Megan

girls only want one thing and it is a single aspect of human life that has not been intentionally made worse in the interest of chasing limitless profit

What is the point of the McDonald’s Crocs. How would a child play with this

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

Perennial favorite

The reason will absolutely not surprise you at all

Relaxing Sunday evening rocking out to Angine de Poitrine while my children cry and plead for Paw Patrol

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

23 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com

Tim Curry was such a multitalented and magnetic actor; no single clip can truly represent that. But this one he did for a video game never fails to make me laugh--especially watching him try to hold it together during the pause. Just gloriously goofy and fun. Which...maybe this is the clip, then?

Once again, the wrong Home Alone 2 cast member. 😢

Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.

I love a good MSpaint-illustrated explainer.

Final trailer for ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ has been released. In theaters August 28. #CoyoteVsAcme

UK self employed folks. Consultation deadline August 4th. God I despise the government.

i love that where we landed on how the internet should work is me having to click a legal agreement every time i want to see an ice cream recipe so that food network dot com can sell my data to a defense contractor. this is good yes

HAPPY FRIDAY TO EVERYONE WHO HATES SLOP

New York City residents are celebrating the reopening of public pools — including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who jumped into the water while wearing a suit at an East Harlem pool on Saturday. Outdoor public pools will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day through Sept. 13.

I think we just passed oops.

Someone’s life collection going free at the local Tesco.

Too hot. Toddler home. Urgent work. Brain is soup.

There are big problems with social media, but age verification and social media bans are not the answer. They'd be a cure that's worse than the disease, but they're not even a cure. This article by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social points out the privacy nightmares. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The fact that Elon Musk is now one of history’s greatest mass-murderers, due to his total destruction of USAID, is still far too little-known. It’s on all of us to shout this from the rooftops. Never shut up about Elon Musk’s genocidal crimes.

A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope — the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-reliance

In the space of around ten years UK politics and media (all of it) have switched their language to normalise bigotry. They have switched from “Trans Women Are Women” (or just trans women) to “Trans Women - males who identify as women” at every opportunity, even when totally unnecessary for the point

we have ALWAYS had the ability to NOT make something and pretend that we did. the difference now is theres an algorithm built for convincing people whove never stepped outside the theater door for a smoke break on opening night that they actually have. they have not. there is no ai for that.

If electricity prices went up 76% to subsidize the solar industry, people would completely lose their shit. But doing it to subsidize the Slop Industry is apparently kosher.

This hit me so hard this week.

Shoutout to the time I discovered a new-to-me recipe from my actual grandmother preserved in a cookbook on archive.org

Obsessed with how some scenes in The Other Bennet Sister look as if they’re colour graded specifically to resemble a JPG converted to CMYK using Photoshop’s default settings in 1998.

I love this essay very much!!!!

Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

gentle reminder that the national theatre is streaming the importance of being earnest in about 50 minutes! (yes that performance where ncuti gatwa wears a gorgeous pink gown) ✨️🏳️‍🌈 youtu.be/obX-HGs-PS8?...

To the #Republicans “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” -D Eisenhower 1953

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

As someone who still speaks every day with the friends I met on the internet thirty years ago, I can hardly support a ban as the solution.