I’ve just learned that bit just now and yeah, that’s tipped me right over to “she was knowingly doing fraud”.

Left immediately and haven’t gone back. Fuck it, I’ll just make myself some mediocre eggs and toast.

There was a new breakfast place I was excited about - turned out they want you to do everything with their stupid app. For BREAKFAST.

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue

There was a new breakfast place I was excited about - turned out they want you to do everything by their stupid app. For BREAKFAST.

"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now

With the result in Virginia, here's what we know about how mid-decade redistricting has shifted the landscape.

Across the 7 states with new maps:
—11 districts have shifted toward Democrats;
—9 districts have shifted toward the GOP.

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.

I think the fact that this is done with the support of Sandy Hook families and some of the profit going to them makes it more palatable. But yeah this is something that would have felt like a much bigger deal before Trump.

this article convinced me that the tax should be $10

GREEK CAPTAIN OF A PANAMANIAN-FLAGGED MALAYSIAN OIL TANKER EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA WITH IRAQI CRUDE: "So is the Strait open or not?"

IRGC COMMANDER, REFRESHING TRUTH SOCIAL: "Look here man, I know just as much as you do, ok?"

Quiet quitting has gotten out of control!

Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.

We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.

In other words, the lack of men in PK-12 education and the boy-girl achievement gap are both symptoms of a patriarchal society that devalues education as women’s work.

“What are you in for?”

“Felony bralessness”

At least in the States and Canada, education has been the domain of white women for longer than a boy-girl academic achievement gap has existed. Very few men go into education and the ones who do get a glass elevator up to administration.

Every now and again, someone will find & react to this skeet, and remind me I hit my peak on 8 August 2023.

always the bridesmaid who mysteriously disappeared after being locked inside a hope chest and now haunts the church grounds still waiting to catch the bouquet, never the bride

A golden retriever has both paws up at a bank teller’s window.

“Are you the branch manager?”
“Yes I am, how can I help you?”
“I would like two branches, please.”
“How would you like that?”
“Two big sticks, four little sticks.”

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

I would not like to meet one as a prehisto human!

This is the funny thing about our changing understanding of Andrewsarchus, generally cited as the largest known fossil mammalian predator. Used to be restored as more wolflike, now thought to be closer to hippos. That does not make it any less scary! Arguably the reverse!

We've Always Been Here: A multicultural LGBTQ+ art book 50+ artists worldwide have come together to illustrate how queer people have always existed, and always will, all around the world.

First, late pledges are still open if you missed the live Kickstarter for this zine! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap...

A softly lit watercolor painting of three panels, bordered by intricately painted branches of pomegranate and orange trees. The first panel, in the top left corner, shows both men kissing with one pressed against an intricately tiled wall in the Alhambra palace. One man has rich, warm brown skin and a turquoise headwrap that falls down over his shoulders and coat, which is decorated in intricate golden swirl patterns. The man kissing him has richer cooler-toned dark brown skin, with a white headwrap clipped together with a golden pin, wearing a white robe with intricate gold and red-gem inset details. Both have facial hair. The central painting, the largest panel, shows both men sitting in a public bath, although they are alone, gazing closely at each other, looking like they're about to kiss, arms resting on their legs as they gaze softly. They both have small, damp fabric around their waists, the colors matching their respective outfits. The man in the white cloth has braided cornrows, in a traditional Amazigh style. The man in the blue cloth gazes slightly down into his eyes, with his leg extended over the ledge of the bath, showing intricately painted and extensive burn scars including contractions. A cane rests on the shadowed wall beside him. The bath room itself is a pale yellow stone, shadowed in purple washes, with a central inset section bordered by a pattern of turquoise, dark blue, green, and red diamond tiles, interspersed with white tiles. The central inset part has the same pattern, but far smaller and more detailed. The final panel, in the bottom left, shows the turquoise and indigo robe of one of the men as he walks, using his cane, with his lover's hand holding his back for support. The blue robe has even more intricate swirling gold patterns, with a red sash and gold metal piece tying it together at the waist. A washy watercolor part hints at a garden in the background.

I can finally share my full illustration for @taplingzines.bsky.social 'We've Always Been Here' art book!

It's of two Muslim men bathing in Medieval Al-Andalus, a very accepting time for queer people~ ✨

More details about the illustration and story below~

#SaplingArt #Watercolor #QueerArt

First, stop it. We are <constantly> looking in the mirror & if you haven’t done any of the trainings or gone to any of the talks/meeting about that, I can’t help you.

Second, we don’t have time. We’re constantly meeting about how to survive as 25% of our budget is illegally cut off by the fascists.

A sketchy comic. Emma wears a ball cap that reads “LESBIAN.” She says, “honestly, it doesn’t always fit the best, but it has SO MUCH sentimental value…” She scowls, her teeth and fingers looking sharper than before, “and I will BITE anyone who tries to take it off me.”

a quick comic about “lesbian”

It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”

why did Past Me assign so many things????