Sparkling Randomness

In 100 words or less, I'm a thirtysomething native Brooklynite writer who works in the publishing industry to get a paycheck. I have amazing friends and varied interests that usually fill my hours without effort. I've been called passionate, quiet, crazy, loving, silly, smart, snarky, witty, and strange, which are all accurate.

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[afurioushawk]

By forcing Democrats to release that autopsy report when everyone was telling y'all to let it go, leftists have done more damage to trans people than anyone in the tent because y'all just revealed to the normies which culture war issue landed the most with the median voter.

We told y'all to drop it. We fucking told y'all.

[lovetechnique]

[duckbunny]

THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING TO GET YOUR MEDS BEFORE THE PHARMACIES CLOSE

they are going to be CLOSED OVER THE HOLIDAYS and so will the DOCTORS WHO SIGN YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS.

if you don’t have enough meds to last the next THREE WEEKS, put in for your repeats and refills tomorrow! that’s Wednesday! do it! don’t go to hospital at New Year because you ran out of stuff!

[duckbunny]

it’s that time of year again! get your meds!

[fuchscave-deactivated20260301]

If you allow chants like "Gas the Jews" and "Globalize the Intifada" don't act surprised when people stop chanting and start shooting.

[casliyn]

May your memory be a blessing, Rob Reiner.

[absolute-lithops-emotion]

i think that if you were to make a goncharov movie it couldn't just be goncharov. nothing can truly be goncharov. my ideal goncharov movie is a mockumentary about the comically troubled production of a failed 2020s goncharov remake, touching on themes of nostalgia and the way we remember (and misremember) and retell stories

[peter-aaa-deactivated20260316]

[1five1two]

[titleknown]

[mrevaunit42]

The lovers, the dreamers and me:

[biologicalstepfather]

If you know who Emmett Till is please reblog.

I’m trying to prove a point to my dad.

[low-cole-timothy]

If you are old enough to remember that in the 90s everyone was talking about ‘Free Tibet’? It was the trendy thing to support. There were concerts and artists shouted it from every stage. There were huge concerts to support the movement with names like Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine and many more.

And today no one is mentioning it at all. Tibet isn’t free or independent.

פראיירים לא מתים הם רק מתחלפים

[outraged-honk]

This!

Now let's move forward a bit in time. The issues about guantanamo bay in the early 2000s. Of course Susan Sarandon was a huge part of that. Nothing has changed. It still remains operational to this day.

No one talks about it anymore at all.

It shows you just another trend of fake activism.

They changed nothing, and now these issues that were HUGE, mean nothing and the movements were disbanded.

Leftism only follows the current trend.

[imyourbadjew]

It’s always the usual suspects

I remember Björk, who recently blocked Israelis from listening to her music, being banned from China for shouting “free Tibet” at her concert.

The only difference being that she never would have blocked her music from being played in China

[bonos-grindcore-sideproject]

I am sorry (truly) for continuing to post about this. I really don't want to. It's exhausting. But for those of you who weren't born in the 1960s, or 70s or 80s, the comments above might be instructive. It's not that the problems aren't real; it's that once the famous people move on, the problems remain unsolved and forgotten.

I'll add another that younger people might remember. In the early days of the Covid pandemic, violent attacks against Asian Americans rose dramatically. Remember "Stop Asian Hate?" It was only five years ago.

(But also, it is so damn easy to attack the only Jewish-majority state in the entire world for obstinately deciding to survive.)

[bowlby4]

[equilibriumgirl]

Actual footage of my immune system. It's not very bright, and needs all the help it can get.

[bonos-grindcore-sideproject]

Why did you call my friend and other gen z a facist?

Do you think we are like Hitler for caring about people and having emotions?

I used “soft fascism” as a way to describe the belief that famous people should open every aspect of their lives to fans. They don’t know who you are, and they don’t owe you anything. They’re human beings who happened to become famous. But they are still human beings with the same right to privacy as everyone else. If you don’t believe that, you are indeed a bit fashy. If you’re worried about “supporting” someone who might use drugs, just don’t support them. And don’t listen to any popular music, because most artists will have had a partying phase, at minimum.

[jeevey]

Demanding to know the thoughts of other people so that you can evaluate them for purity is exactly what fascists do.

If you don't like what you are hearing or seeing from someone, back away. You don't need to know the contents of their mind to make your decisions.

[bonos-grindcore-sideproject]

If they don’t like the word “fascist,” maybe “control freak” will do. It’s certainly not love or admiration, anyway.

[taylorswift]

And, baby, that’s show business for you. New album The Life of a Showgirl. Out October 3  ❤️‍🔥

https://taylor.lnk.to/TSTheLifeofaShowgirl

Album Producers: Max Martin, Shellback and Taylor Swift 📸: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott

[bambistjames]

non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc

[bobcatmoran]

Tom Lehrer was found dead in his home this morning. He was 97 years old, so it's hard to say he was taken from us too soon, but anything short of immortality would've felt too soon for the mathematician, writer of pointed satiric songs during the early Cold War era, and writer of less pointed but no less genius songs to teach kids phonics on the 1970s PBS show "The Electric Company."

He never lost his sense of humor. In 2012, 2 Chainz asked if he could sample Lehrer's song "The Old Dope Peddler" for an upcoming track. Lehrer responded, "I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?"

His works are all in the public domain, something which he did in 2020.

[equilibriumgirl]

[championoftheoppressed]

honestly most of the Superman (2025) "discourse" just feels like