This article is so viscerally upsetting, this woman is psychotic and needs immediate psychiatric and clinical intervention imho.
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This article is so viscerally upsetting, this woman is psychotic and needs immediate psychiatric and clinical intervention imho.
Carolina wren song!
"For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them."
Thomas More needs to be required reading for every high school student.
Caroline wren on the balcony!
Awwwwww yeahhhh
Douglas Adams had an adjacent concept called the "Somebody Else's Problem Field" -- a field that surrounded things that were so confounding that people's brains decided that was "somebody else's problem to deal with" and rendered them invisible.
I think a lot about the social utility of shame. It should not be applied to queer people for simply existing, but it should be applied to dipshits with their dumb opinions.
Marceline Hugot! #TheGildedAge
Carrie Coon chewing the scenery to shreds
While I'm saying WELCOME NEW NEIGHBORS, here are a few bits of advice. Please be aware that you are now living next to people who have young children, early jobs, and all sorts of complicated life stuff going on. We all (mostly) love a good party, but please don't wake the baby. 2/?
I think we need to stop saying that people hate crime. They like punishment. There are clear ways to reduce crime that involve systemic investment in communities but we avoid doing that in favor of ever more militarized policing because too many people in power like punishment.
Merritt Wever on this season's THE GILDED AGE?! Ahhh yes!
Ahhhh fuck.
Graham Greene?!?
😔
We call that a "soft red"
Tremont St which requires that you take a hard right to stay on Tremont St.
Thing is, the Noem & Homan Show has yet to come to a city that's just terribly designed. We give your GPS nightmares. We love a sudden dead end. We have like 19 Washington Streets & none of them have street signs bc fuck you. You took a left? Surprise, motherfucker, you're at Logan Airport. Forever.
What the FUCK is going on over there?
Lol heck yes
(It absolutely hit the spot)
my sister googled "fun things to do in Boston this weekend" and it told her to go sit on Storrow Drive and watch a bunch of college kids peel their rented Penske moving trucks open like tin cans
Go Eagles! 🦅 But also, Fordham... 😬
I'm ensconced in the side of the room and getting out of here is not going to be easy or quiet.
"Not so much a question as a comment"
A random guy has just hijacked this entire panel, and we're only 18 minutes into it. Come on, man.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Someone has a *newborn* here, like too-young-to-be-vaccinated newborn. At DragonCon. I'm unreasonably angry about this.
Marlon Wayans has a trans son, and he's talked about his own challenges with understanding and acceptance and how he's come through to the other side as an advocate, so this is right down the middle for him. It's entirely reasonable that he would say this.
I think this is an important and useful jumping off point! “man” can be in contrast to “woman” but it can also be in contrast to “boy”
Dragon*Con breakfast of champions (I just ate the cold patty melt, not the fries)
Just learned that when filming The Expanse, the script pages were color coded by the "G" that the scene took place in so the actors would have that as extra reinforcement and context for how they needed to *physically* act during the scene. That fucking RULES.
A random 20something woman told me my ass looked great in the skirt I had on tonight so I'm just going to live off that for a while.
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
🚨 WARNING: PLANNED ICE SURGE IN BOSTON 🚨 "THE CLAMPDOWN COULD COME SOON AFTER A SIMILAR SURGE IN CHICAGO IN SEPTEMBER, THE FORMER OFFICIAL AND CURRENT OFFICIAL SAID. BUT THE OPERATIONS COULD ALSO HAPPEN CONCURRENTLY, THE ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL SAID."
I was never more glad of anything than I was getting off the September lease cycle.
Jesus CHRIST
“Ghassemi and her MIT colleagues found that AI systems were more likely to leave female patients untreated.”
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
An elaborate MAGA plot to break Bsky's servers with a tsunami of simultaneous Ah Well Nevertheless skeets.
He really is Patrick Bateman. He spends a lot of time with his hair slicked back, coolly fighting the other side in a fashionable way, and then at night he runs out to furiously throw some homeless person’s last picture of their family into a garbage can.
These suck
the clear and obvious fact clarified once more by this decision is that Newsom is entirely amoral, adrift in a sea of ethical dilemmas without a single clear moral stance to cling to. He will do whatever makes the little people clap for him and does not have any thought at all about the ethics
Oh my God
Tee hee "*ass*-ets"
What the FUCK
I'm unhealthily annoyed about this, Ilya and Shane are my latest OTP and Reid actually posted a photo of the person who was her model for Ilya and you could not be further from who they actually cast.
I went home w/the waitress, the way I always do. How was I to know. she was w/the Russians, too? I was gambling in Havana, took a little risk. Send lawyers, guns & money, Dad, get me out of this! Now I'm hiding in Honduras. I'm a desperate man. Send lawyers, guns & money, the shit's hit the fan.
For those few here in the know, my abiding memory of Bertie Ahern was this post on social.culture.irish (following his election as Taoiseach): "Tanks very much now for da good wishes. Me preeorities will be grote and da nort and croime. Dats tree preeorities. Oill do me best. Bertie Ahern"
I got a blood draw last week as part of my annual physical, and the bruise has not gone away I assume because I'm on anticoagulants. I look like a junkie.
