@bettytheteapot.bsky.social Doh, just realized,
i was early in kosmi, i'll return. :)

@bettytheteapot.bsky.social , @libitina.bsky.social hey guys, hope to see you next Thursday!

see you soon

Burn. lol

Philly's murals never fail to enchant me.

Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

This is wose than a terrible embarrassment, but it is also that.

Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...

A lot of people don't fully understand the extent to which SEPTA is Philly's school bus. Every morning and afternoon, tens of thousands of kids going to public, charter, and private schools across the city, rely on SEPTA to get them to and from school.

SEPTA cuts would be devastating to families.

feeling earring envy!

"Holodomor," literally, "death by hunger":

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

(The article linked is about the 1930s Ukrainian Holodomor, and people still argue whether it qualifies as genocide; I suspect that for the millions of Ukrainians who died in it, the distinction is without difference)

someone swapped the batman and catwoman character models... YouTube video by Phantom Thief Irwin 2

The best illustration of gaze is this video in which someone swapped the video game character skins between Batman and Catwoman. Both characters are fully clothed but the camera treats one very differently from the other.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUWB...

TikTok is killing us with these 😬

Proposed TX representative maps

The first redistricting proposals for TX are in.

This is what cracking and packing looks like.

This is an intensive gerrymander.

See how the districts spiral in fingers into the cities.

Lizzie Fletcher's district TX7 becomes almost entirely rural.

While it's absolutely worth celebrating their freedom from CECOT, we can't overlook the fact that more than 60 of these men had pending asylum cases.

A reminder that Bondi already has access to all of the Epstein files, but is pretending that she needs to go through the laborious process of unsealing grand jury testimonies. It’s all political theater to fool the rubes in her base into thinking she’s doing something. She’s just covering for Trump.

Brazilian president: "I'd like to say something to the American people; If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil for violating the Constitution. He would be arrested if he had done that."

(ht: @ronxyz.bsky.social)

It’s a good day to remember what we were once capable of, and why it’s a really bad idea to abandon science.

The War on Women When we said women and people who loved them needed to vote like their lives depended on it in 2024, it wasn’t hyperbole.

We weren’t just making it up when we said women needed to vote like their lives depended on it in 2024. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The problem is, it was never about what the "people" want or think.

I think there may be an argument to be made that it is harder to sell books to ONLY men, because younger men read less and women no longer accept that the male POV is the default way of viewing the world. But as the kids say, this is a skill issue, for the writing and the marketing.

lol

Nursing homes struggle with Trump's immigration crackdown Nursing homes around the U.S. say they're feeling the effects of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

Nursing homes already struggling to recruit staff are now grappling with President Donald Trump’s attack on one of their few reliable sources of workers: immigration.

The Washington “Whatever’s” should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past. Our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago. We are a Country of passion and common sense. OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!!

The mad king demands the return of racist sports team names

And the world looks the other way.

FFS

After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them

Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels.

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