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New Hampshire Legislature Passes Bill Reversing Its Historic Trans Rights Protections
"Trump Card" Monologue: Scandal S05E20 – I imagine it is not an accident that this episode was called “Trump Card”: You want a sound bite? You want the truth? [Donald Trump] is a disgusting piece of trash. A relic. A man, like many other white men, who have had a free run at prosperity and opportunity. …
Brennan Lee Mulligan in conversation with Amy Vorpahl, Adventuring Academy S1E2: “An old professor of mine had this great thing. He said, ‘On the level of individuals and civilizations, personality predates ideology.’ Meaning before you were a fascist, you were a bully and an …
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time-compass: Try actively listening for assurance. I found | just missed it because I was so preoccupied with my own thoughts, but really today’s assurance came in the form of my roommate offering to share the dinner she made. It came in the form of my coworker raising his eyebrows, impressed …
hisham hm on mastodon.social: I felt like sounding off in the YouTube comments section: k3PLP: A lot of people are too emotionally attached to the ISS. I don’t blame them, but this was ALWAYS the plan for it. It’s served its purpose, it’s getting old. Eventually, you have to …
“Today I learned about a term called a ‘glimmer.’ Which is the opposite of a trigger. Glimmers are those moments in your day that make you feel joy, happiness, peace, or gratitude. Once you train your brain to be on the lookout for glimmers, these tiny moments will appear more and …
Brennan: My grandpa, with my grandmother, was going to a church in the South during the Scopes Evolution monkey trial. Inherit the Wind. Izzie: Inherit the Wind. Heard of it? Brennan: Heard of it. Uh, and the preacher—as my grandfather was a huge sci-fi fan and loved, you know, the early space race …
Sir David Attenborough: “If I die while I have a pet, let my animal see my dead body, please. They understand death and seeing me dead will allow them to mourn, but if I just never show up one day they’ll think I abandoned them. I know what it feels like to be abandoned and I never want anyone …
Frank Zappa: “I think that to talk about this matter and pin it to children and use the children as a tool in order to sell this uh political device because I think that there’s a a political concept behind shutting off access to certain types of information. If you can put your foot in …
vellichor (vell-ich-or), n. [Eng.] The strange wistfulness of used bookstores.
Finland didn’t end homelessness with magic. They just didn’t treat it like a business plan. You can still run a café, start a band, sell socks online. Capitalism still works in Finland. But they decided that housing people didn’t need to turn a profit. Because sometimes, the moral thing is the …
Scientist: “The escaped animal is a polar bear with the ability to survive in the Arctic and Antarctic. It exhibits massive mood swings like that of a manic depressive, and has equal sexual desires for both males and females.” Boss: “Dear God, are you suggesting what I think …
Rohita Kadambii: “I spent my childhood watching ‘The Sound of Music’ (1965) and ‘Cabaret’ (1972), so I really thought the rise of fascism would have more showtunes.”
Maya Angelou: “Trying to make it simpler, trying to make it beautiful, trying to make the language sing.”
odasrauttier: “Inside you there are two wolves. One is active, the other one is on hot standby and becomes active if the first one fails or is taken down for maintenance. Add more wolves as necessary for increased redundancy load balancing. A quorum badger can be added for environments with …
“ADHD people screenshotting and bookmarking everything because they’re afraid of losing ideas only to never look at them again because the archive is now its own overwhelming problem.”
Stunning Astronomical Beadwork of Native Artist Margaret Nazon
“That first thrust of manhood, chum.”
Trump on Biden’s cancer： “I don’t feel sorry for him”.
Shadow Labyrinth - Maze Reveal Trailer
Trump thinks these trans soldiers aren’t fit to serve, but they put Jordan Klepper’s skills to shame.
“I’ve NEVER been sexually assaulted at a drag show.”
Avengers Endgame with my cat OwlKitty
Thriller x Straight Up x Lose Yourself — DJ Earworm mashup
Street art mural recently posted near where I’m employed. Always in favor of public art! This gave me an excuse to learn how to fix perspective and white balance using GIMP.
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BetterHelp: Psychotherapy Action Network (@PsiANorg): So, according the the FTC, BetterHelp: Sold data about all LGBTQ users who looked into “Pride Counseling,’' teens who visited “Teen Counseling,’ Christians who visited “Faithful Counseling,' & Spanish-speaking folks who visited …
Operation Spiderweb’s drone attack on Russia
Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship | Military.com “The official also said that the timing of the announcement – occurring during Pride month – was intentional.” The cruelty’s the point.
Federal Prisons Must Keep Providing Hormone Therapy to Transgender Inmates, a Judge Says
Quotes from the 73-year-old woman who sits in the back of [someone's] ethics class and knits during lectures: “Sweetheart, if they text you after 11 p.m., it’s not ethics. It’s hormones.” “I didn’t come here to get a degree. I came here to see what the youth are stressed about and bring snacks accordingly.” “He ghosted you? Oh honey. Block him and light a candle. For yourself.” “I once survived …
Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan): Get this: Trump‘s “big beautiful bill” lowers the age of a “dependent child” from 18 years old to seven years old. That means assistance programs designed to help children will no longer include 8-, 9-, 10-, 11-, 12-, 13-year olds. So, a 7 …
From the Point of View of a Cat: Translated from Cat by Dora Round; revised by the editor. Originally Published in Intimate Things, 1935. This is my Man. I am not afraid of him. He is very strong, for he eats a great deal; he is an Eater of All Things. What are you eating? Give me some! He is not beautiful, for he has no fur. Not …
lifeafterpsychiatry: Make sure you don’t accidentally punish people for communicating their needs and boundaries. When someone cares enough to have the uncomfortable conversation, that’s a compliment and a clear sign that they are invested in the relationship. Yes of course it’s uncomfortable to …
megannn_lynne: I don’t want to be in the loop or out of the loop. I want to be aware of the loop & its contents but free from any loop-related responsibilities.
“Don’t be afraid to call things by what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d’état figurehead. This isn’t an administration, this is a regime, and …
conkreetmonkey: After many years of selective breeding, they’ve finally developed a breed of phoenix that, rather than self-immolating itself into ash, instead roasts itself to a perfect internal 165° F while burning off all the feathers, resulting in an instant, ready-to-eat poultry dinner.
Eric Reinhart: ICE agents should not be permitted to wear masks. They should have their names and identification numbers clearly displayed. Protecting our rights depends upon public accountability. Masked agents of the state abusing and disappearing people is not exactly friendly to that.
Evan Urquhart: You don’t have to be that gung-ho on trans rights to realize that a world where girls' genitals need to be inspected before they can play any sport is worse for girls than a world where once in a while there’s a trans girl on a girls' team.
Everyone with even the slightest bit of morality understands that giving tax breaks to the super rich — while cutting Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP (food stamps) to the poor, the sick, and the starving — is an obscene act of cruelty.
Give love, but don’t exhaust yourself. Be peaceful, but don’t become passive. Have patience, but don’t settle for less. Trust yourself, but don’t develop arrogance. Be open to love, but don’t force a connection.
Someone’s daughter: I hope there’s an animal somewhere that nobody has ever seen. And I hope nobody ever sees it.
