This is in fact how I treat it (for political copywriting that needs to be very message-precise), like a junior staffer who has lots of general knowledge and knows how to google but isn’t quite an expert on our specific craft
Last night on the FDR next to a rattletrap Cybertruck clattering over every bump like a god damn Citi Bike e-bike
I’m taking a med with nausea as a side effect and last night I had it for the 1st time and at 2am I decided to take a Zofran but what I have happens to be CAT ZOFRAN and while I know it’s literally the same pills (I checked) it hits different when the cap looks like this
This is roughly (within much less than an order of magnitude) the number of people who die on *motorcycles* in the US per unit sold, and it could be higher
Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live.
Please take it to heart and take action.
Ok I fixed it
This Richard Scarry-ass business on the LES always gets me
It is in fact an avocado wholesaler and I bet they chose the name so it would come up first in the Yellow Pages when you looked up “Wholesalers — Avocado”
This is kind of pitiful actually
Have you lost your mind
What a chud he turned out to be — I know the guy he beat was worse but at least you knew your enemy
(Song not included because it’s a well-intentioned but nowadays pretty embarrassing product of its era about which “culturally appropriative” is the nicest thing that can be said)
Exploring Music 4
Exploring Music 4
Exploring Music 4
I know the internet is just a revenue faucet for chud billionaires now but tonight I thought of a song about Japan we sang in class in the 4th grade in 1975 and in 5 min I found and downloaded a scanned copy of the textbook it came from, which is pretty great
this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
Israel's doing Birthright for cops now
They’re not helping the majors get into the classes they need or writing the 1 million reports required by admin or showing up at the thinly attended colloquium. Anyway that’s who’s in the Epstein files.
There’s a “superstar” layer at every R1 institution I’ve been at that isn’t composed of academics in any sense I recognize. They’re there so the institution can claim them, but they use the university as a launchpad to contracts and speaking engagements. They’re not teaching the intro classes.
We don’t know yet how this NJ story will end but the *best* possible outcome for AIPAC is that they lit $2 million on fire for no reason and I think that’s beautiful
Most chaos muppets are yetzer hatov! They’re just a little … metabolically unregulated
hey yetzer hatov can be chaos muppet tyvm
Me: Gmail shows an annoying warning, as the workplace admin how do i turn it off
AI: go to (xyz menu) and select (123)
Me: here’s what’s at (xyz), there’s no (123)
AI: you’re right to raise that, it’s actually at (abc)
Me: no it’s not at (abc)
AI: so wise! (def) is the place you should look f
Unlike many I have nothing against the woman, even respect her, and yet I refer you to the convenient numbered list in my original tweet
I am on the ground
so why doesn’t someone help her up?
(Note: I love this person and hope they don’t see this but I swear that was my first thought)
someone typed “Kamala announcement tomorrow” in a group chat and I seized up like someone who was just injected with snake venom
1. No
2. Don’t tell me
3. I don’t want to know
4. As I previously indicated, please no
These decisions affect literally thousands of DC area families.
And they were made by folks enjoying record profits (and/or the fruits of their corruption)
In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires.
I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.
okay but democratic voters want to abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who works for it, so
Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota.
This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup.
Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
The staff of my Manhattan apartment building got formal training last week on what to do if our lobby is invaded by ICE paramilitaries, if you were wondering how America is going
