The thing about this insistence that rape victims have some terrifying moral power that ruins men’s lives and compels the public to do anything to avenge them is that it has never once happened. What actually happens is that victims who disclose are ruined and men who are accused gain.
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I'm screaming
I'M FuCKGiN SCREAMING
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Also: look up Zhang Shan. She won gold at the Barcelona Olympics in 1993 in skeet shooting.
Skeet shooting had been a mixed gender event since the 60s, but after her win, they segregated the genders. And in the next Olympic Games, they literally didn’t even have a women’s skeet shooting category.
We can do things if we try. We helped the ozone layer, cleaned rivers, made our air breathable again.
Just a week ago people were crying with joy because we went to space again, talking about humanity coming together.
Climate change? WE CAN DO THAT. We CAN.
We just need the will. Let's go.
I wrote about the possibility that we live in hell and what it means to "choose happiness" johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/just-be-ha...
The art is here, yes, but we are principally foregrounding the people; the artists are present, but so are the dealers and critics. And we did so in the most personal way we could find: through private photographs and mementos and to-do lists. www.vulture.com/article/jerr...
Tapping the sign.
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
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The Revere ride is certainly a display of daring and determination, but it’s not a solo hero’s journey. A wide network of spies supplied Revere with the information about the British troops, and fellow riders are needed to further broadcast his alarm to more distant towns. 6/7
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My main theory of change is collective action through labor organizing, so will look for more thoughts there. A lot of it is coming out of not finding a useful future path in professionalized / compensated political work.
I cannot even begin to tell you.
How fast you will move to the top of my ballot.
If you publicly antagonize AI.
Waialua farmers were flooded again last weekend, the fifth time since February. A local developer says it's time to look for new land, but for many that's unfathomable.
"The GOP is slashing NSF & NEH grants; imposing bans on books, courses and lecture topics; punishing student protesters; blocking foreign students; waging endless lawsuits on colleges and venerating the grifter who created the Professor Watchlist. I wonder why more professors aren't voting GOP?"
If your police department can only comply with 25% of a court order, they should only get 25% of their funding
It’s infuriating when a woman comes forward about a man raping her in his hotel room after drinking and the response is “Why would she go to his room?” “Why would she drink with him?” This is Mike Pence logic. Women should be allowed to hang out with men without expecting they will be raped.
I would love to write an entire article about the physical archives, libraries, and collections that may be without a home when these research stations shut down, and what will happen to those...if you've got any tips for me on this slide into my inbox or DMs or Signal....
I personally think not safe to remain in any personal relationship with anyone who is using LLMs to analyze your relationship, make conclusions about your motives, or determine how to treat you. I think this is beyond red flag—it should be an immediate dealbreaker.
FYSA, the lead story is not "current GenXers brains are bad because lead", it's that lead poisoning disproportionately impacted poor and minority communities and those voters died younger.
Also AIDS killed a lot of young progressive GenXers.
Y'all need to get the fuck off Substack.
You can be any ideology you want in America, as long as the net result of it is hating young women.
According to an annual report, companies are making little progress in reducing the volume of pesticides used in the U.S. food system, despite the increase in public awareness.
Someone ask Trump why Baphomet is giving him air support in his Jesus picture.
It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for
but the whole "the thing counts, how i feel making it is irrelevant" ethos that we get from freelancing life, and from a general history of bad role models everywhere, is not something to strive towards, or a sustainable way to live. skip all of that and prioritize your own fun (it's allowed)
i’d say apple is more bothered that they don’t have any ideas any more. they really haven’t been bad actors for privacy. but they literally have no clue what people want or what matters any more, so they just copy with no strategy. and it’s offensive on multiple (but different) levels