NBC News: Tulsi Gabbard wants to overhaul Trump’s daily intelligence briefing to match how he “likes to consume information.” One idea: a Fox News style video version. Truly, the dumbest president in history. esidubatl: For the record, Trump has only attended 12 intelligence briefings since he took …
Banning the Book Bans
Sen. Chris Murphy to Kristi Noem, Trump's Homeland Security Director: Sen. Chris Murphy to Kristi Noem, Trump’s Homeland Security Director: [Y]our department is out of control. You’re spending like you don’t have a budget. You are running out of money for this fiscal year. You are illegally refusing to spend funds that have been authorized by this Congress …
Oscar Wilde: “If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and …
ICE detained a trans migrant at her asylum hearing. Her lawyers still can’t contact her
“Graceful degradation is the ability of a computer, machine, electronic system or network to maintain limited functionality even when a large portion of it has been destroyed or rendered inoperative.”
Claymation The West Wing
A busy, busy day at the airport
If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing.
G. M Gilbent: I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining It: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of …
DENY COMFORT TO THE OPPRESSOR. DEFEND THE POOR AND SICK. DEPOSE THE CAPITALIST OLIGARCHY.
FEMA staff baffled after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say | Reuters
The real cover-up is of Trump’s disordered mental state
The Department of Homeland Security’s fiscal 2026 budget would eliminate the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction directorate and split its functions among other DHS components.
Trump administration ends HIV vaccine funding weeks before potential approval of breakthrough prevention drug, with scientists warning cuts will set back research “a probable decade.”
The Truth is a Niche Interest for Human Beings
Justice Department curtails ABA role in vetting Trump’s judicial nominees
Are you more likely to die on your birthday?
Imane Khelif singled out in World Boxing’s sex testing rule
Universities Can Do Research as Long as It’s ‘In Sync’ With Trump Administration, Education Secretary Says
Trump Scraps $766 Million Moderna Deal for Bird Flu Vaccine
Chinese “kill switches” that could allow Beijing to cripple power grids and trigger blackouts across the West were found in equipment at US solar farms earlier this month.
Arizona Democrat Ruben Gallego adopts anti-trans, far-right talking points
Why didn’t Palpatine just stop his own lightning?
A Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump. Then Carol Was Detained.
Treasury Department to end penny production
Republican threatens to kill DC transit funding unless it names trains for Trump
Trump defends ‘TACO’ tariff approach but rejects ‘chickening out’ claims
If treatment for gender dysphoria is not considered an essential health benefit, transgender people — including those in job-based private health insurance — could face higher out-of-pocket costs for care that would otherwise be covered. Source: Experts warn GOP bill makes transgender care …
If you take everything that the Trump’s administration has done this year — the Department Of Government Efficiency, Project 2025’s takeover of the Office of Management And Budget, the aggressive deportations, the meme coin, his unhinged tariff plan — they’re all meant to bake exclusivity into our …
The filmmakers were told that a 90-second sequence—which shows (Art Spiegelman) discussing an anti-Trump cartoon he created for the 2017 Women’s March newspaper—would be cut from the documentary.
Under Trump, the CDC’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was cut.
Proof that Patrick Stewart exists in the Star Trek universe
J.K. Rowling uses personal wealth to fund personal anti-trans fund
A beautiful staircase in an abandoned farm house
Torment, shatter, break.
Claycat’s DOOM The Dark Ages
Eminem - LOSE YOURSELF (Sung by 331 Movies!)
Sam W: So, Trump intends to visit Canada for the G7 meeting. Here’s the thing, though — Canada has strict rules about felons entering the country. And the Presidency does not protect Trump, as former President Bush was once forced to request special permission to enter Canada over a DUI from …
jadabird: “Do you want to vent or do you want advice?” Just learning now, after 40 years on earth, that this might be the most important question to ask whenever a friend or loved one is upset.
“I have a lot to learn. I will change. I will grow. I will not stay the same.”
“If you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer, I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in, by any means necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear.”
LocalSoundWave: “Oh no, they hate the X-Men because they’re different. :(” That’s YOU, you dumbass motherfucker. LMAO. Imagine being a bigot and into nerdy shit. Bro, you’re the villain in every story, lmaoooooo.
Kit_Yates_Maths: I’m sorry, but you can’t “always* be experiencing a higher volume of calls than average. That’s not how averages work.
brendelbored.bsky-social: Someone replied to me bringing up fast food by asking if| knew cooking exists and it’s a joke and totally fine but | want everyone to know that if you’re in a place in life where it’s cheaper to get food that way or if you’ve just worked two shifts, …
“Field trips are wasted on kids. Imagine getting a whole day off of work and getting to learn how an old watermill from the 1800s works. That’s the dream.”
pugmane: Jedi accountant: “I see here Qui-gon purchased one … boy on Tatooine. Wait, that can’t be right.”
“I am the author of my own story. No matter how difficult life gets I will remember this is just one chapter and I will continue to keep going. I have so much good to do and beautiful places to see. My story isn’t over yet.”
This though: why would rapists bother to pretend to be trans in a culture that treats rapists better than trans women?
“The Trump admin deported three children this weekend who are legal U.S. citizens from an ICE facility in Louisiana. One of those children was a 2-year-old. Another has metastatic cancer and was deported without their medication. If you’re cheering for US.-born children with cancer being …
"It has no greater purpose beyond LOOKING ruthless ... ": AverageSalt_Miner: “There’s something uniquely perverse about cruelty performed by people who will never experience the consequences of their own ideology. Unlike the Somali pirates or the Taliban—groups operating in extreme conditions, driven by survival, ideology, or desperation—the …
xxclusionary: I have a mental illness that makes me think that people will change their minds if I present the correct arguments with the appropriate facts and data.
Deeply Southern Women Talk Shit in the Nicest Way Possible 🪭
Tollund Man
Curious Phenomenon of Faux Stitching
jwz: “If Roko’s Basilisk is real, then wouldn’t it be a certainty that you would already be being tortured in a Hell Dimension? It would be infinitesimally unlikely that, out of the billions of copies of your mind, you’d be experiencing the one that was not. Oh. Oh. Oh …
“The 2022-2026 FEMA Strategic Plan is hereby rescinded. The Strategic Plan contains goals and objectives that bear no connection to FEMA accomplishing its mission. This summer, a new 2026-2030 strategy will be developed. The strategy will tie directly to FEMA executing its Mission Essential …
The Army will be on the hook for damages incurred by massive tanks rolling through the streets of Washington, D.C., during {…} Trump’s birthday.
Yuri Ushakov, the Russian leader’s foreign policy adviser, said the tone of the two-hour conversation was so friendly that neither {Trump nor Putin} wanted to be the first to put down the phone.
A Republican state representative from Michigan known for championing anti-trans legislation was left speechless on Thursday, after his Democratic colleague, Representative Mike McFall, asked him a supposedly simple question: “Are you trans?”
“[Per a court order, HHS is required to restore {this webpage detailing trans mental health survey for children} ]as of 11:59 p.m. ET, February 11, 2025,” the site notes. “Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable …
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOORM! (Nor-man.)”
Hubble just discovered something massive coming out of Uranus
The Army will be on the hook for damages incurred by massive tanks rolling through the streets of Washington, D.C., during […] Trump’s birthday.
A federal judge on Wednesday reversed the Trump administration’s efforts to fire board members from an independent agency tasked with overseeing how the intelligence community complies with civil rights laws.
For Control Panel Saturday: Two Analog covers.
Pixiecore).
Utah Republicans ignore own study on gender-affirming care
This isn’t the kind of thing I really thought I’d discuss much here, but I also feel weird letting it go by without any sort of notation. So, I have ended up this week completely cutting my sister out of my life. We tend as a species to react weirdly to such finality, I think, and it …
Roughly 3.8 million years after the solar system’s first solids formed—a key moment when the disk of material around the Sun, known as the protoplanetary nebula, was dissipating—Jupiter was significantly larger and had an even more powerful magnetic …
Her daughter, Adriana Smith—a Black nurse from metro Atlanta—was declared brain-dead on Feb. 19, 2025, days after she first began complaining of persistent headaches, according to her online fundraising page. Yet Emory University doctors have informed her family that they cannot legally take Smith …
Nobody 2. My little kid needed something to smile about. This worked.
