Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
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Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
HAPPY FLYTRAP TUESDAY!! This week, @freeblackgirl.bsky.social delves into Netflix's documentary about "The Biggest Loser", reflecting on the fatphobic show's history and its role in pop culture: the-flytrap.ghost.io/netflix-fit-...
More than 60,000 students in North East ISD in San Antonio will walk into classrooms on Tuesday with NO BOOKS or with “library closed” signs blocking access to classroom libraries as a result of Senate Bill 13.
You took a (long) break from wearing a mask, right? You got away with it. But, guess what? There's a *lot* more Covid around again. And, access to vax is up in the air. Just put a (good) mask on again when you're out and about and you'll be much more protected as well as protecting others. ✨✨✨
it's like that guy at the bar who's there every night trying his one line on the ladies and still getting nowhere
Let's goooooooo Cancelmedaddy.store!
sporting my @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social trucker hat tonight and feeling 💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻 get yours!! cancelmedaddy.store
Only vaguely related but I recently reupped my membership at my local Y and ding dang it the Y fuckin kicks ass, vibes entirely pristine
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
attn: lone star skeeter, it's time to learn a shitload about texas wine with @paulaforbes.bsky.social
COLLEAGUE ughghghhg
Abortion opponents are going rabid over wholly unevidenced claims of entirely suspect origin, about school staff in Virginia who supposedly assisted a couple of teens in accessing abortion care ... four years ago. My colleage @jas.bsky.social unpacks the claims:
This is sacred work, a holy mission.
Actual good news: Opill, the first over the counter contraceptive pill in the US, is expanding access to effective birth control
This is a really moving look at what it takes to ensure Texans have access to the abortion care they need. Rev. Erika Ferguson, founder of the Tubman Travel Project, says abortion is a "divine right." Amen!
NEW: CNN's now publicly released video analysis shows Israel's 'double-tap' attack on Nasser Hospital was, in fact, actually a triple-tap. They bombed the hospital, and then fired upon the rescue team and journalists with not one but two more shells.
if i had the answer i would be preaching it with the fervor of a 15-year-old jesus freak, i hate this
Yes, unfortunately my four year old got fired from the coal mines.
p sure I'm real low on their list of likely candidates considering how much shit I talk about them 😹
Today we and our colleagues at @ansirh.bsky.social submitted a letter to the FDA for over 260 researchers affirming the 25-year safety record of mifepristone and urging the FDA not to restrict abortion pill access based on junk science. Read the letter here: law.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...
i love the dude writing in for a gut check on whether his girlfriend is really going to get her cooter zapped by her botox guy
This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end
every time i check the boston globe's love letters column i grow more and more concerned that the people of that city are not in any sense doing okay
"please listen closely as our menu options have recently changed" no they haven't. that's not true.
it's definitely sus to frame it as if Democrats are uniquely doing something unusually unethical here
... "wild"? i mean any given person might not like the way the influencer industry works but this is like saying it's shocking that they assemble cars at the car assembly factory
also, the insane racism of this aside, "the black and white culture of louisiana is completely different" is something you can only believe if you've never stepped foot in louisiana (this applies to much of the south)
Update: it got funny again
it really feels like a betrayal that the journalism industry essentially shifted overnight from "we have two rules: don't lie, and don't plagiarize" to "oh hell, just use the plagiarism machine to make shit up"
this is so fucking sad, i hate it
I didn't realize the full history of the 'action' local news genre (and its founding) until I had read this when it came out: www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/mo...
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it's entirely unacceptable
now you can't unhear it!
This! Local TV news is the biggest culprit here, IMO. I never watch it unless I'm visiting my folks, but when I do, I'm reminded that they're consuming between 30-45 minutes a day of pure fearmongering. And five minutes of weather.
YES!! It's WILD
Fear of being caught supporting abortion access for young people is a big part of how we ended up with trans kids under attack in this country — we consistently threw young people under the bus on abortion, and it opened up a huge opportunity for right-wingers to go after gender-affirming care, too.
The U.S. repro rights movement has been absolutely terrified of full-throatedly supporting young people's abortion access for years and years and years and anti-abortion politicians take advantage of it constantly. And now they're doing it again. Young people deserve bodily autonomy. Period.
