SloaneSaysSwitch🥝

💙 She/her. 🇵🇸 BLM - ACAB - Trans rights are human rights

[SloaneSaysSwitch🥝 @SloaneSwitch]

Just held up a hot fry to the AC vent in my car because I’m the master of my universe

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Every year, viral social media posts tell us to bleach pumpkins to preserve them. And every year, I post: please don't do that.

Pumpkins are food. Wild animals will nibble a jack-o'-lantern, so bleach, paint and plastic decorations turn a pumpkin into contaminated food. Wildlife agencies recommend keeping pumpkins free of chemical preservatives.

You can preserve your pumpkins longer by keeping them cool and bringing them inside between displays. It's also reasonable to accept that pumpkins are perishable and they will rot over time. As they should.

When your jack-o-lantern is done, remove candles, wax and decorations. Compost an untreated pumpkin or use an approved municipal drop-off.

Don't dump piles of pumpkins in parks or preserves; even organic waste is litter when it concentrates food, spreads non-native seeds and attracts animals to roads and people.

Painted or treated pumpkins belong in the trash unless local guidance says otherwise.

Further reading on this: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pumpkin guidance; Illinois Extension pumpkin disposal guidance.

[victoria 🧸 @itstorikins]

I would go out and vote for bro for president right now if I could.

[adri ♡ @socialistadri]

Hasan Piker's rant about the Republican Party. Not one lie was told:

"I'm just so goddamn annoyed that they get away with everything. They get away with everything, dude. They can be so incompetent. They can just do heinous crimes all the time.

It makes me annoyed that right-wingers can get away with everything, meanwhile James Talarico can't even have the fucking flu for a week without people being like, 'Oh, he's a homosexual demon, who's having gay sex at the mental health facility where he's also getting bottom surgery. Why didn't you address it fast enough? Were you getting top surgery as well?'

It's just so fucking annoying. We are being bullied endlessly by some of the dumbest, most hateful fucking individuals of all time. They just run the show. They dominate discourse. We have to constantly be in a panicked state that they're going to come after us. It's so imbalanced. The asymmetry is unbelievable. We're at their mercy all the time. We're held hostage by some of the stupidest fucking people on the planet."

[connor @ConnorEatsPants]

@StephenM Stephen, your ability to wake up every morning and not kill yourself is both impressive and disappointing

[Nom De Flume @NomDeFlume]

Zoomer men are constantly crashing out over the once commonly accepted reality that in the traditional setup they claim to long for, they are required to be the pursuers and supplicants in early dating, and they will not in fact be wooed like a Disney princess.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

ilhan omar is a naturalized black muslim woman & an outspoken critic of trump and us foreign wars. its not an accident that they're targeting her with lawfare to engage in electioneering. this is unprecedented. this is a perversion of justice that further erodes our social fabric

[moneybaggdough @ayooooomooo]

And if we’re able to recognize the disparity in treatment early on, so do men. Men/boys see women/girls being treated differently, let’s stop pretending they need some big revelation. They have eyes and can see and they don’t care because they are the beneficiaries

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

It is ALWAYS that deep

[Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov]

Punk band Gottlieb release 10 hour Hanoi Hannah style audio to break state forces at protests.

[average lady @girlcloudnine]

very in favor. people focus a lot on whether we can physically break the police but we should remember that we also have to do psychological warfare on them. Our enemies understand its necessity and we should too

[Abier @abierkhatib]

I’m not Jewish. I’m [nationality]. And I’m a Zionist.”

Thanks for making the point for us. 😂

Zionism clearly isn’t exclusive to Jewish identity if anyone can adopt it. So why pretend that opposing a political ideology automatically means hating Jews? The argument collapses under its own weight. 🙃

Pick a lane, baby killers

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

If the purpose of documentary filmmaking is to recover histories that have been distorted, suppressed, and erased, what justifies introducing artificially generated details into the very historical evidence folks are attempting to recover? And what happens when the technology used to reclaim history becomes a tool for rewriting it?

