J. D. Lunt

my most snobby indie kid opinion is that hating a song for being overplayed is a skill issue. why are you letting other people control what music you listen to. listen to something else

1 Inquiry for New York Times Good afternoon, My name is [REDACTED] and l am a reporter for the New York Times. I am researching how much money the Palestinian diaspora community has sent to support Gazan families since the war in Gaza began. Does your team track this figure? I really appreciate it. With gratitude, [REDACTED]

Palestine Diaspora Movement Hello [REDACTED] We do not collaborate with The New York Times. Your email asks about money sent to Gazan families "since the war in Gaza began." Let us first correct the premise. This is not a war. It is a genocide. Calling it a war is part of the problem. It obscures the reality of a colonized people being massacred by a military machine backed by the United States and defended, sanitized, and rhetorically softened by institutions like yours. The New York Times has spent far too long parroting Zionist propaganda and laundering Israeli state narratives while Palestinians bury their dead. That kind of coverage does not merely misinform. It helps create the political climate in which Palestinian slaughter becomes explainable, defensible, and forgettable. So no, we will not be sharing any figures, internal data, or community information with a paper that has so thoroughly damaged its credibility on Palestine. Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it. Do not contact us again for this purpose, The Palestine Diaspora Movement Team

“Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it”

lmaooo GET EM

And yet if he found iced coffee on the side of the road he'd drink it.

@verityvagary.bsky.social is a small account that constantly posts great takes and musings. I don't mean to make them self conscious, but I think more people who follow my tiny account would dig them.

One of the crimes of AI has been the destruction of the beautiful "my nephew made this logo for me on his computer!" energy from all the hyper-local plumbers and taco shops. AI slop on white work vans is a crime against humanity.

this really made me laugh

Blind Alley No. 421

Twin Peaks Logo Generator Turtle Power!

At this point his communication skills are deeply beside the point.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

tom of finland coffee and moomin coffee

which way western man

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

I am beyond furious that in my lifetime yet another senseless, useless, evil war is happening with the express desire of my government and at least one ally while the rest of us impotently scream at it to stop.

1. Media consolidation is awful.

2. Consolidation of two legacy firms that have been considered stagnant garbage fires, and will now be run by a failson backed by his daddy's fortune which is now pegged to massive debts and promises to AI grifters who can't pay him? Kinda hilarious.

The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.

Text: "All vinyl Ethiopian jazz set at the panopticon would go crazy" drawing: stick figure DJing inside the panopticon

GOAT

I think about this too much.

Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.

the only campaign speech I want to hear from a Dem running for office

You're going to need your own guest appearance feed!

When you’re a kid, you’re thinking “the brotherhood of evil mutants is an unbelievable and silly name” and then you grow up and experience politics happening and you’re like “the brotherhood of evil mutants is the most realistic thing in the x-men”

I wish there was a laughing fire emoji

I'll have my people work on it.

I am picturing people using a pop tart as a pretend phone and it is getting funnier and funnier to me

He can leave California politics while he's at it.

The tyranny of the superego: because your subjective experience is validated by following the rules, any irruption of the Real that undermines said rules puts your ego at hazard. Better to look away, better to shield your emotions, better to abstract and rationalize.

Abjection is to liberalism what fear of difference is to conservatism. Society is designed to keep reminders of its dysfunction—poverty, illness, general suffering—safely relegated to the margins. Once those boundaries are trespassed, order must be restored by any means necessary.

hamburger help me

I hate to say it, but you literally have to honk a fair amount in Berkeley in order to keep some spacey boomer in a Tesla from merging into you while they randomly change lanes.