I love this a normal amount

Americans are struggling to afford basic needs and make ends meet, but Republicans remain focused on sending billions more of our dollars to ICE and CBP to terrorize our communities — after the GOP already voted to give DHS nearly $200 billion last year.

Fun fact: Women's sports are segregated not to protect women, but to protect *men* from losing *to* a woman.

Don't believe me? Look up Jackie Mitchell. Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then suddenly women were unfit to play baseball.

Am I the last to learn that Amazon has turned off ability to filter reviews? So if you are wondering why, say, CAMP OF THE SAINTS might be controversial (since the product page is nothing but glowing reviews) you can only look at the 8 5-star reviews Amazon chooses for you?

Pouring one out for all the librarians and archivists who are now confronting angry patrons demanding to see an item that doesn't exist because "AI told me it does."*

*story just recounted to me by a friend

Drawing of a book with a desk printer on the cover with the title "The printer that simply worked and other fairy tales"

Oh, that's funny. Mine was on pre-Conquest British virgin saints! (Also my first master's thesis was on the "tenth century reformation" and its application to women's religious institutions)
Just can't give up on them Old English nuns...

Can you type a washing bill?

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Yoga would probably be good for me, but I've had it flung at me as a conversation-stopper so often that I viscerally recoil from the very idea.

That's what this has all been about.

"Correcting diversity."

Deportations, concentration camps, murdering protestors, anti-DEI, forcing trans people into hiding, it's all for one reason....

I would so buy that

I identify as a religious believer. The only "intolerance" I have ever experienced is from certain politically powerful Christians who contend that I believe *wrong*.

The utterly implausible fbi agent and the gentleman art thief are my personal crack comfort reads
mostly because of the fbi agents even more insane fbi team

AWAY AWAY!!

Snape / Mark Vorkosigan

Attn: Democrats running for office! Coming out strong on AI regulations will only make me want to vote for you harder and tell all my friends to do the same.

So I was idly curious why "A Knight's Tale" was trending, and clicked. One relevant post about an iconic banger, then, um... random restaurant reviews, exploding Teslas, soft porn photos, some but not all of which had the hashytag #London ...
Nice algo you've got there, Bluesky.

CALL YOUR REPS: Stop the Federal Book Ban Bill! Your voice matters, and together we can help protect the freedom to read.

Americans, HAVE YOU HEARD? HR 7661, a dangerous nationwide censorship bill that steals the freedom to read from kids and families and holds school funds hostage, is on the move through the US Congress. Pick up the phone, grab this script, and call your rep today! action.everylibrary.org/callhr7661

There’s always Seamus Heaney:

History says, Don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.

We all have days like this

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Has anybody asked the Patriarch of Constantinople for comment?

Uh...
/stares into empty ice cream carton/
Guess I've been feeling a bit stressed today.

Vance's comments about the Pope and theology.

Hegseth's "Pulp Fiction" pseudo-Biblical quotation.

Both these things are clarifying. Their religion is not even authoritarian Christianity, but a Bible-colored rancid slurry of American pop culture, violence, misogyny, and white supremacy.

told myself i would wait for s3 to actually come out to start painting stuff but couldn't resist the temptation so here's a quickish thing #goodomens #GoodOmensFanArt

We all laugh over the mental image of Crowley being a petty cunt about their reunion, but I really dig the mental image of Aziraphale throwing his hands up and saying WELLL EXCUUUSE ME FOR TRYING TO SAVE US ALL FROM CERTAIN PERMANENT DESTRUCTION, WE CAN'T ALL BE PERFECT LIKE YOU 🤣🤣🤣

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