every time a street in nyc becomes more pedestrian-friendly and more parking-hostile, all the local business guys who drive to the stores they own from their homes on long island, in jersey, the mcmansion-y parts of queens, all flip out wondering how people will get there. my man you dont live here!
Bush II set the bar very high but between this, USAID, the mass deportation atrocities and a conservative projection of the result of the anti-vax movement I think we can pretty definitively say Trump is the worst President now
Four members of the National Guard standing at an intersection in Washington DC. They are standing back-to-back with each one facing a different direction so they can see all the danger coming their way. Not pictured: the danger.
National Guard units are still wandering around DC, and as far as I can tell they do... nothing.
But this morning I saw a group of four CamoKids walking down the street, and when they got to the corner they did a little formation, and I just thought it was the funniest thing.
Springtime in Maryland...
80 degrees on Wednesday
Snow on Thursday
Washing up liquid is good for getting oil out.
I’ve lived in the mid-Atlantic my entire life, but March’s absurd weather shocks and dismays me every year like I’m suffering through it for the first time. wtf is this bullshit seriously
i think jamelle bouie is where i got this point from (though its obviously not unique to him): trump doesnt escape consequences so much as the institutions designed to impose consequences refuse to penalize him. this is absolutely not the same thing. hes not magic, people are just lazy and stupid.
there is a child-like naivety to the way business leaders approach sociopolitical problems that would be really sweet if it wasn't coming from the leader of a company with 30,000 employees and 3 billion dollars in revenue
CJEU press release: Member State legislation which does not permit the amendment of the gender data of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to freedom of movement is contrary to EU law A Bulgarian national was registered at birth as being male, with a name, personal identification number and identity documents corresponding to that sex. She currently lives in Italy, where she has begun hormone therapy, and now presents herself as a woman. She instituted proceedings before the Bulgarian courts seeking a declaration that she is a female person and to have her civil status data amended on her birth certificate. Despite the medical opinions and legal assessments confirming the gender identity claimed, her request was rejected. According to national legislation, as interpreted by the plenary assembly of civil chambers of the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation, the term ‘sex’ must be understood in its biological sense, excluding any amendment of the particulars relating to sex, name and identification number. The public interest, based on the moral and/or religious values of Bulgarian society, thus prevails over the interests of transgender persons. Hearing the dispute, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has doubts as to the compatibility of that legislation with EU law and has referred the matter to the Court of Justice. In its judgment, the Court holds that EU law precludes legislation of a Member State which does not permit the amendment of the gender data in the civil status registers of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to move and reside freely in another Member State. The Court emphasises first of all that, while the issue of identity documents falls within the competence of the Member States, they must exercise that competence in compliance with EU law...
Huge trans rights ruling from the EU's top court - if someone moves to another EU country and transitions, their home country can't refuse to amend their registration details to match their lived gender identity
people make fun of lawyers for lots of things, and they're probably right to do so, but one thing a lawyer might have told you is not to appropriate people's identities in California.
MUPPET WICKER MAN (Brian Henson, 1993)
Police Sergeant Kermie travels to the isolated town of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. He finds the locals to be a surly and suspicious lot, rustic practitioners of crude bawdiness and Celtic neo-paganism. Starring Vincent Price as Lord Summerisle.
A gray cat rolls over to show her newly shaved belly.
Abandoned twice (that we know of) in West Baltimore, multiple litters of kittens… now Kiki is happily indoors, spayed & ready to break out her bikini & show off her mom bod (& new tattoo)! 😁 She’s SUCH a fun, friendly cat; if you’re in the Mid Atlantic and looking for an awesome cat, get in touch!
- went back to urgent care who took a lung X-ray and ekg that were normal but they told me to go to the er to rule out pulmonary embolism
- er said no embolism + normal bloodwork and there's nothing else they can do
- so I'm staying at my sister's house again and hoping an allergist can help me 🥲
pink text of different languages' words for "love" on a purple background. in lighter pink in the middle is the title of the show, "love languages." at the bottom, also in lighter pink, it says "2nd thursdays @ 8pm, morenoiseradio.com"
Tomorrow is the first episode of Love Languages, my monthly online radio show! Each month, I'll be exploring music in a different language, along with some info of its linguistics. 8pm EDT at morenoiseradio.com!
Close-up photo of the legs and feet of JD Vance and Marco Rubio showing some comically oversized shoes
It gets better. Here's Vance and Rubio in the Oval Office...
what always gets me about this is that companies that make a bit of a show of being "inclusive" get a dedicated customer base who will eagerly hand them money—and whether that pandering is good or bad is up to you—but there doesn't seem to be an upside to the alternative
a neil gaiman defender contests a response of 'no' to a link to a substack, and is told 'I see that like Neil Gaiman, you don't understand that no is a complete sentence'
you want to see a murder
Especially their little poster boy
LRP never trust a Scientologist
oh good can we stop acting like tom cruise is cool like everyone suddenly started doing like 5 years ago for reasons i still don't fully get
Her name is John Waters and she’s the best
- professionals said we have some mold but it's not a Problem™
- gp prescribed me an inhaler and I came home but the inhaler doesn't help 🙃
- anyone got any allergist recs?
""I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue ..."
A couple of young, viral developers are making $500,000 a month with ‘Quittr’; an app to help people with porn addiction. Insane money, living in a mansion, etc. We found they exposed the masturbation habits of 100,000s of users, then lied about fixing it www.404media.co/viral-quittr...
worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
Real patriots ride the train.
i sort of think part of the problem here is that accurately portraying american sentiment about this war would shred a lot of other assumptions about the second trump admin that much of the political press have been running with since the start
Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
Reminder that when you say Israel is causing antisemitism, you are saying that unreasoning hatred of all Jews is a logical and expected reaction to the behavior of a political nation state, and doing so takes responsibility away from antisemites for their antisemitism.
