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i saw someone in hampden wearing the best shirt ever today. it said.

DO NOT TALK TO ME
ABOUT AI
I WILL KILL MYSELF

that’s exactly it!! i needed to hear that right now.

my wife thinks i’m sabotaging a thing that’s been helpful to me for almost 5 years and maybe she’s right. ugh.

Insurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soil Before the 2024 election, a cadre of MAGA loyalists met over brunch to plot ways for Trump to use the military domestically.

This is just astonishingly great reporting.

All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.

And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ. This kid wants to get out of detention in time for his school spelling bee. What the fuck are we doing.

ok i have that kind of cyst in my right hand, and i didn’t know there’s a treatment for it lol

W T F, so annoying!

Their fears subsided, mine grew, I was alone in the mute darkness. And I, your mature self, wasn't there for you, I wasn't there that terrible November night or during the cold dark winter that followed or the too bright, dazzling spring which arrived as it always did even though my world order had been upended and the revealing spring light skewered me, it shone through me and there was nothing I could do about it, it pierced me in order to highlight and examine my most private self without permission, nights so bright there was nowhere to hide, everything bared and exposed, and I, your mature self, wasn't there and couldn't encourage you or comfort you and didn't understand the depth of your pain, the totality of your pain, didn't know that such mental and physical anguish existed, caused by the words, actions and attitudes of your guardians, and I didn't hear it until now, forty-eight years later, forty-eight years overdue, the cry from the young woman I once was, directed at me, she was crying out to her mature self, she had been calling out to me for decades: Talk to me! Comfort me! Offer me your hand of salvation, throw me a lifeline, pull me up! I didn't hear her calls, her desperate pleas then, but I hear them now, they echo in my brain and they won't ever stop. 131

the last 10 pages might have broken me

i’m not sure if this was the right time for me to read this, i just finished and i am sobbing.

oh wow

this translation of repetition by vigdis hjorth is just absolutely phenomenal

i am not okay today

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."

Just saying it right out loud now.

newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

unfortunately i’ve had enough of myself and my own dumb shit

the crab cake explanation helps but honestly imminent threat had me abandon bedtime routine with my kid and bring us all to the basement!!

so many fun birds came to hang with me today

yes my kid goes to a quaker school
yes i align strongly with their values

working outside at r house today and let me just say the people of baltimore needed this warmth and sunshine

i recently said i want to see a wood duck, and the universe delivered.

ha ha ha just crying my eyes out

lol i would donate to yr kickstarter but you used a goofy AI generated image to promote it so no thank you!

that’s so cool!

tundra swans in the distance on a lake

tundra swans in the distance on a lake

tundra swans in the distance on a lake

i went back to see these elusive tundra swans, i can’t get closer and it’s making me crazy. lake roland will always be special to me and this just adds to the reasons why 💓

look, i try to be respectful of peoples lifestyle of country bumpkinism. but for real wtf kind of name is markwayne??

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

A photo of Rahne standing on stage reading a poem. She wears a black jacket, black top, dark jeans and light colored sneakers

@rahnealexander.com is a star

lately i’ve been thinking about how 5 years of therapy has actually just only begun to scratch the surface of what’s going on internally just in time for me to want to fully abandon it because the pursuit of self betterment feels absolutely indulgent in times likes these

i found a road that i could drive to and get a closer look. my off trail hike was a fail, but i got a much closer look and it was soooo cool. i wish i had a good camera to take photos!

Gender Trouble on Mother’s Day On May 12th, 2013, I am skulking around the basement of the Hunter College branch of Shakespeare and Company bookstore, working up the nerve to ask the salesperson for a copy of Gender Trouble from…

on the topic of judith butler, i’ve read this essay 3x this week

thank you to @counterfactual.bsky.social for introducing it to me!!

avidly.org/2014/05/09/g...

Judith Butler Apology Form: From: Date: Reason for behaviour: [ ] The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s [ ] I never actually read their work [ ] I miss not thinking about gender [ ] I didn’t realize how much of society is built on gender [ ] I was jealous of their nonbinary swag [ ] Mercury was in retrograde [ ] I will hereby respect JUDITH BUTLER and I will not talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes

i literally just moved to proton mail! fuck this.