SAY MURDER YOU COWARD PRESS ROOMS

Reindeer eyes shift seasonally so their winter vision maximizes the amount of light they take in and their summer vision maximizes color and detail as an adaptation for polar sun.

having thought about this for three days, my current status is: what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.

Bottom line is that anti trans politics is part of fascist politics and you can’t fight fascism by taking on and surrendering to its ideas

I don’t actually give a shit about polling if the polling says “your friends should die”

the way people were like “the barbie movie is preschool feminism”? the niemöller poem is preschool solidarity. if “oh, this might hurt me??” is your only way to see other people’s humanity, then congrats, you’re in remedial solidarity 098 at irl greendale community college & no one’s hot or funny.

one like, one book I love

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations. He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."

to call this a crime against humanity is true but inadequate — it’s a crime against all creation

Justice Sotomayor, on the import of what the Supreme Court did today: "The [Trump administration] thus openly flouted two court orders. ... [E]ach time this Court rewards noncompliance with discretionary relief, it further erodes respect for the courts and for the rule of law."

spent a while playing a complicated imagination game led by my niblings in which we were superhero Jedi preventing Darth Vader from robbing a bank. turns out spiderman webs are not as effective as desired against someone wielding a lightsaber. kids are great.

It's hard to credit MAGA with ignorance. If they were ignorant they'd sometimes accidentally choose less evil over more evil, but no. No matter where you set them, no matter how many times you spin them around, their moral compasses point with unerring certainty toward maximum atrocity and cruelty.

Happy Pride Month! You know who doesn't change their brand image to rainbow just for June? Ctenophores. They make their gay little rainbows all year. It's a Pride parade in the ocean every day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 366 every four years. 🦑🐙

see this is why Paul Tazewell should get to do whatever he wants forever

But I was suspicious! Anything can claim to be freezeproof but most of them aren’t! ME: So are these really, truly—hang on, why do you have a certificate from the Association of Zoos? HER: We make all the elephant toys. ME: …elephant toys? HER: *points to a photo of an elephant standing on a ball*

One thing I think we really need to drill down on is that these cynical weaponizations of the rhetoric of combating antisemitism and sexual violence *are themselves* antisemitic and misogynist: they mock the suffering and desire for justice of people who have experienced these.

I have made CHEESE BOYS

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Strom Thurmond would have cheerfully seen Cory Booker lynched just for thinking he could vote, let alone run for senate, be elected, and take his seat there. Strom couldn't stop the Civil Rights Act, he couldn't stop the Voting Rights Act, and he couldn't stop a Black man from breaking his record

my husband just sent me this

btw for anyone interested, this is the sketch of the proto-whale basilosaurus from Whale Fact Number 9(?) at the very end of the episode:

My story "The V*mpire" was nominated for Nebula Award for Best Short Story. nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2...

We ARE Queen Esther. Most of us. Right now. And must take the risks to our own neck for the sake of the safety and wellbeing of those whose lives are most on the line right now.

I have unsubscribed from the Washington Post due to this blatant misuse of journalism to serve as propaganda for the billionaire oligarchs bent on destroying the world so long as they can profit off its corpse.

This is happening because people like Trump, Musk, Thiel, etc *literally cannot imagine* someone dedicating themselves to a public good or service. These are genuinely deranged, damaged humans, and in a better age we would drive them from the village.

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

The immigration laws in the US are not, for the most part, designed to keep people out. They're designed to create a precariousness that allows for exploitation on a subset of the population. This benefits certain people (employers in certain sectors) but is not good for the country or immigrants.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

This is class warfare. www.npr.org/2024/12/16/n...

If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery.

I see authors sheepishly announcing books, or apologizing for good news. Friends: we’re enduring an onslaught of censorship and bigotry. I am PROUD that you wrote anything. Please yell about what you're doing. Art is a fuel to keeps many of us going.

MAXIMUM WALRUS

Reminds me of the article by Ted Chiang I assign to my BA students, where he says: 'Teachers don’t ask students to write essays because the world needs more student essays...Using ChatGPT to complete assignments like bringing a forklift into the weight room..." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is kinda like "Don't Be Evil" as a slogan. It's a bit worrying when you choose it, but it's a lot more worrying when you take it down

Some think if they engage with cool art, it must come from a morally good person, and by engaging, they too are morally good. But the fact is, you can't read your way into being a good person. Good is something you do, and treating artists like gods you trade attention to for purity is a fallacy.

Everyone interacts with content notes differently but I just want to very explicitly say that I thought I had braced sufficiently for this & I am still regulating my very physical reactions to it. It's sickening; it's harrowing; it's excruciatingly well reported. But you don't *have* to read it.

I'm going to haul this one out again, about why it's not a great idea to idolize creative people, or indeed anyone, and certainly not me, because today really is the day to be reminded about that, isn't it: whatever.scalzi.com/2024/08/15/p...

Please admire my cat.

Birth control is also going to be on the chopping block soon, and they won’t be done there, either. We’re been saying it and saying it: All our freedoms are intertwined. All our struggles are one. Solidarity and collective liberation or bust, literally. We can do this:

No person shall [...] hold any office, civil or military, under the US [...] who, having previously taken an oath [...] as an officer of the US [...] to support the Constitution of the US, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof

I am very lucky to have read enough of Lee's unpublished work to identify many of these characters but this list of genders is excellent even without the context. also, congrats and well-deserved for the award for the v*mpire!

For various reasons this upsets me more than some other recent instances of official transphobia. We can't let book culture be taken over by the same people who are trying to ban books. We just can't.

Ann is, once again, entirely correct.

babe wake up new sorites paradox just dropped how many words can you drop from a manifesto before it is no longer a manifesto, it's just... a statement?