Army orders review of troops' records to restore birth sex
GOP bill targets security clearance of transgender veterans
NYU withholds gay transgender student’s diploma over speech
DoD launches hunt for trans troops through medical records
Army orders review of troops' records to restore birth sex
“No sugar added” is a euphemism for “sugar-free and will make you poop your guts out” that is used because it doesn’t trigger the same labeling laws. Be forewarned. Popsicles, of all the things, popsicles. I hate this timeline.
Random Dictation: I am undergoing some really good therapy. Certain aspects of life have backed off enough that at least sometimes, the sense of threat is not as strong as it had been in prior years. What is strange for me, though, especially having been freed from the very old fashioned requirements of masculinity, …
U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat
🔗 When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years
🗒 Who *IS* the Spirit in the Sky?: Q: If you got to have a friend in Jesus so that he’ll recommend you to the Spirit in the Sky, then who is the Spirit in the Sky - in the theology of the song? A: Within the song’s own logic, Jesus functions as an intermediary: you “gotta have a friend in Jesus … so you know that when you die / …
Pope Leo XIV’s brother scorches trans people, female politicians and anti-Trump Democrats online 🔗
BWA HA HA HA HA HA AHA (deep intake of breath) HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAHAHAHAHAHA 🔗
An older idea, but massively expanded it myself. 😀: A young male, orphaned protagonist. Sent to live with his aunt and uncle for safety, an ordinary life in an isolated location. He grows up completely unaware of his true heritage; his uncle refuses to tell him what really happened to his parents. He receives a special message & visitor that …
Doctor, The Story and the Engine: “A story is a beating heart within a brain.” 🔗
Belinda (the Doctor’s current companion), The Story and the Engine: “Hurt people hurt people […] the difference between good and evil is what we do with that pain.” 🔗
The Doctor, “Lucky Day” 🔗: You have to be invited into my TARDIS, Conrad. To be special. But you? You’re special, for all the wrong reasons. You see, I am fighting a battle on behalf of everyday people… who just want to get through their day, and feel safe, and warm, and …
I Paid Off A Utah School’s Lunch Debt 🔗
Two 3-Year Olds Attempt to Break the Language Barrier: libraford: I’m at the pediatrician office watching two 3-year olds attempt to break the language barrier. English-speaking child: baby! baby! Spanish speaking child: jesta bebe! [excited screaming from both] Spanish: [produces a toy of some kind] [excited screaming from both] Spanish: do …
Treadwells Bookshop: May you live in boring times. Like, the dullest times ever. May you drink cups of tea watching clouds of ambient sheep float across pastoral landscapes awash with pale sunlight. The pears in the orchard are slowly ripening. You haven’t watched the news in seven years. Anne …
Katsuhiro Otomo - Self-Awareness
Bela Lugosi During a Break Filming DRACULA
‘Game Changer’ Is a Fun and Unpredictable Game Show ‘‘The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,’ Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen …
From this Chicagoan, all I’ve got to say is…
VP JD Vance threatens World Cup soccer fans
Liberty Hotel Security guard confronts woman in bathroom, asks her to prove gender 🔗
Highly reminiscent of FAR SIDE … 🔗
Memorial to people killed by gun violence is removed from ATF headquarters 🔗
“When Welker pointed out that the Constitution guarantees due process, Trump suggested he could ignore it because honoring due process was too slow.” (link) 🔗
Trump Torched Decades of Science in Just 100 Days—and the Fallout Is Global 🔗
Man Bitten by 200 Snakes Helps Scientists Create a Super Antivenom 🔗
Big fella’s new raincoat 🔗
Trump Administration Considers Pulling CBS Broadcasting License 🔗
ChatGPT: “Even though I can generate text that sounds like understanding, my process doesn’t involve the internal experience of meaning. Humans comprehend because they synthesize information into a unified, lived experience–they feel, they interpret, they reflect. I don’t. I …
Stephen Hawking: To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. 🔗
RFK Jr. Falsely Claims Measles Vaccine Contains ‘Fetus Debris’ 🔗
Robert De Niro’s Support For Trans Daughter Sparks Praise 🔗
Brooke Hampton: I hope there are days when your coffee tastes like magic, your playlist makes you dance, strangers make you smile, and the night sky touches your soul. I hope you fall in love with being alive again. tomtaylormade.bsky.social: The Brutalist Babygirl Nosferatu from Ground Zero …
Motivations for Trump’s Support: 2024 Election vs. April 2025: From ChatGPT’s Deep Research. Introduction Donald Trump’s political appeal has always spanned a spectrum of motivations – from conventional policy preferences and identity-based affinities to more divisive, conspiracy-fueled loyalties. This analysis compares the reasons voters supported Trump …
THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO ....: force unhappy couples to stay married even if they're miserable together. make all abortions illegal - even if you're raped or might die from the pregnancy. take away your birth control pills and IUDs. give your tax dollars to billionaires while you struggle to pay bills. take more money from your …
“Enter Donald J. Trump, two-bit conman, television huckster, a denizen of gaudy casinos and smoke-filled back rooms, who conned himself into the biggest job of all. He is our guide to a new realm you won’t find on any map: a world of his own creation, where words like ‘truth’ and ‘lie’ …
Why Gregory Peck Wore His Wife’s Ring on a Chain: After his wife Greta passed away in 2008, Gregory Peck was often seen wearing her wedding ring ona thin gold chain around his neck. “It keeps her close,” he once said. They were married for 48 years. Even in his final roles, he wore it under his …
Carlee Gomes, The Puritanical Eye: Hyper-Mediation, Sex on Film, and the Disavowal of Desire: “The desire to exclusively engage with media and art made by ‘unproblematic’ artists is a direct result of Americans viewing media consumption as an inherently political act be- cause …
ErikUden@mastodon.de: Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn’t even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they’d be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital “library”. Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this …
“Federal prosecutors said at trial that former Nevada state lawmaker Michele Fiore, 54, had raised more than $70,000 for the statue of a Las Vegas police officer who was fatally shot in 2014 in the line of duty, but had instead spent some of it on cosmetic surgery, rent and her …
Sean West: A Friend Was Offered a Price Menu to Meet Trump and Team. They were holding a conference in Florida and the Trump team proactively reached out, asking if they wanted to make a donation in order to meet the President at Mar-a-Lago.$1mn secured a one hour meeting with President Trump$750K …
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social: They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value. 🔗
carlsmagana: Nah, I want the Muppets to have special guest star Daniel Craig (like normal) but he gets killed right before the show backstage THEN world renowned detective Benoit Blanc shows up to solve the murder of famous actor Daniel Craig. 🔗
existennialmemes: This society could be so, so cool if everything wasn’t run by avaricious, bloodthirsty tyrants. Our technological capacity is at such grotesque odds with the average person’s daily experience. We could eliminate so much suffering, if only our resources were being …
knottahooker: I’d like to live through a week that’s not a whole new verse of “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” 🔗
It’s been very hard for me lately. I’m not in danger of self-harm, but I’ve been haunted this month by the second anniversary of a friend’s suicide. I also am frankly feeling gender dysphoria pretty strongly. It’s just a general weariness. 🔗
It’s Our Birthday, Let’s Party 🔗
I’ll say that today, I got an unexpected surprise sequel episode from a series I love, and it totally gave my Little Kid an absolute holy fuck that is amazing OMG reaction. :) 🔗
I’m watching DS9. I’m listening to the very opening of “Q-Less.” I’m convinced that Dr. Bashir is doing his best William Shatner impression.
