As of 2023, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain in the United States -- which means that Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs and random other rights-holders can no longer insist that the character be free of any trace of homoeroticism.
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VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?
ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]
Your Harry Potter books are cybertrucks (ew) and it's long past time to get rid of them
This is my own screenshot from her apology video for liking a blatantly antisemitic post and leaving it up all day.
Ms Rachel is pulling a JKR but for antisemitism and leftists need to start educating themselves and each other because it's impossible to push back on someone that popular because we all agree with her anti-genocide stance. If you can't recognize antisemitic tropes you are endangering all liberation
A fundamental difference between me and my brother: He was showing my husband his shortwave radio and I walked in and asked if he was ghost hunting
In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
Just about four months to the day later from when I accidentally ran my phone through the dishwasher, the screen finally died and instead of buying myself a birthday gift I got a new phone. It's peony pink though, so that's auspicious.
Cut out cookies in the shape of people and sweaters, frosted and decorated with rainbow sprinkles and various shades of red and green sugar.
More cut out cookies in the shape of people and sweaters, frosted and decorated with rainbow sprinkles and various shades of red and green sugar.
The same cut out cookies from the first picture before they were decorated. They are sugar cookies and most are brownish but some have orange and green swirls.
The same cut out cookies from the second picture but unfrosted. They are chocolate chip.
At the last minute I decide we should decorate cookies, except I didn't want to bake. So I used some leftover Halloween pumpkin dough and some chocolate chip dough that the grocery store delivered to me instead of sugar cookie.
V'ahavta 7/25/2016 35 COMMENTS Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up, when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning and in times of joy. Inscribe them on your doorposts, embroider them on your garments, tattoo them on your shoulders, teach them to your children, your neighbors, your enemies, recite them in your sleep, here in the cruel shadow of empire: Another world is possible.
V’ahavta by Aurora Levins Morales
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Curved black chanukiah shaped to look like leaves with gold pomegranates to hold each candle, with a lit red candle in the shamash and lit blue one in the first night spot, sitting on a flat blue rectangle plate, with a box of candles and lighter on the side and some table napkins in the background.
Chag Chanukah Sameach!
It's up to us to remember what those who came before us fought against and fought for, and to continue their fight in the face of renewed violence from the state.
It's important to honor World AIDS Day in the face of a fascist government refusing to recognize the day while gutting every program we have that helps people with HIV survive and every program we have that helps prevent more people from contracting HIV.
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Accidentally called my office "the library" during a bout of brain fog and since I don't use it for anything resembling office work I'm keeping the name.
New piece.
The data presented by @thejcpa.bsky.social and @counterhate.com about antisemitism on X is stark: it is being spread to hundreds of millions of people.
Not just antisemitism, but OVERT antisemitism. And that shift means far more than people realize. It won't be long before it leaves X.
So tired of hearing “we’re cooked”.
No. I refuse that. In the 1940s 6 million Jews—plus many Roma, disabled and queer people—were killed through via one of the biggest state-run genocide machines in history.
Every one of those communities still exists today.
Outlast them. Whatever it takes.
I have weird phone problems
Once in the early 00s I dropped my Nokia into a huge puddle in Manhattan and the puddle was so deep and dark I was afraid to reach in so my brother called the phone so it would light up. That phone survived too.
I ran my phone through the dishwasher by accident. It is very clean now.
I don't remember much from from AP European history but I do remember that the enemy of my enemy is my friend did not work out well after the wars ended.
Can we stop saying the enemy of my enemy is my friend when the enemy of your enemy is the enemy of marginalized people?
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have revealed a synthetic glycosystem -a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle- that can BLOCK SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cells, REDUCING infection rates by NEARLY 99%. Acting as a decoy, the molecule BINDS to the spike protein, PREVENTING it from attaching to real cells.
This is the most ridiculous PSA I'll ever type but if you're in a waiting room and there's a cluster of seats with no arms and all the other seats have arms, that's accessible seating for fat people so leave those for folks who need them. Those seats are for big butts not big purses.
New York Post @nypost : Who is Rama Duwaji? Wife of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani he met on Hinge trib.al/vFTHqCO Response to New York Post by Lee (Greater) reactionary blue tick: If your wife doesn't take your last name you shouldn't even be allowed to own property let alone run for office Imao
The Right really is in disarray because they cannot seem to figure out if they should push “Zohran Mamdani is going to bring Sharia Law” or “Zohran Mamdani treats his wife with too much equality” as a smear campaign, so they are doing both.
Good news: I successfully replaced my printer toner with an off brand cartridge
Bad news: my printer prints perfectly but it still tells me there's no toner before and after
Solution?: give my printer a name and treat it like an annoying but lovable pet ???
An orange and white cat named Ser Pounce sprawled out on a brown couch, looking at the camera with resting grump face.
Ser Pounce sitting up in a flat, orange and white cardboard box, looking smugly to his right.
This little jerk has lived with me for 10 years and all I got him for his cativersary is an empty box.
It helped pretty quickly so I guess I should probably avoid the mango candy. I can't guarantee I will tho 😭
Yes but not worth it probably. I think I need to take a benadryl