Thank you so much! 💜

This isn't the point, but would you mind sharing what tracker app you use?

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

There are at least three major news stories about sexual assault and abuse of power by men in prominent positions this week. Government, labor, academia; the culture is everywhere, and women disproportionally bear the weight of the consequences.

If this week feels extra heavy, be kind to yourself.

Creativity is not a talent. It's a process and a practice available to everyone.

People are commenting about how this is about "powerful" men, but in a society that listens to men over women and girls, that treats the former as competent and credible, the latter as not, every man is empowered to abuse, and it happens at all levels and in all sectors of society.

Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years

When you think you're a liberator of your people and you're also sexually abusing women and girls from among those people you're demonstrating that you have trouble recognizing them as people. (And that is way too common.)

If you wish people had come forward sooner, help create a world where they feel safe doing so, where it isn't going to ruin their mental health and haunt them for years.

Or, you know. Shut the fuck up.

ME: oh a little Zohran video for St Patrick's Day, probably just celebrating Irish culture, maybe a few green beer jokes

ZOHRAN (2 minutes in): ...and that's why King Leopold I of Belgium is a big wet bitch. Furthermore...

I'm so sorry you have to deal with this, as if the situation isn't difficult enough 💜

I believe survivors. There's no personal benefit in speaking out, they don't do it for clout, they put themselves and their families at risk by putting their names and faces on abuse. I support people's right to tell their stories on their own terms.

Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then

Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms

I had a friend who thought the lyrics were "I want to feel your foamy insides" and that thought haunts me 20 years after she told me

'Sinners' Celebrates the Decadent Intimacy of the Black South Ryan Coogler's latest film threads Black intimacies through time and space, all in one spiritually stirring night at Club Juke.

Celebrating the fact Sinners got four Oscars last night? Why not read @freeblackgirl.bsky.social's piece on how the film explores Black southern intimacies? Some people say it's the best reading they found on the film of the year!

www.theflytrapmedia.com/sinners-cele...

my ideal future is not one where tech makes everyone go faster but one where everyone has the freedom to slow down

The NBA: We cannot allow our teams to celebrate vices, like our cities' premier strip clubs.

Also, the NBA: Brought to you by gambling companies DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, and Fanatics Sportsbooks

This ALSO feels like a good day to announce that I am launching a pet end-of-life care advice column in April! Please a) sign up and b) send advice questions to advice at allmydeadcats dot com

You need to call your reps and demand that they OPPOSE:

-the KIDS Act
-KOSA
-the Screen Act
-Sammy's Law
-the App Store Accountability Act

And additionally, oppose:

-reforming/sunsetting Section 230
-online age verification/ID laws

www.congress.gov/members/find...

Enlightened with Laura Dern and Diane Ladd. Their relationship is huge part of the show and why Dern's character is the way she is.

Especially when it's for Senate or Congress and the person elected suddenly gets to vote on issues that affect *everyone*

For most people, stable employment is disappearing and being replaced by precarious, low-paid work. Stability is a thing of the past now. Over 2 billion workers worldwide have no job security or benefits.

I promise you it's actually okay and good to say " I made choices I would not make again because now I understand things differently."

It's a sign of continued political education and a growing commitment and consciousness.

The growth and realization is the important part! (I lucked into my mom exposing me to what she did; I could have ended up with the opposite experience). It's surreal to me with how much recent history we have with this sort of thing, that the OP could be shocked Pikachu about what we've just done.

I'm starting to realize that not every teenager spent lunchtime with their mom watching Amy Goodman covering civilian deaths in Iraq on a daily basis like I did

Yes! Also, not being willing to put in the time and work to get decent at a craft makes it easy to devalue those who do, and justify denying them a way to make a living.

The same feeling for making any sort of art. How can you be proud of the outcome when you didn't earn the result? I get so much joy from the end result of whatever it is I'm making when I look at everything it took to get there. I feel pride these people cannot possibly experience.

Theft aside (which is horrid), the economic impact (data centers driving electricity costs for everyone through the roof, eliminating jobs), let alone the environmental impact is a dealbreaker for this tech. Not one "pro" can possibly outweigh the cons, and we can't accept this as an inevitability.

I have a small rainbow macaron one, which I *love*, and have a more-than-slight panic over when I've misplaced her.

“To believe in laws over belief in people is to be colonized.”