cheerful pessimist fandom lurker who paints abstract watercolor cityscapes. Jewish, red haired, left handed, fake extrovert, she/her.
The Democratic Party and its superstructure of commentators and strategists are in war with the base. And the consequences of that disalignment are massive. Just continuing to insult and ratfuck the base only ensures the rift will grow and eventually consume the party in totality.
"We need to convince conservatives to accept climate science" Conservatives when they accept climate science:
This stolen money needs to be returned to blue states by the next administration with interest.
Murshed Zaheed“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Drawing thread alert!🧵 @franzanth.bsky.social's beautiful crab has a moth-friend being made in return. So this is fair warning that I'm shortly gonna be back on my bullsht. Specifically, how I've gone from this hilariously rough sketch to a usable outline, & now I'm working on the final drawing…
franz🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀 (Gift art for @lycomorpha.bsky.social based on their photo) #Art #SciArt
This interview is an intriguing read, and I'm confident the book will be as well. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
‘We’ve always been wary of working together’: Val McDermid and Jo Sharp on writing a novel as a coupleThe bestselling crime writer and Scotland’s first female Geographer Royal had long kept their work separate, until a chance discovery about a doomed 17th-century expedition forced them to collaboratewww.theguardian.com
Note: covers both 'we thought this mainly affected men/boys/AMAB people, so the women/girls/AFAB ones must be faking' and 'this primarily affects women/girls/AFAB people so they must be lying/hysterical/over-exaggerating'
Finn McLellanSure is interesting how the moment a lot of women/girls/AFAB folks start being diagnosed with something, suddenly we get an upswing in 'it's overdiagnosed'/'it's not real'/'it's just a fad'.
"Energy from heaven, not from hell." The best 11 minutes you'll spend today - this week - this year.
Bill McKibbenSo, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of DebtAI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.futurism.com
had a moment today where i misread the big metal-embossed RANGER on the back of a Ford Ranger as PANEER
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i am honestly distraught "To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing." RIP to one of the greats.
Bestselling Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Who Famously Penned ‘Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe,’ Dies at 71Bestselling Texas author Benjamin Alire Sáenz, who is best known for writing ‘Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe’ and ‘Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club;’ died on T...people.com
"At the end of the controversial 'Antifa trial,' Daniel Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to three decades in prison for moving a box of zines and antifascist literature. His sister wants people to know the real Daniel." By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/a-prairielan...
A Prairieland Defendant's Sister Speaks Out After 'Antifa Trial'The sister of a Prairieland Antifa trial defendant speakers out against the Trump administration's crackdown on left-wing activism.inkstickmedia.com
A reminder to those with short memories: A move toward more progressive policies among Dems is actually a return to party roots. Today's "centrists" are vestiges of a Reagan-lite shift in the Clinton & Obama-era econ policy. And fwiw, Biden understood, his econ polices were most liberal in decades.
Would like to see this on every social media website, and I’m glad we’re calling it what it is now
Tits McGeeOh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts
This is probably my favorite version of this song and may actually be one of my favorite pieces of music ever, it is desperate and agonized and gorgeous and transcendent And as Glen says at the very end: “This is the best life a man could ever want” youtu.be/go8NU7OEkys?...
Fitzcarraldo (live)YouTube video by The Frames - Topicyoutu.beSunny Morainejfc Celebrity deaths don’t usually hit me all that hard on a personal level, like I don’t know these people, but I DID kinda know this guy is the thing And his music especially with the Frames means a huge amount to me and this is fucking me up a bit www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...