Also related, there are many great lines from The Princess Bride that are more popular but the one that I actually think about in real life situations is "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something"
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.
ouch, so sorry that she reacted that way. congrats on the surgery! I hope it goes well and brings you more peace and joy 🧡
“‘Sometimes,’ Vetinari said testily, ‘it really does seem to me that the culture of cynicism in the Watch is … is …’
‘Insufficient?’ said Vimes. There was silence.”
-Terry Pratchett
BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.
because I like you, today’s morning music motivator: “Brand New You’re Retro” by Tricky with Martina Topley-Bird (per conversations earlier this week on old favorite trip hop, with not so old favorite colleagues) youtu.be/RU1cZMnpxGo?...
For those not familiar this isn't cute. Massachusetts officials only do this when they're extremely distressed.
SAM ALTMAN: "People talk about how much energy it takes to train an Al model ... But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart."
“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett
everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine
Ennui is probably my favorite SMBC
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Question: if you know of it, what’s your most cited/favorite SMBC comic?
My most cited* is absolutely Calvinist Genie (useful to explain lots about internal frameworks from my upbringing)
(*different than my favorite)
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well done, Jeni!!
Marsha P. Johnson said it best:
"No pride for some of us, without liberation for all of us."
I'm proud to be a co-sponsor of the Trans Bill of Rights. Our trans siblings deserve safety, dignity, & freedom.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Futurama Slurm Factory meme: THAT'S THE META AI. YOU CAN ASK IT ANYTHING says Slurm tour leader. ASK IT TO FUCK OFF says Prof Farnsworth.
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
happy birthday to your Dad!
it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for
yes! I kept noticing the immaculately mown lawns months and months into the outbreak
We're told that power wealth & fame are the ultimate aphrodisiacs. But the Epstein files show they also stunt emotional maturity and infantilize the men who possess them.
And it's no coincidence these men took to victimizing girls at a time when women became their co-equals in other spheres.
there’s something about the fixation on polling when people are being brutalized in the streets by federal agents that doesn’t sit quite right
Miep Gies, who helped hide the Franks, repeatedly said she did not want to be viewed as a hero because she did what she expected any normal person to do.
Back on Twitter in 2020 someone theorized that dudes were losing their minds because the big disaster had arrived but all their guns and operator gear were useless against a pandemic, and what was effective was actions coded as feminine (caretaking, sewing, cooking/baking, gardening, mutual aid)
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COALITION OF MAYORS ACROSS U.S. FILE AMICUS BRIEF CHALLENGING ICE SURGE IN TWIN CITIES Led by the City of Boston and the Public Rights Project, 44 mayors, cities, and counties argue that the deadly surge of federal agents into Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota is an unlawful and unconstitutional effort to punish these communities, endangering Americans BOSTON - Friday, January 23, 2026 - Mayor Michelle Wu co-led a coalition of mayors from across the United States to file an amicus brief in federal district court in Minneapolis to stop the Trump Administration's unconstitutional and illegal surge of federal agents into Minneapolis and St. Paul (the Twin Cities). The brief, which supports a lawsuit filed by the State of Minnesota and the Twin Cities, seeks a temporary restraining order to end the occupation by more than two thousand federal agents. ICE’s aggressive enforcement tactics have created mass unrest in the community, undermined public safety, injured several Minnesotans, including children, and led to the death of civilian Renee Nicole Good.
The Trump Administration’s ongoing occupations of peaceful American cities are unconstitutional and illegal.
Boston is leading a coalition of cities supporting the lawsuit by the State of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul to end their occupation by more than two thousand federal agents.
Every person who goes into the streets to observe or respond to ICE knows, in some part of their brain, there’s a likelihood that they’ll be killed by masked federal paramilitaries. And yet they do it anyway. But it doesn’t make it any less shocking or heartrending when a good neighbor is martyred.
now I’m just surprised there’s no Boston drag troupe of that name!
They sent the National Guard into Los Angeles last June to quell protests. ICE occupied Chicago for months last fall and fell back when the city resisted. Minnesota is preparing for the first statewide general strike in US history. Just to name a few instances of American resistance to fascism