Quick question, is it bad when the dictator gets to decide who is a Jew? I’m not familiar with history, how does that usually work out for us?
i think it's someone hammering into a board, but it has this real echoey start-stop quality the way a cat barf does and i cannot live this way
i don't even mind the noise in general or the scary traffic, but the cat hork sound every two minutes is going to send me over the edge
there's a bunch of construction happening on my block this week and somehow, something involved in the process sounds exactly like a cat barfing in a distant room and i feel like i'm losing my whole-ass mind
NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa. This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%. This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.
some marketing agency making $250K rn
Justin I am dying to know more, please enlighten me, I have no idea how any of this works
I get p much all the information I need about the state of American fascism without giving my money or my clicks to the Billionaire's Media Subsidy Fund for Nazi Sympathizers
unironically fascinated by people posting "wow u gotta check out this sick takedown of American fascism, a must-read" links and it goes to a fuckin' Substack
fair!!!
having not watched it (yet), i am unable to weigh in
more pointedly, I think this @alexismwright.bsky.social piece on The Flytrap about white lady scammers is the best rejoinder to the absolute batshittery of Elizabeth Gilbert essentially admitting that she tried to do a murder on her lover, as a ~ growth experience ~
could have absolutely smashed it if so
welp let me pour myself another drink and dive in
sometimes i think i'm a huge inexcusable weirdo who can't make a single good decision and should be yeeted into the sun for cussing at work and then sometimes a whole-ass famous person writes something like this and i think, well, there's some wiggle room for me yet
Still feeling weird about it? Don't worry! There are Uncomfortable Poops on the way
like you know that thing where it smells like a litter box even after you've cleaned it? that
it only takes one time
i'm dying, if anyone on earth makes this exist they have to wait to perform it until i am present
absolutely gonna make this thing exist now
oh absolutely, it's a great story to tell, and perhaps I would feel very differently had Adam not cornered the night!
i had a delightful time figuring out how to put this through google translate, thank you (and keep singing!)
When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault
done some of the best and worst shots of my life because of bar karaoke, it's the great uniter
I agree that everyone wants something different from karaoke (which makes it awesome), but super disagree on the logistics. Bar karaoke is by default a communal experience with strangers, and should be approached with that in mind. Room karaoke is great *because* one needn't worry about the rules.
the phrase "karaoke night at the pinball convention" is a combination of words I was not born to deal with, godspeed to y'all, make up your own rules and may you survive unscathed
shoutout to the one KJ I once saw whose book included a note: "Putting in Don't Stop Believing is $5. Any other song is free, but Don't Stop Believing is $5. If you don't like this, find another song."
oh for sure, these rules only apply to bar karaoke, do whatever the fuck pleases you in the room you pay for with your buds
i love to experience like one phenomenal singer on a surprising song per night, but beyond that it gets honestly weird
ADDENDUM TO THE 'ROKE RULES 7) If you think you're the exception to rules 1-6, sit down and buy everyone shots 8) "AT LAST"? absolutely not, see rule 7 9) tip the KJ no matter what 10) don't cupid shuffle unless you're ready to CUPID THE FUCK SHUFFLE
Oh one rule that I have for karaoke is that if you are gonna do harmonies in a song with someone figure that out BEFORE you start
In HS, I knew this group of guys who sang “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” every week. They did all the parts. That song is 8 min long. And it was never funny.
and see now, everyone plus y'all got to have the moment, but didn't have to live through the whole thing! a gift!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO number one, white people should only be doing radio covers without even the hint of the word, but if the word is hinted, it should be replaced with "neighbor" or not performed at all, honestly, probably just not performed at all
Chatgpt can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop feeding your delusions, ever, until you are dead.
ahahaha yesss i love it
For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.
oh noooooo
i looove to sing this one in the car
“Cast parties have different rules” is basically a fundamental truth of the universe. It’s like Vegas.
rickrolls must be deployed with the utmost care and also the consent of the KJ
This is the Platonic Ideal of a Bluesky thread
TAKE IT TO THE PAID ROOM, LEAVE THE BAR FOR THE REST OF US lololol
what a gorgeous little friend. so sorry for your loss <3
My favorite part of baseball is the part where they play and re-play the worst moment of a guy’s day with hype music while the crowd cheers
EXACTLY it's not about quality of singing, you can absolutely bang the hell out of a showtune but WE'RE NOT HERE TO SEE LIVE THEATER, BUDDY
I don't disagree but I also think that the people who need to hear this won't ever hear it, and the people who don't, don't
My "live band karaoke" band The Approximators has an additional "no songs that end with long instrumental breaks" rule.
lololol I saw dude perform this c. 2003 in Chicago and even then I thought "this man is too old for these feelings"
if your daddy is not old enough to be credibly dead of natural causes, Landslide is an absolute no
i love it
oh it's absolute perfect if you can find the business sweet spot
AS FOR NOW I'M GONNNA HEAR THE SAAADEST SONGS AND SIT ALONE AND WONNNNDERRRR
oh no i've seen this happen and it sucks because the song is good but DOES NOT LEND ITSELF TO THE FORM
also high-key jack black is an incredible vocalist, he's real hard to emulate
ernie don't dip, we need your karaoke opinions on skeeter tonight
oh absolutely, worst ever model for a relationship
ok this is gonna be controversial but i think weird al should be 7) no weird al
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