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also: any human who answers the phone is probably a receptionist or other low-ranking sort, & please no comments on the order of "well they should just quit," because (a) they may not even know what the higher-ups are doing; (b) come back when you have salaried work for them, w/bennies
i found a number of evildoers in nyc of course, but also one morally gray situation: a company providing translation services in immigration court. contract with ice, bad; lack of translation services in immigration court, worse. to be further investigated etc etc
well, this is handy! note that you can scroll down to details of the work provided as well as a link to the actual contract. #ICE #Fascism
nonserious baseball people look away from that hairdo
TBH I kind of hate her too. Like, why is she indulging her asshole brother's nonsense? Tell him he's an idiot and leave. If you can find the exit, of course.
Sometimes a bird has to work SO HARD just to enjoy a little snack. 🥲 #BirdSky #Warblers #MigrationSeason #Green-WoodCemetery #Brooklyn
A pigeon once shat on me and no legal action was taken against it.
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Just block me, dude. I won't miss you if that's how you respond to a sincere attempt to help.
It's a small exhibit, and if you get around to the interview the curator says something about how she'd have loved to include pilgrim badges: this is one of the reasons I'd love it to come to NYC, bec. I bet anything the Cloisters has some.
Oooh that is very clever!
oh definitely, let's abandon all the disenfranchised/vulnerable people in those states: the people of color, anyone who can get pregnant, lgbtqi people, disabled people ...
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling's book "A Libertarian Walks into a Bear," about this, is terrific.
I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
I live in NYC and have had multiple animals forever, so yeah, I know. For emergency care there's nothing *but* corp practices.
you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now
Not to mention horndog!zombie!Marlowe in Gaby Hutchinson Crouch's Under London series!
Thank you. I am fucking sick of people complaining about veterinary care costing a lot of money. Yes. Yes it does. Because the training/equipment/medications/office overhead are all the same as for human medical care. Note: I exclude corporate vet practices from this rant; they suck.
That's not a good vet. The vet should have addressed your cat's anxiety, and there are both pharmaceutical and behavioral ways to do that.
I was feeling kinda bad about not being an "I know a guy" Guy until I realized that I'm the "I know a guy" Guy who knows things or if she doesn't know them, knows how to find them out. So that's something! Also I know how to fix sentences.
Plus, interview with the curator here: buttondown.com/ModernMediev... @pretensesoup.bsky.social, if you join me in urging the universe to manifest this exhibit's travel to NY, I will join you in urging etc etc to the city of your choice #History #MedievalHistory #Travel
And now I want to bat my eyes at the Getty and the Met in hopes that this exhibit comes (perhaps even expanded???) to NYC: www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...
Some time ago I reviewed Anthony Bale's "A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages," a fascinating book which impressed upon me the importance of washing my legs before getting into bed: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Also this, a short video by a urologist: www.urologytimes.com/view/dr-wint... #women #estrogen #UrinaryTractInfections #menopause
This article about vaginal (and vulval) estrogen, and how helpful it is in reducing urinary tract infections, is basically one long PSA. The tl;dr is that if you're peri/postmenopausal, you want this stuff. And yes, it's safe. www.theguardian.com/society/2023...
What shitheads at the agency!
ugh, i'm so sorry. why did the tuesday aide come in? (i know, i know, she probably doesn't get paid sick leave and can't afford a day off.)
i don't often read the cut, but chotiner, damn: that man keeps his knives well honed.
I suspect that battle has been lost, like phenomenon/phenomena. But Bouie is so on point, as usual.
Ditto.
Cedar Waxwings in their multitudes, too, so naturally I didn't get any good pictures of them either. Birds are of the devil. That is all.
Brilliant sunshine & not hot yesterday, so I headed for #JamaicaBayWildlifeRefuge w/camera & binoculars, hoping for early migrants. Naturally I got no good pix of either warblers or shorebirds despite seeing plenty of both. However ...! #Birds #BirdSky #Invertebrates
Fingers crossed this isn't behind a paywall. Scroll down to watch the odious Susan Collins collect some richly deserved odium: newrepublic.com/post/199666/... #SusanCollins
all im saying is if we start saying we think the first one is more woke we can really fuck with their heads
100% credible. I read the whole thing before registering the source.
that's beautiful
Ah, but since this is exactly the sort of person who insists that others have no right to choose their pronouns, I say we go straight to the neopronouns for zhem.
you're a wicked, wicked man and i can't wait to vote for you in the general
without downloading anything new, where you at mentally?
there's even a kettlebell
we in brooklyn must content ourselves w/mamdani 🤩 platner's announcement video is a hoot -- have you seen it? progressive wish list couched in the most macho visuals imaginable. hashtag nontoxic masculinity
well. all right then.
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
I know! He was so terribly ill. And look, a sneak preview: lithub.com/intercom-a-p...
Siken had a stroke a few years ago & it wasn't clear that he'd survive, or that if he survived he'd so much as be able to feed himself. New poetry from him is a gift fit to make me weep.
*gibbers excitedly* www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/i-do-k... out today! available at my local bookstore! #BookSky #Poetry #RichardSiken
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I'm disinclined to give the cops credit for lowering crime.
