Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough.
American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.
"La Anunciación" by Mexican artist Fabián Cháirez, depicting a nun and an angel sharing a holy moment in close proximity.
Happy International Women's Day
When I was a child while watching the part in Masters of the Universe (1987) when Skeletor becomes a God my Dad felt the need to interrupt and insist to me that Skeletor is NOT God and all that really did was instill in me me a lifelong feeling that Skeletor is subversive and cool and maybe he's God
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
oh look now he's actively choosing to veto bills, not just passively signing what the legislature sends him but actively CHOOSING to OPPOSE otherwise-passed trans friendly legislation
nobody better ever tell me again newsom has anything but disdain for trans people
Quote: Karl also reported that Trump referred to the ongoing Middle East conflict as a “performance,” saying, “I hope you are impressed … How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?” End quote. For lack of a more coherent way to respond to such a stunning quote from the president of the United States during a war of choice against a radical authoritarian government ruling over 90 million people, I’ll take a beat to remind you of this: Trump has said in interviews and at rallies that two of his favorite movies are the black-and-white classics about stars collapsing in on themselves, “Citizen Kane” and “Sunset Boulevard.” The problem for President Norma Desmond isn’t that his military got small. It’s that his ambition got too big.
Quick Q for everyone: When your president starts sounding like Norma Desmond, is that a good thing? Should that make me feel glad?
www.thenecessaryfictions.com/p/trumps-war...
Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.
Requisite annual post
Also this
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
one of my favorite moments of TNG is when Picard is immediately unable to contain his horse autism
blonde in rusty red sort-sleeved dress in a ravaged room about to cover a dead man's body, of which only a shoe is visible, by putting a deep red blanket upon it, colored painting
Hide The Body, 1933
Mead Schaeffer
@hackintimseeley.bsky.social
Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles.
A little confused by "instead" here.
The saying isn't "fuck around, instead find out"
“instead” is a funny way of spelling “therefore”
If your touchstone about Surveillance and mass collection of data is Edward Snowden, not slave patrols, or COINTELPRO , or things like the Bachelor Laws
Well yes this moment of surveillance is brand new
If you do know those things
It’s the automation
My mome raths really aren't outgrabe-ing today.
As a Virginian, why am I supposed to be satisfied by California having more Democrats in Congress?
I mean, it’s nice and all. But I want more Democrats from Virginia. Why wouldn’t I?
barack obama is eulogizing jesse jackson right now and he hasnt made a single mention of which late night tv show has been very mean and nasty or complained once about the 2010 midterms being rigged, its bizarre
Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs
It's 2026, and America has fallen into dystopia. The AI-God Cult is confused as to why there is backlash against their Brain-Eating-Plagiarism-Machine God, the Evangelical-God Cult is confused as to why THEIR sons are being sent on a holy war in the Middle East by the MAGA-God Cult's Melting King.
Target is in a death spiral of their own making
Right. The problem is what does TACO even mean in this context? bsky.app/profile/jwes...
I wonder if there isn't a certain perceived earnestness as well.
yes it goes along with 'the only value in a human is if you are a productive capitalist unit'.
I don't know why, but I think it's constructed as ever so slightly embarrassing in our (English? Western?) culture to be interested in education as an adult?
I think it's because we associate education with childhood so strongly. Anyway, that's all you have to get over. A few people will go "why?"
yes I am a painfully earnest and sincere person. I don't know how to be another way.
I secretly think being ironic and sophisticated all the time is a way of avoiding your own life.
I wore sarcasm and irony like armor. If you don't care deeply about anything, no one can hurt you. But not only is this a misbelief, it turns out, but life becomes infinitely smaller and colder and meaner when that's how you see EVERYTHING
Photo of a letter that reads: “If you don’t like my peaches, don’t shake my tree.” Sincerely, Shirley Jackson
If you don’t like my peaches don’t shake my tree
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