existential dread becomes her
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Gardening with my chickens, reading with my cats, doomscrolling with y'all. PNW. she/her
I heard yelling down the street and assumed neighbors were having a domestic incident. My husband heard it and said, "They must be excited the Seahawks won!" If that doesn't sum up our whole personalities...
January 26, 2026 at 2:56 AM
I heard yelling down the street and assumed neighbors were having a domestic incident. My husband heard it and said, "They must be excited the Seahawks won!" If that doesn't sum up our whole personalities...
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Just found out this dude’s store is called Dreamhaven Books. dreamhavenbooks.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Just found out this dude’s store is called Dreamhaven Books. dreamhavenbooks.com
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People are definitely setting up a barricade of trash cans and this couch, in the middle of the street where ICE is.
"That's my couch," said a woman standing nearby. "It's been on my porch for four years because it won't fit up the stairs. My neighbor will be pleased it's gone now."
"That's my couch," said a woman standing nearby. "It's been on my porch for four years because it won't fit up the stairs. My neighbor will be pleased it's gone now."
January 24, 2026 at 6:18 PM
People are definitely setting up a barricade of trash cans and this couch, in the middle of the street where ICE is.
"That's my couch," said a woman standing nearby. "It's been on my porch for four years because it won't fit up the stairs. My neighbor will be pleased it's gone now."
"That's my couch," said a woman standing nearby. "It's been on my porch for four years because it won't fit up the stairs. My neighbor will be pleased it's gone now."
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I'm on site where a federal agent shot a Minneapolis man this morning. It's bad.
Dozens of federal agents are facing off with hundreds of outraged residents. People being tear gassed, helicopters above, I keep hearing pops, and lots of loud BANGS.
This smoke is from tear gas:
Dozens of federal agents are facing off with hundreds of outraged residents. People being tear gassed, helicopters above, I keep hearing pops, and lots of loud BANGS.
This smoke is from tear gas:
January 24, 2026 at 5:14 PM
I'm on site where a federal agent shot a Minneapolis man this morning. It's bad.
Dozens of federal agents are facing off with hundreds of outraged residents. People being tear gassed, helicopters above, I keep hearing pops, and lots of loud BANGS.
This smoke is from tear gas:
Dozens of federal agents are facing off with hundreds of outraged residents. People being tear gassed, helicopters above, I keep hearing pops, and lots of loud BANGS.
This smoke is from tear gas:
Roses are red
Violets are on vacation
Can I do some
Violets are on vacation
Can I do some
January 22, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Roses are red
Violets are on vacation
Can I do some
Violets are on vacation
Can I do some
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Just from Feb-Aug, 2025, Trump terminated >3% of all NIH clinical trials in the US, cutting more than 74,000 Americans out of active trials, meaning that if they were receiving treatment for cancer then the treatment that may have been curative was simply stopped and is just not available elsewhere.
Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health
This cross-sectional study summarizes the number of trials with terminated grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and calculates the proportion of affected trials among those with previou...
jamanetwork.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Just from Feb-Aug, 2025, Trump terminated >3% of all NIH clinical trials in the US, cutting more than 74,000 Americans out of active trials, meaning that if they were receiving treatment for cancer then the treatment that may have been curative was simply stopped and is just not available elsewhere.
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Ben Luhmann, who filmed this, is one of the two high schoolers from a conservative Christian family I rode along with in Chicago when they were searching for ICE agents there.
When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
January 22, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Ben Luhmann, who filmed this, is one of the two high schoolers from a conservative Christian family I rode along with in Chicago when they were searching for ICE agents there.
When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
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bluesky is the #1 app for introspection
June 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
bluesky is the #1 app for introspection
This week I not only got to pet the bookstore cat I've seen many times but never met before but also I saw (but did not pet) the other bookstore cat who has been evading me for years. She scurried, but she knows I saw her and she knows I want to be her friend.
January 17, 2026 at 4:22 AM
This week I not only got to pet the bookstore cat I've seen many times but never met before but also I saw (but did not pet) the other bookstore cat who has been evading me for years. She scurried, but she knows I saw her and she knows I want to be her friend.
Big respect to the artist who thought they could get away with putting Cher and Celine on the cover and nobody would notice.
January 16, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Big respect to the artist who thought they could get away with putting Cher and Celine on the cover and nobody would notice.
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I just need everyone to understand that I have range and endless capacity for rage, I can be mad about more things all at once than are dreamt of in your philosophy and I ALWAYS have time. It’s no trouble. Seriously don’t even worry about it!
