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I’ve watched the Internet Public part of this delightful relationship and marriage since… shit, LiveJournal? Damn…
And, Goals, Really.
Gods grant all the years of Bilbo Baggins to them both, so we may ‘Awwwww’ for decades to come.
And, Goals, Really.
Gods grant all the years of Bilbo Baggins to them both, so we may ‘Awwwww’ for decades to come.
I climbed into bed and Kevin waited until I was in, then tapped his phone and it began playing the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and anyway, this is why I love him.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I’ve watched the Internet Public part of this delightful relationship and marriage since… shit, LiveJournal? Damn…
And, Goals, Really.
Gods grant all the years of Bilbo Baggins to them both, so we may ‘Awwwww’ for decades to come.
And, Goals, Really.
Gods grant all the years of Bilbo Baggins to them both, so we may ‘Awwwww’ for decades to come.
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This is a banger, and here's my favorite part:
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
This is a banger, and here's my favorite part:
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It's Friday, I'm sick as hell, and I'm so goddamned tired of Marjorie Taylor Greene's face.
I GOTTA SCREAM.
catvalente.substack.com/p/are-you-th...
I GOTTA SCREAM.
catvalente.substack.com/p/are-you-th...
Are You There, God? It's Me, Marjorie.
What's going on with--god help us--Marjorie Taylor Greene, as efficiently explained as possible
catvalente.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It's Friday, I'm sick as hell, and I'm so goddamned tired of Marjorie Taylor Greene's face.
I GOTTA SCREAM.
catvalente.substack.com/p/are-you-th...
I GOTTA SCREAM.
catvalente.substack.com/p/are-you-th...
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Incidentally, Barilla’s owner is a big Trump supporter and has said he doesn’t want gay people buying his pasta.
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Incidentally, Barilla’s owner is a big Trump supporter and has said he doesn’t want gay people buying his pasta.
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This is literally treated as radical, outside-the-bounds of normal political discourse.
But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000.
Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home.
Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.
But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000.
Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home.
Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This is literally treated as radical, outside-the-bounds of normal political discourse.
But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000.
Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home.
Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.
But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000.
Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home.
Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.
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This is one of my favorite sites online.
2/9. The amount is shocking because we’re thinking through the lens of normal amounts of money. But we have to remember: these people are not normal. Their wealth is on an entirely different scale. This tool is helpful for visualizing it: mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-weal...
Wealth, shown to scale
Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.
mkorostoff.github.io
December 22, 2024 at 8:41 PM
This is one of my favorite sites online.
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This is a fantastic series of posts about subsistence farming and why your ancestors will rise from the grave and smack you if you return to it after they got out.
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social did a fantastic series on that reality recently.
acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c...
acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households
This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industria…
acoup.blog
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is a fantastic series of posts about subsistence farming and why your ancestors will rise from the grave and smack you if you return to it after they got out.
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Exactly this — caving for nothing makes all that pain for nothing.
Further, them caving lends credence to this being just some political scrum when it’s actually much more fundamental than that!
Call those senators, please.
Further, them caving lends credence to this being just some political scrum when it’s actually much more fundamental than that!
Call those senators, please.
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Exactly this — caving for nothing makes all that pain for nothing.
Further, them caving lends credence to this being just some political scrum when it’s actually much more fundamental than that!
Call those senators, please.
Further, them caving lends credence to this being just some political scrum when it’s actually much more fundamental than that!
Call those senators, please.
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At some point we have to let pain hurt Trump instead of helping him. Every time we let pain help him, he’ll do more and bigger next time.
Each acquiescence means the next one will be *more* painful.
Each acquiescence means the next one will be *more* painful.
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
At some point we have to let pain hurt Trump instead of helping him. Every time we let pain help him, he’ll do more and bigger next time.
Each acquiescence means the next one will be *more* painful.
Each acquiescence means the next one will be *more* painful.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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Cyndi Lauper delivered a powerful call to action during her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Cyndi Lauper delivered a powerful call to action during her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
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Shutting it down for the night with this post from a comrade in Chicago:
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Shutting it down for the night with this post from a comrade in Chicago:
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
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Ursula did super well but she's going to get soft in trad publishing where the editors are nice to her.
Anyway! DAGGERBOUND by T Kingfisher! A delightful romp with mild to moderate Ursula-standard horrors and plenty of old friends I have sorely missed. Out next August, pre-order now!
