Reposted by 🧈🪿Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026America is only as strong as the labor that builds it every day. Happy Labor Day. ❤️ 121088100
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I thought Roku’s basilisk was why you now have to go through Disney+ to get to Hulu 020
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026For a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? A little bag of screws, tacks, and a hex wrench from a long-forgotten IKEA purchase 010
Reposted by 🧈🪿Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/07/2026There really is no better name than this time period. Get it on a Time cover ASAP. 19764491026
Reposted by 🧈🪿Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21/06/2026i think the reflecting pool has gone from “haha what a dumb ass” to “appointing a horse to the senate” level of story here 171112821533
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 16/04/2026I work alongside the security office of a major utility company and the number of incidents of people *cutting down telephone poles* to steal and resell the copper wiring in them is beyond belief 04711
Reposted by 🧈🪿lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 14/04/2026it's time to admit the haters were wrong and ari aster was cooking with gas on eddington 271352136
Reposted by 🧈🪿Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/03/2026I wrote about Kat.benhiiv.beehiiv.comKat. 42494971301
Reposted by 🧈🪿jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2026"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)nytimes.comOpinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is 15767841924
Reposted by 🧈🪿Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 22/11/2025I’ll give credence to any positive, negative, or mixed review of Wicked, unless it goes off on a tangent about how much better the book is 665722
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 09/11/2025I'm attending California Working Families Party's event, “Meet Lieutenant Governor Candidate Michael Tubbs” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/ca-wfp/event...mobilize.usMeet Lieutenant Governor Candidate Michael Tubbs · California Working Families PartyJoin California WFP for a Meet and Greet with our endorsed Lieutenant Governor candidate Michael Tubbs! 000
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 30/10/2025God, this takes me back to I think it was.. Season 2? of the Startup podcast, where they profiled this bizarro “Uber for dating” matchmaking company, and it was treated like a catastrophic failure that they settled into having a small profitable niche instead of growing into a behemoth 000
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Part of the fun of having a celebrity crush on Himesh Patel is the number of times I’ve been like, “Oh yeah, so Hamish… oh no, wait, he’s the Other British Guy.” 000
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I don’t know what more there is to say about the Kimmel thing, but I’m glad he referenced his friendships with Kathy Griffin, Wanda Sykes, and Chelsea Handler during that monologue because boy oh boy do female comedians get a lot of shit and not a lot of regard. 000
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Where you come down on Eddington will definitely depend on your tolerance for Ari Aster’s need to turn emotional overwhelm into literal monstrosity. You’re watching a complex drama about community politics in tough times, then A Thing Happens and suddenly we’re in Hereditary 2 (derogatory). 000
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Has the NYT just given up on copyediting for homophones? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/n... 020
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 17/06/2025This totally reminds me that I have had a paper called “What is News?” bookmarked to read for a month now… www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2...pewresearch.orgWhat Is News?As people are exposed to more information from more sources than ever before, how they define and feel about “news” has become less clear-cut. Pew Research Center. 271
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I think we should compile a list of people who have managed to become the only person widely famous for what they do (e.g. Tony Hawk or Yo-Yo Ma) and study them. 100
Reposted by 🧈🪿Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 20/05/2025the DOJ is literally **arresting Democratic members of Congress** and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation 12275512248
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Feels like "awareness" is relict from the time we didn't all have information about everything always bombarding us constantly. Maybe "promotion' is more apt. Anyhow, send your flowers to www.nami.org for providing free support services in communities across the U.S.nami.orgHomepageNAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. 000
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 13/04/2025I have actually cried (including just now) when looking at pictures of Lake Tahoe. 131
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Getting some real Ozymandias vibes here. www.vulture.com/article/the-...vulture.com‘See You Ululater,’ Says The White Lotus ComposerCristóbal Tapia de Veer isn’t returning for season four. 010
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Although she is better known for her outlandish wigs, unusual singing voice, and questionable filmmaking, Sia is perhaps the most unheralded songwriter of her generation. Section I: The Rihanna of it all... 010
Reposted by 🧈🪿Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) @kingrat.us · 05/02/2025If you live in SF, write your Supervisor to oppose this. I wrote District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey. I would be surprised if he listens, but unless people let him know he has no reason not to acquiesce. 2198
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 05/02/2025If it’s after dark, you are scrolling on a touchscreen, and there’s no one else in the room… maybe it’s time to go to bed 020
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I don't have much interest in the Grammys generally, but as a linguist I'm curious to see whether Shaboozey breaks the never-win curse of artists whose stage name is a phonetic respelling of their actual surname (cf. Jon Bon Jovi, Jason Derulo) 020
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Thinking about the time one of my professors said, "Power corrupts but weakness does not purify." I always figured it was a quote of some renown but I can't find a cite. Oh well, probably not relevant to politics today. 011
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 05/12/2024UNITED HEALTHSCARE (2027), dir. David Fincher, based on the book by Michael Lewis 040
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Considering where our culture is right now, it certainly is remarkable that the hero of the best movie of the year is an intersex man 010
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Geographer: the cup is half full of water and half full of air, making it an ideal site for a new settlement, as local bacterial colony patterns demonstrate... 010
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 23/11/2024thisisthebadplace dot gif www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | Sample George F. Will’s columns across half a centuryTrenchant insights about everything from presidents and the Supreme Court to baseball and rock-and-roll. 010
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 22/11/2024find me in the starter pack of "people whose name is a pun in a language they don't speak, also haven't really figured out their shtick yet" 010
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024🎶 You could lisp like costumed Roseanne Barr Shoot another Scot (poor Alan Cumming!) You can say you're talking shit like Teri Garr Make another excuse for Justin Bieber 🎶 weird al dm me I got something 010
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024do you think casey kasem's parents were like, hey you know what would be funny 010
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024idea: public policy *for ladies*. it's pink and sparkly, more expensive, oh and it doesn't work. we can put it in the ethnic foods aisle at safeway 010
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024has anyone here ever been to boston is it real or did they just have an empty space on the map they needed to give new yorkers something to hate 030
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024hey guys, I missed the day in gay school where they taught us "stand around and chitchat with people you've just met and make like six new friends" does anyone still have their notes 010
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024In the midst of all the dire news this week, I have to say I find this interjection from WaPo absurdly funny. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... 000
🧈🪿 @smorgas.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Jack Antonoff may have haters aplenty for good reason, but I may be the only one who specifically resents whatever unholy deal he has with Spotify to play "I Wanna Get Better" during the last mile whenever I go for a long run. THANKS FOR THE EMOTIONAL TERRORISM, JACK. LOVE CRYING IN PUBLIC. 010
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