Lori G

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.

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

Hundreds of thousands of children were literally killed due to Elon Musk’s actions. Yet you will still see people treating him like just any public figure, buying Teslas, etc. The world is a dark place. Especially the parts that treat the rich as inherently more valuable than everyone else.

Male supremacism requires women to be strictly policed as subservient to & dominated by the only humans with an inherent right to power: Men. Anything that gives us any degree of autonomy over our bodies, lives, & futures (birth ctrl, abortion, no-fault-divorce, etc) threatens the whole system. 2/

There it is! Vivek Ramaswamy is taking credit for that attack ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother, who fled the state decades ago with her husband after he was charged with sexually abusing a 12-year-old Acton. www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...

happy spooky season rainy morning. last week there was a reddit post calling for songs that feel like “a colonial-era witch worshipping the forest”. so i scraped the replies and made a playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/1l7...

I was being goofy af all the time before it was cool

you quite simply love to see it

Same.

Holy crap I did not notice this but yes and I will now never unsee it. Capitalism really ruining everything right across the board. www.youtube.com/shorts/Mi7dc...

They don't want money as much as they want status in the industry. If money gives them that feeling of status, they're good. But if woke backlash does it, then backlash it is. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

Omg this is a train? I thought it was a hydrofoil

Trumpism is a luxury good

Well yeah but you shouldn't need to be a native new yorker with advanced outer-borough boomer decoding skills to understand the point that the president *of the united states* is trying to make

I had to

In case you need a handy definition: Rape culture consists of attitudes and behaviors meant to reinforce the idea that women's bodies are meant for male sexual pleasure and consent is optional.

Man says the maga "movement gave him something he had never experienced before: a community where he felt seen, heard, respected and appreciated." www.ibtimes.co.uk/rich-logis-m... Humans love status and belonging.

oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

I usually do not enjoy the creeping up of the season. Except for this season. So I made a meme

Hey, someone give my friend a Big Thing of Riches, please

The entire article is fantastic, but the writer's definition of a trad wife is *chef's kiss* perfection. "Those are conservative women who dress like the women in The Sound of Music, but without the opposition to the Anschluss."

i would simply like to stop hearing about mediocre musicians and which side of history they are on.

The most "native New Yorker" thing about me is how I react to AI being overly obsequious. I'm always like "why are you kissing my ass? do you want money or something?"

I have the type of high cholesterol this drug targets sooo... this could potentially suck for me

This iconic 1971 photo of Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes has always said so much without saying a word. Two women. Two raised fists. One shared fight for equality. Dorothy passed in 2022. Now Gloria is gone too. Two giants who helped change America. Rest in power, Gloria. ✊🏼✊🏾

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

That CNN "Dolly Parton remained neutral in the culture wars" thing is the most hilariously wrong framing of a person's stances since people were talking about Muhammed Ali being "above politics" or whatever when he died. It's pathological.

The Empire State Building went pink at exactly 9:25pm for Dolly Parton. Because of course they made it 9 to 5. That’s how you honor an icon. 🩷

Thank you Empire State Building. NYC ❤️ Dolly.

One of the more obscure facts I remember about Dolly Parton is this: just like Star Trek would not exist without Lucille Ball, Buffy would not exist without Dolly Parton. She was a silent producer of the movie and show. That's why Buffy Summers has the same birthday as Dolly: January 19.

The term “debate” itself is, for the time being, at least, hopelessly corrupted.

One really good example of the Mandela Effect is the number of ppl who think that when they were kids someone tried to trick them by saying “Did you know that gullible isn’t listed in the dictionary?” - a thing that did not actually happen to anyone

I'm not THAT ND but occasionally I want to hand out cards like ~ thank you for listening to my infodump ~

Last day of vacation. Fck. I don't want to go home; reality is there.