MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest

this was the fundamental insight i got researching the history of office work for our book. shows up everywhere, all the time. the problem isn't the technology as much as the culture around it which dictates how it's built and used and who gets to choose

If Mario Day ends with Italy beating America at baseball the real winner has to be Shigeru Miyamoto

The Lem scenes in Strip Law episode 8 are God-tier comedy, in one of the funniest episodes of this hilarious series

Alabama Governor Spares Life Of 75-Year-Old Who Never Killed Anyone Had the execution gone forward, Burton would have faced a harsher punishment than the man who killed the victim during a botched robbery that Burton participated in.

BREAKING: AL Gov. Kay Ivey (R) commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, a 75-yo-old wheelchair user who, by the state's own admission, never killed anyone www.huffpost.com/entry/alabam...

holy shit

The concept of purgatory

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I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

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!

The Dungeons and Dragons movie is unexpectedly quite good.

A drop of Life for Gaza "قطرة حياة لغزة"

Please help my friend Mohd, who is helping support several displaced families in Palestine, provide food, supplies and fresh water. Thank you for any amount you can give.

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This is the era to take detailed notes on who the Business Idiots are. Every single person who bought into this at this scale has outed themselves as an untrustworthy individual with questionable taste

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A brighter future IS possible!

One of the core challenges for anyone doing liberatory work is figuring out how to meet people where they're at while simultaneously remaining principled and decent.

There is a difference between absolving the complicit and patiently finding a path to help folks recognize and end their complicity.

was the grink there

Just learned about Hazel Scott on Vermont PBS and wowza.... What a woman! I'm so thankful to Vermont PBS for sharing this story

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Losing the knitting needle ends in the process of getting the yarn back <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Of course it's Booth

Somehow making the easiest most expensive degree even easier and stupider. Exceptionalism at its finest!

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period." ERIN REED FEB 25, 2026 88 5 21 Share Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.

Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.

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I would like to see Pritzker and Newsom declare a state tax receivership fund whereby citizens pay their federal tax liabilities into a state-run escrow account rather than directly to the IRS.

The state can hold these funds in trust for the federal government until Trump obeys the Impoundment Act.

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

A lot of folks eat fruit out of season and imported from another hemisphere and mistake those qualities for the fruit being inherently bad.

Sunday scaries but it's just reading the timeline after a weekend of mostly being offline

EEPHUS is a thing of wonder. I say that as one who doesn’t care about baseball, has only bad memories of team sports, dislikes movies about swarms of men, & normally loathes the term “wonder.” It’s William Kennedy, it’s Waiting for Godot. I think of Paul Harding’s great novel of tick, tock, TINKERS.

Coconut

And so if you really *mean* "never again" -- if you're serious about it -- then the time to intervene, the time to speak up, the time to stop it, is *when it is still small*. When it's just a casual slur. When it's just sports. When it's just asking questions. When it's framed as anti-PC.

Eating speed gap relationship

posting online is the closest thing I now experience to a cigarette break

A) Strip Law is awesome
B) I desperately need someone to make the hot tub Ferris Wheel