pyra is so tired and cranky

ICYMI over the weekend...

HUNTR/X drops official choreography of "How It's Done".

I just think when some guy from YouTube ruins his own life by being a dipshit, I should get to continue not knowing who he is instead of hearing about him all the time!

The best RV horror story since Race with the Devil. @stephengrahamjones.com

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

Mike Rogers got caught on a hot mic planning voter suppression, and Abdul El-Sayed called it out on the debate stage:

🔭 Andromeda in Southern Spring Credit & Copyright: Lucy Yunxi Hu ap261023

get in, no time to explain

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

If you donated to Josh Turek without realizing he was running on a federally funded trans healthcare coverage ban, you can request a refund of your donation here: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

If we had thought for one second that our dystopian metal death machines would be used for evil we never would’ve made them and then released videos showing how terrifying they are

This is a barnstormer, particularly this hit

Here’s some Alexey Gorboot art to make your Thursday a little better.

Got my haircut (long bangs!) and my person really gets the way I like the colour 🥰 * it’s pulled back not all chopped off

Here’s some Darryl Young art to make your Tuesday a little better.

Just in time for the #MMX launch, I've listed these grand statement necklaces that I made from agate or jasper Mars-like beads strung with graduated garnets. A U-shaped pendant holds garnet chunks symbolizing Phobos and Deimos. No two are alike. www.etsy.com/listing/4598...

Here’s some Kamil Jaczyński art to make your Monday a little better.

It’s a toss up between She’s Always a Women & Comfortably Numb youtu.be/Cx3QmqV2pHg?... youtu.be/_FrOQC-zEog?...

rare non-shitpost from your pal ceej: if you self-host plex you’re gonna wanna update asap. crypto miner malware started hitting installs yesterday, it got me and I’m usually pretty up on this stuff

may need to print this and hang it on the wall in my office at this rate

join me for a secret sunday soft launch of my new website. i would love to get your feedback. www.wecanbeavillage.com

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

it is the same exact thing as demanding that black candidates for office “disavow farrakhan,” which happened quite a bit in the 90s and 2000s

We are somehow simultaneously "too few for Democrats to worry about" while also being "too pivotal in ensuring Democrats unseat Republicans so we should vote blue no matter what" and it's frustrating to explain this to moderate libs

Sound advice. Reminds me of one of my favorite stickers.

Seriously. Having fewer US cops makes crime go down. That's because cops don't do what "Law and Order SVU" lies and tells people that they do.🤷🏿‍♂️ What they really do, is give the vast majority of Black people, that are innocent, law abiding citizens, good reasons to never, ever, trust the police.

So many people think this picture of NYPD cops is AI. It is not AI. There really are that many cops in NYC, walking around inventing reasons to arrest Black and Puerto Rican and Dominican people.🤷🏿‍♂️ When the number of cops goes down or the cops go on strike? Violent crime goes *down*.

80% of the arrests that cops make, are low level arrests of Black people. And even those arrest numbers need to be artificially puffed up by threatening police officers with punishment if they don't find enough arrests to hit their quotas. And these racist arrests *increase" violent crime.

🤷🏿‍♂️It's really taken some of you this many years to figure out that Malcolm Gladwell doesn't know what he's talking about. He hits you with that fake Black intellectual NPR voice, and makes Ted talk eyes at you, and then you mistake him for the real Black experts in their fields.

We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

Wish I was this guy 🖌

a tax revolt fueled by stupid people who don’t understand escrow payments www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I tried to explain this to my English Lit profs in undergrad in 1970, but they acted like I had insulted their mama. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

It’s something, seeing tiny independent journo orgs like The Handbasket doing investigative reporting while major news co’s get bought by billionaires to prop up fascism. It’s like democracy’s immune system rising up in a fever. Maybe, hop over to www.thehandbasket.co and subscribe, if you’re able.

Haunting explanation from a ESPN producer on why she quit over the network’s all-out embrace of sports betting: www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Somebody said "They voted for racism and got poverty" The thing is... social scientists and economists have been saying for the last 50 years Racism is austerity

I didn’t know much about about Abdul El-Sayed before watching this but I knew as soon as I’d seen it that he’d worked as a teacher — and sure enough he was an assistant professor in epidemiology. This is how you walk a student through a dumb take.

Boomers spent their peak earning years demanding lower income taxes now spending retirement years demanding no property taxes — that puts a very large burden on the income-earning generation squeezed between their kids and declining parents.