if elon musk wants to save the world so badly, why won’t he just launch himself permanently into the endless void of space?
bubbe yaga
@ellearmageddon.bsky.social
i’m not a girl, not interested in being polite or cisgender. jewish, anarchist, still punk, in my daddy era. this is not a place of honor. no highly esteemed thoughts are skeeted here. ngl.link/armageddon1312 don’t explain, you’ll only make it worse
y’all remember how in the 80s, you would walk into a restaurant and have to specify “non-smoking section?” bc i remember.
So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary
hello, i was already aware of the superb fairywren, but today i learned of the existence of the splendid fairywren and the lovely fairywren, and tbh i think we should let australians name more birds fairywrenproject.org
imagine that you’re a fire inspector. someone is making direct eye contact with you, and telling you with their whole chest that they have intentionally built their home out of match sticks because they’re lighter than other materials and allow them to build fast, without help.
That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.
You Should Probably Leave Substack
You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.
leavesubstack.com
Hey, Trash Panda Gang, can you help support Bec’s family? They‘ve been left without her and need some community uplift: givealittle.co.nz/cause/please...
Please help support Becs and her beautiful family
Supporting Becs Flanagan's family by easing the financial burden during this heartbreaking time.
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One of my kindest and best customers died this week. No warning, she was young, I didn‘t know her personally that well, but we were in the DMs often and she was always so lovely. Life is strange, death is sudden. 💔
Ghirardelli Chocolate workers in San Francisco are on strike! Ghirardelli wants to cut workers’ health benefits, and refuses to be transparent on how customer fees are being used. @unitehere.org www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
Ghirardelli closes flagship San Francisco shop as workers strike
Workers at Ghirardelli's flagship San Francisco shop are asking customers to stay away during a three-day strike involving health insurance and a 6% surcharge.
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was doing some decluttering last weekend and found a pristine metrocard, so i’ve been riding pretty high ever since
“oh, i like your paintings… can i commission something?” you sure can’t, but thanks for asking!
Hey, that's a nice [THING YOU DO FOR PERSONAL PLEASURE], be a real shame if somebody were to [CONVINCE YOU TO MONETIZE IT, TRANSFORMING YOUR RELATIONSHIP INTO AN OBLIGATION AND ROBBING YOU OF JOY]
rip to sam neill, who, along with laura dern, jeff goldblum, and an animatronic velociraptor, was responsible for my bisexual awakening
my god, this is amazing. apparently from a NY Times interview with Neill and Goldblum. Resharing with alt text so everyone can enjoy
The movie holds up. As does this great anecdote courtesy of Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum.
rip to sam neill, who, along with laura dern, jeff goldblum, and an animatronic velociraptor, was responsible for my bisexual awakening
these people would shit bricks if they found out i read handmaid’s tale when i was like 12
The big literary discourse on twitter right now is whether The Hobbit—a children’s book that won children’s lit awards and was literally written for the author’s children—is appropriate reading for children or in fact such a difficult book most adults can’t “get their head around” it.
cats are so chaotic, man i’m sitting on the couch, just minding my own business, and alexander berkman wakes up from a deep sleep, descends from the cat tower, hops up onto the couch, licks my foot, and then saunters off to go sleep in the box by the window buddy, why?
aka why i don’t have dms when i’m in australia
i feel like lots of people know about balsamic and strawberries, but too many people are sleeping on stone fruit caprese salads, and the people deserve this knowledge
ugh, this is so east coast-centric over on the west, we hate the dodgers 😤
Incorrect, sports is about hating the New York Yankees
it’s not a nazi tattoo, but if it is, he didn’t know it, and if he did know, he didn’t mean it, and if he meant it, he’s grown since then no, fuck you
there are several different Types Of Guy who set off unsanctioned fireworks, and i absolutely have a stack-ranked list of them from best to worst
i’ve often mentioned that reading Frederick Douglass’ autobiography was the catalyzing perspective that caused me to self-identify as an anarchist… … anyway, here’s what he had to say about the fourth of july: loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1852Fre...
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My rez only got a grocery store less than a year ago. The reservation was established 160 years ago, and we only got a grocery store August 2025. It was a 100 mile round-trip for the nearest grocery store when I was a kid, until we got the grocery store last year.
Adding stores to underserved places would be great if the people who live there already weren’t economically forced out to places with no stores.
back in the states, and already missing australia (i’ll be back soon!)