I did not ever need to know this much about the sex lives of political journalists

If you think wolves are spending their time settling vendettas with violence like some kind of canine John Wick you need to put down the omegaverse fics down and talk to someone who actually studies wolves 😭

Started Death by Lightning. It’s got a somewhat cheeky tone that I like.

Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.

Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.

Free speech is more than me being allowed to say what I want. Everyone also has to like it and tell me I'm a smart and handsome boy

The drink is called Stop Yelling At Us

oh, hey, look, it’s what literally everyone who knew anything about hiring staff said would happen

In 2028 I will vote for whoever will send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

I would absolutely throw my back out for this dog

The cat is very eepy but she also desperately wants my grilled cheese. A kitty conundrum!

Child marriage is heinous, but one thing I never see brought up in those discussions is that if you are under 18, you cannot file for divorce. If you are under 18 and married to an adult, they are your legal guardian and make decisions for you. That is not a partnership.

🎶 old mcdonald replaced his farm with an energy intensive data center, a i a i o 🎶

The War on Christmas, brought to you by the Republican Party

Imagining a new type of Guy Who Sucks and rushing around town to put up fliers about it.

“Live action”

I'm pretty much mad and depressed all the time now, so maybe it's me, but I am so damn tired of rich people who contribute NOTHING being asked their thoughts as if they are actually someone intelligent or important. Let that bitch get on Threads like everybody else.

For @msmagazine.com, I wrote about the WNBA and the issue of pay equity. By the time the WNBA was only two seasons in (1999-2000) the average NBA salary was 58 times higher than the average WNBA salary. Twenty-six years later, the gap has jumped to 116 times higher.

Taps the sign yet again: Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy. See: MTG

there are maybe half a dozen shots in this that actually look like live action

Basically, the United States ran up until 2024 based on nothing more than the presumption that the administration would not do relentless crimes, and would stop if asked.

The dolphins are getting Alzheimer’s from algae blooms caused by warming waters and toxic runoff and you could see the bloodstains in Sudan from space. The cobalt is mined by children and the music is made by robots and the grownups are wondering where the fireflies went.

Does it ever even occur to these people that unemployed people can't buy their stuff??

I didn’t have “someone using the CIA and lots of government money to satisfy their fetish” on my bingo card but I should have

There is not going to be a way to "avoid getting sued over this" because that's basically just a description of book piracy. Even the most fair-use friendly courts will hold that "making it available for free because the author is a terrible person" is not a transformative use.

so if i'm understanding the timeline correctly jeffrey epstein was acting as the former president of harvard's sexual harassment coach

“Why do authors always—“ I’m gonna stop you right there. Because it sells books. Because it sells books! If a large group of authors is consistently doing something, it’s because it works. You can hate whatever it is, but don’t shit on authors for making business decisions.

I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.

This thread. I think it's incredibly important to remember that the TERF fragility/rabidity started to take off right around the height of me too, and the main message they had was "men are inherently violent." They targeted trans WOMEN, while at the same time excusing actual violence from cis men.

It reminds me when those militia guys occupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and then got all confused when they got arrested afterwards. they were literally "b-but we're not occupying it anymore? what do you mean i'm being held to account for my PAST actions??" literal pancake batter for brains

the entire CHUD demographic really does believe video game rules apply, where you just bust into a guy's house and steal his stuff and if you go back one respawn cycle he'll be all "welcome, stranger!"

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

there’s a new charmin commercial where the teenage daughter of the shitting bear family is an influencer reviewing charmin for her channel or whatever. i don’t approve of this. why can’t the shitting bear child be a surgeon. or a celebrated academic

White person: *several racist sentences* Black person: "That was racist as fuck" Other White Person: "Surely, they were being ironic." Don't wake up and use any of your days on earth being an OWP. Please.

The splintering of the romance community across social media apps, and the divide between pre-COVID readers and during-COVID BookTokkers, really shows how we're not just losing recipes with regard to genre history, we're losing entire cookbooks.

She’s working at all the prestige places, and I don’t mean to be arch about it, but it feels like the only place with a strong enough taboo to find this disqualifying in white America is on social media among mixed company.

Agreed! It’s also a reminder that the terrible stuff *aleays* gets amplified and sucks up the oxygen whereas good stuff doesn’t always get shared (maybe a like if you’re lucky) so just a reminder that it’s never a bad time to post links to or RT journalism that you think is worthwhile!

White House aggressively posting “trump is straight” content amid the blow job e-mail

Say what you will about Heather Gay, she’s taking on the Mormon Church (no I refuse to participate in your rebrand) with this new show and I bet they’re PISSED.

Brought to you by the guy who thinks "asylum seekers" come from insane asylums.

god these women are so much braver than any of the talking heads or politicians trying to minimize this. > www.worldwithoutexploitation.org

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

The cat has to be gently told that she doesn’t need to groom Gertrude, my emotional support chicken.

This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke... Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.

#Metoo was exhausting for the people who did it, who were then expected to treat it like a service they did for free to help the very people who had been pretending like it happened.

People put their careers on the line to try to get enough people out there that their combined voices would maybe, eventually weigh as much as the voice of one man who had been ruining careers for decades.

Also I just wanna say that the idea that me too was a walk in the park and it could happen to anyone at random... Literally go fuck yourself.

My longstanding criticism of the misogyny Hillary Clinton faced in 2016—and how it continues to screw us all over—doesn't mean I'd be ok with her husband getting away with crimes. That said, I'm not presuming his guilt or anyone else's until we see the evidence. RELEASE THE FILES.

"People like you voted for Bill Clinton, you stood by Bill Clinton" Ma'am, I was 7 years old the last time Bill Clinton was on a ballot. My only feelings on him were I'd get mad when I'd come home to watch Days of Our Lives and my mom would tell me it'd been preempted by his sex scandal again.