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-human tries to use art to perfectly communicate something they see or feel
-they fail
-in failing, their fingerprints get all over the art
-other humans see the fingerprints and find them beautiful, learn something unexpected about the human that created the art which is beautiful

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

"This Jimmy Kimmel thing is a slippery slope"

My friends, we are so far past the slippery slope, we are trapped in a ravine at the bottom. I can't even see the slippery slope from all the way down here.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Sen. Bill Cassidy: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expected you to change the childhood vaccine schedule, despite a lack of science or data to support that move?

Former CDC Director Susan Monarez: "Correct."

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

"Why are people saying that Charlie Kirk's murder is MAGA's Reichstag Fire?"

This 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

the biggest thing i hope studios take away from the success of Sinners and K-Pop Demon Hunters is that, wow, audiences actually DO like and want original stories and don't need every goddamn movie to be a sequel or reboot

Ohhhhhh, fair, that makes sense. Sorry, for misunderstanding. I've seen a lot of people like making up stuff like saying they saw a ring on her finger during the podcast & stuff, so it's confusing all the different things people are saying.

The podcast wasn't live, it was filmed & edited at least a day before it dropped, cause we had clips. Pretty sure the implication from the Ed Kelce interview was that the engagement happened the night after they filmed it.

Marc Maron
@marcmaron.bsky.social

Young people SHOULD “have it easier” than you did. I’m sorry you got the strap up hill both ways and paid your debts with pounds of flesh, but the reason we work for progress is to make growing up and growing old gentler, easier, kinder, freer. Struggle isn’t necessary in a healthy society.

One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."

“be honest, is this cringe—“
“is it cringe to—“

WHO CAAAAAARES! BE CRINGE! DO CRINGEY THINGS! HAVE FUN! ENJOY LIFE! BE WHIMSICAL! 😤

i am so tired of seeing people too afraid to be their true selves due to the idea that cringe is bad! sorry, but nonchalant is boring! be silly! have fun! LIVE!

when i used to grade undergrads and one of them proclaimed that some classic of literature "failed" to do X or Y i used to circle it and say "is that what it set out to do?" and i think a lot of culture critics writing for major verticals could also maybe have done well to receive this note early on

The talk of earnestness and cringe always brings out the worst in me because I really want to verbally backhand anyone who goes, "But will people think I'm cringe?"
Who the fuck cares?? Be yourself. Be into the stuff you're into. Otherwise, you're a passenger in your own life, and that's just sad.

It's ok to tell people in your life that they are stupid and don't know anything about the economy and how it works and they've been fooled and are foolish

trying to get closer to friends without accidentally bothering them is soooo embarrassing. please invite me, pick me, choose me, love me 😭

Sen. Cory Booker:

“My voice is inadequate. My efforts today are inadequate to stop what they’re trying to do. But we - the people - are powerfull. We are strong. We have changed history before … and now is a moral moment again!”

#goodtrouble
#standup

Target can't get its footing after its DEI program demise and a 40-day boycott against the retailer. Foot traffic at stores is down for the eighth consecutive week For the week that began March 17, foot traffic fell 5.7% YoY for Target, according to data from Placer.ai.

Target foot traffic falls for the eighth consecutive week after the retailer ended its DEI programs. Meanwhile at Costco, which kept its DEI programs, foot traffic has been up for 13th straight weeks.

California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

“Our history shows that rugged individualism and self-reliance are important values. But rugged individualism didn’t beat the Nazis. It didn’t take us to the moon. We did that together.” - Cory Booker, 25th hour

Our FDA was the envy of the world. The most respected food/drug regulatory agency globally.

Now that’s all gone overnight, and Americans will be far less safe for years to come.

Photo of Cory Booker in a black suit and tie

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.