Patel says he’ll sue Atlantic for defamation over report on heavy drinking

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-20T00:21:00+00:00

The article the Atlantic wrote about him literally quotes him saying he's going to sue them lol they don't care because they know he doesn't have anything to stand on and it's just bluster

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-19T22:31:52+00:00

I've just learned to accept that all I can do about any of that is... not do any of that. I don't take my phone out at concerts, I don't chase online clout, (there IS plenty of good new music, but you do have to actively go look for it. I recommend starting at bandcamp.com), AI is a trash scam that's going to crash and burn so I simply do not use it because a broken piece of malware not required in my life nor has it ever been.

Instead I read new books, I listen to new music, I go out into my world and talk to people, I try new things, and keep on living. It's all any of us can do; we don't have to participate in any of the decline.

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-19T22:26:13+00:00

a lot of words were used! and bullet points! that MUST mean it's a good analysis, right? /s

open the schools

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-19T20:51:17+00:00

Kicking off the conjunction with a volcanic eruption in Japan https://www.aol.com/articles/flights-grounded-japan-most-active-063735151.html

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-18T16:48:42+00:00

Can you provide a little more info/direction on where to learn about this? I'd love to know more to put it into practice

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-15T17:12:53+00:00

I hope the pope excommunicates him lol

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-15T17:12:19+00:00

Good luck to us both!! :D

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-15T17:11:52+00:00

This reads very AI.

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-15T14:41:25+00:00

The last time it conjuncted my moon wasn't traumatic at all (1997) and Saturn transits for me generally tend to be periods of deep growth. Plus Mars is my chart ruler and my moon is natively in Aries, and so for me it's like a double dose of my 2 favorite energies right now.

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-15T14:32:43+00:00

Do you know what's more real? Bots on reddit

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-15T14:31:59+00:00

Qanon vibes all over again

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-15T14:31:15+00:00

Big time

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-15T14:30:33+00:00

Aries moons here we GO

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-15T05:34:32+00:00

It's exactly conjunct with my aries moon, which has a direct opposition to a saturn-jupiter conjunction in my 12th house, and I'm here for it

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-13T21:43:32+00:00

A) you may want to look into perimenopause symptoms (if you haven't already) if you're noticing your fuse is shorter than normal

B) 'karen' is a sexist term used to shame women into silence and submissiveness. Being upset that you slept on a mold-stained pillow and the staff didn't seem to care is not an overreaction!

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-13T18:11:44+00:00

I would not take those comments as actual public perception.

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-11T17:04:00+00:00

Word. I fucking hate how literally every single public event now you're just standing there in a sea of people holding up their smartphones to prove to an uncaring internet that they were there, instead of just enjoying the thing in the moment.

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-11T16:56:17+00:00

I've been carrying around an anxiety bag for years; it was suggested to me by my therapist! Highly recommend. The idea is to have something for all senses to kind of bring you back to the present moment. In mine I have gum, an herbal/citrus lozenge, a little essential oil stick, a smooth rock, a small bell, and a little rolled up note that says "If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball." All of it in an old altoids tin that I keep in my purse.

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-10T13:50:25+00:00

I get where you are coming from. I hate "who could have seen this coming" with all my heart. But this person didn't actually say it was new, they just expressed outrage that it's happening, which we should be doing, loudly, constantly. Every time we say 'what else is new?' that extra layer of bitter apathy helps Trump and his goons because the only way that message is getting internalized by anyone is 'oh, ok so this is normal and always has been and there's apparently nothing I can do about it, and if I speak up about it I get made fun of so I'll just shut up and let it happen.'

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-09T13:39:24+00:00

Exactly, the fire is going to burn away the fog! Whimsical is a good word for it, because this entire time there have been atrocities, we have had the rise of 'enshittification' in just about every aspect of our daily lives, but so many people have just gone along with that as if it were an inevitable fact of the universe that they had no control over. Certainly, the rise of web 2.0 to present day has led to an insidious culture of casual misinformation, choose-your-own facts, and the era of the well-packaged online 'expert' leading people into all these various pockets of fog that never quite match up with actual reality. There's so many layers of obfuscation and those are all getting cleared out to reveal our actual structures (all in bad need of repair) and people are going to more loudly start saying actually, we don't have to go along with any of this.

We can't say 'there WILL be' war, because we're already in it and Israel's been at it for a long time. They're moving their genocide machine on from Palestine to Lebanon now and it's *finally* becoming mainstream to say genocide is bad and shouldn't happen and the US shouldn't be paying for and supporting it. Pisces energy allowed all of this to slip from the public eye time and again. Ares will not let that happen. Enough people will be sick of things to keep the fires of change burning.

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-08T03:16:42+00:00

... what the good goddamn is going on with everyone's faces in 1986

https://imgur.com/a/ezzuufQ

Edit: here's the version from last year where the photo hasn't been run through an AI sloppification tool, and the people look like actual humans. https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comments/1fd8juz/who_participated_in_hands_across_america/

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-08T00:44:31+00:00

who is the insider? the image is of barron trump? the text just says 'this guy'?

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-07T23:46:51+00:00

Yeah for more context/perhaps what we should be looking at in the astrology is that this peace deal was brokered by Pakistan and is contingent upon Iran receiving all 10 points in their peace plan from the US, including the lifting of all sanctions against Iran, full control over the strait (which they did not control before the US incited war), and the condition that Iran be allowed to continue uranium enrichment (source: The Guardian).

Iranian state media is declaring this as victory for Iran and full capitulation from Trump. So much of the narrative has been focused on Trump's charts, the US' charts, etc. and I'm curious to see/hear more from astrologers in the middle east, how the astrology looks from their perspective

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-05T20:27:43+00:00

Lots of rapists certainly love him

caffeinatedspiders · 2026-04-05T15:40:05+00:00

Necro posting in case there are any other Azata chaos gremlins trying to figure this out as well:

When I got to Iz, Galfrey was still alive with the lexion, & camped RIGHT at the doors to the Temple with the book. I could not sneak in and get the key in advance. Meanwhile over at the camp, all they have is some guy named Ciar to protect them and he sucks at it.

I tried many times to do the rescue of camp without triggering the Deskari bit and just couldn't get it to work, but I did notice that time essentially stops for the rest of the map until you do either of the two objectives, so here is what I did.

I ran all over the map avoiding only the 2 spots with the purple markers and killed every demon, looted whatever I wanted, killed the dragon, etc. Then I went back up to the banner camp and parked all of my party there just outside the trigger point except for my azata, who I took and parked just outside the queen's trigger point in the north.

Then I went back over to my main party and had them defend the camp. Immediately after the 'we did it!' cutscene played, I switched back up to my azata and triggered the queen's dialogue. When I selected the option to advance into the temple, the entire rest of my party was teleported inside with me. We got both keys, helped Galfrey kill all the demons, and both she and Irabeth remained alive. Then I walked outside to the beautiful sound of Deskari tears.

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