Billy Wraith Cyrus

Giphy is showing me random RFK gifs with multiple, unrelated search terms: "thank you", "touched", "heartfelt" Have they gone to the bad place now, too?

Why do all the pasta cooking instructions call for a bathtub-sized amount of water to cook 1 cup of pasta?

I wish ppl had to sign a social media contract conscripting them to withholding their hot takes on.... everything

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

New — The National Treasury Employees Union just sent out an urgent email to all members re: OPM guidance on deferred resignation. “Don't be fooled. Don't follow this OPM group's guidance. DO NOT RESIGN.”

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social After another tumultuous day, your newsletter from earlier today was absolutely the resolve and focus I needed during a time that feels increasingly out of control - thank you

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

And it's old news that rich ppl conflate their wealth as expertise or innovation They're not rich bc they're smart

If landlords felt put out when people couldn't pay rent during the COVID shut down in 2020, wait till all service workers lose their jobs and can't pay March rent

1,179 people arrested total. 566 people arrested "were only detained because they lacked legal authorization to remain in the U.S." When ICE claims they are only arresting "criminals," they are trying to redefine "criminal." Which is kind of the point of the category: it can hold anyone disfavored.

NBC really on the nose here, so to speak

Americans are about to get a crash course in how tariffs actually work. I apologize already to the baristas who are going to have Trumpists yelling at them that Colombia is supposed to pay the coffee tax.

we never should’ve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldn’t have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths

This country really is becoming Zardoz

Me, driving through an intersection embankes by drunk college bars on each corner: "Uhhhgh what a bermuda triangle of dignity." Me partner:"oh my god that is THE MOST get off my lawn thing ever!"

The cost of access and accommodation for disabled people does not mean that disabled people are a burden. It means that the costs of discrimination against and exclusion of disabled people by others require efforts to tear down these unjust barriers.

All these corporations abandoning DEI and LGB&T initiatives, be sure to remember what they did when you see them fecklessly shilling merch at pride festivals this summer

Seasonal Affective Deez Nuts

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

Today I was supposed to attend day two of a truly harmless NIH workshop about how to get grants, do science, etc. It was canceled abruptly mid-session w/ colleagues were in the middle of flash talks. Poof. The NIH disappears in a cloud of orange smoke. We need to be talking about a general #strike

Who do I talk to to petition for a guillotine emoji? 🎢

if you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now, professionally? 1) literature academic 2) English literature 3) n/a, but did add on a psych degree 4) social worker

The U.S. Constitution Delivers a 404 Now. "Democracy not found." gizmodo.com/the-u-s-cons...

The barrage is dizzying. They want us disoriented and in despair. To defend ourselves and others, focus is key. Play by play reactions to every harmful act and utterance won’t help you or others. Focus on what you can do (& where you can be most impactful), and remember that you can’t do everything.

With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier

It's weird when it's yr country mass censoring 100m ppl

I feel like there's now a moral imperative to at least create a Red Note account

It's cold and snowy right now in Kentucky But don't let that distract from the fact that --- all 365+1 days in mind --- we're getting HOT

More evidence showing that the wealthy get considerations that the non-wealthy never get You know what happens in eviction court if you don't show up on time? Default judgment, and then you have a housing felony for life

Self checkouts are an abomination and are exploitative

*sitting down in a chair turned backwards* you're all worried about who is and isn't rizzin', let me tell you about a guy who's risen from the dead.

I would rather TikTok and everything I know about it to be violently scrubbed from my memory and existence than to see it sold to that man

My employer has reasserted its non-neutered very masculine energy by installing a pair of truck nuts at the base of our HQ. Looking forward to a virile Q1. Sad to say goodbye to the company castrato, who brought us to tears with arias from La finta giardiniera at the last shareholders meeting.

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

Somebody should tell Zuck that Millennials think of Facebook when they're trying to delay orgasm

Ngl I’ll miss some parts of IG but it's time to leave this company in the garbage