every couple of days the official white house website says "we want to kill you. we want to destroy everything you love. we are the living incarnation of death and we shall sweep life from this earth like an unstoppable whirlwind" and its like oh. ok. do i still have to pay taxes

Just finished it. What a film. No movie should be longer than 84 minutes. If your movie is 2.5 hours + and you're not Peter Jackson go back to the editing bay and try again

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Type O Negative
Nine Inch Nails
They Might Be Giants
Wardruna
Edguy
CHVRCHES
The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos
Nirvana

I just feel like everyone should read all the Realm of the Elderling books and then we can shout happily at each other about the Fool and the concept of gender and love

I have spent the last several weeks rereading all of Robin Hobb’s books. Saw a minute ago that the first book in the first trilogy is on sale!
www.bookbub.com/books/assass...

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.

Wesley broke one of my East Fork plates 😭 SEEMINGLY through no fault of his own but who knows… He claims he simply set it down and it broke in half and acknowledged it sounded fake to say that’s what happened but insisted it did

And I desperately want to text him to complain about the state of my lungs but I don’t yet want to reveal that I did the nice thing

I felt like doing something nice for my spouse so I finished mowing the front lawn (15yo abandoned the job weeks ago and nobody had gone back to finish it). I forgot that lawn mowing is hard work (it’s on a hill) so I didn’t use my inhaler and now I feel like death

This is SO beautiful!

FDA approved new COVID vaccines today, then limited who can get them.
Kids 18 & under require doctor recommendation. 65+ eligible for any COVID vaccine.
18-65 and healthy? Tough luck. You gotta have at least 2 comorbidities to qualify.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you attended:

Weird Al
Nine Inch Nails
Third Eye Blind
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Violent Femmes

It looks like a cartoon!

I NEED IT

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

I am listening to Third Eye Blind live and they played Motorcycle Drive-By and eighth grade me would be so jealous right now

This is so fucked up

Right there with you!!! Mondays are usually my chill day and it was decidedly NOT CHILL

Checking in to let you know you feel crazy because every problem in this country is some combo of white supremacy, misogyny, LGBTQ hatred, and greed — and the press is pretending it isn’t.

staring off into the distance thinking about how many rural small towns rely on a hospital to anchor their entire economy

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”