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public libraries ftw

"I just want to make you aware that-" sir that is an actionable threat.

I always thought the name "The War of Jenkins' Ear" was funny, but now in Iran we're stuck in "The War of Epstein's Files" and I understand.

*in an extremely Oracle of Delphi voice* If Iran doesn't make a deal, a great empire will fall.

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I'm down with adding his name if he earns it the same way Kennedy did.

with the holiday season now officially upon us, it's time to start playing our favorite christmas songs here's one of mine

It's not just seniors anymore: now Florida is also a great place for children to live out their final years.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sitting in a library in a small town reflecting that public libraries (and the unfettered access to knowledge they provide to the community) are one of the most valuable accomplishments of any society. (It thus follows that anyone attempting to defund such institutions are hostis humani generis.)

You know what works better than thoughts and prayers? A functioning government.

On the Arsenio Hall Show, Macho Man Randy Savage had a GREAT answer to the question if he ever cried. Happy Men's Mental Health Awareness Month.

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

I know all the words to Barrett's Privateers, does this qualify me for Canadian citizenship?

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

This facility handles traumatic line of duty death investigations for firefighters. Those reports are used to guide decision making on everything from equipment to tactics to standard operating procedures for firefighters across the country. They are sacred texts. This will kill firefighters.

“Show me the incentives, I’ll show you the outcome.” This is the intersection of influencer culture and politics. Politicians - even cabinet secretaries - believe that their job is to perform for social media. Getting attention is now their main skill, and why they are selected for their roles.

People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

Everyone in the Trump coalition voted for someone to get got. Most of them didn’t realize that they were that someone to someone else.

To all those saying "shouldn't we root out government inefficiency? What's wrong with DOGE?" a quick background on Constitutional law and why the WAY it is being violated exposes the true motives of the criminals:

They said don’t make science political But now scientists aren’t getting paid They said don’t make science political But now we’re backing up our data in fear of losing access to servers They said don’t make science political But now our colleagues fear coming to work…

My fellow Cishet white dudes: It's going to be very easy to put our heads in the sand the next two years and just look away for our own well being and sanity. But we can't just look away. Our trans friends need us. Our queer friends need us. The women in our lives need us. They can't win this alone.

i spent a month investigating how republicans could cut off access to trans healthcare for most americans, and how democrats can likely stop them — but it’s unclear if they will. tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

There are way too many people in the last 24 hours who have seen a white guy with a buzz cut and tattoos and assumed I'm a co-conspirator for their fucked up views.

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

Regardless of how this turns out, the mission remains the same. Look after your people. Look after your community, and especially its most vulnerable members. Fight to leave a better world for those that come after us.

I sent off my ballot this year thinking of my daughter and her future, and I wish that was the apolitical statement that it should be.

In one tab, I study a series of sitreps and the necessarily complex coordination of volunteer, local, state and federal resources as a complicated disaster response takes place. In the other, my elderly aunt observes from hundreds of miles away that she hasn't personally seen the response.

A four-year study showed that anti-transgender laws (which primarily target teens) increased by as much as 72% the suicide attempt rate among trans and nonbinary teens in those areas. www.pennlive.com/reckon/2024/... The goal of these laws was to eliminate people. The lawmakers know what they did.

"[W]e all on earth have a commission and a right to defend the weak against the strong, and to protest against brutality in any shape or form." - Roger Casement, 1864 - 1916

Will Ferrell has an enormous audience of straight dudes who need to hear this. Nothing but facts here about anti-trans bigotry: