Microposts
Tuesday, July 1
Hegseth Says USNS Harvey Milk to Be Renamed After Oscar V. Peterson - The New York Times
This Is How Mel Brooks Kept the Crew From Laughing While Making ‘Blazing Saddles’ | Cracked.com
Advocate: “U.K. Prime Minister pushes to ban trans people from single-sex bathrooms, sports, and beyond”
Advocate: German trans teen’s chess tournament win sparks backlash
The Irony is Astounding: Thomas Horman, the acting ICE director, told Tucker Carlson that he objects to being compared to Nazis because ICE is ‘simply following orders.’
Sunday, June 29
Jessa Crispin: “America doesn’t really make things. Even in its financial system, the highest rewards go to those who speculate, making bets on things that other people have created but creating nothing real or tangible in itself. Jessa and Nico discuss the difficulty in reversing the trend toward service and virtual production as well as the effects that working in the spectral rather than material realms has on a human.”
“Boss, it’s the fascism. You’re completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you’re also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you’re going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.”
“Anybody can change from being fit and healthy to sick and bedbound. Anybody can develop chronic health conditions or become disabled or terminally ill. Anybody can change from being employed to unemployed and unable to work. These things can happen to anybody. Anybody.”
“Hope is a risk; especially when you’ve known what it is to dream for better and only be met with the tyranny of degradation, greed, and violent appetites. But despair is a concession. Be careful of who you let regulate your dreaming. Always remember who benefits from our hopelessness.”
Bear S4E07: the magical enlarging undertable.
Friday, June 27
transpunkspacejunk: Be Christ-like this Christmas:
- Gather a crowd and inspire them to anarchism.
- Beat a politician with a whip.
- Help out your local sex workers.
- Preach equality.
Thursday, June 26
“[M]iasma theory blamed ‘bad air’ for disease and guided centuries of public-health measures until experimental evidence shifted medicine to a microbial understanding of infection.”
“A patch is not law. A badge is. A name is. A warrant is.”
“Are you a sworn law enforcement officer? What agency are you with? What is your name and badge number? Are you acting under a warrant?” Am I under arrest?”
“This person will not identify themselves, will not show a badge, and is trying to detain me without a warrant.”
Tuesday, June 24
Listen to these Orca whales imitate human speech.
susiedent.com: The use of swearing to relieve stress, anger, pain or frustration is known as ‘lalochezia’.
Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law struck down by US appeals court | Reuters
Drink water. Make your bed. Get dressed up. Gratitude journal. Take a break. Be authentic. Give a compliment. Have a healthy snack. Drink water. Let go. Be nice. Read books. Celebrate small wins. Get in shape. Say no. Be thankful. Be selfish. Lather yourself in coconut oil. Speak up. Start a business. Read frequently. Exercise. Lather yourself in coconut oil. Forgive yourself. Drink water. Pet animals.
“Shoutout to everyone who is still committed to trying to be an open-hearted and knd person even while having to process lots of heavy things. "
AND JUST LIKE THAT, nobody’s talking about:
- the largest protests in American history
- Trump being in the Epstein files
- the assassination of a politician in Minnesota
- crowd size at Trump’s birthday parade
- federal thugs abducting American citizens
- a spending bill that adds trillions to the national debt, makes it legal for Trump to ignore the courts
- Trump’s record low polling numbers
Sunday, June 22
In this house we believe:
- Cats have seen the face of God
- Permanent Standard Time is the way
- Carl’s Jr. is better than Hardy’s
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
- The slithy toves = brillig
- EPUBs are just PDFs with straight privilege
- You forgot to lock your door
- We must build the Republic of Heaven where we are
- In his house in R’lyeh, Dead Cthulhu is NOT woke
- Kindness is a lot, but we aren’t sure we’d say it’s everything
- Because we live in a world that also has bagels and ‘Black Sails’ (2014-17) on Starz (at time of writing it’s also on Netflix).
