If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

A painting of a bird beside the text "Someday, somewhere, someone will truly understand just how fucked up this was"

We're not fighting over policy or political party.

We're fighting over whether we are going to be a civilization rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

What you choose to arm yourself with, love or hate, exposes which side you're fighting on.

Cream’s “White Room” seems to fit the bill. I like how thinking about this reveals how powerful meter is in crafting lyric/poetry.

Hats, quilts, embroidery - the fabric of resistance.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

Lord have mercy on me a sinner as I try with all of my might to avoid letting my heart fill with hate and despair.

Ahhhhh! And Japanese Breakfast opening? (may be even more excited about that part)

*farmer

Christopher Walken? You mean the bashful framer from “Sarah, Plain and Tall”?

Best part of going w/full size is avoiding an existential crisis every time someone shows up. “Do I give? Or do they take? how many pieces? 1 seems stingy. If 2, might as well give 3. I should just give a handful, right? Will handfuls lead to not enough candy?” Full-size shuts that voice right up.

This is amazing.

“Look at that subtle off-white coloring.”

My grandmother served overseas in the Army in WWII. This dishonors her service.

Reading these articles/headlines (AI personhood, AI “actors” being shopped to agents, etc.) in parallel with the economic analyses of the AI bubble that is fixing to burst makes it clear that out of desperation they’re throwing absolutely everything at the wall to see what sticks.

And my sister’s been vacuuming the mold out of them.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away

This is like when my therapist says, “Life is really just a long series of disappointments, if you think about it.” Stop disabusing me of my perfectionist magical thinking, dammit.

Vocal bokeh REM is my favorite REM

This is such a gift to Future You. When we moved, we just packed and moved All The Things and now I have teenagers *and* toddler toys, and I am so sad that Past Me did not think about this. (Fortunately our neighbor has a granddaughter and I am like the Fisher Price Fairy for her.)

And then this shit just came out.

When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.

When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

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a photo grid of dolls with protest t-shirts and signs.

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

The New York Times front page.

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

This is a sitting US Senator. This is insane.

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...