Anyway! DAGGERBOUND by T Kingfisher! A delightful romp with mild to moderate Ursula-standard horrors and plenty of old friends I have sorely missed. Out next August, pre-order now!
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Ursula did super well but she's going to get soft in trad publishing where the editors are nice to her.
Anyway! DAGGERBOUND by T Kingfisher! A delightful romp with mild to moderate Ursula-standard horrors and plenty of old friends I have sorely missed. Out next August, pre-order now!
Anyway! DAGGERBOUND by T Kingfisher! A delightful romp with mild to moderate Ursula-standard horrors and plenty of old friends I have sorely missed. Out next August, pre-order now!
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I swear there’s an amendment about this…don’t tell me, it’s on the tip of my tongue…
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I swear there’s an amendment about this…don’t tell me, it’s on the tip of my tongue…
And Personal Gain Thinking like that is what kills Societies and Community.
"my taxes shouldn't be used to feed other people"
keeping everyone's sorry asses alive is literally WHAT CIVILIZATION IS FOR 😭 its the *entire* point
keeping everyone's sorry asses alive is literally WHAT CIVILIZATION IS FOR 😭 its the *entire* point
November 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
And Personal Gain Thinking like that is what kills Societies and Community.
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I think with one trillion dollars I would just start buying land and giving it back to Native people. It would be working towards righting historical injustice, and at the same time would irritate the shit out of all the worst people.
If you spent one million a day it would take over 2700 years to spend a trillion dollars
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I think with one trillion dollars I would just start buying land and giving it back to Native people. It would be working towards righting historical injustice, and at the same time would irritate the shit out of all the worst people.
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Guys there are ENTIRE CATEGORIES that are hidden outside of your regular settings in this ridiculous app. All KINDS of stuff was default to hidden. Please go check your moderation settings, a thing you definitely knew about and isn't hidden inside several other menus.
Bluesky defaulting "rude" moderation to Hide instead of Warn is an interesting choice, especially when no one even knew that was a new moderation category
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Guys there are ENTIRE CATEGORIES that are hidden outside of your regular settings in this ridiculous app. All KINDS of stuff was default to hidden. Please go check your moderation settings, a thing you definitely knew about and isn't hidden inside several other menus.
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It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
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I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.
“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.
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BLM?
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Pro Palestine?
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Antifascist and anti eugenics?
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Pro woman, trans and queer?
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Pro labour?
Yes! “Yes, and” this is easy.
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Pro Palestine?
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Antifascist and anti eugenics?
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Pro woman, trans and queer?
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Pro labour?
Yes! “Yes, and” this is easy.
October 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
BLM?
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Pro Palestine?
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Antifascist and anti eugenics?
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Pro woman, trans and queer?
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Pro labour?
Yes! “Yes, and” this is easy.
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Pro Palestine?
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Antifascist and anti eugenics?
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Pro woman, trans and queer?
Yes, because all people deserve dignity.
Pro labour?
Yes! “Yes, and” this is easy.
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You know what’s great about this concept?
The only people who disagree are the worst human beings imaginable and they deserve to be socially excluded.
Every human deserves dignity. Dignity requires material stability. Easy concept. The biggest possible tent that excludes assholes.
The only people who disagree are the worst human beings imaginable and they deserve to be socially excluded.
Every human deserves dignity. Dignity requires material stability. Easy concept. The biggest possible tent that excludes assholes.
October 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
You know what’s great about this concept?
The only people who disagree are the worst human beings imaginable and they deserve to be socially excluded.
Every human deserves dignity. Dignity requires material stability. Easy concept. The biggest possible tent that excludes assholes.
The only people who disagree are the worst human beings imaginable and they deserve to be socially excluded.
Every human deserves dignity. Dignity requires material stability. Easy concept. The biggest possible tent that excludes assholes.
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@governor.ca.gov Governor Newsom, given the abject failure of GOP transphobia tonight to get them absolutely any success whatsoever with voters, will you be reconsidering your policy of throwing transgender Californians under the bus to further your political ambitions?
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
@governor.ca.gov Governor Newsom, given the abject failure of GOP transphobia tonight to get them absolutely any success whatsoever with voters, will you be reconsidering your policy of throwing transgender Californians under the bus to further your political ambitions?