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I had a dream I saw a dump truck with thousands of rocks painted as various pride flags. They were being gathered and destroyed. At first it made me very sad, then it made me think of all the people who had painted those rocks and still had that impulse in their hearts.

Quit freaking out. Remember that in 10,000 B.C., when America had ZERO international trade, a family could afford a house like this on a single income.

I inherited a nice couch from my grandparents a decade ago. Its cushions are worn out, so I’m getting new ones made. It’s distressing that doing this will cost the same as a new couch. Like I know why, economies of scale yada yada. But still. Cheaper to get a new thing than fix an old one.

I have some dal but no rice or flatbread. Which is amore unacceptable accompaniment: tortillas or tortilla chips?

The number of people in the comments who don’t remember the original context on this one is pretty amusing.

Very cool work, though looks like this should be understood as a potential recycling technique rather than as a way to mitigate PFAS contaminated sites.

My kid, who has been struggling with reading, just spontaneously read the title to “Catch 22” and therefore I got to explain what a catch 22 is, and now I can die happy.

"Feminism is bourgeois ... which as a member of the aristocracy, I resent."

🧪 Wow! This is potentially huge. Link to the original papers in the article www.abc.net.au/news/health/...

This is extremely striking.

Brandon Sanderson heard our cries for more trans representation among body-stealing immortals and gave us Lady Leshwi’s girldick.

Over the course of the 12th & 13th centuries in Europe, the layout of the page in books became increasingly complex, due to changes to reading practice with the rise of scholasticism & the university. The sophisticated architecture of the page compresses an amazing amount of info into this space.

I don’t know that this is “crazy” so much as “it’s completely consistent for a bunch of billionaires who made their money contributing nothing to human welfare to dislike people who have the desire to do good in the world unconnected from the profit motive.”

I have zero patience for people whining about the price of foreign video games right now. There are millions of people in this country who're about to be unable to afford food, housing, healthcare, and electricity.

I’m getting tired of “every accusation is a confession”.

Hopefully Strom Thurmond took some time out of his busy schedule burning in hell to get the news that he was just beaten by a black man.

Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, according to many election analysts. This after Elon Musk and others poured millions into anti-transgender advertisements in the state. The anti-trans panic failed in Wisconsin. This is a major victory for LGBTQ+ people in the state.

New political outlook on American politics just dropped

Technical explanations of various research I’ve done interspersed with descriptions of various bands and sci-fi/fantasy novels I’ve read.

Has anyone yet written a parody short story about a spider mother who feels guilty for not staying at home and being eaten alive by her offspring?

I thought I could evade this battle by being Not A Woman, but no. It’s time to go to war against my internalized patriarchy. Down with pervasive guilt about not being enough. Up with doing what I can and feeling ok (or maybe even good) about it.

Men can and will learn to adjust to a world where women are their equals. I have no doubt of that. It will likely take a period of adjustment, and some will find it disturbing. But the most obvious thing that needs to happen is power needs to be rebalanced. In finance, in politics, socially.

My couch cussions that my grandma made are basically broken so I’m replacing. I think she may not have used proper upholstery fabric which explains why they only lasted 40 years.

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

You can gain political power, you can use violence against folks who oppose you. But that will never make you cool or worthy of respect. Even if you force folks to stop laughing at you in public, you can be certain they’ll be laughing in private.

Once again, I am disgusted with my state governor and legislature. Framing queer inclusion as “divisive” and homophobia as “neutral” is all too typical.

as it turns out there are worse options than hypocrisy, politically speaking

Do you like protein and fiber and nutmeg? You should try Sweet Potato Breakfast. You bake a sweet potato the night before, let it cool right in the oven, peel it and cut it up, cover with nutmeg, maple syrup, plain yogurt, and chopped walnuts. It’s the descendant of pumpkin pie and parfait you need

The Eagles’ Love Will Keep Us Alive. Perfect unity between awful whiny lyrics and awful whiny singing. Hate hate hate, there is no worse song.

Why the fuck would anyone want to bring kids into this dystopia you and your billionaire pals have created?

This will only hurt law abiding practitioners of ninjitsu

Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect. I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.

But the US never really got over its fascist tendencies, even after we were pushed into positioning ourselves as Freedom Land. The idea that the US is the Great Last Bastion of Freedom and Democracy is *part* of the US's fascist propaganda.

Here’s a slightly new flavor of American exceptionalism. Like: I agree that it would be much better for the world if the US wasn’t becoming a fascist theocracy. But it absolutely *can* become one.

It was a big mistake to let “Nazis” come to be imagined as these over-the-top-evil monsters who reside safely in the past rather than as people who follow an ideology that’s all similar to things many contemporary people believe.

I don’t think merely fighting in the courts and in congress will be enough anymore.

I’m struck by the echo of what people say about science. “Science isn’t always right but it has the capacity to self-correct!” This is trueish of science under good conditions. There isn’t actually much evidence that it’s true of current or recent US democracy.

Article about James Dobson’s early-career ties with eugenicists. Many similarities between what he taught about discipline within the Christian Patriarchal White Family and ABA techniques used to “normalize” autistic kids. The child isn’t a person to be nurtured but a creature to be trained.

Getting warts frozen off has been the highlight of my day so far.

Outfits like this: ☑️ Conceal your identity. ☑️ Raise the moral of fellow protesters. ☑️ Get shared widely on social media, amplifying your struggle. Pikachu is praxis.

The same folks who say “humans won’t be needed” because of AI also fret about birth rate decline. What do you want these apparently superfluous humans to do? Suffer for the amusement of the handful of billionaires who own the AI? No thanks.