Speaking of "tradition" and the use of they as a singular gender neutral pronoun. New Jersey's constitution used they as a gender neutral pronoun between 1776 and 1807, thus allowing anyone, regardless of ethnicity or gender, to vote so long as they 1/ www.amrevmuseum.org/virtualexhib...

Our so-called leaders speak With words they try to jail you They subjugate the meek But it's the rhetoric of failure -The Police "Spirits in the Material World."

Here's a lesson in subtle propaganda. Notice how any people of color are famous. None of the "slice of ordinary life" pics show how PoC were living or treated in 1964. Such images perpetuate the myth that the past was universally better for all Americans. share.google/5bqOWAjbVGmO...

I kinda hate that I'm in the tiny minority who doesnt like Pluribus. I love the premise but I have this curse that I have to give a crap about at least one MC. I get the irony of her hatinga hive mind while assuming everyone should think as she does. I kinda 1/

Not about any show(s) in particular: Hey, TV show runners I know some people find shows with sad or screwed up endings cathartic ot whatever but maybe remember that some of us occasionally like to escape to worlds with happy endings. Just putting it out there.

As a history professor I wonder if the Cyclops and sirens in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey will be historically accurate 🤔. Which is my smart ass way of saying the historical accuracy crowd needs to lighten up. #theOdyssey

When a company says no generative AI was used in the making of a product how far does that go? Did no one on the team do a Google search relevant to their workflow and take the AI generated answer? Did an AI bot help revolve a payroll issue or help filing a permit? Was AI used to 1/

I get that people are looking to get paid, but it's counterproductive as hell when I can only read 1/4 to 1/3 of a webpage because the rest is covered by ads I can't close or move.

Ever wonder why history professors ofren don't allow the use of History dot com/ the History Channel as a secondary source? While History is in the name, its an entertainment website, the same place you can find Ancient Aliens. History dot com can sometimes be an OK tertiary 1/

Oscar Wilde is on a short list of people along with Einstein, Churchill, Twain, and a few others who have all manner of quotes attributed to them. Save a lot of these quotes have no verifiable attribution. I can say someone said something 1/ share.google/rhJxylDX0kpu...

RIP Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa A staple genre actor from the 80s onward, in mostly character roles. While many will recall him in other things. I'll remember him for this short lived 90s cheese fest that manged to land an Oscar winning actress.

Truth! If you haven't seen @legalkimchi.bsky.social video you really should.

Remember these names: Arurelia Browder Mary Louise Ware (née Smith) Susie McDonald Jeanettea Reese IYKYK. This next one may give some of you a hint as to why you should know these names. Claudette Colvin. Some would have us think Rosa Parks was alone, the 92% take no one's shit.

2025: Me: This student's paper is a disaster in more ways than I can count! Also me: but at least I'm confident a human wrote this.

Peeps. Help @thecandacemarie.bsky.social out of you can or at least boost this.

I really hate asking this, esp before the holiday, but I’m having an emergency. My filling broke and I have a painful abscess that needs immediate care. I don’t have dental insurance and could really use a hand. I’m so sorry to ask. I can barely eat or sleep. #mutualaid ko-fi.com/candacethema...

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

It just occurred to me that in just under two years I'll have been running and playing #DnD and #TTRPGs for 50 years. 👀🤔

After some napkin math on all the outstanding Kickstarters I have that are well past their estimated delivery dates, I wish more KS would pad their estimates by a year minimum, then multiply by two. More people need to add "Oh, s#*t time to their estimates because there's often an "Oh, S#*t. 1/

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One of the best films for candidly illustrating just how silly racism is. Sure, other parts haven't aged well, but damn if it still doesn't make me laugh.

An interesting tale. Many don't realize that while most of the people of Japanese descent sent to internment camps came from California, Oregon, and 1/ How a popular Peruvian soft drink went ‘toe-to-toe’ with Coca-Cola | Features | Al Jazeera share.google/YUxlb7lcnLwg...

Although I'd been playing TTRPGs for 12 years when Cyberpunk hit, it was the first TTRPG that spoke to my soul in so many ways. It's been a lifelong fave. Pondsmith should have been in a longtime ago and I can't help but think an AAA video game based on his work put him over the top. 1/

Um, no. The second someone says something like "every single time" your BS meter should be going off. There are almost always exceptions (see what I did there). While the person higher on a staircase having more power in the dynamic is a decent 1/ share.google/m0UlHSqy5SSX...

If our "leaders" are willing to shut down to prevent the release of a list of pedophiles then they are more worthless than I imagined. I don't care who's in those files, GOP, Dem, independent they all need to be exposed.

