i LOVE the way y'all break this down, and the fact that you said they don't trust emotions really broke something open for me.

but it's like, they don't trust emotions, we know they don't trust science, what the fuck DO they trust??

something that an @illconceivedpodcast.com listener pointed out to me is that part of the reason reactionaries are so precious about the phrase “pregnant women,” beyond how it erases trans people, is that it conveniently obfuscates the reality that children can, and do, get pregnant too

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I remember being told as a child, "All the real best writers write for Playboy." Obviously, wanting to read the best writers, I tried to get Playboys, and was viciously denied...

Now, as a grown up, I can read a Playboy, and say:

I have never read a funnier, more devastating essay about protein.

the thing about the cyberpunk future is that we are 100% living in and it 100% *looks* nothing like the cyberpunk future once imagined

this trips people up

yeah, i realized just now that the disconnect was me thinking strictly in terms of career dancers and not as an exercise routine that's not as demanding as the professional standards 😅

i realize that the disconnect for me was that i was thinking of ballet strictly in terms of career dancers and not as an exercise routine that's not as demanding as the professional standards 😅

*call

yeah, i def needed to eat BEFORE i wrote that 😅

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

also, as someone who spends a considerable amount of time on their feet (retail worker), correct me if i'm wrong, BUT i feel like ballet would just exacerbate foot issues???

also, idk why everyone went so hard to make "girl dinner" ~a thing~ when depression meal is RIGHT THERE

What kills me about this is that this isn’t even the first time politicians have used this lie.

Every time someone blames the sea lions, know that the real culprit is industrial overfishing - and wouldn’t you know it, look at who’s made some donations to her campaign lmao

also, "justice-involed population" is one hell of a (terrible, tbh) way to try to reframe mass incarceration

instead of "girl-dinner," plus, since it's nearly midnight bc i got out of work late, i'm starting a trend i'd like to witch dinner;

tonight's is tuna mixed with hummus and lemon juice on a toasted bagel thin

THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN *SHOW* ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

i'm re-listening to this, and re: the theme of patrick bateman being Wrong abt music (something that he professes to love!), "dancing in the street" is martha and the vandellas, NOT the shirelles

I am not a lawyer, but am I reading correctly that the majority opinion cited the concern of “irreparable harm” to the coal industry (which employs ~40,000 people) with no mentions of the “irreparable harm” higher CO2 emissions could bring to the population of (at the time) ~7,500,000,000 people?

Just gonna say that one thing all the people who never came to save us better get ready for:

we connected all across this damn country, and we're not going to stop taking care of each other.

so glad to have these folks in my network now. 💓

i HOWLED at peter's quip abt the japanese rat

that's a really tough decision to make, and i feel for you 💜

Linda Yaccarino replies to a Zohran Mamdani tweet to say that taxing rich people's penthouses is "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen"

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

‘It’s a Nightmare’: The Human Toll of the Catholic Church’s Trans Healthcare Ban Missing hormones. Canceled surgeries. Bureaucratic denials. Late last year the Catholic Church banned all trans healthcare across its sprawling networks. The impact on trans people's lives is devastat...

A few days ago, Pope Leo XIV famously stated that "God does not listen’ to prayers of those who wage war." Why, then, has the Roman Catholic Church, under his leadership, waged a genocidal war on the most vulnerable class of human beings?

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Donate to Support for Urgent Home Repairs and Bills, organized by Amihan Rose After my grandmother unexpectedly passed away, I have had to support my mother a… Amihan Rose needs your support for Support for Urgent Home Repairs and Bills

During PAX East, I got some really terrible news from my mother.

Anyone who went probably didn't see very much of me outside of the times I was working a booth, and this situation is why - my family desperately needs my help.

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"How Zendaya’s film characters are 'raced' is almost always an outgrowth of their romantic or sexual worlds, which are almost unilaterally with white men. An extremely fragile veneer of post-racial logic blankets these spiky romances, which take place in conspicuously progressive cities."

It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad. Lately there has been a lot of hand-wringing, and rightly so, about if and how the publishing industry will deal with AI in the wake of the cancelation of the first major book deal due to suspected…

I wrote about how AI in book publishing is a labor issue. "AI paranoia is a symptom of a larger problem: a corporate culture that values quantity over quality, quick output over the very human labor of poring over a manuscript & making sure that each & every word sings."
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In 1990, a bipartisan Congress passed historic bills. Then it cracked apart. 36 years ago, a Republican president and Democratic lawmakers produced monumental laws. Now, a broken Congress has enabled Trump to undo key parts of that legacy.

Sweeping piece by @postkranish.bsky.social: if you want to understand why Republicans moved so far to the right, you have to go back to 1990, when George H.W. Bush and the Democratic Congress passed sweeping legislation on clean air, immigration and disability rights.

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ed blum is straight up just trying to eliminate educational opportunities for black kids under the guise of “equality.”

This is also how dozens of groups with names like the Pinkerton Institute for Economic Morality end up filing amicus briefs at SCOTUS arguing that the CFPB should be executed

i deserve ALL the kudos in the world for not, when my cranky old uber-karen coworker snapped at me, "BELIEVE ME, i've been doing this a while!" immediately smiling and saying, "trust me, nobody would mistake you for a spring chicken."