If the Women In Your Life Are Furious Right Now, Deal With It Why female rage is justified and overdue

I'm gonna just leave this right here. 💯 #DamnSkippy

If the Women In Your Life Are Furious Right Now, Deal With It by Maria Cassano medium.com/the-virago/i...

Meta Outlines Its Plan To Manage Integrity During the US Midterm Elections The company’s safety and security measures will include ad restriction policies and artificial intelligence labeling.

You'll have to excuse me if I question the use of the word integrity in the same sentence as Meta. 🙄

www.socialmediatoday.com/news/meta-ou...

The surprising science of adolescent brains Neuroscientist Jennifer Pfeifer digs into the fascinating brain changes driving young people’s behavior during the critical years of adolescence. She debunks some of the biggest misunderstandings abou...

"Adolescence isn't a problem to be solved. It's a transformative period of growth and opportunity, and we all have a role to play in helping them unlock its potential."

www.ted.com/talks/jennif...

This Is Your Brain on MAGA Are liberal and conservative brains wired differently? I asked a neuroscientist

"Because the fear centers of the brain are so closely tied to survival, MAGA is no longer a political ideology. It’s an identity, and identities are extremely stubborn things."

This Is Your Brain on MAGA by Maria Cassano medium.com/fourth-wave/...

Men Think This Photo Proves Feminism Ruined Everything Now I’ve seen it all…

tl;dr No it didn't. 🙄

Men Think This Photo Proves Feminism Ruined Everything by Forward Press

medium.com/the-virago/m...

Digital photographic artwork of Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument with blue sky and forest in the background.

Happy Saturday, #BlueskyArtShow!

I soften wonder what these #Stone walls would say if they could talk.

📸 Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, NM (2025)

The rest of the story 👇
valinreallife.com/postcards-fr...

#VainRealLife #DigitalPhotographicArt #GilaCliffDwellings

Yara Shahidi: Let curiosity lead Don't second-guess what "distracts" you, says actor-producer Yara Shahidi; that's your curiosity coming through. The star of hit shows like "black-ish" and "grown-ish" tells how she learned to spot cl...

"...honoring your so-called distractions is an act of creating. It's to sit in the grandeur of all of our options. It's to acknowledge our infinite possibilities when the world tries to convince us it is indeed finite. So refuse to let your world get smaller, and let’s build new futures together."

People are selling your home address online. This privacy tool will help There's a free automated tool that removes information about you from Google search results. For some reason, most people don't use it.

"...it's pretty helpful to get rid of the worst, most obvious stuff. You're peeling off the first layer of information that's easy to find."

I've been using this for a while and it doesn't take much effort to manage.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future “This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.

"This isn't a border checkpoint. This is your neighborhood. ICE is now running facial recognition on phones — stopping people on the street, scanning faces in real time. What happens when the algorithm is wrong?"

The Moment They Can’t Control You, You Become a B*tch How I no longer shrink to make men happy

The Moment They Can’t Control You, You Become a B*tch by @MsTsitsi85 medium.com/bitchy/the-m...

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

Brilliant.
youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

Paying New Mexico Legislators Could Open the Door to More Women at the Roundhouse - New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women New Mexico’s citizen legislature has long been a point of pride, but it has also created a significant barrier to who is able to serve. Two bills introduced during the current legislative session, Hou...

"Paying legislators a modest, median-based salary would not make legislative service lucrative—but it would make it possible."

nmcsw.org/paying-nm-le...

#HoldTheLine: The Battle for Truth | Maria Ressa | TEDxXavierSchool #HoldTheLine: The Battle for Truth | Maria Ressa | TEDxXavierSchool As a journalist in Asia for almost thirty years, Maria Ressa tells us her never-ending passion and determination to seek the truth....

One of many good nuggets in this talk:
"If you don't have facts, you can't have truth. Your truth grows out of the facts that you have, and if you don’t have truth, you can’t have trust. If you don’t have any of these, then democracy is impossible."

www.ted.com/talks/maria_...

a black and white photo of a woman with the words " a happy anna howard shaw day to us all " above her ALT: a black and white photo of a woman with the words " a happy anna howard shaw day to us all " above her

😏https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Howard_Shaw_Day

Kristi Noem AND Stephen Miller must go.

Hey, national media editors at @nytimes.com, @wsj.com,
@washingtonpost.com, @theatlantic.com, @latimes.com, and many others. How about if you stop referring to ICE as "law enforcement"?
Because it's clear that's not what are.

Two US governors — a Democrat and a Republican — on why there's hope for democracy Two current US governors — Democrat Matt Meyer of Delaware and Republican J. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma — trade notes on how to rebuild trust without partisan theater. In this special segment of "On the ...

Lots of good nuggets in this one.

www.ted.com/talks/matt_m...

This is actually the really simple story of the collapse of American democracy. You can explain America’s constitutional collapse in a single coherent sentence:

6 Statistics That Prove Feminism Is Better for Men, Too Believe it or not, I don’t want men to suffer

Maria Cassano has some interesting thoughts on my 2nd favorite F word.

medium.com/fourth-wave/...

This is a project that @valwestonnm.bsky.social and I have been working on for quite some time.

Don't like clickbait? Don't click Doesn't it seem like a lot of online news sites have moved beyond reporting the news to openly inciting your outrage (and your page views)? News analyst Sally Kohn suggests — don't engage with news th...

@jcbrandon.bsky.social and I often say "you don't have to participate" but we may need to update that to "you have a societal obligation not to participate."

Studies Show That Predators Target Women Based on One Thing Attackers all chose similar victims  —  and it wasn’t what they were wearing.

"Female rage is an extremely effective survival strategy because it doesn’t seek to overpower men’s bodies. Rather, it short-circuits their brains."

medium.com/bitchy/studi...

"We create, conflate, perpetuate binaries that create divisions in our society."

A liberating vision of identity that transcends labels How can we move past society's inclination to box people in with binary thinking and labels? Social work professor Jioji Ravulo believes we need to embrace multiplicity, exploring how Indigenous persp...

"It's all of us as a broader society that needs to be part of a shared conversation to decolonize, deconstruct and disrupt binary ways of thinking, feeling and behaving."

Powerful TED Talk from a truly charming speaker.

www.ted.com/talks/jioji_...

Existing in the Age of Dupe-Culture Philosophy Why are we ghost quoting for clout now?

Spot on.
medium.com/@kristieb/ex...

Overheard at the dentist office–
Receptionist: “I’m still busy scheduling all the people with broken teeth from over the weekend” 😲🎃🍬

Quick-Build Projects Lead to Improvements in Pedestrian Safety: Here's How! Quick-build projects have the potential to improve pedestrian safety, as demonstrated during a workshop and event for the Road to Zero.

"Basically, drivers adopt the speed dictated to them by the design of the road."

americawalks.org/improving-pe...

screenshot of Facebook post from New Mexico Wilderness Alliance regarding form to report abuse of public lands during government shutdown.

Bringing this over from FB for public lands advocates.
www.nmwild.org/report-an-is...

In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Readies Grassroots Network for Roadless Rule Comment Period Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is the voice for our wild public lands, waters and wildlife.

"The National Forest System already contains twice as many miles of roads as the U.S. interstate highway system. Expanding this network would fragment wildlife habitat, degrade water quality, and increase wildfire risk."

www.backcountryhunters.org/backcountry_...