There's a very easy way to end all of this gerrymandering: Congress can pass a law outlawing it. And Democrats have repeatedly proposed exactly that. Republicans have uniformly rejected these proposals every single time.
Posts by Robyn the Velocirobter
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Consult this
Plus how good your calves look
Given her age, they may have just been drawing her
Amazing stuff
Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.
Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet.
Attention to all Chicagoans who work for tips: the people in green who voted 'Yea' are the aldermen you should to vote against in the city elections next February.
I made a shitty meme.
A colleague emailed me asking if I'd apply for leadership in a professional org in my old field. I said no bc I lost my job in the field.
What breaks my heart is that the reason there's a gap in the leadership is she also lost her job in higher ed and is leaving the org
I admit, I did have to look this up because I am terrible at which Pokemon are in what gen other then gen one.
Incineroar and Mimikyu have been Pokemon longer than JD Vance has been Catholic.
๐จ๐จ๐จcutie alert!
Shit, Brit, I'm so sorry. Hampshire is such a special place - I remember learning about it as a high schooler and feeling moved that such an institution existed.
I'm looking to build up my following here on Bluesky, so if you're looking for a queer Appalachian writer who writes gay love stories set in West Virginia and who's also a pop culture critic, then I'm your fella!
Jesus says YOLO, then steps out of a cave and says just kidding
I <3 vintage memes
You gotta hand it to JK Rowling. (โItโ is a live grenade)
My new employer has a program whose initials, which they regularly abbreviate, are FCF
and it is A Challenge Not To Say Something
This would almost be enough to make me ignore their anti-pride stance
Kass's skeet followed by a skeet that reads "biblically accurate April Fool's joke"
My timeline added a caption to your skeet
after Charlie Kirk died pundits like Ezra Klein praised his "hard conversations" with students.
under the higher ed backlash he helped start, the real hard-to-have conversations are about gender, race, sexuality, protest.
the feminists touring colleges with academic bans: @us.theguardian.com
Oh I know that part; what I mean is, I don't know which words or tags I'd even pick because it seems ubiquitous
Once we get to "as a person on the internet you should tolerate death threats" I think maybe everyone involved should step back and reconsider
I don't know how to use the mute function to stop the discourse of the day from being on my timeline
This sounds like a great and rewarding plan for the holiday โบ๏ธ
This country fuckin blows but Iโm still nonbinary and incapable of becoming a shimmering cloud so Trans Day of Visibility it is.
Cis people are doing a shit job of making life livable for me and my trans kin so give a trans person some money today.
Watching the new HP makes you a bad person.
Yes, this is real.
Another example of new job improving my quality of life:
Old job: can't book the conference hotel because it's above the allowable rate, no exceptions; take an Uber to and from the conference every day, even if the net cost is greater
New job: just book travel sensibly
Vinaigrette Communist?