*cough* any chance you could directly duplicate your posts here? i tried the mastodon link 2x and after >15 seconds each time it still hadn't loaded for context i am madly in love with your books
it's impossible to avoid the conclusion that israel is deliberately targeting journalists so that no one will be left to report on the genocide in gaza i typed that out & looked at it & had to slap my forehead because DUH
HDU, this is a slur on multiple erogenous zones
i blocked that person. profile shows 1 post & many reply posts, all of which are about how awful jbp is bc he's rich. which, yes, it sucks that he's a billionaire, but how is that the thing to focus on when he's challenging the nazis?
i'd suggest following up w/the origin of species for the sake of the resulting mashup but mango mussolini's attention span is an obstacle to the project of getting him to oscillate between "i am god" and "i am charles darwin"
somebody should read him the opening verses of genesis just to watch him take credit for the creation of the world
Isn't it the case that the "proper" way to dispose of a US flag is to burn it? www.defense.gov/News/Feature...
basic gun safety what is we do not know
Not to get too spicy with the hot takes, but ASMR becoming a trend is the worst. Nothing makes me want to throw my headphones into the bushes like a perky lady whispering. Second in awfulness only to recording mouth sounds in cooking videos. I want none of this.
Herr's are everywhere, and everybody eats them. I had no idea they were associated with "rednecks" (*cough* that's a classist trope btw: a redneck is a white person with a sunburned neck from agricultural labor).
THANK YOU. ASMR is of the devil, or at least of Sam's father.
Leading global experts just confirmed what we’ve long known: Gaza is in famine. At least half a million Palestinians are facing starvation, acute malnutrition and death. And it’s likely to spread. The U.S. government is not a bystander to this genocide. We can end it today.
NOW it's woke. h/t @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
maybe all those full-body deodorant ads i'm seeing on the subway lately are aimed at them 😱
psa that this is a dumb thing to say on social media -- unless you're a provocateur, of course
Blocked for gratuitous jerkhood.
well, the cops are mostly right-wing thugs themselves, so ...
love that the people videoing got license plate numbers! hope someone at the dmv is on the case ...
yeah yeah laptops are portable. that is their one and only virtue. heed my wisdom o youth, for when you are old and arthritic you will remember this post and brush away a tear
tbh i'd love this setup for my home office except need more room for the monitor. typing/mousing on a laptop --> carpal tunnel, so you need a separate keyboard & mouse anyway, and fuck that teensy screen, so you need a nice big monitor anyway, so yeah i love my giant desktop w/its giant screen
I agree -- I didn't get the impression that the USDA nitpicking person was responding with hostile intent. (And also I can understand how it might have come off as taking a superior tone or the like.)
I'm sorry, is your commentary here that Trump is like a little girl? Do you see what's wrong with that?
whoa, no: some of those cars will belong to black/brown people
I love "obnoxious creatures." It's the whitest white-lady putdown imaginable. It could have come out of my mother-in-law's mouth (RIP).
ah. well this explains a lot
Thank God for search-and-replace, so we can laugh instead of tearing our hair out.
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i thought this was satire it is not satire *i feel so bad for @theonion.com*
This. One unsympathetic review on a piece of mine shut me up for two decades, because I was young and uncertain. Corollary: be careful who you ask for feedback.
Writing groups aren't for everyone.
I'll bet any amount of money that I've read more history than you and have more personal experience of war's effects than you. And now I'm muting you.
tell me you're twelve years old without telling me you're twelve years old
I've been listening to the audiobook of Edward E. Baptist's "The Half Has Never Been Told." And yes. I thought I knew a fair amount already, but slavery was much, much, much worse than I had ever imagined. A horror of torture and misery. No wonder white supremacists want to pretend otherwise.
Thank you! Incidentally, re: punch cards. My mother worked for years as a keypunch operator, at a terminal twice the size of my desk. The computer was in a glass-walled room next door, the size of the entire first floor of my (admittedly small) house. Less processing power than my first cellphone.
I think I need this explained in words of one syllable. Or possibly smaller words than that. Grunts, even.
the funny thing about John Boyne's current ubiquitous sympathy tour is, if I had a book condemned by both the Auschwitz Museum and the Centre for Holocaust Education, I'd shut up forever. I'd burn my laptop, mobile, keyboard, pens, and crayons, lest I ever wrote a word again.
we have always been at war with eastasia, in case anyone's wondering
okay, but that doesn't gainsay my point. just look at what cheetolini has done to the white house, and tell me julius was stupid. choosing michelangelo is not the act of a stupid man. that's all for me on this topic.
Anyway the current crop is dumb as fuck and way over to the right on the bell curve of venality.
The politically/economically dominant classes haven't comprised a lot of *good* people but there have been plenty of smart ones. And as for culture, all you have to do is check out the world's literature/art/architecture/food. Or do I misunderstand? That could well be.
hey, not just any dyson sphere but one *around the entire solar system*! oh god help us
email too. i spend a few minutes every morning hitting the unsubscribe links
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if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake ::clap clap:: if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake ::clap clap:: look, we’ve all been fooled before when a deep-fake makes us sore but kindly doublecheck your source, it might be fake ::clap clap::
Karma --> JK Rowling, ASAP please.
no idea who these guys are but after five minutes of video my mouth is hanging open so --
*looks shifty*
BELIEVE IT
I think you might be missing the point of the picture 😬
"Lazy." My parents' jobs were 40 hours/week. My wife works 50-60 hours a week (not corporate). I do almost all the household work and also freelance part time. That's not atypical and damn right ironing is not happening for most people anymore.
Which unfortunately means "Women were obliged to iron the clothes of the men in the family."