WaitWhatWasITalkingAbout

Rochesterian. Proud MCC and Amherst College graduate.

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

This idea that “I pay artists, therefore they must do as I say” has destroyed fandom. It’s why film franchises no longer make good movies: fans think they’re entitled to dictate how artists work. Your favorite creators don’t owe you anything. Such a mindset is the death of art.

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

If you want to push back against tech’s encroachment into every corner of our lives, you need to be reading books. They’re keen to create a world in which most people are illiterate & addicted to slop, a world without poetry, imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.

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

Watching the decline of literacy at the youngest ages feels like watching an iceberg slowly approach the Titanic. What’s happening to middle-grades is also coming for YA and adult books as this demographic ages. The publishing industry itself could collapse.

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

Nearly every problem we’re seeing in our culture is downstream of the decline in reading. The fact that only 13 percent of kids read for pleasure is a nationwide emergency. There is no more pressing issue than getting kids back into reading.

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

Been feeling bleak for the past week after I read an essay saying the market for middle-grade books has collapsed because kids can no longer read them. Two long-time publishers of middle-grades have shuttered, with more to come. We don’t appreciate what a crisis this is. +

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Everyone always talking about “talent density” in Silicon Valley when we really should be talking about how 80% of pretzels in America come from a small region of Pennsylvania

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The "One Big Beautiful Bill" included a $6,000 enhanced tax deduction for seniors. Republicans sold it as a gift — a little something extra for people who earned it.
On June 10, 2026, the Social Security Trustees released their annual report, and the receipt finally came due.
When the fund empties, the law triggers an automatic 22% cut to every check — roughly $500 a month for the average beneficiary, hitting 70 million Americans.
Speaker Mike Johnson, two days before this report dropped, called Social Security an "entitlement" that needs to be "adjusted."
They called it a gift, but in reality it's a robbery.
Watch: https://t.co/oGwJx4FVnt

[Joe @electionsjoe]

Please god

[jas @milfsgaga]

every video of mariska from last night is the funniest thing i’ve ever seen

[JaceAVinson #SupportPhysicalMedia📀💿#BanAI @JaceAVinson]

Parents are literally already able to monitor their kids devices.

This is just surveillance that they’re trying to pass off as “protecting the kids”.

[Marshall Herskovitz - find me at the blue place @MHerskovitz]

In 2016 there were 33 million mail-in votes across many states, both red and blue. The military has had mail-in voting for 85 years. No one ever talked about fraud in regard to mail-in voting until Trump.

[Jordañ @Jordan_Milam]

This woman is the highest paid actress on prime time television, has a 6’5” husband, has three beautiful babies and gets to see Chris Maloni whenever she damn well pleases and called last night the “greatest night of her life”

I LOVE DRAMATIC ASS SPORTS GIRLIES 😂😭

[‎Márcia @mhargitay__]

I love them 🥹

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

Chris Meloni is somewhere getting twists installed as we speak

[Ashley Reese @offbeatorbit]

someone DM'd me with a link to a tweet calling me a bedwench bc of my jokey hunter biden tweet from the other day and they were like "what does this mean?" and I had to explain the rape of it all which really emphasizes how weird you people are for invoking that!

[jordan @JordanUhl]

Ah yes. Of course. lol.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

There’s more evidence of Trump being a child rapist than there is evidence of voter fraud.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

When Obama released his long form Hawaii birth certificate in 2011 and extra-definitively disproved Trump's birther idiocy, Trump didn't abandon the conspiracy theory; he just expanded that conspiracy theory to cram in the contradicting facts, pivoting to claims that the birth certificate was a forgery. 

It's a time-tested conspiracist tactic. And he’s now using it again when trying to explain why Steve Hilton succeeded in the California primary elections Trump had baselessly declared were a fraud and were being rigged against Hilton: https://t.co/l8yf1SFm7c

[Conor Rogers @conorjrogers]

In 2015-2016, when you said crap like this is what was coming you got told you had "Trump Derangement Syndome"

[Conor Rogers @conorjrogers]

Wait she was the good luck charm