there is literally one proven policy to reduce traffic congestion long-term.
it’s congestion pricing. and Trump just spent a whole year trying to illegally scrap it in New York City
I believe The Onion can and will actually turn the frogs gay
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”
The Uk needs a version of Hot Ones but for desi food called Curried which is hosted by Tim Curry, there you go, I just made your network eleventy billion dollars
“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,
I must listen to the birds.
And in order to hear the birds,
the warplanes must be silent”
- Marwan Makhoul
Out of patience with cis queer people in charge of queer organisations who are quite happy to take funding to help trans people while calling us slurs or praising those who are harming us.
This isn't just about Stonewall.
i will give the press corpse this — going to the trouble of printing a couple of lines of the first amendment out on a sheet of fabric to express your fears about encroachment, then folding it up and putting it away in your suit pocket *does* send a message. it’s just not the message they think.
i'm pretty sure this is the literal nightmare of every suburban republican
Also, there literally already is a "Palestinian Mandela", and Western liberals aren't pining for him.
Being in the room with people who have a lot of money, went to an elite school like you did, and that you can mansplain someone's ideas to with confidence, is a lucrative endeavor...for those who look a certain way :)
Happy Birthday!
We all deserve more ease. That's really it.
I spent a couple of hours with family and comrades. Elders started talking about Black people and socialism and communism in the South. I would pour this into people’s veins if I could.
knockin all this shit over
Another thing that is confusing the political commentariat about Mamdani is that he isn't going to run for President because he can't. So they can't write their usual 'he's a political climber' story lines and I think that has also broken something in them.
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally
Congratulations!
I don't actually think it's trolling. Leo is doing very normal pope things during modern conflicts; he's just doing it with an american accent.
Similarly, the area of the country where the largest proportion of the population are fluent in three or more languages? Oxford? Cambridge?? No. Tower Hamlets.
The job market has really shrunk for Black scholars. So many schools are doing their best to get rid of us or never hire us. I know way too many folks suing their institutions or the state over what they research and teach.
lol buddy i'm literally in the NDP
Christianity and Hinduism's polar opposite methods of colonisation of other religions is so stark. Christianity is like"all your existing gods are devils, repent!" whereas Hinduism is goes with their "FYI your god is a god of ours too buddy, you've always been Hindu actually, wake up"
what the fuck is even going on
ME: I need to insert a footnote
MICROSOFT WORD: *spitting blood* fuck you, fuck your mother and fuck your footnote
RIP Sinead you would have really had some fun on Bluesky right now
one of many reasons i will never accept abandoning my trans siblings or the broader queer community for the purposes of "a bigger tent"
Again, a lot of people who should’ve known better threw their full-throated support behind efforts targeting these fields, scholars, and the theories they’ve produced.
A very happy fuck all fascists day today and every day
and thank you to Hungary for giving us all hope