nina sabak
@ninasabak.bsky.social
MFA-haver and lowercase deadpanner. I don't want the world, I just want your half. (all views expressed here are mine, not my employer's.)
When I tell people that the second Trump administration is basically GamerGate with power, they often roll their eyes or quibble with how that word is bounded, but then there’s all the evidence that the second Trump administration is basically GamerGate with power to contend with.
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 4d agoA racist arcade is the latest White House initiative that nobody asked for: aftermath.site/a-racist-arcad...
a lot of this stuff is beginning to feel downright precedented.
i did it, i finally wrote about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (and the Statue of Liberty, and Planet of the Apes, and Iris Murdoch)
‘You Maniacs, You Blew It Up’
A few words about ‘The Odyssey’
justatad.xyz
Liberals say the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our democracy. They’re wrong— the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our republic.
It’s not suicide it is social murder. It is the result of policy that is explicitly designed to Inflict maximum pain & make a class of people feel as life isn’t worth living.
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · last wk.“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
I would like ask JD Vance about Pierre Damas Bel.
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · last wk.“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Trans people are facing a decades-long, escalating, international effort to drive them out of society supported by some of the richest, most powerful people AND governments in the world and you are right that a few of them being snippy with you on social media is, essentially, the same thing.
TIL that Dwight Garner is from my hometown, and I really need everyone in my life to be making a bigger fuss about this. Fairmont has the juice, pals!
If pubs are doing ranked lists they should only let one person write it. It should always be 100 items long and done in one day. you should be able to read the writers long descent into madness as they near the top ten. By the time they hit One it should be theories on how to trap & kill God.
i can't believe mitch mcconnell did or didn't live to see this
I remember learning in kindergarten that HOMES was a useful acronym for remembering the five great lakes. A bit on the nose to change it to SHAME, isn't it?
I love reading clinical notes from physical exams, because what do you mean my neck is "supple"
Really? And Tim Curry too?! Nah, that’s completely unacceptable.
Great performer, great lady and, perhaps, when all is said and done, one of our greatest citizens.
Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 2w agoDolly Parton, music star, actor and beloved figure who spanned generations has died at 80
if you're in line to donate money to the Imagination Library, please stay in line
So Mayer@suchmayer.northsky.social · 2w agoThere are so many donations happening right now that the site has crashed.
why is Wayfair furniture so SMALL? did I activate the wrong filter? is this a recession indicator?
Lot of people younger than me lately. What are we doing about this.
There is a lot of research that bisexual women are among the most likely demographics to experience abuse, assault, suicidal ideation, & attempt suicide. Hayden came out of the closet for the first time just this year, & now she’s gone, & there’s an active investigation, & I am so sad.
Blue sky nice ghost@rajandelman.bsky.social · 3w agoAbsolutely fucking gutting
why does everything have to be so aggressively stupid, is my question
Trump IndyCar Race Sparks Fears of Damage to Art at National Museums
Preservationists have raised concerns that Trump’s Freedom 250 Grand Prix will cause damage to artworks housed in museums along the National Mall.
artforum.com
Imagine Shoeless Joe Jackson, disgraced should-be Hall of Famer, walking through the cornfield and seeing this absolute bullshit on the wall.
They protested to stop us from going to war against people who didn't do anything to us, for reasons we all knew were lies, and couldn't stop it. And since then there has never been a moment when we weren't at war. It'd be fucked if that *wasn't* a trauma.
LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social · last mo.Why do elder millennials (with no connection to the military) talk about GWOT like it was a world war level societal trauma?
one of my newest pet peeves: line breaks after every sentence in a post. I think it's supposed to add dramatic tension, but it just looks like everyone's twitchy about enjambment.
"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take
Very handy catch-all info about disabling AI as much as possible
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · last mo.I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