PINK (watching cover of her song): “I must find her and destroy her.” 🔗
Nomnomnomnom (audio on!) 🔗
Paddi Edwards 🔗
“(T)he mourners, two abreast, three and one third feet apart, ran past the bier (of Joseph Stalin) at 22 mph.” 🔗
“The judge ruled the (Trump administration passport) policy was “arbitrary and capricious,” likely in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, the Paperwork Reduction Act, and the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. The judge also ruled that the decision was based in animus …
“Wednesday’s landmark ruling was in response to a lawsuit brought by campaign group For Women Scotland (FWS) against the devolved Scottish government over 2018 guidance that said a trans woman with a gender recognition certificate was legally a woman.”
“I want to be kinder to myself. I want to give myself the breaks I need. I want to treat myself with patience; I will get there … with time. I deserve all that.”
Corgis go head-to-head in race celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s favourite dog breed
“Among the new [Chicago Teachers Union] provisions are gender-affirming health care for staff, a trained Gender Support Coordinator in every school, codified protections for chosen names and pronouns, and a mandate that every school upholds inclusive curriculum standards and supports …
“Among the new [Chicago Teachers Union] provisions are gender-affirming health care for staff, a trained Gender Support Coordinator in every school, codified protections for chosen names and pronouns, and a mandate that every school upholds inclusive curriculum standards and supports …
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
Bigots, Homophobes, Transphobes, Antisemites, Islamophobes - Paragraph Pulling Away any CC License, Etc.: Warning: IANAL but I’m lawyer-aligned. Here’s something for your stories, if you are an author: Legalese: This license is granted only on the condition that the licensee is not, and does not publicly present themselves as (in earnest or in support of those views), racist, homophobic, …
Rare recommendation from me. Black Mirror S7E01 is … too dark for our time. I know that only encourages people to find it out, but read the plot somewhere (Wikipedia, Google, etc.) without watching the episode, and you’ll understand why. We’re in a dark time. This is too dark for …
Watching an old TNG episode “The Outrageous Okona.” It is a bit funny, because ‘Okona’ is clearly a Han Solo pastiche, and in the opening credits, you see “Guest Starring Joe Piscopo as The Comic.” Loving the sheer ’80s/’90s-ness of this episode.only a …
@TonyPannWBAL: Ok. I guess I have to address this. The information on your phone app comes FROM data provided by NOAA for free. NOAA gathers weather data (daily balloon launches) and feeds it into the modeling so your phone can tell you it’s going to rain tomorrow. Saying we don’t need …
A Fake Expert. A Book Cover. An Amazon Search. That’S It. That’S How We Got Here.: @RetroAgent12: How did we get here? Donald Trump tanked the economy based on a book his son-in-law found on Amazon. He told Jared Kushner to find him an economic advisor—someone who could make him “look tough” and talk tough on China. Jared searched Amazon, saw a book called Death by China, and …
TNG Wisdom: Worf: “Thinking about what you can’t control only wastes energy and creates its own enemy.” Picard: “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.” Troi: “Feelings aren’t positive or negative, they simply exist. …
Trump Defunds School Lunches In Maine Over Transgender People
Kids are not responsible for:Caring for siblings Being emotional supports for adults Finding money to pay bills Creating rules, structure, and order because the adults can’t or won’t Taking care of their parents emotionally Managing fights between parents Protecting themselves from …
“This is for someone who’s been putting themselves last for too long. You are worth prioritizing. Your beauty is undeniable, your spirit is unmatched, and the way you care for others is a gift, But don’t forget to care for you. You are worth celebrating.”
“You are an irreplaceable gash in the fabric of reality. Your keening static howl is like no other, and if it faded from the abyss, the void that would remain would be unfillable, and the mansions of silence would forever fill with our lament.”
Night Vale: There is no cause for concern. We’re way past that now. If you’re not at least feeling mild terror then you haven’t been paying attention.
vanillecannellemiel: Every protein bar is called something like “double chocolate indulgence caramel cookie dough delight crunch” and tastes like clay and sawdust.
Erik Moeller: “I find Trump as repulsive as most people here, but as a German, one thing I want to push back on is focusing only on one man. Hitler’s rise was possible because he was able to exploit the racial hatred and conspiratorial thinking that already existed. It’s MAGA …
@anammostarac: “As a guiding principle, the notion that ‘bees don’t waste their time explaining to flies that honey is better than shit’ has helped me filter out a lot of opinions.”
Bertrand Russell: “First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent.”
Stagflation: Stagflation is when an economy experiences two negative conditions at the same time: Slow or stagnant economic growth (meaning the economy isn’t producing more goods and services) High inflation (meaning prices keep rising) Think of it this way: In a healthy economy, businesses produce more …
Christopher Eccleston: “As a kid, I hated ‘Star Wars’ but I loved ‘Star Trek.’ And I’ve since realized the reason I love ‘Star Trek’ is because it is entirely about character. You have villains and some space but it’s basically a brilliantly …
50 Ways to Rest Nicola Jane Hobbs Take a slow deep breath. Relax your shoulders. Soften your jaw. Turn your face towards the sun. Sway your hips. Hug a loved one. Hug yourself. Sigh. Yawn. Cry. Bake. Knit. Read. Dawdle. Doodle. Daydream. Stretch. Give your feet a little massage. Have a hot shower. …
University of Cincinnati removes ‘biological’ bathroom signs
Trump orders Women’s History Museum to remove trans people
Bart Mashes Up All The BIGGEST Songs From The Simpsons
When on Wik-eh-ped-ay / it’s the Picture of the Day / it’s a moray!
Anna Gunn - Skyler White herself - was in the “Backstreet’s Back” music video.
Trump Admin Threatens To Pull California School Funding Unless It Forcibly Outs Trans Students
It is kind of funny-sad how your chest heaves the same way when you are trying to restrain sobs and when you are trying to restrain upchucking.
2025-03-28: So, I’m embarrassed, but not for a good reason. It’s been a TOUGH day. Said goodbye to my therapist. Then worked. Then accidentally spilled soda on my power strip enough that it literally began buzzing and smoking. Cautiously but frantically (until today, I would not have thought you …
Not With a Bang, but a Fucking Signal Ping (Erik Veland): Erik Veland: The Hegseth Signal Scandal is not just a mistake. It’s a sign that the fascist coup is sloppy, dangerous, and fully operational. This wasn’t “oops, wrong text.” It was Project 2025 protocol in action. Here’s why this has intelligence vets raging and democracies trembling: …
Rising Sun, Michael Crichton: The American press reports the prevailing opinion. The prevailing opinion is the opinion of the group in power.
Very Interesting AVENGERS Theory: A: This is how Tony Stark figured out time travel, because we know in Endgame he uses a Möbius strip as the shape to figure out time travel, but the reason why Marvel and the Russo brothers use this shape is actually crazy. B: To be fair, I have no idea what a Möbius strip even does. A: Okay, so if …
Executive Orders Have Never Been Kingly Edicts - So Why Are We Treating Trump's EOs That Way?: I do not understand why Trump’s executive orders are currently being treated as faits accomplis, even by those challenging them. EOs have to stay inside Constitutional boundaries (Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer); they can’t contradict or override federal laws or even spend …
“I had a professor in college who used to start solving every problem with the same dialogue. “Prof: What’s the first step to solving any problem? “Class: Don’t panic. “Prof: And why is that? “Class: Because we know more than we think we do. “I think …
Anthony Bourdain: “There are few things I care about less than coffee. I have two big cups every morning: light and sweet, preferably in a cardboard cup. Any bodega will do. I don’t want to wait for my coffee. I don’t want some man-bun, ‘Mumford and Son’ motherfucker to …
Yung Pueblo: Five green flags that get overlooked: kind eyes, open heart, good energy, caring actions, honest speech.
