Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.

He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor

Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going

For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.

I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad

In case you're curious here's what I mean.

Renaissance(distinct lines, stability and the individual man):

Baroque (bold, chaotic, dramatic):

Romantic(romanticize the simple hard working life):

Do you see the difference?

this post has re-wired my brain in the best way

Altogether, I really like the way americans say "can I help you?" as a polite general one-size-fits-all stand-in for "who the fuck are you/what the fuck are you doing here/how the fuck did you get in here/what the fuck are you staring at/what is your fucking problem." Such a polite way of going "bitch what the fuck."

I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.

I loathe my job and need a new one. I need all the help I can get.

I loathe my job and

need a new one. I need all

the help I can get.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Origin of Romanian and Moldovan division names

It's 1am and I'm buying 120m of wood on the internet because I needed a door so I'd say adulthood is going alright

Metres? Like? Square? Or is this gonna be one long, thin door?

Had to pay $50 delivery for the door anyways so I figured I'd also get as much material as I could for my next project to avoid paying another $50 to get that delivered at a later date.

Love the way this is phrased like a 120m2 door would make more sense

Full human body has 2 square meters of skin. So that’s like 60 skin-suits worth of door. If that helps anyone else visualize it.

thanks Babs, we can always count on you

this website is free bc no one would ever pay to see this post

#i feel so dumb for reading “120m of wood” as 120 minutes of wood#as if op had to pay to get to watch a video of wood for 120 minutes#holding my head in my hands#<33

Pay-per-view is getting very uninspired

Meanwhile I thought you bought 120m of planks to assemble a door by yourself.

Yeah the castle needs a new gate

Oh is that not what the 120m of wood is for? It’s to build your own door + some other project right?

I purchased a door. It comes with a $50 delivery fee. If I'm paying a $50 delivery fee then I am getting the maximum amount of materials (for my next couple of projects) that I can get for $50. I'm not paying this fee 3 or 4 times as I stock up for each project separately.

#i also assumed the 120m was for you to build a door cause i dont know how much wood 120m IS#it seemed like too much for one door but i dont know enough about meters to refute that

I bought about 400 feet of wood

women who use tiktok i am talking to you directly. yall gotta stop engaging in this girl math women shouldn’t vote shit. it’s not a silly ironic joke men mean that and they are making fun of you. listen to me. call them out when you see it happen. show the kids who use that bastard app that it’s not okay to make jokes like that. stop being part of the problem and stand up for yourselves

MATTHEW LILLARD Hackers, 1995

When I'm out in the garage working, Vice gets to tag along and hunt dust bunnies in the garage attic. I pause every so often to call him down, just to make sure he hasn't gotten into trouble.

He always has a Lot to report.

some of you guys do not thump the baby to get the demons out, which is fine because sometimes cats don't have demons in em. but you have to understand that Vice is full of demons (Anxiety, Phobia of Furnace Repairmen, Fear of Babies, Hairball) and needs to be sqashed. He does not want light gentle touches. that is bad stimulation. He wants to be pulverized.

To be clear for those of you who haven't been here the whole time, Vice isn't a barn cat. Vice is an extremely anxious housecat that gets gently carried out to the garage so he can cosplay having a real job. He caught a mouse once and went into a panic about it.

His face when he realized he was about to fall

should i eat first or shower first *has phone in couch time for another 3 hours due to choice procrastination, a behavioral phenomenon observed in pigeons and rats as well*

i' m something of a pigeons and rats myself

I'm collecting a list of Short Stories That Fucked Us Up As Children. reblog and tell me what I'm missing.

here's the list so far:

I'll add a poll in case it helps haha

I intend to celebrate the date mentioned in the short story that MOST messed me up as a kid,. Assuming we survive. It's only two yearsish. We should make it.

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury ends on August 5th 2026. Set your calendars.

But Bradbury wrote a fair number of stories that messed me up.

Probably a fair few others, too. Bradbury definitely had a little thread of the macabre running through his stuff. Put everything together in The Martian Chronicles and it is not a happy picture it is painting. Even Night Meeting, one of my all time favorite short stories, and actually pretty sweet and beautiful, can be existentially dreadful if you think too hard about it.

Some more stories that F'd me up as a young'un (or which you could have read as a kid that could have MESSED YOU UP but I did actually read after being young):

And that's probably more than enough from me, since the possibility it's any of these is fairly low.

The Veldt was FUCKED UP. (I love Bradbury.)

My high school creative writing teacher made us read A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, and we were all pretty horrified by that one.

On the subject of There Will Come Soft Rains, there's a beautiful soviet animated adaptation from 1984:

I was going to put this in the tags but something funny happened.

So the most fucked up short story I always think about is The Veldt by Ray Bradbury, as listed above. I read when I was 12. Though we read the Martian Chronicles in 10th grade and I read ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ and I’m still sad thinking about that poor dog.

But the first short story that ever got me was one about a class of kids on Venus only having one day every seven years filled with sunshine. One girl was from earth and had memories of the sun and would occasionally talk about it. The other kids didn’t believe her so they bullied the hell out of her. When the summer day finally came, they locked her in a locker, where only a sliver of light from the window could come through, and they realized the sun was as great as she always said. The teacher of that class was enjoying herself so much she didn’t notice until the clouds came back that the Earth girl wasn’t there.

Anyway my second grade teacher read that to us and then showed us the short film but I never remembered the name. But I wanted to mention it in the tags. So I looked it up. It’s called ‘All Summer in a Day’ by you guessed it, Ray Bradbury. What the fuck. How long have I known about that man???