January 13, 2026 at 5:41 AM
I just need everyone to understand that I have range and endless capacity for rage, I can be mad about more things all at once than are dreamt of in your philosophy and I ALWAYS have time. It’s no trouble. Seriously don’t even worry about it!
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there has never been a better time to rest your forehead on the dog for a little while
January 10, 2026 at 1:02 AM
there has never been a better time to rest your forehead on the dog for a little while
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Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”
January 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”
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Gaza cancer deaths triple as doctors say Israel allows entry of 'chocolates and chips" but blocks chemotherapy drugs.
‘We just sit and cry': Gaza's cancer patients die waiting for treatment
Gaza cancer deaths triple as doctors say Israel allows entry of 'chocolates and chips" but blocks chemotherapy drugs.
www.aljazeera.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Gaza cancer deaths triple as doctors say Israel allows entry of 'chocolates and chips" but blocks chemotherapy drugs.
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Oh fuck I just remembered plants are coming back later this year. They do it every year! Which kicks ass!
January 9, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Oh fuck I just remembered plants are coming back later this year. They do it every year! Which kicks ass!
In a waiting room this afternoon, a woman timidly approaches the receptionist. "The bathroom is ... off," she says tentatively, afeard. "The floor ... something is WRONG with the floor."
I can only assume a portal to hell has opened in the second stall of the bathroom at Kaiser Permanente.
I can only assume a portal to hell has opened in the second stall of the bathroom at Kaiser Permanente.
January 8, 2026 at 4:13 AM
In a waiting room this afternoon, a woman timidly approaches the receptionist. "The bathroom is ... off," she says tentatively, afeard. "The floor ... something is WRONG with the floor."
I can only assume a portal to hell has opened in the second stall of the bathroom at Kaiser Permanente.
I can only assume a portal to hell has opened in the second stall of the bathroom at Kaiser Permanente.
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A cop shot a person three times point blank and instead of the streets being deserted. They filled with people yelling at the cops [who could have shot them too].
January 7, 2026 at 11:04 PM
A cop shot a person three times point blank and instead of the streets being deserted. They filled with people yelling at the cops [who could have shot them too].
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i’ve been binging a podcast that started during the lockdown and man it’s a bummer to relieve the certainty that cops killing and beating the shit out of people was going to make this country rethink being policed by the bottom ten percent of their high school class
May 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
i’ve been binging a podcast that started during the lockdown and man it’s a bummer to relieve the certainty that cops killing and beating the shit out of people was going to make this country rethink being policed by the bottom ten percent of their high school class
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Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.
January 7, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.
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An ICE officer fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis is not the first time federal agents involved in immigration have shot a person this year. Here are two shootings, including another fatal one, during the recent Chicago blitz.
January 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
An ICE officer fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis is not the first time federal agents involved in immigration have shot a person this year. Here are two shootings, including another fatal one, during the recent Chicago blitz.
In my 90s homeschooling community, the spiritual hierarchy was:
- no fantasy books = truest & holiest of god's saints
- narnia only = hmm okay the witch is ontologically evil
- narnia + Tolkien = ehh that's a lot of magic on one bookshelf...
- Harry Potter: hide your children from these satanists
- no fantasy books = truest & holiest of god's saints
- narnia only = hmm okay the witch is ontologically evil
- narnia + Tolkien = ehh that's a lot of magic on one bookshelf...
- Harry Potter: hide your children from these satanists
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
www.independent.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 2:51 AM
In my 90s homeschooling community, the spiritual hierarchy was:
- no fantasy books = truest & holiest of god's saints
- narnia only = hmm okay the witch is ontologically evil
- narnia + Tolkien = ehh that's a lot of magic on one bookshelf...
- Harry Potter: hide your children from these satanists
- no fantasy books = truest & holiest of god's saints
- narnia only = hmm okay the witch is ontologically evil
- narnia + Tolkien = ehh that's a lot of magic on one bookshelf...
- Harry Potter: hide your children from these satanists
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*jolting suddenly awake and bolting rigidly upright in bed* I am going to get into an argument on the internet
December 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
*jolting suddenly awake and bolting rigidly upright in bed* I am going to get into an argument on the internet
Why am I being messaged by a septuagenarian man on pinterest dot com? When were "messages" even added to this mood board website
December 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Why am I being messaged by a septuagenarian man on pinterest dot com? When were "messages" even added to this mood board website