Spending all day getting ready for the NIN concert just in case Trent spots me in the crowd and wants to leave his gorgeous wife.
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Spending all day getting ready for the NIN concert just in case Trent spots me in the crowd and wants to leave his gorgeous wife.
Makes you think.
NEWS: Judge Breyer bars the military in LA from performing police functions like arrests and crowd control. He says this was not a "one-off" violation of law by individual troops but a systmatic and knowing violation by Pentagon leaders w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
PSA for those in the Evanston and North Chicago/suburban area. Please share. Missing person.
I signed up for newsletters so I could anxiously wait to buy the moment they're on sale haha. Only way to avoid jacked up prices these days! Still expensive, but not nearly as much.
I suppose I should get ahead of it and say I also have a VIP ticket to Garbage on September 20th I'm looking to sell... 😭
Graham Greene was one of those actors whose presence was absolutely, 100% guaranteed to make whatever movie or TV show he was in better. He added instant gravitas and authority, reliable stealthy humor and depth beyond whatever was on the page. Should've been Emmy nominated for "Reservation Dogs."
I finally found someone to go to NIN with me!! It should not have been that hard 😅 Who else has good news today?
PROTECT THE BOOBIES AT ALL COSTS
Unbelievable that Starfleet has replicators and people use it for boring stuff like "earl grey tea (hot)" or "scrambled eggs." Show some backbone! Get weird with it! I want to see tribble burritos. Blood wine sangria. Steak and Romulan ale pie. Pumpkin spice raktajinos.
I brought my kid to PAX West 2025 and all he got was excitement, self-discovery and a whole new community. @officialpax.bsky.social Read on: www.thepopverse.com/live-pax-wes...
also, i get people working there not speaking up. or people who want to work there just letting it go. But AI is a problem we can solve by collectively, resolutely rejecting its use. there is no place for it at all and i will gladly die on this hill and rot there until i am reabsorbed into the earth
Still love what Steven S. Deknight had to say about it: "There are so many great editors there. To allow a man who climbed to the top through cultural identity theft to remain in that position is unconscionable.” share.google/fiSOzHLyFYc8...
I mean, this is the same company that elevated a man to Editor-In-Chief despite him creating a completely false identity to get a writing gig share.google/0NM6yTNWiSVf...
It's the day!
Oof
Sorry this is off-topic but do you know if that poster created that xenonorph icon?
Witnessing the AI artist get kicked out of the DragonCon artist alley was satisfying.
I had been in the art show since 2016 and had come to depend on the chunk of income this show provided ever year. It’s my hometown and it always felt like a family reunion. So getting waitlisted this year was/is devastating. If you wanna help out, use code DRAGONGONE: www.kellymckernan.com/shop
"It's inevitable so let's just work with them" is an incredibly ridiculous stance and exactly how we got here. For both Dump and AI if we're being honest. People need to actively work so bad things don't happen.
the number of "living in a storage unit" videos i've seen this year is really scary, like they just float in the background but they seem to occur more
Every Labor Day I remember that the holiday was moved from May 1 to September not only for the Haymarket attacks but to break up the possibility between the US and the international labor movement (which celebrates in May). And it worked!
Dick Grayson debuted as Robin in April 1940, became Nightwing July 1984, so June 2028 will mark the dickquinox, the exact point he was Robin and Nightwing for the same amount of time.
Sun Sneeze would make a great metal band name.
"It's inevitable so let's just work with them" is an incredibly ridiculous stance and exactly how we got here. For both Dump and AI if we're being honest. People need to actively work so bad things don't happen.
Bumping this: I have a ticket for the Nine Inch Nails show in Brooklyn on Tuesday, September 2 I need to sell. Would love it to go to someone I vaguely know!
Yup. We'd really appreciate it. I can't get boosted, for very serious medical reasons. Your vaccination mostly only protects you, and even then not as much as you've been led to think by the government. (Sorry to share the bad news.) You wearing a mask actually also protects me and others like me.
When you say “covid is over” or refer to the pandemic only in the pastense you make it easy for RFK jr to withhold the vaccines & defund clinics. You make it easy for employers to end paid sick days. When you don’t mask up you make it easy to pass bans. We organize but what you do & say matters too.
We're still at 320/730 and rent is due tomorrow. Can you help Kristen stay housed? We've been paying down the back rent as we pay the current rent but not being able to pay this month puts her further behind. Literally anything we pay helps show her landlord that we're trying.
"Millions of years before Transylvania became the stuff of blood-sucking nightmares, it was an island ruled by giant flying carnivores with a taste for dinosaur flesh." share.google/JjOnpXoHZGAV...
