anyhow, i finished reading this book over the weekend! It feels unique for centring adult figure, but juxtaposing that with roller derby and hockey culture and feeling out cultural & gender issues in all 3. There's no unifying thesis here, but lots of good brain snacking.
...I'm not the same woman as I was before I started skating, and I'm not quite the same woman when I'm skating as when I'm not. Neither is Jacked Rabbit, or my friend, Mary Squires, a figure skater whom asked to rate erself on and the ice on what dykes. perhaps more often in the past, have sometimes called the butch /femme scale, going from superfemme (1) to superbutch (10). Iv wondered if she agreed with my sense of a gap. She did. Off-ice, she was a 4 and on-ice an 8. Her assessment pretty much matched what I would have guessed then, and maybe now, despite the more frequent appearance of skating dresses in her costume repertoire, The difference between the two athletes for me was in the reverse-direction reveals; with Mary, I'd noticed the girl before the skating. My assessment, however, was the same. Damn, that skater is hot!
I'd pick similar numbers to Mary... It's a historical accident that skating became seen as feminine. My feeling for it - ice, speed, steel, competence - has always chimed with my sense of self; masculine core, feminine surface
we keep finding this but free fares discourse just will not end
The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
Hakeem Jeffries naming specific representatives that they're going to destroy with counter-redistricting (in response to a GOP led initiative in FL) has real "I'm not fucking around, I'm gonna shoot the hostages" energy (laudatory)
Alt text hall of fame right here.
Zillow: "Zillow economists just published their updated 12-month forecast, projecting that U.S. home prices—as measured by the Zillow Home Value Index—will shift +0.0% between March 2026 and March 2027."
With 3% inflation, that is a decline in real prices.
i am recalling that no other sitting councilors endorsed Strezo in the last election.
Oh wow, our police chief shares that he wishes that a body worn camera had captured it when a police officer said that they were going to kill him.
He says that he subsequently had to work with that individual as a colleague?
What the actual fuck?
64/?
Conflicted between not wanting it to warm up because I want to keep wearing hoodies and wanting it to warm up so more people will have their butts out in public.
HEADLINE: Grand Jury Finds Ditto Guilty on 150 Counts of Identity Theft.
A grand jury has reached a unanimous verdict in the largest case of felony identity fraud in the Kanto region to date.
paletteswap.site/dif...
"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"
yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up
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if you destroy the anxiety that besets you whenever you sit down to write, and realize if you write something “terrible” nothing that bad really happens as a result, you can basically make anything, regardless of how ppl might respond to it
i’d go one further and encourage writing “terrible” things just for the hell of it and not even minding abt whether or not you might be able to turn it into something good later
Most of the pundit cottage industry is based around obfuscating a very simple truth out of psychological self-protection, that one of America’s two major parties came to be the Demented Psycho Evil-Ass Rape Party from affirmative choices their voters made of their own free will because they liked it
Writers: accidentally mentions that they write. Family: will you tell us what you? Writers: i'm not unless everyone gets real Cool about a bunch of stuff really quickly.
you are so valid
My 70 something parents use their e-bikes to go on 40 km rides with their friends.
E-bikes are life-extenders, leisure-extenders, and enjoyment-extenders for so many people.
It is not cheating to get more fun out of your day and ensure you have the oomph to come home at the end.
Judicial elections matter; this was a 4-3 en banc decision of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in which one Republican sided with three Democratic judges against the other three Republicans, applying our state Equal Rights Amendment and state constitution to protect reproductive autonomy.
There was a period of time when WCK could not operate in Gaza and at that point, donating to GFMs made sense. But that's not the case any more.
Dannnnyyyyy
If you have any historical interests, focus on those.
wherever you go, look for locally recommended indian and middle eastern food, and never, ever eat pizza.
Art by flaroh illustration. Roma tapestry depicting the shewolf and twins surrounded by eagles, shields, and seven hills
A little late to the party, but happy 2779th birthday Rome! 🏛️🌿🏺 #natalediroma
just gently crying in my office today
the faster we wipe "look at this random jackass!" from our communities the healthier our communities are
thinking abt this bc there is currently a controversy on tiktok where people are misreading and spreading a statistic from this article, saying that 62 million men were either in or interested in a telegram chat about drugging and raping their female partners when really it was like 1000 people max
there are nearly 13 million lawful permanent residents in the United States, and they generally have the right to leave and return to the U.S. as they please
on Wednesday, the Trump admin will ask the Supreme Court to change that
read up about Blanche v. Lau 👇🏾
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/blanc...
saaaaame
For most of the time I worked on the Gaza humanitarian response at USAID, this smuggling ring was the bane of our existence. It dramatically impacted price and market stability in Gaza and made the truck drivers jobs far more dangerous. We all knew it was the IDF running it.