This is the most out of touch, off-base, staggeringly clueless "OK Boomer" thing I've ever read, and I'm almost a Boomer myself. It's worth noting that I'm a life-long @nytimes.com reader, and I'm starting to reflexively ignore anything in the NYT typeface as irrelevant to the real world.

Andrea Pitzer, who wrote the authoritative history of concentration camps, warns that what Trump and the GOP are planning is a nightmarish horror that mirrors the darkest times in human history. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-massive-deportation-plan-echoes-concentration-camp-history/

Call me sentimental, but I hope the sound of Kamala's exuberant laugh rings loudly, relentlessly in the head of that fascist traitor all night long, liquefying his guts so that his satin sheets have to be changed and bleached every goddamn morning for the rest of his life.

I adore my teacher husband.

I hate to be all newbie-ish, but can anyone tell me why trying to upload photos to newsie.social I've been getting 500 errors for days?

Miserable closet case evangelical Paul Pressler, who helped push the GOP into extreme bigotry while raping kids for decades, has died. I wish I believed in Hell. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/15/paul-pressler-dead-southern-baptist-convention/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&utm_source=copy&utm_medium=social

Happy 120th birthday in emptiness to Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, where I was a Zen student. Here he is in the early 1960s, teaching Sunday school at Sokoji, the sole Soto Zen temple in SF at the time. [via cuke.com]

"Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else." - Suzuki-roshi

A very, very lovely essay by Kristy Barlow about waking up to one's own #autistic identity - near the heart of what my book

#NeuroTribes

is about. Thank you, @mattward.bsky.social. https://open.substack.com/pub/kristybarlow/p/lighthouse-in-the-fog?r=1e885&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

I have committed a heresy: My first piece of AI “art.” Happy Easter!

Say what you will about generative AI, it's certainly crammed all of my timelines with creepy fake-looking images that my friends keep posting as "Amazing!!" -- even friends who are art aficionados and I thought would know better. It's having a strange effect on me, which is a growing distaste and distrust of images themselves, as if the whole visible universe is being covered with some kind of slime.

Having turned Twitter into a toilet of bigotry and disinformation, prominent anti-Semite and fake savant Elon Musk joins leading GOP vaginaphobe Ben Shapiro to shit all over the memories of the Jews who died at Auschwitz. https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-set-to-attend-anti-semitism-discussion-at-auschwitz-with-ben-shapiro-report-says

How the neo-Nazi group Moms4Liberty crawled out of the anti-vaxx/anti-mask sewers of Florida. https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/moms-for-liberty-birchers-in-heels

Who could have guessed that the fake "court sketch" that Trump reposted of him sitting in court next to Jesus was done by an actual child rapist? GOOD WORK REPUBLICANS. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/10/trumps-jesus-court-sketch-is-even-worse-than-it-looks.html

New report shows advertisers fleeing X after Elon's transformation of the formerly thriving Twitter community into a churning toilet of white supremacist propaganda, Nazi bootlickers, anti-vaxx nonsense, and anti-trans hatred. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N3BA253

While the chimpanzees of the Republican party were flinging poo and screeching at each other, the first #Black openly #LGBTQ+ Senator was making history. https://youtu.be/MjJGbVn4elM?si=1fRrTXmdVkO7SCf7

Rapist? Pedophile? Workplace harrasser? Wife beater? Child trafficker? No worries, bro. Just start nattering on about the "woke mind virus" and being "cancelled" and an army of Republicans and incels will rally around you, waving flags.

As Florida reports more new #COVID19 hospitalizations than any other state, #GOP sociopath #RonDeSantis demands more sickness and death as surely as if he wrapped his cold, creepy hands around the throats of his constituents and started squeezing. https://wapo.st/3LltbuZ

If I had said to my #GOP relatives before 2016 that the election of Trump would result in lynching threats to poll workers and election officials nationwide, they would've said I was insane. Now it's just Thursday. https://apnews.com/article/election-workers-threats-justice-department-trump-f17df44d63156a28eaa0862b0aa08f0b

Nice article about the long-awaited tribute to David Crosby on Sunday, organized by Croz's son James Raymond and others. It was sublime and SO HEALING for his bandmates, crew, friends and fans. One correction: Croz's peeps did not open with a Sam Cooke song. They opened with Croz's "Long Time Gone." https://www.independent.com/2023/08/23/review-david-crosbys-final-band-does-him-proud-in-santa-barbara/

If Trump's twisted, wackjob, serial-killer stare in his mugshot looks strangely familiar, here's why.