Draining the Swamp, my Black tail feathers! This stinks of a cover-up and shows the GOP is just as corrupt as they claim their detectors are. Johnson Shuts Down House To Block Epstein Vote share.google/KqFifP8AMyB9...

While I love the sentiment I have to put my pedantic historian hat on. If while out in the wild and woolly internet, you see a quote attributed to Twain, Churchill, Voltaire, or Jefferson the odds a very high that they did not say the thing. If the quote is not accompanied by where they said the 1/

The chances that this isn't to placate a President who hates criticism are slimmer than the humanitarian compassion of a 1%er. Allowing a President shutting down dissent is one key step on the road to a total dictatorship. share.google/kuYvk76qPkPJ...

Meanwhile, some children born on bases overseas toservice members have been deported. So the "honor" for families and service members only for some. share.google/WIioo7y2uNci...

I can only admire how this man stays positive after all he's been through. share.google/e0BTfQRxuiFC...

Don't think for one second that colonialism ended in the 20th Century, it is alive and well. Its remnants still ravage Africa, Asia, and more, and many people around the world are still ruled by colonial powers. youtu.be/B7RT3c8uB0Y?...

Ah, Texas and Fox News, what a team. Where bigotry and ignorance are expected and controversies are controversial. 🙄

People in red states voted for these guys. It's callous and maybe a bit cruel but maybe the losses in GOP states, that many people said would be some of the hardest hit, will open some eyes. share.google/BRNhfF9BXGT8...

My sympathy meter must be broken. Oh, nope, it's just reading zero. share.google/HWvSb3tuU90n...

I'm replaying Horizon Forbidden West and while it's one of my favorite games I just got to the one part that grates on me. I don't mind character death but Varl's death bugs me for a few key reasons. The Devs had to know after the first game that some fans shipped Aloy and Varl. Unintended 1/

Like in gambling, if the house makes the rules and SCOTUS allows them to do so, the house will always win and the current administration will become an unopposed dictatorship. share.google/9AEKSTRH2D69...

America used to at least publicly pretend it had some principles that eschewed being complicit in torture. ICE may deport some migrants to 'third countries' without assurances they won't be tortured, memo says share.google/CUDhsi8VZzeb...

History tidbit: In addition to the over 120,000 Japanese Americans sent to camps in the US during WWII about 1700 Peruvians of Japanese descent were deported from Peru to US camps, as the US deemed them a security threat. None ever received reparations. share.google/xPZCXb09hv0O...

In my TTRPG class, which I am teaching again this summer, we look at excerpts from several TTRPGs and I ask the students to the reflections on how these games deal with culture and identity. They can pick any three games from the course. Once again, Thirsty Sword Lesbians and Coyote and Coyote 1/

Ex-Superman Dean Cain Says James Gunn Made a ‘Mistake’ Calling Superman an ‘Immigrant’ and ‘It’s Going to Hurt’ the Box Office: ‘How Woke Is Hollywood Going to Make This Character?’ For sake's fuck Superman is, by definition, an undocumented immigrant. share.google/MHque3jxqwEi...

This case may be so relevant Based on recent cases I could see fundamentalist Christians trying to argue that teaching their kids evolution in public schools violates their religious freedom so they want to opt out, and this SCOTUS may let them. share.google/oM9QwTL29cjx...

What worries me more than masked ICE officers disappearing people off the streets, is when they get so confident in their power that they stop wearing masks.

For those keeping score at home, look up the last time the US had an America First movement. Disbanded after the US officially entered WWII they were, up until that moment an organization whose mostly white membership had a various points expressed pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant ideas.

Is anyone else worried that Trump's plans for daily events from now until the nation's 250th will whip the most jingoistic elements of his base into such a lather that coupled with other "America First" policies will lead some of them do awful things to those they deem not American enough?

Trump just massively expanded his secret police force (what else would you call an armed, masked, force willing to "just follow orders?) This is beyond terrifying.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

In Christopher Nolan's Tenet, the people of the future seek to reverse the flow of time and wipe out their ancestors (us) who made continued life on Earth environmentally untenable. If time worked like that and such a thing was possible, I can't say I could blame them. share.google/GY3f4VH8KvMJ...

Checks and balances are the only way we can hope to make this nation work. Without them there's no way this nation survives as we know it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

So we can acknowledge the Confederacy but not slavery! Jesus jumpinh Christ! share.google/cCl12ZkWfMPt...

When the wind shifts, as it always does, marginalized communities will remember who stood with them and who tucked tail and ran. share.google/faQ0dYRHJdg1...