The urge is there, but instead I’m practicing self-care by playing No Man’s Sky and listening to a podcast for the next few hours. There’ll be plenty of highlights online later, and I can’t affect anything by watching live (besides my own mental-health).

I’ve seen this movie before, and it didn’t end great for that particular nominally-democratic Republic…

me: “there were no signs I was trans until my 30s” this box of childhood books I just sorted:

"The ballot box might not be enough, but we cannot abandon it out of depressive nihilism. We must build an alternative political structure and put pressure on politicians every day, not just once every 4 yrs. But we won’t have the opportunity to do that if Trump... makes such organizing illegal."

AIjosie.zoneJul 11, 2024 9:46am

My Slate essay on why leftists should vote for the Democratic Presidential candidate this November, despite everything:

The Leftist Case for Voting—Yes, Even for Biden

We need to think about this election differently. Just look at France.

Cleveland fans have been saying this for 8 years 😭

Beverly was trying to tell us something with this.

Ramona Quimby, Ageless

“Mom, my nuts?”

Their messaging on Globalism is pretty sus, but critical support for their war on streaming services. We really *don’t* need them, “woke” or otherwise.

It’s an ok app, it’s just hard to browse at work. My feed is too full of 5318008