west end girl (in a dead end world)

most people are just fucking sad and stressed out because existing is unnecessarily hard right now dude

now, smug condemnations of how other people express emotion on the other hand…. That’s the primo pseudointellectual tripe right there

Maybe you have seen it. Maybe not. Either way it bears (re)watching. We can keep history from repeating or rhyming, as Mark Twain said, but it takes moral courage and constant pressure.

Context: ICE bought a warehouse in their town for detentions and the council says there is nothing they can do.

This is an extremely important and long thread re: a proposed concentration camp in Surpise, AZ. It's no surprise that the locals are very upset and protesting the situation. Stay strong and shut that shit down.

Hoa Hakananai'a, as it is displayed nowadays in the Wellcome Trust Gallery of the British Museum. Photo by Atlas Obscura user Xavixavir.

Tapati has just started, a festival done in Rapa Nui that celebrates their culture and ancestors. And because of that I'm going to talk about one of the most controversial items currently in the British Museum, the moai known as "Hoa Hakananai'a" (that can be translated as "Stolen Friend") 🔽🧵

Harris Stans are easily the most insufferable thing about Harris. She's mostly just another bland establishment Democrat.

Her fanbase, however, is a bunch of rabid neolib Hillary2016 refugees. They just want brutal American Imperialism with socially egalitarian aesthetics at home.

With you on the last 2 for sure, and yeah, Joe Jackson gets a pass.

Still mentally scarred by the day a manager at a record shop I worked at put on a *live* *2CD* Phish album.

When the owner insisted on playing Britney Spears' "Me Against the Music" on loop, people came in off the street to complain. I imagine for Phish, they just hustled past as fast as possible.

Name five bands you can’t fucking stand

Miley Cyrus
Shaun Mullins
KISS
Jewel
Phish

(also, William Shatner when he trivializes a perfect Pulp song)

"In order to create a white ethnostate, we'll subjugate and rape women"

And these people think they're superior to anyone when really, they have no redeeming personal characteristics and so have to pretend their most basic attribute is somehow important enough to justify violence

Onychoteuthid from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 453 East Cortes Basin #designingthefuture2 #MarineLife

That poor person who had to perform the risk assessment!💣

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Complex Networks of Metallic Branches Shape #Animal #Sculptures by Kang Dong Hyun

Link for more info and #photos of his #art: www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/01/kang...

There is an actual argument that this curse actually worked.

This image shows gauges with the Jan 31 - Feb 13, 2026 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, and territories. From left to right: Canada: VERY HIGH - 13.1 Alberta: SEVERE - 18.6 British Columbia: HIGH - 6.3 Manitoba: SEVERE - 18.4 New Brunswick: SEVERE - 19.2 Newfoundland & Labrador: HIGH - 7.7 North: VERY HIGH - 13.9 Nova Scotia: VERY HIGH - 10.4 Ontario: VERY HIGH - 14.5 Prince Edward Island: SEVERE - 18.9 Quebec: VERY HIGH - 10.0 Saskatchewan: SEVERE - 18.7 A text box reads: 'The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red).'

Canadian COVID Forecast: Jan 31 - Feb 13, 2026

SEVERE: AB, MB, NB, PEI, SK
VERY HIGH: CAN, North, NS, ON, QC
HIGH: BC, NL
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 122 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Signed!
Petition e-6821 to pass legislation requiring majority Canadian ownership of news media.

It is still hilarious to me that @bsky.app let's people add you to their garbage moderation lists after you have blocked them. What a useless and regularly abused feature.

Advocacy opportunity 📣 BCCDC is assessing BC’s wastewater surveillance program. Survey here: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Wastewater testing is an “early warning system” to monitor community illness levels, including surges & new variants. It’s a crucial tool for pandemic preparedness.

A few dozen bushels of bad apples.

If the Canadian govt had any sense of innovation, there are so many ways that Canada Post could be used to aid in this service delivery. I would love to see Canada Post involved in online marketplace services.

100%. “Let’s not jump to conclusions“ is sensible but it’s a very, very conspicuous thing to say about, say, the class of people JK Rowling belongs to, and never about the groups of people she has poured her resources into demonizing.

How shocking.

The Sunday Herald, 21 May 2000:

Look! 🥹

From:Shanson900 Sent: October 18,2014 To: Jeffrey Epstein NYT mag Men of Wellesley - Can women's colleges survive the transgender movement You spoke about it only 6+ mos ago. Now the cover story. Dam!!

don't mind me, just finding lots of bread crumbs showing Epstein and the League of Pederasts were a driving force in pushing transphobic hate.

This email was sent in October 2014, at the start of the current anti trans political campaign and astroturphing.

Self-care is essential. ❤️‍🩹
I hope you rediscover joy.💖

Hundreds of people stand on a frozen lake in Minneapolis in a formation that spells out “SOS” in protest of ICE.
(Credit: David Guttenfelder/NYT)

Last chance for the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic 🌕✨❄️💫
#moon #sky #clouds #trees #snow #nightsky #winter #nature #hudsonvalley #newyork #photography

I *sincerely* thank you for your attention to this matter!

Sir, could you please Expand on that explanation For Those Of Us who aren't afraid to Admit we don't Know, or even perhaps, do'nt Recall perfectly everything which we might have known once, as I hear Happens to Some People at some times, Everything? Such as an example?

Asking with Tears in my Eyes!

My 30 minute painting sketch!. Still learning speed.