She/her Always tired, always doubting. Insta: tinavenusreads, crankytmav
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I watched The Long Walk tonight & it was harder than I expected. The movie is devastating but so so good, and I sobbed for the last 45 minutes of it. I think I really needed that cry. I recommend the movie but just know what you’re getting into when you go to see it. It’s a really great adaptation.
Happy Labor Day. Just a li’l reminder: so many people died horrible deaths so we could have things as seemingly inevitable as the weekend or overtime. The owners would claw it all back in an instant.
NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity. Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground. Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
I found photo 22 to be the absolute creepiest.
That said, see the movie, it’s so fun, and part of the campaign is paying off medical debt. www.avclub.com/the-toxic-av...
Why do people gatekeep? And let’s face it, it’s usually men. I saw the Toxic Avenger tonight (super enjoyable, so much fun!) and a man came in, immediately asked a couple a few rows ahead “please tell me you’ve seen the original movies.” Like, making sure they were qualified to be there. So gross.
Just tried to book a Covid booster appointment at Walgreens along with a flu shot, and they’re now requiring a prescription for the Covid shot. Now I have to see my doctor first to convince them my anxiety is enough of a mental health disorder to get a prescription? This is such garbage.
COVID vaccine update: Pharmacies in these states won't give you a shot unless you have a prescription. CVS: CO, FL, GA, KY, LA , ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA, WV, DC Walgreens: AZ, CO, GA, IN, LA, MO, MT, NM, NY, OR, SC, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI CVS is not yet offering COVID shots at all in MA, NV, and MN.
You are part of an elite group www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
I really hope hell is real.
Covid has killed over 1.2 million Americans.
yeah this is bad
I do this too!!
They revised "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" and it's just work, the store, and home now
nice credit score you got there. be a shame if it was all...imaginary
Well, I just finished Barbarian and whoa. That was a wild ride. I will now watch anything from this man.
I haven’t yet but I’m going to make it a priority.
Saw Weapons tonight. Wow. Go in blind but with a full theater. It was batshit.
I saw the movie Together tonight and it was so wild and creepy and unnerving. But I loved the references to Aristophanes’ origins of love, which I must have learned about in college but really it was in Hedwig where I first cared about it. This week was hard but this movie helped in a weird way.
Ooh, I really love this version.
As of today the federal minimum wage has now been $7.25 for 16 years.
Ooh, that’s interesting. I’m very curious about that story. I will look into this. Thank you for the suggestion!
Terrified for what this means for my niece, who’s leaving for college in a month to major in elementary education.
I pay for or have the password to five different streaming services, yet every movie I want to watch requires me to rent or buy it. What the fuck am I paying for if I still have to rent a movie?!
Ooh, I’m excited for this.
And I LIKE hot dogs.
I find this utterly disgusting.
I’m at my town’s Independence Day celebration and there is nothing I feel like doing less than celebrating this country right now.
Oh, this sucks.
I'm not a Senator, I'm just some random lady who lives in the middle of PA. I also missed my trip to the beach because we stood up actions in DC, are mobilizing people across the country, driving calls, district office visits, supporting a full bus tour and fighting to HELP PEOPLE. Fuck Fetterman.
Today was hot garbage so I disassociated by seeing John Wick: Ballerina, and I saw the trailers for the new Naked Gun AND The Long Walk, which looks so so good.
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green." Happy Lottery day to you and yours.
This artist’s work is gorgeous. I can’t stop looking at their shop.
I saw The Life of Chuck—what a gorgeous, devastating movie. I loved it.
I made ambitious plans and bought a movie ticket for 9:10pm. I hope I can stay awake that late. I don’t know what I was thinking.
saw this in a group im in and once again librarians are the fucking S tier class of what it is to be a good human
personally i think it’s cool that someone is willing to do something
To the tune of Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time": I just feel so angry all the time Angry all the time Angry all the tiiiiiime
These signs are all over NYC and every single time I see one from behind, my first thought is, "oh, someone built a guillotine."
Similarly, "bean bag rounds" are typically filled with lead shot, not plastic. They can fracture your skull and kill you. After I got hit with one in 2020 (thankfully in the leg), an Austin Police Department officer acted surprised there was metal inside.
Yes, “disaster” is the correct word – this is a public health catastrophe. The pressure for him to resign should begin tonight, and continue until it happens. Nothing else should be in front of this. Go to a 19th century cemetery anywhere in this country to know why.
(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency's head said during a briefing that he hadn't been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/
Currently reading and enjoying!
you can have anxiety at any time it’s absolutely free
This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social
Please take the time to make a comment.
I did this and it took 30 seconds.
Your body, Trump government's choice.
Shocked beyond words to learn of the passing of Jill Sobule, a great friend and frequent guest of FOW www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
John Waters is a legend.
