Kathleen Fitzgerald

“Do you know how to read?”
“No. It is one of the black arts.”
He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.

imagine building a perfectly useful technology that could even actually change the world for the better while also making a ton of money and instead of using it to do that, you decide the first use case should be “cognitive harm generator that’s also a global recession machine”

the sort of information environment where you wish the FAA was not run by a contestant on the Real World, the Department of Defense by a Fox and Friends drunk, and DHS by Corey Lewandowski

Ugh typos and no edit function but you get the gist…

The Seahawks
Is are the other team and I love them… c’mon they have a player nicknamed Big Cat” you cannot go wrong loving them.

YESSSS!

The moral earnestness of "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" feels a lot more subversive than anything ever attempted in "Game of Thrones."

“There is no conceivable degree of institutional incompetence sufficient to explain the scale, consistency, and persistence of the failures that occurred —particularly where the sole task ordered by the Court and repeatedly emphasized by DOJ was simple: redact known victim names before publication,”

❤️

N.K. Jemisin, the Broken Earth series in particular.

Do one of the things that makes you feel better, because if you aren't doing any of that, you will run down. Today I did some writing. I'm a writer, & if I don't write, I run down. It's very easy for me to forget this, despite decades of knowing it. And so I am here to remind you to do your things.

I’ve got the perfect Hollywood movie idea for the #Seahawks

Sign Marshawn Lynch to a 1 day contract for the Super Bowl and let him run a 1 yard TD against the Patriots in the Super Bowl.

Can someone tell Tom Brady to stop saying “twitchy” FFS?

I cannot post my opinions about the New England Patriots in public

I am largely a pacifist but fuck.

so you should just know, if Indiana can win a national title, there's no reason for you to not have hope about...well, everything and anything

the rest of the world deferred to us not because they needed to but because it was easy, all to great benefit of us, and we destroyed that to get out of having to watch one hour diversity training videos once a year

Me 2025: No kings!
Me 2026: Except his majesty Frederik X,
King of Denmark. May death come swiftly to his enemies.

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I think it’s important to point out: ICE does NOT have the same authority as a police officer. They do NOT have the power to enforce laws, only to engage in their specific tasks.

IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against

What a time to know anything about the history of American imperialism and its consequences

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.

I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

Ever noticed the exact date immigration went from noble pioneers heroically setting out to weave their story's thread into the vibrant tapestry of a new nation to a vile invasion by unwashed savages looking to mooch off our golden birthright tends to be the day after the speaker's ancestors arrived?

@madsweeneyhh.bsky.social seasonal law

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

“I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.”
-Tom Stoppard, who absolutely knew what the hell he was talking about.

The movie theater…