGE was a scam to get data on all Americans necessary to cheat and manipulate future elections, steal your money and close all investigations of Elon musk.

Data is power!

Also check Palantir

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Sometimes, the horrors are ghosts and vampires. Sometimes, the horrors are stumbling across a lewd text message that a politician sent to his lover. You wish you could go back in time to unsee it but it's too late. It's something you have read now & the sentences are in your brain forever.

Synthetic voters/audiences are increasingly being used by political campaigns. They’re being sold as a more affordable alternative to real focus groups and polls.

This is a horrible idea for many reasons, including that the results are weird and bad.

An ad for the next season of Residnet Alien

My husband knowing that my love language is Gifts of Tudyk

Late night Xmas decorating at @marktwainhouse.bsky.social

me as a Bluesky therapist: have you tried posting through it?

Gesturing to the rotting pumpkins on my porch,

“MAY THIS SERVE AS A WARNING TO ANY GOURD WHO DARES CROSS ME.”

Absolutely dying at “Eric”

Correct