Having a slow morning getting myself to work, and I'm thinking about how there's a fine line where structure becomes too structured. I need just enough rails to understand something but not too many that it gets too complicated and I shut off.
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Aging queer millennial. Writer of A Labyrinth and If Any Gods Lived. Constantly anxious about everything but in a laughing awkwardly kind of way. Make stories for Meow Wolf. Doing labor rights and trying to write a much as I can in the time I have.
It's vital to understand that the conservative obsession with calling their political adversaries groomers, rapists and pedophiles while simultaneously protecting sexual offenders in their own party isn't a contradiction, but the result of an ideology that views rape as a crime of property damage.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h agoPure scum wrapped in fake piety.
sometimes the internet is a wonder, sometimes the internet is a mistake and sometimes the internet brings you "cheerleading 9/11" and has transcended the need for adjectives
CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 23h agoOh my god I think I found the video.
Really important article and great thread on the work Wyden is doing.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Is there like a dom sub situation but for forcing someone to write? Asking for a friend.
The most no duh of no duh revelations.
MaddowBlog@maddowblog.bsky.social · 2d ago"While attorneys for the Trump Organization, led by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, have alleged Capital One closed more than 300 Trump-linked accounts in 2021 over politics, lawyers for the defendants wrote... that the financial institution closed the accounts “for anti-money laundering” reasons."
this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
They made a "Hatch green chile" Nike. I am unconvinced. www.drifthouse.com/collections/...
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What are some genuinely experimental or weird albums released by "BIG" stars?
I regret to say that I didn't love the Lili Elve opera. The score was beautiful and the cast did a good job, but the directing and staging were really dull. I'm also very over projections in theater. Epically over it.
Why is Paul Lynde singing about pizza cats?
Discotek Media@discotekmedia.bsky.social · 4d agoIt's pizza time? What's this? And it looks gorgeous? Wait what? Samurai Pizza Cats!
Literally EVERYTHING was made in these specific colors for about 2 years. My parents had that bedspread and pillow cases. www.instagram.com/reel/DLgnEHC...
✨The 90’s Girl✨ on Instagram: "Did you love or hate this trend?!! #90s #90skids #nostalgia #nostalgic"
5,860 likes, 314 comments - tara.town on June 29, 2025: "Did you love or hate this trend?!! #90s #90skids #nostalgia #nostalgic".
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This is a cool thread about how myths were expressed in the ancient world.
Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · 5d agoEveryone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13
I just had my first ever MRI and you know what? I had an enjoyable time. The machine is weird and loud and the experience is so strange.
To be making the argument in 2026 that immigration is a Republican leaning issue so Democrats shouldn’t campaign on it, and especially Trump’s overreach on deportations, is to be completely ignorant of the data and events of the last 18 months
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is the problem with the idea that Dems can't go on offense on immigration. It's not okay for Collins to have a clear field on TV to sell herself as a moderate on ICE. CNN has Trump 22 points underwater on this. Two other polls have Ds *tied with the GOP* on it! newrepublic.com/article/2138...
There's some great responses to this in the thread and in quotes. Mine has kinda been solved but it's what really happened to The Somerton Man.
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 6d agoWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
JK Rowling funding her trans exterminationist campaigns by selling children's books to liberals 🤝 the NYT funding their trans exterminationist campaigns by selling puzzle games and recipes to liberals (and also for both, cis people will get really upset at trans people asking them not to)
mady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️@mady.cat · 6d agoIn other words, NYT is increasingly becoming a gaming and recipe company, with revenue from that business helping subsidize the higher costs of their journalism (which has been weaponized in favor of trans genocide). They depend on liberals not caring enough to boycott them.
I am also full of things that are only correct because they are grammatical.
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 6d agodon’t let July pass you by without revisiting the all-time greatest tribute to the season
Hey cis people. Don't make jokes like this. You literally don't have to be like this.
Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 6d agoThis may be true of others but I actually got express permission from the trans community to keep NYT games and recipes. I also have a news subscription, which is arguably worse, so I had to specifically send in a written request. Took 30 days but I got approved.
As a gay trans man in the 1970s, Lou Sullivan didn't fit what doctors thought a trans person should be. He spent his life proving them wrong 👇
The legacy of HIV activists is under threat. How do we turn the tide?
Lou Sullivan was known as a first in many ways, what can we learn from his HIV activism, in the face of Trump cuts?
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The AI profiles on dating apps have made a terrible experience so much worse.
The barista just said they love hearing about people's real jobs... and when I was doing coffee that was something I liked too. Hearing little glimpses of other lives. Windows into them.
It took a few decades but they're fully killing the digital commons the same way they killed the physical ones. gothamist.com/news/ny-soci...
NY social media users face age authentication requirement starting in January
Apps are barred from sending notifications to minors between midnight and 6 a.m.
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A decade ago, Facebook was so worried about rising misinformation that it paid various news outlets to hire writers specifically tasked with publishing Snopes-like fact-checks. Today, the company is leaping into bed with a purveyor of misinformation to toy with a tool known for getting facts wrong.
