Trust me, disabled people feel this hostility acutely.

A teal blue cardigan with a lace pattern on the body and part of the sleeves and with a ribbed collar hanging on a Japanese mapl.

This cardigan is dedicated to my coworkers who believed me when I told them that I think better in meetings when my hands are busy.

❤️

I donated and I hope others do as well!

It seems to me that the necessary teshuva for a culture where networks and connections are used to enable rape and abuse is to instead build networks and connections that facilitate justice and care and protection.

"This is an important thing to think about."

(Y’all, in case you didn’t know, Washington made it mandatory for *everyone* in the Continental Amy.

historyofvaccines.org/blog/washing... )

We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.

We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.

I love when there is, every so often, news that is good

I absolutely would not, because it's a social pathology, not an individual one, & the DSM is not for bad behavior, it's to identify suffering people's problems to fix them.

Hard agree with rimidar on this. In fact, nothing has discredited wistful conservativism more to me than seeing people start to do it about times I lived through. Yeah the n64 was pretty dope when I was 10 years old, I guess; don't really think that should drive our immigration policy tho you loser.

this too is Torah 🥹

Ich bringe a sorte of "adde an extra E to everyethinge" vybe to the wordes that spellcheckeres trewelye lyke not

Starshippe Captayne: "To complete thys mysterious taske given us by the council, we must fynde a strepsirrhine primate!"

Startshippe First Officer: "Aye aye, Captayne."

Starshippe Captayne: "No, just a regular lemur."

Does that count as geneivat da'at against the gull?

(For those who would like context, geneivat da'at literally translates to stealing someone's thoughts, but means misleading someone. Stealing their beliefs.)

It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.

Don’t ask AI, ask a peer: A collaborative series The series aims to re-emphasise the importance of knowledge sharing among people, as has been done for decades.

"The series aims to re-emphasise the importance of knowledge sharing among people, as has been done for decades: communal exchange of information and expertise based on years of lived experiences, informed by local realities, and motivated by the need to feel connected with one another."

This part hits. I've been carless in the US (by choice and without shame), and even in some of the most public transit-friendly cities it is difficult and wearing. It's not just the challenge of getting places, it's the sense of hostility.

I forgot Silvia Moreno-Garcia! She's also one of mine.

Lois McMaster Bujold, T. Kingfisher, Ann Leckie, Everina Maxwell, Freya Marske, KJ Charles, Nghi Vo, Karen Lord...
off the top of my head.

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self:

the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

this is called "doing something"

Simchat Torah versus Shavuot?

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new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

"Humans won't work unless they're forced to" is a myth for stupid people. If you're paying attention, humanity loves to do the job... they just don't like to be exploited and abused just to survive, the 2 tools people THINK you need to inflict upon humans to make them work.

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This is a very good thread that tells us not only about Hungarian politics but something very important about American political imaginaries.

It absolutely benefits authoritarian sympathizers to understand authoritarianism as much more extreme than it usually is in reality.

Yes - I think I believe that the agency women have in choosing to wear makeup and, insofar as we have it, the right to be taken seriously regardless of how and whether we wear it, is feminist. But the individual choices themselves are not.

I keep thinking about this - it feels like people conflate the right to choose (eg whether to get married) with the outcome of the choice. That because they could have chosen otherwise, the thing they chose is inherently feminist. (See also makeup).

BTW, you can all freely quote post this in response to any Platner supporter.
Even better if you can find database entries for your own murdered relatives, and post them in response to Platner supporters.