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I can’t stress enough that this would mean the complete extinction of human culture. You need art because it connects you to all who’ve gone before you; it challenges you to embrace perspectives not your own. Media generated to your exact preferences is the death of the soul.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

REMEMBER THIS: The public execution is not about punishing the man. It's' about training the crowd.

[Slangtongue 🏴‍☠️(the last patriot) @Slangalangutang]

It cannot be overstated how every one of these tankers going down either in Europe or the Middle East is its own massive ecological disaster.

Once you add them all up we’re talking about ecocide at that point. We’re killing everything with these wars. Not just us.

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

“If you were a slave and I were your master, and the only way for you to be free was to strike a blow to kill me, what would you do?”

[SloaneSaysSwitch🥝 @SloaneSwitch]

There is nothing woke about it - it’s 100% true

[Zoya🕊️ @Zoya_ki_batein]

Maybe I’m too woke, but I genuinely think some men become cops because they want a badge that lets them beat women with authority and stalk their exes under the guise of doing their job.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The guy who created Squid Game lost eight teeth from stress while making Netflix billions. His cut of the upside was zero dollars.

That's the deal Netflix gives everyone. They pay around 110% of your budget upfront, take the IP, and keep every dollar your hit earns for the rest of time. Your show can be the biggest thing on the planet and you get the same check as if it flopped.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon just broke that deal.

Their studio, Artists Equity, sold The Rip to Netflix in January with a clause Netflix had never accepted before. They took less money upfront in exchange for a bonus if the movie performed in its first 90 days. It pulled 112 million views in six weeks. The bonus hit. And they split it with the crew, so the grips and gaffers got checks because a streaming movie did numbers.

Animals, the one Netflix is promoting here, is the next film under that structure. Affleck wrote the lead for Damon, lost him to Nolan's Odyssey, and just played the part himself rather than delay the shoot. When you own the studio, recasting the lead is a decision you make in the mirror.

Netflix said yes because they had to. Every other studio is chasing franchises, so the handful of people who still make prestige adult dramas suddenly have pricing power. Affleck and Damon took the Silicon Valley trade, lower salary for equity, and ran it in the one industry that spent 15 years stripping equity out of talent deals.

Hollywood lost its backend when streaming killed box office points. These two are quietly rebuilding it.

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

This is the way. Call them out!

[Save East Po @SaveEastPo]

What happened today was a blitzkrieg on a public park. A cherished DMV space. If you are not livid about the circumstances that led up to this and what exactly the Federal government did in the past 24 hours I don’t know what to tell you.

Let’s do a quick timeline:

1. Last night, a Friday before a long weekend, at 5PM, government lawyers filed a notice that tree cutting would begin in earnest today. The stated reason was a pretext - apparently fulfilling a 2019 Cultural Landscape Review on East Potomac. This was clearly an excuse to bring the gangs in.

For months the government has stated there is no plan, nothing has been decided, going to follow the law. Ya, right.

2. At 5:30AM this morning, 3-4 dozen workers assembled at East Potomac Park. The blitzkrieg began shortly thereafter. They were given clear orders to fell as many trees as possible.

3. For hours, from 6AM until 4PM today, nothing but chainsaws. Healthy trees, old trees, all would come down. No clear estimate for the extent but at least 100 trees came down.

The devastation is apparent. Entire groves cleared. Not a single animal on the peninsula. Not a sound aside from the roar of chainsaws. Earth ripped to pieces.

Anybody that thinks it is acceptable to shred public lands to appeal to the vanity of the President of the United States needs their head examined.

We have been sounding the alarm on this for months. For months we knew this day would come. Where the President would, under dubious legal pretexts, sic his goons on a beloved public space.

This is not a local issue. This is fundamentally a question of if we the people own our public lands or the temporary resident of the White House does.

@jamie_raskin @JaredHuffman @DonBeyerVA @glenniveymd @MarkWarner @AlsobrooksForMD @timkaine @ChrisVanHollen