Happy Bitters Day!
Happy Bitters Day!
It’s as Sara Ahmed said: solidarity doesn’t mean that our dreams are the same dreams or that we hope for the same future; it is a recognition that we stand on the same ground.
ATTENTION PLEASE new dinosaur just dropped: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...
“Your premium is going up by 19.5% but don’t worry, you can earn Wellness Dollars(TM) for participating in certain healthy activities.” Get fucked!
ESPECIALLY under this administration
Time for our annual reminder that the American health care industry is terrible and also a scam.
Today in The Downfall of America: watching Trump speak to a gathering of military brass and wondering if he’s going to insist on a loyalty pledge OR if the whole place is going to get bombed because what a target. Love this for all of us.
Tonight I saw someone give a bowl of waters to the Cambridge Turkey Clan, and sat next to a man at the tapas bar who was enjoying the shit out of his meal. It’s nice to see some joy out there.
Text mounted on a screen reads as follows: WHAT IS SCIENCE FICTION? 1. DOESN'T MATTER 2. WHO CARES 3. MARKETING DEPARTMENT'S PROBLEM 4. NOT YOURS
Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction
I love you, best Maria, and I am so angry with your mother for not recognizing how wonderful you are.
Thank god Trump is cancelling green energy contracts. This wind farm is absolutely ruining my view from the beach in Rhode Island.
Love you, Kitty
Happy happy birthday!! 🥳
Shakespeare was pansexual. My evidence is entirely based on the number of people falling in love with “a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman” in his plays
We love you, Best Maria
She was the absolute best girl in the whole world. Sending you so so much love.
My "Not the Gestapo" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
I just think there's something funny about an illustrated edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray
The real message of The Hobbit is that when traveling with a group it’s important to have a buddy system.
“Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' “
CHECKS OUT
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My erstwhile podcast hosts are launching a new podcast! I’ve never read Worm and now I don’t have to!
Fascinating. Thanks for the link!
Unrelated, but I’ve found at least four typos in this opera’s printed program, hire me to be your copy editor
I assume I can blame Christianity and/or Augustine but welcome additional insights
Where did the trope of “if a woman has sex she dies” come from? It’s in horror movies, comic strips, opera, etc, but where did it come from originally?
Because people keep asking, the Story of The Lizard In That Dude's Leg. Some caveats:
1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
He is so great 🥹
Finally watched Monday’s Rachel Maddow Show and listen: if she were to ever, for any reason, take fully TWENTY-SIX MINUTES (without commercials!) to calmly and thoroughly excoriate me personally, I would simply walk into the sea and hope no one came looking. Almost made me sorry for McDaniel.