"Oh but the signs are performative, it's just virtue-signalling, it's cringe" maybe, but I'd rather be walking around a neighborhood with In This House signs than trump signs. The jargon doesn't do anything for anyone though
I’ve seen enough Love is Blind to know this is not true
I’m the cat that looks like it was generated by AI
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My husband and | just received 13 traffic violations in the mail 2 of them were from STOP SIGNS. IS THIS A NORMAL OCCURRENCE IN DC?!?? Is there a lot of success in getting these things cancelled?! We just moved here and have been going with the flow of traffic! This is INSANE $1500 worth of infractio
i can't stand nextdoor but i think it's fascinating that out of 137 commenters about 120 are like "yeah it sucks to drive in dc" and the handful remaining are patiently explaining that the one weird trick to not getting tickets is to stop driving like an asshole
The press called Betty Shabazz, Coretta Scott King, and Myrlie Evers "the widows." Between them, they held six degrees, ran three national institutions, raised sixteen children alone, and spent a combined sixty years fighting for justice their husbands didn't live to see.
We’re now on year 10 of fawning articles about fucking idiots sticking forks in electrical outlets and saying “wha happun?” the moment it hurts
Absolutely aghast at the idea of someone reading everything else in the Guardian but not reading the best part of the Guardian
Whoever is the next Secretary of State is going to have some big shoes to fill.
every day we get closer to elon musk promising to dig a tunnel to solve this problem
And then crashing out on the first public figure to tell him his idea won’t work and calling them a pedophile
She is not a centrist. She's endorsed universal healthcare and she's one of the most ardently pro-trans rights politicians in America. If you think she's a centrist you're direly misinformed and you have got to educate yourself before you keep posting stupid shit about there being no good choices.
since 2020 my actual CBT therapist has been like "You have to have perspective" but last Friday when I asked her how she was she sighed deeply and said "You know...this country. The world" and I was like finally she gets it. i win the game of therapist
If you're a therapist how do you deal with everyone coming in telling you they're in a bad mood because of the government every day
We are talking about the same cops who look at a white, powdery substance, call it fentanyl, then immediately collapse and get better medical care for their induced hysteria than most people get for an actual real medical event
when you’re arguing about politics here on bluesky just remember there’s a young sheldon spinoff called george and mandy’s first marriage that’s watched by millions of people
who called it an american express credit card statement instead of an ae iou
Post: calling “you’re so brave” or “i hold space for trans people” or “my self work involves decentering cisnormativity” style rhetoric that is ultimately contentless and divorced from real concerns allyslop Reply: In This House signs, an allyslop classic
I feel like these are two different things, the In This House signs are a way for normal people to signify that they support trans/minority rights while the jargon is a way to tell people you've spent time in activist/academic circles
Yep. Classic low-trust-society-meets-untrustworthy-capitalist-system problem
I feel like the way to combat this is a clinic in every neighborhood with docs who form relationships with the community. System most people are subject to now, it's no wonder they don't trust medical professionals.
the promise of AI, at best, is that it can help you "do more"
doing more sucks
embrace the ideology of "fewer, better things"
Don't worry, the President's worst impulses on war are being checked by his advisors who are afraid to tell him that the shoes he gave them are the wrong size
People say genius can't be rushed but I think what isn't pointed out nearly enough is that non-genius also shouldn't be rushed. Non-geniuses are no less entitled to a personal quota of idle wandering, breaks to consume cake, staring blankly out a window and taking 11 days to reply to a text message.
This is Vangelis erasure
text message screenshot: message 1 “Heads up — a huge branch fell off the tree over the driveway, I moved most of it to the front yard and we are putting in a ticket, but you might back over some small branches” message 2 “The world is falling apart”
texting with my upstairs neighbor
General announcement to literally everyone: you enjoyed being in your 20s not because the world was better, but because you were at your most attractive, physically capable, and at a peak of both personal freedom and lack of responsibility for others.
Unfortunately, yes
like, attention from progressive media to the race could have helped Stratton close the fundraising gap much earlier. where the fuck were you?
I'm glad the nation is pointing out that krishnamoorthi is bad, but I also feel like "ha ha Illinois is fucking up" seems like a shitty take when you, a major progressive media outlet, failed to write about the race until a week before the election?! www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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