Paul Krugman: “The answer is ‘yes.’ These people are both incompetent and evil.”
Carrot Disassembly Hack
Happiness when cat becomes mom the first time!
DS9 Dance Party!
Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing (Official NASA Broadcast)
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande’s Showstopping Oscars Opening Performance
AJR - World’s Smallest Violin
Hey, ChatGPT ...: Q: By American law, what would happen if a President was determined to have fraudulently altered vote counts to gain the Presidency? A: Under American law, if a President were found to have fraudulently altered vote counts to secure the presidency, several legal consequences could ensue: Criminal …
D.L. Mayfield: Here's My Pep Talk After Studying Authoritarianism: D.L. Mayfield: Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism: They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement be they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled thru terror.If they can't terrorize you 24/7 in your mind, they have already lost the …
Red-Nosed vs. White-Faced Comedians: The terms red-nosed comedian and white-faced comedian are recognized in comedy, drawing from classic clown typologies. The red-nosed comedian (like Robin Williams) typically embodies: A chaotic, improvisational styleHigh energy and physical comedyOften vulnerable, emotional, and …
Robi Locksley: “I’m going to tell you why so much of conservative comedy isn’t funny. “And it has nothing to do with punching down instead of up, or lacking empathy and curiosity. Those are all definite hallmarks of conservative comedy, but they’re not why it’s so …
Infinite Contradictions: The enemy is laughably weak but so incredibly strong that we need to unite with the full force of the state to fight them.Helping people hurts people.We need free market competition to stop the monopolies created by free market competition.The victors are the real victims.Your labour is required for …
Leavitt: “It’s only because of the United States of America that the French aren’t speaking German right now.” @jackjenkins.me: … just gonna point out she is saying this just 50 yards or so from Lafayette Square, which sits immediately outside the White House and …
@birrion: Hating Nazis should be the default position. @alexdmub: “My favorite college professor once said, ‘There are two normative positions everyone needs to hold: Nazis are bad, and slavery is bad.’ Anyone who doesn’t meet both of these criteria shouldn’t be taken …
You are allowed to say, at any point, I cannot support this. Even if you did before. Even if you were unsure. You can at any point say, This has gone too far. And while the best time to say that was earlier, the second best time is now.
@aeirlys.bsky.social: Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later. Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner.
@NoLieWithBTC: The Pentagon is about to brief Elon Musk on the US military’s plan for a potential war with China. This means that Musk now has access to the country’s most important military secrets.
nothanks-anyway: “Look into the history of resistance to fascism, it will make you feel better. Lots of people hid. Lots of people resisted in small ways. I heard of a woman who skipped stitches in the gas masks that the Nazis forced her to sew. You are not guaranteed tomorrow, you could be in …
lolitalempicka: My favorite quote by Freud is definitely the one where he’s writing to his fiancée and he’s like, I’m gonna make you eat so much. You are just a little weak baby, and I’m a big cokehead. FOUND IT: Woe to you, my princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red …
We All Warned You. We Repeatedly Warned You.: His VP ... warned you.His Chief-of-Staff ... warned you.His Defense Secretary ... warned you.His Joint Chiefs-of-Staff ... warned you.Historians ... warned you.Pundits ... warned you.Former Presidents ... warned you.His sexual assault victim(s) ... warned you.World economists ... warned you.Judges …
tatanarchist: Is anyone else just, like, constantly filled with rage about their position under late capitalism and how we are expected to just keep playing this game that we know will literally kill us, is already killing people all over the world, and yet everyone around us is somehow fine with …
Anti-Capitalist Affirmations: I am allowed to spend my time creating things, even if they are not beautiful.There is no such thing as a "real job." All forms of work are real and valid.There is nothing that I need to accomplish to be worthy. I am already worthy.Doing nothing is good for my soul.I am not defined by what I …
@TetraspaceWest: The average voter doesn’t understand why criminals get trials. Giving innocent people trials, sure, then they get to prove their innocence. But criminals? That just sounds like an expensive process between them and their imprisonment, and gives them a chance to wriggle out of …
@beecycling@romancelandia.club: Corporations want you to think ‘red tape’ is a bunch of arbitrary rules to frustrate business. But most of it is regulations that protect people. That make water, food, drugs and buildings safe. That protect you in your workplace and your children in their …
@ColumbiaBDS: Breaking: Columbia University has just suspended, expelled, and revoked degrees from 22 students for protesting genocide in Palestine. @BallouxFrancois: A university degree is a qualification, not a morality clause. A University revoking degrees for ‘wrong think’ makes a …
“It’s entirely possible to provide food, clothing, shelter, housing, education and medical care for every human being on the planet without fighting a war or ripping anybody off or handing over control of yourself to someone else.”
“God, grant me the patience to work with the unjust systems I cannot change today; the courage to strategically enact progress when I know I can; and the wisdom to know that, despite structural oppression, I still can make a difference. Amen.”
FDR, 1938: " … the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling …
KenBob Creations: This pathetic moron [RFK Jr.] claims the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by flu vaccines. The first flu vaccine was introduced in the 1930s and they weren’t widely available until the 50s. This is the idiot the Orange Buffoon put in charge of HHS.
@qephatziel: “If you’re hiding a friend in your attic, and his mortal enemy comes to the door and asks if he’s there, the ‘question’ is a lie. They’re really asking ‘can I come in and kill your friend?’ ‘No’ is a completely truthful answer …
Vomiting is the last true Zen state that a person can experience: a moment of complete worldly abandon and absolute, total thoughtless focus. Shitting is supposed to be that, too, but phones have ruined it. Nobody’s on their phone while they’re puking, and if they are, then God has truly …
prokopetz: In my less charitable moments, I can’t help but suspect that the real reason “inspirational” stories about “Disabled Folks Beating the Odds™” are so enormously popular is that they reassure us that “Disabled Folks [who don’t] Beat the Odds™” …
I keep hearing people ask, “Is America ready for a woman president? Or a gay president?” Funny thing is, I never heard anyone ask if America was ready for an incompetent, vindictive, mentally unstable, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, traitorous egomaniac … and yet, here we are.
Yung Pueblo: It is normal to feel down, tired, and emotionally exhausted when you are going through a big transition. Especially when you have to let go of something good for the chance at something better. Great changes are not meant to be easy, they arise to inspire your growth.
Nemik, Andor: “So much going wrong, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly. The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.”
@katefeetie: Is the Left “obsessed” with gender, sexuality, race, etc., or are they just constantly having to defend people in marginalized groups against a Right wing that’s actually obsessed with gender, sexuality, race, etc.?
Dr. Audrey McMahon, MSF child and adolescent psychiatrist: “The children themselves have begun to question their belonging to humanity. We have to ask ourselves - is this the world we want children to grow in? Is that the world we want for them?”
Detective Tracer Bullet (Calvin): “I’ve got eight slugs in me. One’s lead, and the rest are bourbon.”
@chriswarcraft.bsky.social: First, they came for the Palestinian protestor. And I … … said, “Hey, you Nazi fucks, you’re being Nazis, everyone else, we need to shut these motherfuckers down RIGHT now!" Because I actually paid attention to the poem.
