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Regular reminder that when you go to things while sick, you are giving those germs to people with autoimmune disorders, you’re passing them to someone’s newborn, to someone’s elderly parents. It’s “just a cold” to you but it can and does severely impact countless people.

I realized today I have a type when it comes to fictional literary characters. The reason I love Kinch Na Shannack from the Blacktongue Thief/The Thricebound Fool by Christopher Buehlman is he is cut from the same cloth as Moist von Lipwig from the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett.

Name two characters you think are the same person. Dean Winchester and Wynonna Earp

Dr. John Carter is just baby Dr. "Robby" Rabinovich (but don't tell Michael Crichton's estate)

Tendi and Tilley

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

I know it’s really distasteful and dispiriting and gross to think about, but you won’t understand Trumpist politics or the status of women if you don’t understand that a lot of people aren’t just in denial about the prevalence of rape; they are affirmatively pro-rape.

That’s also why Vivek isn’t exactly lying when he says he didn’t mean to say Acton lied about being raped as a child. He doesn’t think she lied; he thinks that being raped disqualifies her from office, because she belongs to the class of people power is wielded against, not the class that wields it.

I don’t think this is exactly what’s going on, or all that’s going on. It’s not that Republicans are constructing an elaborate psychological defense against evidence that Trump is a rapist. It’s that they like that he’s a rapist, and they like rape: it enacts the power of the strong over the weak.

Rest In Peace

It turns out that choosing the lesser of two evils is, in fact, a moral imperative. And some folks want to wait for the Revolutionary Perfect, but I would equally challenge them to demonstrate a single time where a 'start from nothing, year-0' revolution has turned out well for most people.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

marissa mayer, fixing ai's gender problem by showing that female ceos can be evil too! 😊

This is the same rational rapist and abusers use when they point out their victims in an act of self preservation behave in a manner of subservience to their abuser to hopefully prevent or mitigate further abuse. This man is a monster and he should feel shame, but he's incapable of it.

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

PLEASE!!!! We need to #DitchFitz.

Me looking at how much money we spent on vacation - must be very good and budget wisely, no more spending on myself until after the holidays. Me five minutes later - Buys a ticket for Are The Bennet Girls Okay.

RFK decided to once again target maskers in a speech, laughing about going to LA and seeing people driving in their cars while masked. And I want to make sure people know that studies have shown that the reason someone might wear a mask in their car is that it's none of your fucking business.

I dropped mine off yesterday. I wouldn’t mail it unless I didn’t have such a convenient option.

Now if I could just get him to repeat this next week for his nail trim appointment.

I saw a beautiful butterfly hanging out on my neighbors tree. I tried to go get its picture, but it flew away so I quickly switched to video. It is perfectly autumnal in color.

Here's how private equity killed your local mall.

This is a terrifying thread.

I need people to understand this selective good ole boy justice — the kind that protects abusers, rewards impunity, and openly flouts rule of law and equal protection under it — is Jim Crow shit, practically speaking. It's how Jim Crow terrorism FLOURISHED. Trump broadened the acceptable targets.

I think about this whenever people are like ah! nevertheless about the possibility that things can change we fixed the fucking ozone layer. we sacrificed. we gave up hairspray. for the environment. in the 80s. we’ll never know the mullet haircuts that could have been so much more bouffant

Captain Homer Jackson.

I binged the amazing Carrie on Amazon Prime and was thrilled to see written by @justinaireland.com pop up on my screen. I had the pleasure of meeting her at a con, and she so kindly signed the books I purchased. If you haven't watched Carrie yet, I highly recommend it.

Israeli settlers are blocking, assaulting, and robbing Palestinian olive harvesters. For some 100,000 families in the West Bank who rely on the harvest for income, this season may decide whether the olive harvest survives at all.