Another species no longer on the global Endangered list: Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.

tyfys 🫡

One CEO called the idea a “disgusting insult” and “economic genocide against the Gen Z generation.” 👀 @newsweek.com $XHB www.newsweek.com/50-year-mort...

i have known my (birth) mother for nearly 12 years now. she has the kindest, most beautiful soul on earth. we were never supposed to meet each other. i carry that with me every waking moment. 🥚

we all get excited about @ranchogordo.bsky.social Bean Club

My approach is to be so terrifying that they unfollow.

Can anyone point me to a study or other data showing that the majority of relinquishing parents *don’t* want to be anonymous? It’s needed for lobbying. I can look through the citations in Relinquished by @gretchensisson.bsky.social but I’m hoping someone has quicker access to the info.

i know that some of my irl friends and acquaintances follow me on this site, and i try as hard as i can to pretend it is not so

yo yo yo if someone blocks you do not email them to ask why.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now

conservatives try this messaging again & again. they say: people covered by a risk-pooling system who haven't received a payout from it aren't really "using the system." so, if you're paying into a system you aren't "using," you're a chump. an even worse chump if you're paying for other non-users.

i'm thinking of this immortal first paragraph because where i am, it's as "damp, drizzly November," within the soul and without, as you can get.

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

did they make sure that Thune’s commitment got notarized

I will always be irritated at how my experiences are not real until it’s made legible in some dense ass academic language

GOOD MORNING AND GOODBYE

Agreed. I remember being excoriated by adoptee “activists” for using familial terms to describe my family. I wrote up a whole thing about it. The pushback categorizes us into even tinier pigeonholes. Not something I choose to do to myself. #adopteesky #adoption 🥚 www.albikar.org/wparchive/on...

i mean nothing works when you don’t actually do it

since #adoption reorders only the legal and social *conventions* governing kinship relationships and statuses, but cannot reorder the historical facts (but only conceal them), adopted people cannot escape being subject to *penalties* if they exercise their choice to flout those conventions.

there is no reason why i should feel obligated to call my mother my “birth mother” or “biological mother,” any more than she should need correction when she refers to me—as she always has—as her son rather than as her “birth son.” 🥚

i can’t help thinking i would have never *ever* complained about my air travel woes this past weekend if i had known that congressional democrats were just about to say “ohhh we hear you”

Just thinking again how Democrats asked people to accept short-term suffering in order to give space to prevent long-term, worse suffering and then said, "Thanks for suffering in the short-term. You'll get to suffer long-term too so that our Thanksgiving plans don't get disrupted."

we now break character to bring you this

And regardless of the tactical situations, this reads like surrender. It tells people that Senate dem leadership thinks the stakes aren’t as in fact as high as you would have them believe. We can debate whether that is true or not, but the narrative is set. Dems are not in array.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

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And the numerous adults I've seen when working in places where adults are bringing kids, where they proceed to threaten to leave them or put them up for adoption if they don't behave the way that they want them to. These statements need to stop being so normalized & looked at as "acceptable."

you should be grateful to have a status so low, it’s its own punchline 🥚

just a tremendous irony here, given that adoptees are given fabricated documents making them “as if born” to their adopters, but intercountry adoptees do not have birthright citizenship. 🥚

“there’s still an opposition party in this country” aged worse than raw milk, huh

This exhibits the precarity of all adoptees' existence -- we are paper-made children of those-who-raise us -- nothing more / nothing less. 🥚

time for us to learn about Paul Newby, North Carolina Chief Justice, christofascist, serial adopter, adoption agency founder, and baby thief. 🥚 https://www.propublica.org/article/paul-newby-north-carolina-supreme-court

did you know that intercountry #adoptees born before 1983 have no guarantee of US citizenship, and instead are treated as immigrants who must obtain citizenship through naturalization? That they are subject to deportation if they have committed a crime or are deemed to be in the US “illegally?”

This is so so so fucked up 😡

how does that “guarantee” work

LIBRARIAN KAROKE TIME!!! Requests? #iLFAC2025

“They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it.”

I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.

I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase? 2256.42%???? TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩

Senator's office not accepting voicemails? Fax them. Seriously. You do not need to have a fax machine. Hit Schumer up, now.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

If they give up on those ACA subsidies, they aren't ever going to get them back

oh, the trauma of not getting to take someone else’s child for yourself 🥚

these ghoulish fucks congratulated this woman on restoring to her a “second virginity” by taking her child 🥚

time for us to learn about Paul Newby, North Carolina Chief Justice, christofascist, serial adopter, adoption agency founder, and baby thief. 🥚 https://www.propublica.org/article/paul-newby-north-carolina-supreme-court

i made it home. i’ve never been more glad to hear “when you get a chance, please snake the bathtub drain”

i’m a tech-services librarian. i don’t know if dad humor would wear well professionally, but i’ve considered starting my message with “I am away from the office. My current status is hopefully Mending but definitely Withdrawn.” 📚

Just got the best out-of-office message I've ever seen from a fellow academic: "I am currently away on leave. If this is an emergency... well, I doubt it. What could possibly be an emergency in my line of work?"

ALERT, Detroit (and surrounding) friends!! Alt-text: a screenshot of a Discord message reading: "Please be careful if you're out today, people. ICE is out and about in Detroit. Just got into it on the 94/French Eastbound exit ramp."