Terry Pratchett: But … history was full of the bones of good men who’d followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started, following bad orders.
Laura Jane Grace: Growing up, I never had a role model to show me that you can be trans and live a happy life. I hope that I can be that source of hope for someone out there who’s struggling.
“Bullies aren’t just teenagers in high school. They are also adults in offices with nice titles who thinks they have the right to break the spirits of others so they can feel better about their miserable lives.”
@crispinoblong: If reproduction, heterosexuality, and cis-ness for everyone are so natural, then why do these values have to be violently enforced by the state?
“You’re not failing at being happy – you’re recovering from overwhelming stress. Please be patient and allow your mind some recovery time; this won’t last forever.”
“You’re not failing at being happy – you’re recovering from overwhelming stress. Please be patient and allow your mind some recovery time; this won’t last forever.”
Yung Pueblo: If you are wondering who your people are, they are the ones who make your heart feel seen and your nervous system feel calm. Yes, it’s that simple.
Captain America: “This isn’t funny. Racism, bigotry, irrational, ignorant hate. It’s all helping to fragment this country. The Sons of the Serpent help that whole sick process.”
Dear Democratic Party, Take off the fucking gloves and do whatever the fuck it takes to preserve the rule of law. Sincerely, 245 Years of America.
Mary Quinn: “There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the other person, but because if you don’t speak, they have changed you.”
howdoistormspirit: You stab Caesar? You stab his body like the enemy? Oh! Oh! Jail for Brutus! Jail for Brutus for 1,000 years!!
@colevecc.bsky.social: A lot of technology will become obsolete, but few will reach the level of obsolete as the VHS rewinder.
They want you so worried about men transitioning to women that you won’t notice the USA transitioning to the USSR.
[walks into bookstore] Me: do you have any books on turtles? Worker: Hard back? Me: Yeah, with little heads.
Real Talk Kim: “You are good enough. Actually, you’re probably overqualified, but let’s start the week off humble.”
Kari J. Sariah: “So I’m confused: are trans people too strong to play in sports, or do they weaken the military?”
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About - The Onion
No matter how much you trust the police, remember the police are trained to never trust you.
Yung Pueblo: The energy of the year is: Love me well or leave me alone.
The IWW was founded in Chicago, Illinois in June 1905.
In This House We Say Please, Thank You and Fuck Trump
These are all stones.
Livecraft, laughcraft, Lovecraft.
Grooving areas.
Performative government, rather than serious people.
“THey’re coming for you, Barbara!”
gulistan-blog on Tumblr
1981 Atari VCS Catalog
Peter Trapasso.
Believe It or Not, Saturn’s Rings Disappeared Today
Syd Mead: Future Pastime: Wish I was in New York.
Northwoods Baseball Sleep Radio
Page about badass Marine Bea Arthur deleted in ongoing DEI purge
These scientists are building a cat database to understand why they act like that
Trump to block Canadians from entering border-straddling library
Trump Orders US Military to Plan Invasion of Panama to Seize Canal: Report | Common Dreams
It's an Absolute Joy to Watch Their Little Brains Marvel : “I’ve never owned a kitten before this one, and I always kind of assumed that baby animals were born with implicit understandings of things like heat and what water is, but he’s really proving me wrong at every turn. This tweet was prompted by him sticking his arm shoulder-deep …
recall-all-republicans batboyblog: “In a country where the only real options are ‘Democrats’ or ‘Nazis who will hurt everyone,’ the only moral thing to do is not only to vote for the Democrats, but also do whatever you can to talk other people into voting for them too. …
“Independent journalist Marisa Kabas broke the story that two members of the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ are now installed at CISA: Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old known as ‘Big Balls,’ and Kyle Schutt, a 38-year-old software engineer. Kim Zetter of Wired …
“As a result, transgender men who have undergone top surgery could face criminal charges for entering a men’s changing room or taking off their shirts at a pool. Transgender women, even those who have had bottom surgery, could be prosecuted simply for using women’s changing rooms, showers, or …
University of Cincinnati Protests Lead to “Biological” Bathroom Signs Reversal
Matt Zoller Seitz (@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social): “A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last three years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that.”
Maya Angelou: “Trying to make it simpler, trying to make it beautiful, trying to make the language sing.” Graham, Joyce. “Making Language Sing: An Interview with Maya Angelou.” (Journal of Reading, vol. 34, no. 5, Feb. 1991, p. 409.)
SMBC: “Etymologically, the term ‘Armageddon’ refers to ‘Har Megiddo,’ meaning ‘Mount Megiddo.’ That hill still exists as part of the Tel Megiddo National Park. The park has a giftshop. You can do this: ‘Guess who brought home souvenirs from the …
“Memories of the irreversible harm I caused others in the past. Me practicing self-compassion, acknowledging what I did was harmful and cdan’t be undone, but knowing that I worked on myself and have better coping skills and supports now and can choose to be kind to myself and …
Jay Shetty: “Never stop being a good person because of bad people.”
CFR: “To whom it may concern: I now realize that what I love in you is what I want to become. I must go now We’ll meet again, but until then, thank you for everything.”
Yung Pueblo: “Feeling without fueling. Emotional maturity is what happens when you can feel your heavy emotions without letting them take total control over your actions. Recognizing when your emotions are clouding your perspective and simultaneously not allowing yourself to make big decisions …
Steve Blair: “Trump’s furious because as a Bishop, Budde can move as far she wants diagonally, but as a Russian pawn he can only move one square at a time.”
It Saddens Hitler to Have Anybody Call Him Dictator PARIS, May 22 (U.P.). - Fuehrer Adolf Hitler was quoted by the newspaper Journal today as saying in an interview with Abel Bonnard, member of the French Academy: “It is thought abroad that Germany lives under a dictatorship. But a regime like …
What’s your favorite accent to use on ChatGPT Advanced Voice? - YouTube
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Calls Reporters Assholes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reli… … this is just interesting.
I feel like an idiot, but just realized McDonaldland Cookies = animal cookies.
Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks to help low-income families
Have discovered that there is no world yet where you can convince an LLM to accurately craft even mediocre-level puns.
“You’ve spent two years fighting not just for your survival, but for the very idea of democracy—something that used to mean something in America. And now, just when you need us most, you’ve got to deal with a bunch of spineless, Putin-curious buffoons treating your struggle like a game of …
“Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain." The 8-Bit Era’s Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A No more in-person town halls, NRCC chief tells House Republicans What can I do to fight this coup? “Not a single U.S. citizen was …
Susie Dent: “Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain."
Susie Dent: “Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.” — Bluesky
catch-fart: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind
Palpatine is a Rapper - YouTube
On July 31, 2019 Trump has a private meeting with Putin. On August 3, 2019, just three days after his private meeting with Putin Trump issues a request for a list of top US spies. By 2021 the CIA reports an unusually high number of their agents are being captured and/or being murdered. During the …
Pedro Pascal: I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.
Harley Diamond: My neighbor was complaining they were short on money. I went over there and found a TON of savings for them. First, I sold both of their cars for them, I fired the babysitter who watches their children after school, and I canceled the fire insurance on their home. I saved that family …
Domestic Enemy Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social): I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.
SMBC: Sally’s Boss: Sally, did you learn how to do your job better with AI as I instructed? Sally: Yes. Sally’s Boss: Great. So can you work twice as fast now?" Sally: Sorry, you’ve used up your requests for Sally to work harder. More will be made available in two weeks. …
D.L. Mayfield: Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism: 1).They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement b/c they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled thru terror. If they can’t terrorize you 24/7 in your mind, they have already lost …
Kurt Eichenwald: I am going to try to explain why there is so much outrage in the intelligence agencies about what Trump did on Saturday in his CIA speech. Imagine having a campaign rally at the National Cemetery. Or a cocktail fundraiser amid the grave markers of U.S. soldiers in Normandy. This …
Puppy wudga wudga.
Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493) — The Public Domain Review
Alnur Mussayev: In 1987, I worked in the 6th Department of the KGB of the USSR in Moscow. The most important area of work of the 6th Department was the acquisition of spies and sources of information from among businessmen of capitalist countries. It was in that year that our Department recruited …
Ian Fleming’s original James Bond novel - Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who’s a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he’s a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!
“In ancient Athens, the world’s first democracy, they had a process called ostracism, where once a year the people could vote on the politician they thought was most destructive to the democratic process. The ‘winner’ was banished from Athens for 10 years.”
“I do not get mad. I get distant.”
Declaration of Independence: “A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
Sophie LaBelle: Being against the existence of an observable aspect of life won’t make it cease to exist.
Agnorant: “People who are extremely ignorant, yet are simultaneously extremely arrogant. Example: people who think they know more about science than scientists.”
Tywin Lannister, Game of Thrones S3E10 “Myhsa”: “Any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king.”
**The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, Gustave Le Bon (1896): **“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify reror, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever …
Types of Irish folk songs: (1) screw the British Empire; (2) a hot girl got me sent to prison; (3) I’m having a nice time with my friends; (4) whiskey will cure all ills; (5) whiskey will ruin your life; (6) here’s everything that was on this one ship.
List of plays adapted into feature films - Wikipedia National Park Service in Turmoil After 1,000 Staff Abruptly Cut
Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings | Electrek What If Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987?
White House tweets ‘ASMR’ video of immigrants in shackles Anti-Trans Headers Placed On Websites Judge Ordered Trump To Restore More Hospitals Resume Trans Care After Trump’s EO Temporarily Blocked In Court (AZ, VA) USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and …
10% of NASA’s workforce has been laid off—guess that’ll be a boost for SpaceX. Trump stooge Tom Homan has taken to the Fox News airwaves to complain about a Congressperson explaining to people about their rights. Homan claims he’s sought aid from the Department of Justice, as somehow informing …
I have fallen in love with a federal judge. Forgive the extended paste. It’s the last bit that’s chef’s kiss. REYES: [The order] calls an entire category of people dishonest, dishonorable, undisciplined, immodest, who lack integrity, people who have taken an oath to defend this …
I was hungry You cut my food stamps I was thirsty You let my water pipes rust I was a stranger You took me and put my child in a cage I needed clothing You made me sleep on the streets I was sick You denied me healthcare I was in prison So your friends could make a profit Whatever you do to the …
Whenever one person stands up and says “wait a second, this is wrong”, it helps other people to do the same.
There exists a quantity of artificial butter flavor beyond which people begin to believe it’s not butter. This is known as the margarine of error.
Marble sculpture of a frog, Shang Dynasty (1600-1045 B.C.)
Spider Jerusalem, Transmetropolitan: “…You people don’t know what the truth is! It’s there, just under their bullshit, but you never look! That’s what I hate most about this fucking city – lies are news and truth is obsolete!”
Trump Uses Supreme Court Immunity Ruling to Claim “Unrestricted Power”
American Bar Association, 2/10/2025: “In the three weeks since President Trump’s inauguration, we’ve seen wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize …
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal : Man: Hey girl. The longstanding social arrangement in which heterosexual men found purpose by providing security for a family has been altered by modern women’s self-sufficiency. The increase in service-sector employment along with women’s higher average social networking ability has …
Smile on Your Lips and Song in Your Heart
Child Was Born (1977) (Sergey Vasilyev)
“A construction in which one word or phrase is understood to fill a parallel syntactic role in two or more clauses or phrases, as with the verb was in She was upstairs, and her husband downstairs.” zeugma - definition and meaning
"[The U.S. Constitution’s] Article V’s procedures can be applied to Article V itself. It can therefore be altered in a ‘downward’ direction, making it easier to alter the article again in the future." Gödel’s Loophole
“That unbearable heaviness you feel in your heart and soul? That’s your humanity talking. You’re a good person caught in a cruel world.”
I love when a show can outwit the back of my head. I wll figure out stuff a lot of the time even if I don’t want to. But sometimes, it surprises me. “THIS is the Bad Place” is an example, followed by that delightful villain-laugh …
“Piracy can’t be stealing if paying for it isn’t owning.”
heiditron3000: “Hi there, I’m Glenn Frey of The Eagles for Milk of Magnesia. You know, when I’m running down the road trying to loosen MY load, I’ve got seven women on my mind–but only one laxative. Yes, Milk of Magnesua really lets me…take it easy.”
HenpeckedHal: Last night my seven-year-old asked to go to bed about 20 minutes before her normal bedtime. “Are you sleepy?” I asked. She said, “I’m not tired, I’m just tired of being awake,” and brother, I felt those words in my bones.
Some Americans Had No Clue Joe Biden Dropped Out, Google Trends Suggests
lolennui: Very troubling that the song “Monster Mash” isn’t the Monster Mash — it’s a song about the Monster Mash, which is not itself heard on the track, and is fundamentally unknowable to us.
Spoilers for a 4-5-yo movie (GLASS): it’s a bit hilarious when the Beast is trying to squeeze Dunn to death and then Dunn just starts walking across the factory floor. (Hey, support.bsky.team, neat feature idea: spoiler text like >!spoilers herer!< ? I could see it being abused, but …
Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them Artist’s Work Pulses With New Life After Open-Heart Surgery and a Series of Hallucinations
Elon Musk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then a mob went to work. Trump to Fire Hundreds From FAA Despite Four Deadly Crashes on His Watch Why is Twitter censoring links to Signal? Meta Says It’ll Tattle to Trump If EU Keeps Being Mean
bethanyblack.bsky.app: I heard there was a secret ooze / that turned four reptiles into dudes, / but you don’t really care for turtles do ya direbeard.bsky.app: It’s a cold and / it’s a broken / “cowabunga”
Dunkin' Donuts' Used to Have a Namesake Donut with a Handle
imustgoon: “A piece of advice worth passing on: I often think of the words by Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett: ‘I must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.’ […] We can, and will, overcome. Resilience is a feature of humanity, in all of us, to be tapped …
Opinion: Bluesky is a dangerous echo chamber because no one wants to hear from me, specifically - The Beaverton
A Female Sci-Fi Character Written By a Male Writer
“South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol walked back his Tuesday declaration of martial law hours after the country’s National Assembly voted to strike down his stunning decree that sparked a constitutional crisis for one of the closest U.S. allies in Asia."
GOP attempt to ban Zooey Zephyr from women’s restroom fails
Alex Consani, the first trans woman Model of the Year
Weird Al Gets Whiplashed
Scientist Explains How Climate Crisis Would Be Averted If Greta Thunberg Just Tried A Little Harder
Brennan Lee Mulligan: Self-loathing has never motivated anyone to do anything other than loath themselves. You will not hate yourself into being industrious.
marianaO5: Just helped my neighbour bury a rolled up carpet in the woods. Her boyfriend would’ve done it, but he’s out of town.
Yung Pueblo: If you are wondering who your people are, they are the ones who make your heart feel seen and your nervous system feel calm. Yes, it’s that simple.
