Amanda

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

People overseas love their kids just as much as you love yours. Your kids aren’t more special just because they were born on US soil

I don't really have words for how embarrassing it is that they are willing to do this crybully authoritarianism to assert dominance. Like way more embarrassing than the usual behavior.

An absolutely perfect bar, 10/10 no notes every time

A screenshot of a weather app showing that the temperature in Bed Stuy is 6 degrees Fahrenheit, feels like -10, with a high of 17 and low of 3.

This cold streak feels like a divine punishment, I'm ready to sacrifice a goat or my dignity or whatever it takes to get the temperature up above freezing.

girl not the apophatic darkness beyond all understanding 😭

Where is the outrage about schools having to close now, due to ICE/CBP attacks (with no end in sight)? No concerns about learning loss? It’s bad to have to close for public health reasons, but not because our society is being ripped apart at the seams, and our government is attacking us?

14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

saw a great play (Tartuffe!), had a cocktail at one of my favorite bars, ate some excellent Korean food, and now I'm going the fuck to sleep. I've seen more than enough of 2025, good riddance and better luck to us all next year.

RIP Brent Key, may we all collectively forget the indignity of losing in an end zone covered in fucking sprinkles

Fun fact: whichever team loses the Poptarts Bowl has their coach fed into the toaster alongside the Poptarts mascot!

Let that truly be said of us, and, all of us

If nothing else, this phenomenon is heightening the visibility of those who use citation simply as a signaling apparatus and not for the purposes of leading readers to the source of their claims or the thinking with which they are engaging.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

*angel baby

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

Spotify inadvertently clocked exactly the kind of year I'm having, my desperation "please god let me get some SLEEP" space noise playlists absolutely dominated all of my streaming categories lmao

A gray and white cat sits on a man's lap at the thanksgiving table, eyeing some turkey.

A gray and white cat is curled up asleep on a couch.

A gray and white cat is snoozing very sweetly in a patch of sun on a bed in front of a window.

It's gloomy and cold and I wish my perfect fluffy angel kitty cat was still here. I see her out of the corner of my eye everywhere and I really miss her.

Brain eating vending machine

Peking turkey is looking G L O S S Y

Right before the holidays, the Trump administration is making sure that poor families starve and that no one can go visit their moms. 👍

I hope Cuomo is packing up his uhaul this morning

tired: leaders throw folks under the bus

wired: leaders invite folks on the bus in a dedicated lane

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Overheard a Cuomo flyerer outside my polling place chatting with someone say "well if a man wants to dress up like a woman let him do it but he'll have to answer to God" and wow, what a great last minute affirmation of why I voted for Zohran! No line at my polling place rn, in and out in 5 minutes.

We are in an era of deadweight loss - this stuff just won't happen. Even a country committed to filling the gap cannot possibly do it by an order of magnitude overnight - they would need to do something like double every year for a decade. And we'd need a lot of countries to do the same.

i made a helpful reference

they say stuff like this and you realize, they believe women just fine. they just don't care when we're hurt and think men should be allowed to paw at whomever they want without consequence.

Regarding the question “Well, what can I do?“ Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, “Go into something that already exists, and do that work towards the end of helping to tip it away from reinforcing the system towards weakening the system. That’s infiltrating. Or innovate. If something doesn't exist, make it."

Open House New York weekend is so great and doubly so if you like infrastructure and/or are very nosey! Got to poke around the inside of Kings County Distillery and see both of their cats yesterday