all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard

The fact that they’re tracking autism and not the bird flu automatically tells you they’re operating on eugenics and not actually wanting people to be healthy. They want you sick, disabled, or dead.

hey does anyone know the exact correct amount of attention to pay to current events because every amount I've tried feels like simultaneously way too much and not nearly enough

my parents live in florida and recently went to a dinner where they met some MAGA retirees who were *salivating* when they learned I live in DC, gleefully asking, "did she lose her job??" because they assume everyone here works for the federal government. we're a cruel, callous, atomized country.

I genuinely think that down the line people could use Superstore in media/culture studies to analyze the way American culture shifted from the mid 2010s to the early 2020s when covid hit

The "Gulf of America" thing is ridiculous, but if the press gives in on this, the administration will just keep pushing - maybe conditioning access on deadnaming people, saying Trump won the 2020 election, you name it. Draw a line in the sand now, while the stakes seem small.

I’m seeing a lot of soft takes from industry mutuals at the moment that we shouldn’t be so hard on those who use generative AI because it’s becoming harder and harder to resist.
Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.

hey yall i forgot about this app because i think i've managed to mostly rid myself of the urge to tweet or doomscroll on twitter and this has sorta been like the nicotine patch for twitter for me so ya. anyway here are some pictures of my cats

As far as I'm concerned, if keeping your vision for your film under budget requires A.I., you're admitting to the world that you suck at creative problem-solving.

In honor of Jimi Hendrix, who would have turned 82 today, I wrote something for PBS about his incredible sense of style. He helped define not only the sound but also the look of a countercultural movement.

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finished season 2. ekko is the character of all time <3 and i stand by what i said about wishing this show had a dramaturg

throwback to the time i had a dream where a cartoon sentient grape named queer steve appeared in my dream

started watching arcane with my partner and my first impression so far is that there's actually a lot that i like about it but i really wish they had a dramaturg. if someone had hit them with visit to a small planet it'd have been v slay