"the Left annoyed people into voting for fascism" how about we stop infantilizing voters and start assigning them the responsibility they deserve as fucking adults

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

I have been rereading Meljean Brook's Iron Seas series and I still think she writes some of the best protagonists, healthiest relationships, and best spice. Not to mention the worldbuilding! SO good.

yes! extremely wrong!

RIGHT?

‪every time I hear someone's first name on The Pitt I'm like "no, incorrect, name does not fit". Robby's name is MICHAEL? Javadi's name is VICTORIA? absolutely not

Men should wake up every day grateful that women only want equality and not revenge.

what an adorable snoot btw

A black-and-white name like Checkers/Keys/Puffin/Retro orrrr a Bandit offshoot like Marshal/Floyd/Posse/Doc?

Away!
(This is why we need polls on Bluesky)

that is a good turn of phrase

if you don't publicly fund archives the only history that gets remembered is the stuff rich people want remembered

there's an episode of Modern Family where Claire gets mad at Phil because he goes "my buddy at work turned me on to this great thing - wedge salad, you gotta try it" after she has recommended he try it MANY times and he can't figure out why she is upset and let's just say I think about it a lot

Finally, a comprehensive debunking of Rebel News' ridiculous and dishonest "Save the Ostriches" grift:

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My favorite thing is when you stop petting a dog and they put their paw on your arm like, "we're not done here."

“If we’ve learned anything by how this government appoints their friends and insiders, we know that this is not in the interest of our community,” Fife said. #onpoli

www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

Region of Waterloo pauses affordable housing projects due to high costs of construction, financing | CBC News The high cost of construction and interest rates is forcing the delay of an affordable housing project in Kitchener. The region is looking to create more than 300 affordable units on Mooregate Crescen...

Regional Council just said yes to a $173 million police communications centre btw

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

trying to decide if I can use today's experience of referencing "Large Case Georg" to explain a changing sales trend to the department VP in my CPA Practical Experience report

It's the annual Ask a Manager salary survey! Every year, vastly fewer men fill this out than women. Men, please share your salary info (anonymously) so we have concrete salary comparisons to inform pay negotiations and fight the pay gap

Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.

Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.

If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.

So must you.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

tumblr user quasi-normalcy says: "I don't trust anyone who hasn't acknowledged their capacity for evil. "I'm just a smol bean uwu" No sir, what you are is someone who is so habituated to thinking of yourself as innocent that you will continue to do so even when you're guity. And if you convince yourself that you're always and only a victim, you can inflict absolutely monstrous cruelty and never once feel bad about it."

random close-of-weekend thoughts

doodled in the bulletin and reread the salacious parts of the Bible

Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents!

are they a little older? older (but not spoiled) eggs will stand vertically in water when they boil so the space at the one end is empty

diversity is important for so many reasons, but specifically it helps me tell people apart

I am only tangentially aware of the Artemis crew, why does it look like Jeremy Hansen has been cloned

valid

shout out to everyone baking leavened things this morning and going "it is risen indeed!" as you take it out of the oven