Meghan “Hostile to Motor Vehicles” Arnold (she/hers)

I don’t want a folding iPhone, I just want my alarm to go off at a normal volume without having to check 3 different settings

Y’ALL. They made a Muzak version of “SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT”. My seatmate or anyone boarding this flight might have thought I was having a seizure I was shaking with silent cry-laughter. 😱🤯

Definitely in my top 5 reasons for IT to happen is so that I can get my national parks pass again

Cannot shout out enough how amazing it was seeing Amanda Seyfried with wrinkles and chapped lips and looking like a--beautiful--normal goddamn human when half of Hollywood can't even move their eyebrows enough to get a furrow going

Wait that baby is named Invicta‽‽ I was hearing “Ivy”. JFC.

I will jump to conclusions today in his honor.

Everyone forgets this asshole is MAHA. Enraging.

Obviously the pain of being cut off is real! But I guess I don’t understand why the social crisis is their pain—the phenomenon’s upshot—when the real crisis is clearly the phenomenon’s cause: parent-led parent-child relationships that the child finds intolerable.

After a brief period of “cut off” (us not tolerating them not treating us like autonomous adults well into our 30s), my parents are actually much better people for choosing to accept the boundaries my brother and I requested of them & our family is stronger than ever. It’s not that hard!

What's extremely telling is that there is never once an article like this written from the perspective of the person who cut off their parent.

Whether or not ppl cutting off their parents is an actual phenomenon (is it, really?) or just clicky outrage bait, anti-estrangement is a paternalistic, socially regressive position — it’s so similar to being anti-divorce that the two are virtually indistinguishable.

This ignores racism *and* Christian Nationalism *and* the anti-abortion movement collapsing with every woman its policies kill. Where is the New York Times finding these clowns!?!

At bottom, the problem with the GOP is that it is beholden to its wealthiest donors after Citizens United, and what they want is not what the majority, or even a plurality, of the American people want. That dynamic pre-dated Trump. He just exploited it.

Did you know that in the first full fiscal year of the second Trump administration, the U.S. accepted five (5) legitimate refugees who are not white South Africans, down from 100,060 in the last full fiscal year of the Biden administration? No, you wouldn't know if you only read this article

Lol this article is one big hallucination. The anti-war GOP consists of a VP who publicly supports wars of aggression and a Senator who wants Russia to invade Sweden and Finland. Small-gov't GOP is the feds stepping in to block states from regulating foods/medicines and deciding who plays HS sports.

This is -- again -- the *exact same game* we played with abortion, wherein we all had to vote for candidates who were just a teeeeeeensy bit anti-abortion because Republicans would overturn Roe v. Wade. They overturned Roe v. Wade AND gutted state-level abortion access. That's how that plan works.

There are a lot of problems with our media environment these days, but ostensible news outlets prioritizing the voices of the stupidest motherfuckers on the planet is a big one.

ultimately it's shit like this that makes the decline of birth rates and resulting demographic skewing towards old people self-reinforcing. Greedy, wealthy retired people voting to destroy the funding for public services they relied on throughout their life now that they no longer need them

no kings includes billionaires who think they’re kings

Honestly I feel like the expansion of Karen from "person who calls the cops on people behaving inoccuously" to "person who is rude to customer service, regardless of circumstances" has in practice largely served to cut off the only way customers can fight back against corporate greed/malfeasance

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

Toto’s Africa. THE MOUNTAIN RISES LIKE A DIFFERENT MOUNTAIN ABOVE THE SERENGETI I’d lose it within a week. OTOH, they’d learn nothing except how long I can rant about song lyrics because I would be *very* hard to redirect.

Both of our NIMBY mayoral candidates are so horrible that I’m voting for the kookier one with no political clout so she can do less damage. The other guy is so blatantly cruel when he speaks about unhoused people it just doesn’t sit right. Anyway, Santa Cruz is screwed yet again!

OH MY GOD THE MILWAUKEE BREWERS ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What’s in the box? Fascism!

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God I’m so tempted to fly to LA to watch the brewers win this thing this weekend

I deeply love my husband, but we beyond differ on our approach to Halloween costumes. He’d be happy as a clam going as a vampire, but I would love nothing more to dress as Kelly Clarkson & for him to be the damn singing bird.

BUT... what the fuck. What the fuck, man. WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK. HOW IS THIS OUR FUCKING COUNTRY! HOW IN MY LIFETIME HAVE WE GONE FROM C.J. FUCKING CREGG TO FUCKING THIS?????

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I really wish we had better train travel in this country, because the morning views on @amtrak.com are just stunning.

So not only are there zero direct buses between Santa Cruz and Monterey (would take nearly 4 hours each way), car rental agencies are closed Sundays. It’s so so broken here.

American conservatism is basically a giant safe space for all the bros who couldn’t be bothered to do the reading but are nevertheless convinced that they are smarter & more knowledgeable than the people who have been doing the work their entire lives

I think he learned this from Disneys Hercules?

"But Achilles wanted glory!" No, he didn't. He very explicitly says, "fuck this, I hate Agamemnon, and I'm going home," until Patroclus dies. The entire point of the poem is his rage and grief. Can anyone read a fucking book, holy shit.

I'm looking at this speech now, and that is absolutely not the fucking hero of Greek myth. The hero of Greek myth is almost always a dramatically tragic figure who is undone by their own character flaws. In fact, that's basically every single Greek hero. What the fuck are you talking about man.

AHHHHHHH THE ONLY REASON HE EVEN STAYS TO DIE AT TROY IN THE ILIAD IS TO AVENGE PATROCLUS. IT'S A POEM ABOUT HIS RAGE. THE OPENING LINES ARE PRETTY CLEAR WHY CAN'T A SINGLE DEFENDER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION READ A SINGLE THING FROM THE WESTERN CANON AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

Still picking my jaw off the floor from this wild ride. Fantastic writing of an absolutely bonkers true story.

Referred to living in a town with a lack of cinematic options as a “Marvel desert”.