Jen Chien

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💔 What an incredible life and legacy. I am one of so many touched and educated and inspired by her work. My condolences to all of her loved ones.

I think this one is my favorite

Backlit Michael Myers from the Halloween franchise

Why does this look like Michael Myers?

This thread ... whew

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.

can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

Lynda Barry, one of the best to ever do it ("it" being drawing, comics, writing, art, mixtapes! IYKYK)

She's incredible, thank you for sharing!

holy shit

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start

If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Watching the Podcast Bubble Burst From the Inside I started my first podcast in 2009. It wasn’t anything special, just...

My friend @andrewjparsons.bsky.social on what it is like working in an industry that is clearly experiencing a bubble. His experience was in podcasting, but there was a lot of this in digital journalism over the last two decades — all abruptly ending in recent years.

Skechers hands-free slip-ins

This is why they make these

Golden milk chai at 11th Hour Coffee! (I like mine with oat milk and a shot of espresso, so good)

My momma bestie is my auntie
My auntie friend that go to her church is also my auntie
My 75 year old cousin... is also my auntie

"Auntie" is what happens when you understand the expansive proposition of family

"That's not your aunt" is what happens when you live outside of restorative community

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

Wow, @goodtrailcams.bsky.social is 100% bangers

happy bday poet John Berryman, b.1914

“We must travel in the direction of our fear.”

“I cry. Evil dissolves, & love, like foam;
that love. Prattle of children powers me home,
my heart claps like the swan’s
under a frenzy of who love me & who shine.”

“That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die.”

Opinion | You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator

You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

With a gift link because I think it is very important for people to understand this:

The arrival of fascism in San Francisco isn't an invasion.
It’s a homecoming—a nightmare scaled by venture capital.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Phew ❤️

YouTube video by MUBI LURKER | Official Trailer | Now Streaming

This is basically the plot or at least inciting incident of the (great) movie Lurker. But it goes to a much darker place than it sounds like your friend’s situation did! m.youtube.com/watch?v=876d...

Nothin like eating tacos on the street when it’s past your bedtime

The point of recognizing that the main power we have is speaking as much as possible with precision & accuracy is to set us free from calculation: the BS that ranges from online performativity & machismo to spin to the fundamental violations of human solidarity urged by the consultant class.

LOL

Gunmetal grey-colored Kitchen Aid mixer seen from the side

XENOMORPH!
(I might have gotten too into #alienearth, because this used mixer someone posted for sale looks only like an alien to me)

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that