Lily Mars

I will shed zero tears if McKinsey burns down

they look like they need a getaway driver, or maybe a forger

Black and white photo of a white girl with serious, frowning expression, sitting outside in the sunshine on a patio. She is dressed in frilly white but has more of a tomboy posture, and holds a shorthaired white and grey or ginger cat in her lap. Both of them have similar scowling expressions. Beside them on a wooden chair lays a shorthaired white and black cat.

I would like to join this gang. Photo from my collection, 1914.

New Yorkers showed up at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn today to demand their elected officials stop the genocide in Gaza.

Listen to them, @schumer.senate.gov and take action immediately. The world is watching. Save lives! Save a people!

@bkindivisible.bsky.social @indivisible.org

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the hero we need

i suspect there are poles involved

In addition, Lynch himself was dealing with a hernia "during the entire shoot"; he had injured himself while laughing too hard at something funny that Angelo Badalamenti did.

This tidbit from the Wikipedia entry on Fire Walk with Me

That's what I mean by decoupling. Econ 101 teaches us that like economies run on the exchange of goods and services but the modern US economy runs on rent seeking (look it up) so it's possible to get wildly rich providing nothing beneficial just scraping off the top

It's the same with the tarrifs. It's going to decimate small businesses but big businesses I'm not so sure.

I think it's useful to understand that our economy has separated from the real economy - the one that makes goods and services - a long time ago.

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

k in that case i'm guessing it's FREAKIN' ENORMOUS

i can't believe i didn't ask about snacks, i just said H*CK YES* like some rube

come on, dave
like you have to ask
SIGN ME UP FOR BOARDGAMES WITH SANDAL

does that count toward the 675 square feet i wonder

i had a barbie dream house when i was a kid and it had more square footage than this and it had an elevator but it also had ONLY ONE BEDROOM or maybe two i forget it was a long time ago

Something I was thinking about: how the term "Far Right" was arguably used as a way of placating moderate conservatives, of hiving off the extreme right from the more moderate; yet conservatives turn around and use the term "Far Left" to paint even the most banal, anodyne liberal as an extremist.

If you talked about Republicans like Miller talks about Democrats on national TV, you’d be telling the truth! Yet Democrats are so nervous to do this

also the people vowing to impeach and remove him would be legitimately elected

also removing a fascist from office by whatever means is an antifascist act, stop reading the rulebook on behalf of the Nazi team

Real quick PSA in light of the uproar.

Don't forget you can DETACH yourself from someone quote posting you here.

So, if someone is trying to start something or dogpile you, you can detach yourself so they no longer have your post on their TL and then block.

It's another great privacy feature.

I use "Detach Quote" liberally, when someone is trying to dogpile, also when someone is using something I said to use it as part of an argument or assertion I don't want to be associated with, also when, I don't know, they're reporting in from Neptune and I don't know wtf they're trying to say

The Times is easily played because ownership wants it to be.

i don’t know who needs to hear this but when the news is a shit tornado, you don’t have to stand in it. find your storm shelter — friends, family, pets, TV, music, books, whatever — and escape when you need to, please and thank you.

The Orange County Mayor, which encompasses Orlando, signed an agreement to cooperate with ICE as he, along with the entire board of county commissioners, were threatened with removal from office if they didn't.

They should've forced DeSantis to do it and not take the cowardly way out.

wait
"if"?

First they came for a very small percentage of the population and I did not speak out because consultants told me that it polled negatively with an important segment of the base that is needed if we are to win the next election.

At least two sitting justices lied to Congress under oath. Impeach those fuckers. Then go after the bribery enthusiasts.

because...that's where we are, right? Ds are regularly targeted for stochastic and state violence. and in response they are like, "well we need to make sure ICE is a little nicer, at least to kids."

like, aggressive efforts to end tax breaks for right wing churches. breaking up right wing media. full throated decision to crush the charter school movement.

“…fire fatalities are 17 times more likely in a Cybertruck than in the infamous Ford Pinto.
The site compares the total units sold so far — 34,438 for the Cybertruck, compared to 3,173,491 for the ill-fated Pinto...”

To me the biggest shocker: only 34k dumbasses bought this triangle shit box.

The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.