Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics.

The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

Grew some basil in a window box, house smells like an Italian restaurant. This was nice until a bunch of waiters & cooks moved in. Turns out Olive Garden's slogan goes both ways.

The lines at the bathroom are getting insane.

i’m someone who lives with psychosis. some of the kindest sweetest people i know are psychotic. calling someone a psycho when what is actually meant is “i find their beliefs dangerous & reprehensible” is the fastest way for me to lose any shred of respect i had for whomever says it.

I already pay so much for the world's biggest condom and now prices are increasing :(

Remember this every time a Reasonable Democrat says we should be onboard with legal/technical measures to stop minors from accessing adult content

Once you create a category of Bannable Speech, you've created a tool for the powerful to ban any speech they want; just put it in the Bannable category.

you can no longer read this. I've removed all the "public nudity" (sex words) and submitted it for review.

So, as per Patreon, keep in mind: describing sex counts as public indecency. Yes, really.

I hope I live to see the death of puritanism. This is hell.

dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.

This is not wrong.

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

Golden Girls Tarot - A Renegade Guide by Z. Mann Zilla

Check this out if you like the Golden Girls, tarot, and/or learning ways that the overseas bootleg market can be used to phish your personal data.

And, if you choose to share this, then THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND!

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Deep Sea Terror Shrimp. Can frequently be found skittering around whale falls if there is a nearby ungodly presence🦐🩸

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Do you like lesbians? Of course you do. You're on BlueSky.

You can get 94 sapphic and lesbian books for just $40 all week next week. It includes Kotov Syndrome and Woodpusher, as well as many books more famous than mine. I am very excited to get it.

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Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

I don't want to shoot videos
I don't want to post tutorials
I don't want to show my process
I don't want to pour varnish
I don't want to turn my canvas
I don't want to record my screen
I don't want to cultivate parasocial relationships
I just want to make pictures and shitpost

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

who could have seen this coming

I need to stress again that requiring ID for age verification is technically unnecessary, and yet more evidence that the point of these laws is to end anonymity on the internet, not to protect children.

i love websites especially when they’re designed for you to enjoy being on them

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The Narratess Indie Sale is here and so many amazing authors have their books featured this year. It’s always so well organized and I am seeing so many books I haven’t read yet in this year’s selection. Do yourself a huge favor and check them out!

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This is all to quietly strip anonymity from the internet to have a chilling effect on politically inconvenient speech and to crack down on marginalized people by enabling potential "off the record" retaliation and to build the Thielian panopticon.

women were kept out of meetings and career opportunities at Pixar because John Lasseter was so much of a sex pest that people decided it was easier to simply not have them in the room with him

how many talented women didn’t get a fair chance because one guy couldn’t behave himself?

Listen up: I am one of those rare sex assault victims who actually took the guy who did it to court. It was a local scandal that put my initials on the front page of the local paper (not my whole name because I was a minor).

You have no idea what happens to women on the stand or in the press.

Having been in a similar position where I tried to speak up for those afraid to incur their abuser’s wrath:

Most people side with the predator & however justified, those pushing against the predator are often the ones shamed & driven away

Don’t know why people are like this, but they are

One of my mom's first jobs was working in a bank.

Her father had to open an account for her, she could not open her own account. At the bank she worked at, which was paying her.

Bobbi Waterman and Robin Witt are two of them; you can click through to comments on the post below for articles about each of them.

I don't want to mess with moonscrolling vibes, but I'm also not going to be part of erasing these women for other people's comfort.

And also: fuck DeSantis forever.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

imogen: I've been sexually assaulted and I didn't pursue any kind of justice because I was a scared and confused teenager then and I'm a homeless woman with a different name in a whole different country now.

but if I saw that that guy was trying to become an MP that would definitely change things.

I like the weird chocolate cookie so much, it’s more about the cookie than the ice cream for me, I hate it when people try to make “upscale” i e cream sandwiches with real cookies that’s NOT the point!

I'm old enough to remember when we had to dismantle the welfare system to stop the scourge of teen mothers having babies.