I've found 400 words a day is a pretty sustainable goal for myself. On a good day I can blow it out of the water, which feels amazing, but on a bad day I'm still writing a decent chunk of scene. Well done, it's a marathon not a sprint!

There's so much Disco Elysium I will simply never see because I don't want to disappoint Kim Kitsuragi.

Idk why but this has me wheezing

I wish Libby had AO3-style filters so I could search "audio books available now NOT Frida McFadden"

When they said "AI will increase productivity" I didn't realize they meant "AI code will crash the social media networks on which I procrastinate, forcing me to actually do my job"

The same people who "not all men!" get really mad if survivors of sexual assault assumed that maybe not all men.

Being ND doesn't make you a special class of good person, it just means your brain works differently

But of course the consequences are only leveled at women, who must protect themselves from rape by abstaining from any activities that could establish them as equals to men.

The fact that people think that their dislike of Piker, however justified, then means they shouldn't care about this deliberate misinformation and reliance on bigoted sources, betrays a deep bias.

It is this lack of concern that generally leads to the further spread of disinformation.

My spouse & I, MPH & MLIS, are barely paying bills making $55k each.

Our friend in NYC can only afford to work in publishing bc her family pays her rent.

I know two engineers who can't get work, even though those were supposed to be guaranteed careers.

It's hard out here for the 30-somethings!

I'm a chubby lifter 4 lyfe

Private schools like Emory can afford to waive tuition for students under a certain income because international students pay exorbitant tuition.

Yeah this is the other element of the ban that highlights why religious institutions shouldn't be running hospitals which is that I don't have a fucking vote for the Conference of Bishops and yet they can decide my fucking healthcare

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Around 20% of hospital beds in the US are in Christianist facilities, most Catholic, that have happily been denying reproductive health care and gender-affirming care for decades AND enjoying a nonprofit status. Most people don't realize the stranglehold the church has until it's too late.

My groceries for a two person household have gone from $130/wk to $200/wk in the span of a year. We don't eat red meat or much frozen food, and yet!

A graphic that has the following words; each line is a different color on a black background: IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE WOMEN UNLESS THEY ACCUSE SOMEONE WE SUPPORT OR THE TIMING IS KINDA WEIRD ALSO REPUBLICANS GET AWAY WITH IT ALL THE TIME MAYBE WE SHOULD TOO * * * * * The graphic is made to look like the yard signs that have a list of slogans that are lefty/squishy/co-opted ("In this house, Black lives matter, we believe in science, love is real") and that are sometimes seen as a marker of people who say the right things but don't vote or act accordingly/blue wave maga/"libs"/etc.

what I'm hearing

Jesus this is grim.

"Even the vegetables don't like him!"

the least offensive thing Melania ever did was take naked pictures, and I got banned from Pantsuit Nation for saying so. BUT I STAND BY IT.

I believe in y'all. With such a list of horrifying actions to her name, you can find some other really fucking mean thing to say about her. BE CREATIVE.

Democrats need to stop pushing away Democrats and then getting mad that after months of saying "shut up, you don't have a voice, you don't matter to us" the people being told that take them at their word.

It is fucking frustrating to see people saying "oh yeah? well THIS GROUP is gonna have to get in line"

That's not how politics works. You have to put together a winning coalition or you do not win.

I think the opposition party widely expected to make historic gains in the next election(s) has an obligation to explain how they'll stop this and prevent it from happening again or it's reasonable to conclude they don't plan on doing those things, which raises more uncomfortable questions

At the present moment I am not interested in anything politically beyond the destruction of the Republican Party as a viable political force. If we don't break the back of the conservative movement nothing else really matters. Whatever good shit you want to do won't happen.

I'm a baby lifter but I like the program my PT built for me

I think of the line "All that for a little bit of money" every day

That's some damn fine charcoal work

Maybe if people remind the US military that they can disobey orders to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity just one more time then they will behave differently to how they have for the past half-century or more.

And now another reason not to touch the stuff: the strong possibility that you will end up plagiarizing, whether you know it or not. But it was the "that is going to go away" attitude that rankled the most. That's the tech credo: anything that takes time or I don't understand must be obsolete.

People who work at this magazine think it's interesting or counterintuitive or whatever to blame the left for what the right is doing, but when *every single article* posits the same thesis you're not challenging your readers, you are coddling them.