Ieva Perkons

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

We need to be way angrier than we are. I'm all for adopting the framing from the End Times Fascism book, namely that these people - the techbros - are traitors to the human race.

some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from

The most fun thing ever to randomly see

I was explaining this to a friend the other day, who was telling me how she loves to putter in her garden and house. I can't putter. I don't have the peace and joy that comes from tending my home or my work daily. It's either paralysis or terrified hyper focus for me, no in between. Disability.

Standing ovation.

Every story about a NASA-run project: the project was supposed to work for 5 years and it’s still going strong 25 years later. Every story about SpaceX: it cost *so much* money, didn’t do close to everything it was supposed to, and then blew up.

probably one of the more accurate applications of how the founding fathers viewed the second amendment tbh

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

This is how you know we need a wealth tax

I bet if we were really clever, we could use online trolls and canny funding for influencers to convince them to elect a vulgar stupid illiterate corrupt narcissist who destroys everything good in their country.

Perfect Monday morning thread

Back in 2020, as a pediatric hematologist married to a physician, we signed up to volunteer in a field hospital for patients with COVID. We wrote our wills and worried about getting our kids sick. I posted about terrifying outcomes in kids and received death threats. Fauci is a goddamn hero.

Dr. Anthony Fauchi’s treatment by Congress this week will cause many intelligent and potentially life-saving experts to avoid public service. Americans will die unnecessarily in future disease crises because of Rand Paul and MAGA behavior.

Dude on that skateboard listening to Fleetwood Mac really had us thinking shit was getting better

"What’s happened to going to the Walgreens or Target is a store-sized version of ... America. It’s the experience of being subject to the decisions of a ruling class that responds to every challenge with authoritarianism, greed, and the same levels of poise and wisdom as an inbred Pomeranian."

I don’t think we have fully grappled with the death of Academia—or the long years of watching its corpse be driven by capitalist necromancy. It is past time we look this square in the face. The university and all it stood for has been murdered. And I do not think we can resuscitate.

I chaperoned a middle school field trip, and when my group saw a cybertruck in the wild they all pointed and cackled at it. They have a song they all sing about how stupid these cars are. Feel like this universal middle school disdain should be a variable in the historical car sales failure index

This... I am here for this.

The Age of Cluster Dying is upon us.

As much as I love the World Cup, I hate when people say “the World Cup proves we would all get along if not for our leaders,” because it absolves us of all accountability. It is up to us, the people, to hold our governments accountable for their actions.

No one is going to believe this shit in 20 years. No one. This was the president of the United States? And his party leaders did nothing, even though they hated him? Not possible.

This Korean paper asmr artist that I’ve been following for a while made a TikTok of her healing Van Gogh 🥹 Her account name is paper pepper www.tiktok.com/@paper__pepp...

I specifically requested no more metaphors

painfully obvious metaphor here

They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.

Incredible!!

A positive vision of the future. The GOP has one, as evil as it may be, and Dems don’t. it’s that simple

This country hates kids. All the 3rd spaces are either closed or they need adults present, or MONEY. The kids' misbehavior is communicating an unmet need, and instead of finding solutions, adults are punishing the kids... then get upset when the kids don't respond favorably 🙃

Timeline cleanse!

“For the good of society, your son will work in the trades. Oh, my son? My son will be a titan of politics and industry. For the good of society, your daughter will be a tradwife. Oh, my daughter? My daughter will host a lucrative rightwing podcast.”

Ours has a megaphone on a pole and another guy with a big cross made out of pressure treated 4x4s with a little squeaky wheel on the bottom so he can grimly wheel it around town.

This kind of info is so helpful to read. GOP seems like a big malicious monolith and hopeless to resist sometimes. They're big and malicious, but they are incompetent and can't collaborate. They are defeatable.

A black girl born today will have fewer reproductive and voting rights than her grandmother.

"Proving to the plutocrats that they actually are in the same game and bound by the same rules as common people by enacting harsh civil, criminal, and social penalties on those who have orchestrated our present political moment. "

I left the bowl of frosting unattended briefly. 😬🤣