Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"

I can't tell you how many analyses of human remains I've read that boil down to "how were these people up and doing stuff with rotting teeth, the full range of systemic stress markers, stunted growth, parasites, endemic diseases, and high rates of violence"

The history of fitness is really fascinating and it's why I have no patience for the idolization of the physicality of people in the past. As a general rule, people were not in great shape for most of the past 4,000 years; there were plenty of exceptions, but by and large? You're better off now.

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt - Wikipedia

Attempted coup: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Tu...

If you ever suffer from imposter syndrome, just remember that Dowd is still being paid to write opinions.

Blind Dad of 2 Is Found Dead After Being Released by Border Patrol and Left to Find His Way Home 5 Miles Away Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a refugee from Burma who was visually impaired and spoke limited English, was found dead on Tuesday, Feb. 24 in Buffalo, N.Y. after he was dropped off at a coffee shop by Border ...

This is truly some of the meanest shit I’ve ever heard of and I firmly believe the intended this to end with his death

The Rohingya have already survived one genocide, one driven by lies spread on Facebook. The horror show is now continuing here.

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

Cutting students off from that friction snd the self-actualizing feeling of mastering a skill is doing them a disservice. It’s more about convenience for the admins & profit for the AI companies than it is about the students’ needs & best interests.

It is very hard not to have a safe choice to use the bathroom in public.

It may be impossible to continue living, working, eating, etc without a valid driver's license if your life was built around driving and the assumption that your license wouldn't be invalidated overnight by the legislature.

An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of vaccines. THREAD👇

Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7 #history #skystorians

A happy magic frog that says poof. You are now untired and very happy.

I CAST WHIMSY ON THE SKYLINE

Governor Newsom Press Office reposted Richard Hanania g @RichardHanania

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i'm like 90% sure if i were less lazy i could convince jesse singal i worked at a Child Gender Clinic where we're instructed by the doctors to treat patients like they're pokemon

It is 1954, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 1981, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 2002, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 2017, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 2026, gender-affirming ca

in fact, the attack on trans women athletes is motivate both by hatred of trans women and by hatred of women athletes.

Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom We have seen this song and dance before.

for more on the "etc." here's a recent article focused on his recent anti-trans turn & embracing of far-right pundits: www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...
& here's a 2023 profile of Newsom delving into his record & why he's a bad Democrat more generally:
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/11...

in addition to evoking the "deceiver" trope (he "fell prey" to trans/LGBTQ+ ppl), Newsom is the LEAST CULTURALLY NORMAL prominent Dem politician right now. he owns a winery. he married Kimberly Guilfoyle. when they split up he dated 19-year-old (when he was 38). he podcasts w/Steve Bannon, etc.

Telling cis people "treat others how you would wanna be treated" doesn't work because cis people are all secretly saying to themselves "I want to honor-kill that version of me you just made me summon in my mind"

If they really had genuine concerns about the potential health trade-offs some people experience while binding they wouldn't be banning puberty blockers and top surgery

‘They better take away duct tape’: Trans men say they’ll keep binding despite FDA crackdown Chest binders are a common first step to explore gender identity. Restricting them could push people back to unsafe DIY methods.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 21 19th
WIth the govt trying to intimidate binder makers and shut the down, legendary Jamison Green breaks down why trans men will keep binding and what it was like in the early days when they used ACE bandages and electrical tape

I just don’t understand how a condemnation of colonialism requires pretending that no non-western people ever do anything wrong? Feels almost patronizing tbh

Understanding Transmisogyny, Part Five: Natalism, Nativism, Nationalism Trans/Rad/Fem Title over a map of India and China with a compass resting on it.

Today, I examine how the boundaries of the Nation are co-constituted by race, disability, and sexuality, but also---notably---gender and control over reproduction.

And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.

Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

Portrait of Mahmud II by Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger, 1836, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Auspicious Incident

Reviewer Judge Words In Book: Bronze Age Mindset, reviewed We can be more and better than conquerors and thieves.

“People say is racist book. Not wrong. They say is fascist book. Not wrong also.

They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...

Anyway it’s not that “men need to be Men” it’s that men need to be grownups.

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

also like i am still hung up on "we're wolves not sheep" when the actual truth about humanity is we're the thing that domesticated both of them