I need to step aways from Here for a bit. All the nuance-free yelling bores into my brain until I'm spending sleepless nights shadowboxing with complete strangers who wouldn't know me if they stepped over me in the street. I dunno, man, this can't be good for any of us. I'll come back eventually.
A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy. n.pr/4uXOx6X
I thought I'd look up the ad, just to make sure this was an accurate characterization.
And ohgod, it's worse than described. Like that's the entire 15s ad: Big Pharma is closing your hospital.
This thing makes my fucking skin crawl. RFK Jr levels of incoherence + conspiracizing.
That was @abbierichards.bsky.social !
A lot of ppl on this site show way, way too much tolerance for insane conspiracy theorizing.
It *inevitably* leads to just about every nasty bigotry you can think of. It *inevitably* bends politics towards authoritarian or totalitarian tyranny. It *inevitably* degrades every social institution.
If you go to Goodreads and look at the 1-star reviews of NIGHT, you will see this conspiracy theory echoed time and again. It shocked me when I was researching Holocaust narrative novels.
It's freeing how this administration goes to the ends of the earth to make clear that it is totally solipsistic. You do not really exist to it. It will do whatever it wants, however it wants, & no warning or shelter will save you. We may all sit on the porch, sip a beer, & watch the storm
Oh man, if I thought being put on every "turbolib" abusive list was bad these past few days, I'm going to be put on some 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨 if I skeet about watching the new HP series. Look, y'all can always count on me to vote and vote correctly, but I make no vows of moral purity, now or ever.
I just don't see how they get her to a place where she wants romance. I mean they can write whatever they want, but it'll be a repudiation of her entire character to date.
I feel like of all the reasons my pals should be judging me, this falls way down the list, but what can I say. I mean, I'll be watching at the house of a friend, so it won't be my wallet exactly, but I'm sure that won't exonerate me in the eyes of most!
I do too, but how can they give Eloise a different narrative than her (frankly horrifying) book? If any Bridgerton deserves to be an aro/ace queen writing political pamphlets and being a fun auntie, it's her. Yet Bridgerton as a show requires a central romance. It's a mess.
After missing its recruitment goals, the U.S. Army is now raising its max enlistment age to 42 and removing its waiver requirement for a single marijuana possession.
Gosh... if only thousands of highly qualified trans soldiers hadn't been kicked out last year for no good reason.
Suns aren't dying; their energy is being blocked from arriving at the planets in their solar systems. For suns without life-hosting worlds (vast vast vast majority), this doesn't matter. Grace and Rocky end up restoring to full luminosity the two suns with life-hosting planets that they know of.
I saw a post in r/crochet where the poster crocheted a HP blanket for a friend's daughter and was asking for opinions about the colors and people were giving her shit about it. No one made any money there except the yarn store, but some people love to have license to yell at Internet randos.
"If you like Harry Potter you're a bad person, because JK Rowling is a bigot"
Folks, I don't know how to tell you this but do you have any idea how many great authors and artists were bigots? How much antisemitism pervades the Western canon?
But Rowling is alive and this makes her money!
I am not saying that all you reflexive Dem-haters are mindless cogs in an ongoing GOP-Russian op designed to empower fascism.
Occam’s razor is the one saying that.
But you can ruin your entire family and commit suicide. Of all addictions, gambling addiction has the highest suicide completion rate. Slots are really, really bad, especially now that they're video-based, v. fast rate of play, available many places across America, and coinless.
Well, that would mean that slot machines and video poker also need to be significantly re-engineered under threat of law, an opinion I happen to agree with
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ivan Ehlers.
Right. Walk into a bar while wasted and they won't serve you. Meanwhile casinos will say out loud that their goal is for customers to "play to extinction" (i.e. until they run out of money).
The inevitable result of this would be the creation of a permanent underclass of exploitable people, who grew up in this country, know no other, and have no education so are more vulnerable than ever before; a serf class for the rich and powerful.
BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com.
Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers.
www.ajc.com/politics/202...
Yep. Since November, hundreds of thousands of people have had their applications simply put on total pause; no movement whatsoever. Even though they paid thousands of dollars to the government to adjudicate their cases.
removing the real, faltering trump from the news and replacing him with an imaginary trump of their own invention. more he falters, the more the imaginary reasonable trump shows up in the stories and especially the headlines
Trump: "tariffs are awesome!"
Iran: "bet"
hope you don’t need anything that comes in [checks notes] plastic packaging
Screenshot of a Matt Yglesias Tweet, quote tweeted by some woman named Emily who I think works for Megyn Kelly Emily Jashinsky & @emilyjashinsky X.com Lindy West is a proxy for elder millennial culture, and the takedowns are really autopsies for something much bigger than her because nobody ever really coped with it. Buzzfeed, Gawker, Jezebel, all gone. Then the country turned against "woke" and Zoomers entered the work force. Matthew Yglesias & @mattyglesias • 11h Shouldn't someone have to write the "Lindy West is good and actually right about everything take" in order to justify the volume of takedowns I am seeing?
Now some woman is quoting Emily and she wrote “Jezebel fiddled while Roe burned” joan don'tion @elizabethbelsky • 5h I would add that I and a lot of younger millennials I know harbor resentment toward the Lindy Wests of the world for the time and words wasted on petty individualistic grievance politics while we lost all right to control our own bodies. Jezebel fiddled while Roe burned. X Emily Jashinsky @@emilyjashi....gh Lindy West is a proxy for elder millennial culture, and the takedowns are really autopsies for something much bigger than her because nobody ever really coped with it. Buzzfeed, Gawker, Jezebe... L14207 ill38k只企 joan don'tion @elizabethbelsky•3h S. Like. I don't know, man. I'm entering the part of my childbearing years where my body is trying to have a fire sale on eggs in a country where you can be prosecuted for miscarrying in the wrong county. But I'm glad we got those unphotoshopped Lena Dunham Vogue pics! SO worth it! 171 28 ll 2
Got tagged in some discourse on the hellsite and let me tell you: 2010s Jezebel, when Lindy worked there, was the preeminent place for beating the shit out of Republicans passing abortion restrictions and for warning that Roe was at risk. They did it alongside everything else
Plants. PLANTS!! The living things that famously need LIGHT to LIVE!!!! Did RFKJr not take 9th grade biology?!?!?!?
I am struggling to understand the extremely muted international response to this. whatever you think of the regime, it is not the regime that is suffering.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
given that there are thousands and thousands of memoirs about shitty monogamous relationships, I don't think we can judge polyamorous relationships by the half-dozen or so memoirs about shitty polyamorous relationships