Celena Hval

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
― Ray Bradbury

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

JD Vance pleads with voters for more time while Mike Johnson sends the House members home early rather than use the time they have.

Odd.

[Joakim 🌹🇳🇴🇪🇺 @joakial_]

New ad by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products.

[Gracia Ventus @the_rosenrot]

No offense to Elon but he doesn’t understand anything about cyberpunk aesthetic. His SpaceX flight suit looks like 60s Pierre Cardin meets a macbook. His cab and truck look like they’d be blasting Cindy Lauper and certainly not Kavinsky.

[(((Charles Fishman))) 💧 @cfishman]

Joseph Pfeifer was the first NYC fire chief on scene at the World Trade Centers on 9/11.

On CNN two days ago, he made a point I'd never heard or read anyone make about 9/11:

The Towers had ~20,000 people in them when the planes hit.

'We lost 3,000 people at Ground Zero that day,' Pfeifer said.

'But we rescued something like 17,000 people before the Towers came down,' he said.

That's so amazing. Amid the confusion, the chaos, first responders and workers inside the World Trade Center got 85% of people to safety.

That's a fact worth knowing, too.

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

Not being taken seriously-- even if we're treated kindly-- can be uniquely triggering to CPTSD survivors.

Kindness is nice. But being taken seriously affirms our personhood, which is what was violated by abuse & neglect.

[Helena @HelenaGoransson]

Norway's Prime Minister rips apart Trump's stupid letter. Love this!
Every leader that receives a letter like this from DJT should do the same.
Thanks for your attention to this matter! BRILLIANT!

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

By Christina Lorey:

Damn!!! It's true.

HE’S ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY 📰 This is the cover of the New York Daily News on May 5, 1980: “Local Billionaire Takes on 74-Year-Old Stroke Victim — For the Principle.”

The “principle”⁉️ All tenants should pay their rent on time, no matter the circumstances.

So Trump, one of the largest landlords in New York City at the time, decided to make 74-year-old Mary Filan, who had suffered a recent stroke, an example — and evicted her.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is one reason why the attack on empathy is so evil. If we have to wait for person after person to experience the brutality of this administration before we wake up, then we'll inflict an immense amount of pain on our country. But if, instead, we could place ourselves in the shoes of the immigrant in chains, then we can see the injustice more plainly.

And no, this does not mean that we can't or shouldn't deport illegal immigrants when appropriate. It doesn't mean we must have open borders. But we can't lose our own humanity and decency in the process, and we must not use brutality as an instrument of enforcement.

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell.” —Ray Bradbury
https://t.co/2cLU3lddsz

[ᥴꪖꪑᦓꪮꪀ 🌞 @Cambone88]

Whatever this man tells you do NOT let him sell you a monorail

#TheSimpsonsGoats #TheSimpsons #SimpsonsForever

[Ellie Lucas @cinemattie]

I am eternally frustrated by the idea that not seeing yourself reflected in a film means it holds nothing of value for you. It's a deeply incurious, self-absorbed way to engage with art.

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

My neighbor sold his 3-bedroom house in 2019 for $280,000.

A corporate real estate fund bought it cash, painted the kitchen gray, and put it back on the market as a rental for $2,400 a month.

Five years later, the house is worth $460,000 on paper.

The fund has collected over $140,000 in rent, done zero major repairs, and used the paper equity to buy 4 more starter homes on the same street.

Young families aren't competing against other young families for starter homes anymore.

They are bidding against billion-dollar private equity funds using automated software to price humans out of neighborhood ownership.

[Jean Allen @peakcapitolism]

It's 2027. The AI bubble has popped. The US dollar has bust. It's 500 dollars to buy a burger and it makes you immediately have diarrhea. The sun has been renamed America.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

is this a joke? consumers are expected to eat meat that might/might not be contaminated so that a "free market" can work itself out?
no one who'd ever had a single bout of food poisoning could write like this.
I had just one experience decades ago & still recall vividly. the expression "sick as a dog" does not describe it.

[Sierra Club @SierraClub]

Yosemite is not Donald Trump’s to give away. We will use every tool at our disposal to stop this corruption.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I want to live in a country filled with people who immediately recognize how sad and pathetic this is, and reject Trump for being such a needy little weirdo.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

I appreciate that Dolly Parton played no part in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people.

[frank strong @frankstrong]

Really wish these two stories hadn’t come out on the same day.

[Nicolas Gonzalez (nicosgonzalez.bsky.social) @NicoSGonzalez]

This guy stole his one idea, destroyed journalism, poisoned society, and followed it up with the metaverse and pervert glasses

[Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr]

Them Flock cameras can do everything BUT track a damn missing person can’t it?