I would drop dead if a thing like that landed near me
Oh, honey. 😟
That is an adorable bowl!!
That is pretty sweet!!
Listen, I want it to happen as much as all of you, but it's starting to give "Beyonce is definitely going to perform at the Democratic convention tonight"
You have just 3 weeks to object to the Roadless rule rollback. Link to USDA public comments here:
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. ✨✨✨
“‘She uncovered the social experience of women in science’ — the lab assistants who never became managers, the geologists poring over data in government offices while their male peers were doing fieldwork, those who despite their advanced degrees didn’t get hired or promoted, or who were sidelined…”
The kids are gonna love "Closer."
BUN JOVI
It's so much fun!
Literally every musician who had the guts to be in Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme.
you maniacs drawing sexy watto are proof that artists are vastly more powerful and terrifying than AI
No, YOU
EDMONTON: HELP Mayday mayday SOS: both Fiasco and Franca have gotten out of the house through a busted window screen and the back gate was found open by my catsitter I am VERY FAR AWAY! If you are in the Highlands region can you keep your eye out
It's been a while since I shared some bumblebear 🐝🐻
"But the AI did it, your honor," is going to be a hell of a defense
BREAKING: California lawmakers have reached an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app drivers to form unions and organize for increased pay and better benefits. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
All of this is terrible but do the pharmacies even have the new one in stock yet? Wasn't it just approved this week?
RED SONJA comes out today on video-on-demand on Fandango, Apple, Amazon and more. Fans of the comic will recognize a bunch of influence from my run, and I have a consulting producer credit. Great performance by Matlida Lutz!
yea i’d be lying if i said it was easy watching all this unfold and The Takes from folks who won’t go so far as to wear a respirator at the absolute very least in essential indoor public spaces (like hospitals, transit, pharmacies) yes very good let’s prevent disease glad we agree—now will you?
Did the Pono Purveyor Pen a Protest Piece Pertaining to a Particularly Pernicious President? Probably.
Awww
call your reps reps.fyi!
Happy Judgment Day!!!!
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
Hey, FYI, tomorrow is judgment day.
WELCOME TO AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
All-star
this is a great thread about CDC protest, check it out. I appreciate the info. Also this photo, I must admit, made me a bit teary. There are so many people who took government jobs to do good, to help. I know one incredible person at the CDC & she's just ... well, shellshocked would be an upgrade.
Tell that ex-friend to fuck off. You're a hottie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddf9...
Watching some old videos I did and I apparently felt the need to say: "Me and Jean-Luc Picard are tight."
Please please help me spread the word! I've been to Atlanta a few times, but I don't know as many folks there as I do in Seattle or LA. So I would really *massively* appreciate any and all help letting ATL folks know about this event. 🍑💖📚
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
10pm?! Shit, man, get them to make it 6pm for us senior citizens
Have fun!!
Might I put a gentle suggestion to the world that TypePad users not migrate to Substack?
Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:
Surprised they haven't tried to remake these yet tbh
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It remains staggering to me that, in the absence of meaningful penalties for the people at fault, this has simply become a part of ordinary modern life.
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
I have never done anything to claim any of these, but when I went to CVS for Covid booster last week, they had PRE-CHECKED the box for underlying conditions. Got the vibe they're trying to get as many people thus as possible while they can.
Oooh, I like!
Anyone who wants the goddamn vaccine should be able to get the goddamn vaccine!!
Dog to her journalist owner: "Hey, I've got a story for you."
A progressive Democrat flipped a staunchly Republican seat in *Iowa*— won it by 10 points, in fact— by running *As A Progressive* focusing on issues of education, and making housing, child care, and health care affordable. Stop running to the right. Stay left, and fight.
Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts. The protest encampment started today, and it’s the biggest escalation of the protests at Microsoft so far www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most. Learn more:
Frogs are now live in my Etsy shop! www.etsy.com/shop/TamiArtHandmade
Anyway.
Fuck around and find out!!!!!
motivational poorly drawn cats
Please help ❤️
Sorry, Tom, you're actually in Tron
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
Omfg
Bumping this: I have a ticket for the Nine Inch Nails show in Brooklyn on Tuesday, September 2 I need to sell. Would love it to go to someone I vaguely know!
The fact that recruiters don't already understand that is WILD
youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
Hey y’all! We are OFFICIALLY set to face off with our ex-landlord in CIRCUIT COURT in December. In the meantime, it would mean the world to me if you would continue to donate and/or repost this fund. Our current goal is $500 - $1000.
As with most terrible things, there comes a point where you have to put your foot down. I hope they are able to stand firm on this and show the owners what cutting staff really means.
Here’s better reporting about that which seems to be missing from most U.S. reporting
Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."
Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈 