Ashanti Mills

@dakotacityrag.bsky.social

Technofacists be like Don’t you want everything individualized to such an extreme that it is impossible to ever talk about art with another person ever again bc no one will ever experience the same piece ever again? Wait where are you going?!

rewatching click and remembering a random youtuber who reviewed the film as thematically coherent this movie has a take that i dont necessarily agree with morally but the take is super coherent

It takes 3-5 business days and the soul of your first born child to cancel your cable subscription but the Epstein Class can pay the equivalent of less than a minute’s wages for the privilege of permanently poisoning us all.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I woke up at 4:18 am and said, “we took all the friction out of the systems that poor people use to survive and gave rich people all the luxury of their frictionlessness.” I will make it make sense later.

there are better, less self-centered takes but i started reading physical newspapers last year, and started adding wapo to it shortly afterwards, and i was just starting to feel like it wasn’t the runt of the litter

Lots of regular degular, never-done-an-activism folks have been activated in recent months and are working alongside a bunch of seasoned, die-hard, been-tired-for-ten-years-or-more organizers, and you don't know all of those stories bc most people are moving with a bit of discretion in these times.

starting to do research on a subject you know nothing about is like me: "okay. first question: how do lawyers work?" source: "um... well, what kind of lawyer are we talking about" me: *writing down enthusiastically* there are types of lawyers

Friends! Here—an ANNOUNCEMENT! Since ChatGPT invaded, our beloved em-dash has become a grammatical PARIAH—mistrusted, misunderstood, and damn near cast out of polite society! But today, I have found her SALVATION!!! The SHIBBOLETH we seek is COMIC BOOK WRITING!!!

Image of two panels from Action Comics #1, the debut of Superman.

Panel 1 shows a man running alongside a speeding train, with the text: “… RUN FASTER THAN A STREAMLINE TRAIN—“

Panel 2 shows a doctor holding a shirtless patient’s arm. The caption reads “… AND NOTHING LESS THAN A BURSTING SHELL COULD PENETRATE HIS SKIN!” The doctor says “What th’—? This is the sixth hypodermic needle I’ve broken on your skin!” And the patient responds “Try again, doc!”

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

i dont always feel super in tune with my culture but i did today when my friend and i went to a new restaurant and i realized he’s reading to see what’s good, while i’m reading to confirm what i know i want and they wouldn’t dare not have (patty, coco bread, ginger beer)

Mom wants to know if, should her reps (Suozzi, Schumer, Gillibrand) do anything stupid while she's on a cruise if I can call for her and say my mother is literally out of the country and cannot call but would still like to express her displeasure.

the music pedantry hill i’ll die on is that Main Theme from Super Mario 64 (aka Bob-omb Battlefield) isn’t swung 16ths, and it’s not straight 16ths—exactly half of the instruments are one or the other (drums, bass; horns, bob-omb thing; guitar never plays 16ths)

People who think we should wait until we win everything think we should win forever. Celebrate interim victories, partial victories, imperfect victories, small victories, because celebrating strengthens the resolve to keep on, reminds us of our power, and also is fun.

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