I made a last minute decision to see Sinners tonight and man, such an incredible movie. It’s not often a horror movie makes me tear up, and I can’t say enough good things about this one. I would absolutely see it again in the theater.
Seems like it's everyone's patriotic duty to report men getting hair plugs and erectile dysfunction meds, as those are both gender-affirming care
It’s weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved. * very unconstitutional
we also added 25% to the retirement age
Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.
RFK Jr is cutting Alzheimer's research to the tune of $3.9 billion. I can't state this more clearly. The fraction of the American population that is elderly and susceptible to dementia is large and growing fast. This is a critical population health crisis. It needs more attention, not less.
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It’s been less than a decade since the USA Gymnastics Team Doctor Larry Nassar was convicted for systematically sexually abusing young female athletes for over two decades, and the biggest shifts in the governance of international athletics since have been to make crimes like that easier to commit.
BREAKING: Louis DeJoy has just resigned as Postmaster General, effective immediately.
Democrats voted unanimously to confirm Marco Rubio.
The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.
They're going to kill Libby and all your other library book reading apps, programs funded by Congress which the administration (and certainly not Elon or his teen Nazi psychopath goons) has no power to shut down. Maybe a day to call all your reps again and to demand action
SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:
This is fucking outrageous. Executive Orders don’t have this kind of power. The USPS should send it back to him with a letter that says, “You don’t have this authority. Fuck off.”
Social Security is your money. Taking it away is literally robbing you.
Email shows that Musk ally is moving to close office behind free tax filing program at IRS | Trump administration | The Guardian - www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"It is no exaggeration to say this will kill people—mainly people who are elderly, disabled and/or poor. Society’s most vulnerable sit in the crosshairs of our nation’s wealthiest people who have absolutely everything, but somehow always want more."
Every day I have to hear about some asshole
BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun. The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
i’m never going to see any of the money i’ve had taken from my paychecks for 25 years
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
I’ve seen plenty of cyber trucks but for the first time I saw one with a woman behind the wheel. Still don’t understand the appeal of those ugly things.
I really loved this book, and highly recommend it.
It’s definitely in the trailer, and I think it was in the movie itself, but to be honest my memory is garbage right now, so I could be wrong. The movie’s dialogue is pretty funny though.
It’s better for my mental health to appreciate the small things, like a funny gross movie, because if I don’t, I fall into despair really quickly. Yikes, that got dark unexpectedly.
I was one of a dozen people in the theater tonight, and while I was laughing a lot, I didn’t hear anyone else laughing. This movie was made to be funny, and I can’t help but wonder if people have lost their sense of humor. I know the world is ON FIRE, but I choose to find some good in it.
Since everything is terrible, I took myself to the movies to see The Monkey. Hilarious and gross, and I loved every minute.
Breaking WaPo: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Cutting Dolly Parton’s program that helps kids learn how to read <<<<<<< www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...
Louis DeJoy, the head of the US Postal Service, intends to step down, the federal agency said, after a nearly five-year tenure marked by the coronavirus pandemic, surges in mail-in election ballots and efforts to stem losses through cost and service cuts.
I had, as it turns out, a voluminous quantity of words to say about the National Endowment for the Arts demanding fealty to Trump in their new grant guidelines (with side tangents into Robert Mapplethorpe, the Eight of Swords in tarot, compliance and resistance, and why budgets are moral documents)
A veteran Social Security Administration official resigned after a dispute with Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) attempts to access the personal data of Social Security recipients.
off-the-charts level of nobody wants this
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.
Not to worry folks, DOGE operatives are now asking for access to your individual tax returns ... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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"assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs" good time time become an antipsychiatry grifter in the US www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Had a Not Good day. I cancelled tonight’s yoga reservation so I could go to bed early but then I received a much appreciated, impromptu sushi delivery from my sister’s family. Now I’m in pajamas under a comfy blanket on the couch and things are turning around. ☺️
Because I enjoy horror onscreen (and on the page) but not in real life, I blew off my college reunion class party this evening and instead saw Heart Eyes. It was the right choice.
Whatever they'll do to trans people, they'll do to you...BUT WHY DO YOU NEED TO BE DIRECTLY THREATENED IN ORDER TO CARE? A human being is a human being. The trans community is made up of human beings who have every right to the same respect and care that you want for yourself 1/?
Elon Musk claims to have "deleted" the office in the IRS which has enabled people to file their tax returns electronically, simply, and for free.
wow www.vulture.com/article/neil...
Musk's new department, which just seized control over payments as broad as USAID, defense, and social security, is presently livetweeting screenshots as they gleefully stop payments related to DEI, accessibility, and immigration. The account claims $1B in payments have already been cut off.
Among the many avenues Democrats need to be pushing *now* is: Trump, Musk, and their Republican enablers just compromised the personal and financial info of every American. This isn't hyperbole; it already happened. They broke all the cybersecurity protocols and are concealing what they're doing.
Adam Parkhomenko 