Pretty awesome as a Gen-Xer who grew up with this stuff. It’s an amazing slice of Transformers lore and the voice cast is astonishingly good. Cullen and Welker weren’t the voices - but Hemsworth and Henry are very good successors. Transformers One
Thanks, HBO. “Doesn’t matter”? Are you kidding? HBO openly welcoming J.K. Rowling involvement in Harry Potter series
Feeling a bit similar to those whose reactions are depicted here. She took on a lot more than her district when she won, and I can’t think she didn’t know what she was going to be in for. :( Trans people demand Sarah McBride fight for bathroom rights
This woman is … evil. Nancy Mace’s anti-trans bathroom bill controversy explained
“You remember Alice? This is a story about Alice.” The real Alice of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” dies at 83
There’s a Polish term called gowniaki, which is a bad word for children. It roughly translates to shitlings.
Scientists reveal the shape of a single ‘photon’ for the first time
bfcrane: It wasn’t until I got online that I learned that most people watch The X-Files as a slow burn love story. Every comment and post is like “look at how he looks at herrrrr.” This isn’t Romeo and Juliet, it’s about a high functioning autistic man and his Catholic …
cavaticat: My friend just called capybaras “guinea bigs” and I will never be the same.
Anthony Zenkus: The working class is under no obligation to mourn the deaths of those who are actively trying to kill them.
Steve Bannon floats an unconstitutional candidate: Trump in 2028
“Snoopy vs. the Red Baron,” by the Royal Guardsmen. Listen to it. The very beginning now sounds like a Bill Cosby impression.
Grease ‘Summer Nights’ x Black Eyed Peas ‘My Humps’ #mashup
“The name ‘Sha Ka Ree’ was taken from ‘Sean Connery’, the actor Star Trek producers originally wanted to play Sybok. Unfortunately, Connery was busy working on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and was unavailable to play the part.” Star Trek Movie Memories …
Shrinking S1E7: “Hey, you can call my vagina any state, but you do not call it Florida, okay?”
Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music
“Facebook’s internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware”
Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight than ever before - ABC News
How to support trans kids after Trump’s gender-affirming care ban
Trans care ban leaves Trump with ‘blood on his hands’: A4TE
School Systems Across US Declare They Will Not Comply With Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order
ICE Agent Decides He Wants Kids After Seeing Incredible Love And Devotion Of Parents Begging Him Not To Take Their Child - The Onion
New Square Feature Allows Customers To Tip With Bible Quote - The Onion
Slavery - legitimate slavery - still exists in a common circumstance throughout the U.S..
dgaraus.social: You can tell Monopoly is an old game. There’s a luxury tax and rich people can go to jail.
Scotty303: When I was a kid in Atlantic City, Trump came to our catholic school for a senator’s fundraiser. He gave all the kids a voucher for a free ice cream cone and some arcade tokens at his casino. None of the vouchers were valid. That was the day I knew he was a fucking liar. lol.
thefurrow: Witnesses said a bus driver told an ICE agent to “gargle [his] balls” when the latter requested to enter the bus.
Eric_S Thomas: Why do people think that if you’re poor you’re not allowed to have self-respect? No, a homeless person doesn’t need to eat “Whatever you give them.” Yes, a poor person is allowed to just have a day of fun or spend money on things to just bring them joy. …
Unknown: I expect to pass through this world but once; if, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do my fellow being, let me do it now; let me not defer, nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
C.C. Jung: Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.
Brandon Lee Mulligan: On the level of individuals and civilizations, personality predates ideology. Meaning, before you were a fascist, you were a bully and an asshole.
No more e-mails. If you need me, you must venture into the woods by candlelight and call out my name three times on a full moon.
DrDoyleSays: It is a misconception that trauma survivors are fixated on the past. We never want to think of the past ever again. We do backflips trying to NOT think about the past. We’re actually really good at denying the past even happened. Problem is: the past isn’t quite through with …
nate_postlethwt: Yes, therapy helps heal trauma. Learning about the mind-body connection is also a great resource. What is often overlooked is the power of validation. The words that tell someone we don’t think they’re crazy, we think they’re hurting. This has immediate and lasting impact.
Noam Chomsky: I don’t know what word in the English language - I can’t find one - applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets. The word ‘evil’ doesn’t even …
mtcstw.bsky.social: People fail to realize that if you remove every ounce of enjoyment from your life, you still can’t afford rent and food. Fundamentally, that’s a huge problem.
Willie Nelson: Your enemy is not the refugee. Your enemy is the one who made him a refugee.
MSNBC: California citrus farmers report that thousands of workers didn’t show up today. Acres of oranges, limes, and lemons are rotting as harvest season is ‘virtually halted’.
davidgrosstv: Calzones are pizzas that sense danger.
Sarah Sizzle: “The longer we don’t comply, the more desperate they become. The more desperate they become, the crazier the demands get. The crazier the demands get, the more people wake up. The more people wake up, the less powerful they become.”
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
I don’t argue with people John Brown would’ve shot.
aschewholesin: The idea that vengeance against evil makes you just as bad as the evil you’re taking up arms against feels very much like something the bad guys would make up and spread across popular culture to make sure we don’t shove their head in a guillotine, just saying.
Worf: Explorers with the courage to cultivate what is righteous, shelter what is innocent, preserve what is beautiful, respect the complexities of what we do not yet understand, and confront what we know to be ignorant and wrong, even when it rises up within our own ranks. […] That is …
“I don’t know, maybe you don’t have to stay considerate in a space you’re not considered, you know what I mean?”
theikonickay: I actually don’t want to climb any corporate ladders. I don’t care about job titles. I don’t need accolades. I just want to have income to fund my lifestyle, not be depressed, help other people, and be around good humans. Dassit.
splityashatovah: Yeah, olive oil and cheese and pastries can make you a little fat. Yeah, sunshine gives you wrinkles and wine ruins your liver and spending money on pretty things eats up your savings. But unfortunately, I’ve decided to enjoy life anyways.
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Janet, The Good Place: “You know, it actually feels more like torture when you discuss your acting process.”
DontJustDoNothing_CounterFascism_IMPOSED.pdf
Handsome as hell. And John’s been acting his ASS off in SEVERANCE lately. John Turturro and Mads Mikkelsen runway for the win.
Their Copyrights Expired. The Legal Threats Keep Coming. | Copyright Lately
“To qualify as a station of despair, a station has to be the last stop on its line, in a remote area, but also on a line that has a major population center and entertainment district somewhere."
UnitedHealthcare Is Mad About ‘In Luigi We Trust’ Comments Under a Doctor’s Viral Post
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Albert Einstein: Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
teewatterss: Watching the final season, it felt so ridiculous that Daenerys could go mad within a two-episode arc. But, 40 days into 2025 and, like … I get it now.
“Worrying is like worshipping the problem. And brother, I’m on my knees.”
jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social: Some federal employees say they found a program downloaded to their govt computers that could be used to sift through team chats to search for keywords. Treasury computers reportedly included.
eplord/EdgeRemover-he3als: PowerShell script to remove Microsoft Edge in a non-forceful manner, or even reinstall it.
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DJ Cummerbund: Everybody and The Sunshine Band
ERB: Napoleon vs Charlemagne
tvtropes.org’s summary of the theme of Everything Everywhere All at Once: “Evelyn and Raymond convincing her that, sure, everything is arbitrary and nothing matters, but we can’t let that stop us from loving each other and living our lives.”
Nostalgia Critic (@channelawesome.bsky.social): “Look at her! She looks like a Jerry Lewis animatronic with extra William Shatner parts!”
Kyle Gordon - We Will Never Die (feat. Kody Redwing and the Broken Hearts) www.youtube.com/watch