Spotted on Reddit this morning
Thiel’s goal is nothing short of destroying American democracy and installing a technofeudal oligarchy. This is not my opinion. He has literally said so.
All that shopping takes a lot out of you, you need sustenance to put it all away and plan what to cook tomorrow
The Mayor of Pryluky offers to host visitors from Somerville, and hopes that she will be able to visit Somerville someday. That brought an honest smile to my face, and now my much disused smiling muscles are sore. 10/?
Item 4.10: "That Somerville establish a sister-city relationship with Pryluky, Ukraine." Councilor @wilfredmbah.bsky.social met people from Ukraine when he was recently in Washington DC and is proposing that we pursue a closer relationship with this Ukrainian city. 6/?
These cookies are the fucking bomb. Oh my holy God.
I'm seriously mad about the casting of Ilya in the show (movie?) they're making out of "Heated Rivalry".
I will also accept "Honey Dew" as an answer.
This sucks
menopausal women are on the same meds in many cases so.
I'm nicer than that
Mental health issues that make her thoughtful, moral, and generous? Like what is even the complaint there? What did that person think they were saying I wonder?
Frey: "We need an assault weapons ban nationwide. We need to have a high capacity magazine ban. And if the federal govt and states aren't gonna act, give us the ability to protect our constituents. Give mayors & council members the ability to protect in Mpls 435,000 residents that call Mpls home."
Trad Irish? Touareg "desert blues"? Heartstopper-inspired girlie pop? The Superman theme on a loop?
Someone's Bluetooth headphones just came up as an output option on my phone and I'm really tempted to fire up iTunes and pick a playlist for them.
Right? Like there have been some limited times when I have legitimately felt like I was in danger in this city, and only of those instances was because of a homeless person. Every other time it was a white guy trying to get me into his car -- which has happened four times.
Thanks for the free Federal resources to pick up our trash, that was thoughtful! Now we can keep our money in our bank accounts! 👍
"Deploy the South Carolina National Guard" is not the answer to that, of course, although conveniently it lets MA off the hook for paying for social services. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If I was a South Carolinian I might ask why Massachusetts, which is an insanely wealthy state, can't seem to deal with homelessness and open air drug use. That is a reasonable question that any thinking person should ask of the MA legislature.
But I guess that's why I'm not a Republican governor.
I wouldn't do that, if I was the governor of a state that is in the direct path of huge storms that require significant aid work in the aftermath.
If the governor of South Carolina wants to let his National Guard be deployed to South Station to pick up dropped Dunkins bags and McDs ketchup packets off the floor during hurricane season then then I guess that's his choice.
Jesus CHRIST
If you live in Medford MA just know that Clerkin, who is running for City Council here, worked on RFK’s presidential campaign ☠️ and that is why we all need to vote in 2025. Early voting starts in my city next week- do you know who is running and when to vote where you live?
Again, I know that we're having our biweekly "we're all going to die" party on here- they can't shut down elections in time for this shit to not chew up their numbers. This is cartoon villain shit, and they do it because they're stupid and think cartoon villain shit gets results.
The root of our problems in America come from spending decades responding to the dumbest shit possible with “let’s hear him out” instead of saying “shut the fuck up.”
My DragonCon weekend will have a starting cost of $40 and it hasn't even started
I forgot my fucking phone charger and portable battery
He went to my high school but I think was four years behind me so our paths didn't cross directly, although we have friends in common. More importantly, he went to the daycare that my mom ran. She remembers him as being a neat little guy with very nice parents.
The amount of hometown pride every time someone talks about Ebon Moss Bachrach, whooooo boy...
Pulmonary embolism! Yeah baby!
In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
There is an additional through-line of raging misogyny that, under the right circumstances, links men together as a united front in favor of anything that will put women in their place.
Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
One of my uncles had one of these when I was growing up. I'd done my fair share of archery and way more of my fair share of fishing. I can't stress enough how fucking hard it is to catch anything at all with this. This guy's a beast.
How is THE GILDED AGE even worse than I remembered?
HOT DAMN BABY!
Open Your Heart
It's tradition 🦅
This rules
Just so we’re clear.
Medicare abuse and fraud is also...not perpetrated by patients! Its committed by physicians, medical groups, nursing homes, hospitals, etc. Patients do not commit billing fraud, for pete's sake, they're not the ones billing Medicare!
I will never, as long as I live, get over Eartha Kitt saying she had a threesome with him and Paul Newman when they were taking her dance workshop in NYC.
I wonder if, just as those words came out of his mouth, he had that "oh shit" moment.
They didn't. He did that right up til the very end. The press was in the tank for Trump and sidelined their coverage of the Harris/Walz campaign.
I write for a small liberal news site. I don’t find it hard to report on Donald Trump at all because Trump has an extensive public record of telling us exactly how he feels on every issue under the sun. He’s not inscrutable or a mystery. If you think reporting on Trump is hard you’re just not trying
The new Cracker Barrel logo is definitely ugly as shit, and tbf if there was one near my house and I had to see it all the time it would definitely make me grumpy, but its hardly worth the huge freakout.
I used to think they just hated "the other" but the callous way this administration plays with lives of people even those ostensibly *on their side* just shows a complete hatred of people. Like all people. It's an entire admin who sees everyone else as non player characters.