“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.”
My friend @evenebula.bsky.social once had this quote on their profile. I think about it a lot.
I went looking for its origin and ended up on a deep dive into how Australian military leadership responded to a sexual misconduct scandal...
I saw a post a while back how many of Jupiter’s moons are named after women he had affairs with and we named the satellite to go see what he’s doing after his wife
I do love that we named the spacecraft reporting back on what this planet is up to after the wife who spied on him so much she literally invented peacocks to have eleventy jillion eyes in their tail feathers
Juno is hardly an unbiased source here, NASA. “‘Guy Not As Big a Deal As He Claims,’ Says Vengeful Wife Guy Cheated On Constantly”
All of these stories are terrible but it's the bigger picture that terrifies me even more.
The US only has 350m people. If you can't turn a profit without access to the US market that's ONLY because of our dysfunctional for-profit healthcare system.
Today it's vaccines.
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
omg
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
My stupid grandkids who are fucking stupid and I hate also never call me
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
what a day, i need a drink *pours a gatorade*
I am also glad that Antonin Scalia is dead
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
"how do I explain this to my kids???" makes me so angry.
The questions about queer things are so easy compared to "Why is my friend being sent away to South America?" or "Why aren't we able to get COVID vaccines anymore?"
If reading these letters doesn’t fill you with a deep and urgent need to burn these concentration camps to the ground after releasing their prisoners, you would’ve been on the wrong side in WWII.
the ascetics would like a word
Notice the framing of sex trafficking victims as “consensual sex workers” and the simultaneous framing of consensual sex workers as “sex trafficking victims”
ohhh i had forgotten the paperclip
Before the election, everyone: This guy Mamdani is a muppet.
After the election, everyone: This guy Mamdani is a muppet *with charisma*
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
"Saruman believes it is only great power that can oppose evil... but that is not what I have found. It is...the small things, simple deeds of ordinary folk. Acts of kindness and love that keep the darkness at bay." - Gandalf
@sapphirerosa.bsky.social love your new name! glad i figured it out (eventually) and that the two of you are happy!
being seen is how it works
Last year I traveled all the way to rural Vietnam to officiate a friend's wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony that mixed cultures and language, and was a celebration of the best of humanity.
He just sent me this post and said "this is how you lost the war."
For reference, his name comes up more often in the Epstein Files than Harry Potter's name does in the Harry Potter novels.
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
Altered Truth Social post
who called him Jeff Bezos and not Lex Loser
I really can’t watch any of these ice flip videos without thinking about how a white man is being rewarded for accomplishing what a Black woman was punished for doing 30 years ago
Surya Bonaly was an incredible athlete and she was treated like shit for it