Just last week I was explaining in class how names are embodied state cultural capital that some ppl do try to obtain via the direct exchange of economic capital—but foundational to the maintenance of Old Money cachet is the insistence that you can’t actually buy elite taste

So… English Teacher (show on FX) is just ALL IN on biphobia, huh

One easy way to see that those were labor issues was the fact that many of your colleagues with a different employment status didn't have those rights and protections. Instead of seeing that as a problem to be fixed for the good of all, too many saw it as a sad fate they'd avoid because of ✨merit✨

i made a helpful reference

"it is our duty to fight for our freedom."

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

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You, an intellectual: “anocracy” refers to hybrid regimes that are neither fully democratic nor fully authoritarian Me, a passable Spanish speaker: it’s rule by assholes

ADHD life hack: Stop connecting your phone to Bluetooth speakers when you get ready in the morning and just play your music through said phone so that you don’t lose it five times in 30 minutes

Emily Oster and the rest of the Urgency of Normal people (who convinced everyone that taking risks with other people’s children was perfectly acceptable so she and they could get their childcare centers back) should rot in hell, but instead here we are

Popular posts get about six Likes to every Retweet, meaning that when a post has 420 Likes it very likely might have 69 retweets. This is as beautiful to me as the Fibonacci Sequence or the Golden Mean. God's invisible hand is always at work in this world.

me, realizing there's no good term for "food I brought to the office to share with everyone" and panicking mid-post to the work slack: the birthday cake in the fridge is free use!

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

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Thinking in particular about how the conversion therapy I was put into as a small child might not have had such a devastating effect on my life if at some point as a kid I could’ve gone online and interacted with autistic folks who were not bent on making me mask

Those without honor are almost always hypocrites, but do not think that exposing their hypocrisy will thwart them. Double standards are their weapons, wielded gleefully against those who attempt to maintain honor and fair play. Do not abandon your own principles, but know when your enemy has none.

Kahless tells us that in the face of censors, of oppressors who would use your words against you even if true, you must speak out all the more loudly. All you do by silencing yourself voluntarily is save them the effort of silencing you.

the furries defended us the juggalos defended us and even knowing this, I was still not prepared

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

“Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore” that, in a nutshell, is why I avoid these things because no matter how convinced you are that it isn’t happening to you, it is happening to you these machines will suck your creativity dry and you’ll thank them for it

Fundraiser for the kiddo who survived the crash that killed his mom & her friend, which occurred when Minneapolis police were chasing a stolen vehicle earlier this week:

A huge swath of Americans voted for both Trump and abortion rights in 2024, and I'm fucking baffled by that, but even more baffled that NO DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS seem to be putting any effort into winning over those voters.

Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves. Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

future children in history class are going to love studying our era because everything about it will look so stupid to them “oh so they took all the serious bad things from past eras, and then redid them, but like clown shit?” yes

As someone who not infrequently lies to institutional authorities just to keep my teeth sharp, and occasionally for fun, I cannot recommend this strongly enough

Listen: RFK lied his way into a position to deprive you of the vaccine so it's only fair for other people to utilize the very OP strategy of lying to get the vaccine back

Dorsey frankly criticizes the criminal justice system but his book is about his path to a life of greater properties and beginning, finding justice in the power of law. When criticism & honesty are banned for the general public, remember the state practices this control on the most oppressed 1st.

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

Look, I don’t even like or trust most medical professionals but NGL, I still get a rush when I go for my dermatology checkup and get an A+ in sunscreen

It would be a lot quicker & easier to list the things Canvas handles WELL as an LMS, but I have to say the designers’ choice to display dropped assignments on the student Grades page in what looks like #333333 font while grades that actually count are rendered in #000000 is PARTICULARLY indefensible

Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

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you want this. Nora's stuff is beautiful. Set an alarm. Set a reminder.

You are in a room. There are clowns to the left of you. There are jokers to the right. > Move forward. You cannot move forward. You are stuck in the middle of the room.

Look, as the internet’s foremost Captain Janeway/Anakin Skywalker shipper, I-

I cleaned out my junk drawer and there was a tiny Spirit Halloween in there the next day run by homunculi.

I know we’ve all lost our capacity to be shocked, but this statement is incredibly fucked— just casually joking about how we might “accidentally” murder innocent fisherman in the process of doing the OTHER war crimes we *intend to do*

THERAPIST: and what do we do when we’re sad? ME: get another used cat? THERAPIST (nodding): get another used cat

Madison folks, local queer organizer Sarah Akawa (Hot Summer Gays, Dyke Dive, & many other community events), has been diagnosed w/an aggressive breast cancer—here is the GoFundMe to help meet her needs during what will be at MINIMUM a year of pretty grueling treatments: gofund.me/8b61c8afc

I'm awake! Acorn is mad about it! How do I explain to a kitten that a guy is coming to make sure my house doesn't fall into the alley? You can still help me afford this! ko-fi.com/karidru

I mean at least many maritime disasters really are just bad fucking luck rather than some contender for Top 50 Worst Fucking Humans of ALL TIME being enabled by absolutely everyone Also the Sea does not care who anybody’s daddy is, so you get some Actual Consequences along w/Srsly, Just Bad Luck

“whether it’s police killing Black people or now ICE shooting someone they believe is an immigrant, any loss of life should be cause for us to rethink the most militarized approaches to safety. These approaches do not stop violence; they simply add to it” @thetriibe.com thetriibe.com/2025/09/stat...

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Another reason why unions matter: American Association of University Professors, the American Federation of Teachers, the United Auto Workers, the Teamsters and organizations representing other UC employees sue to stop Trump’s attack on Univ. of California. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

A big problem with US conservatives is that they view people disagreeing with them as an attack — but they view them actually attacking people as “a disagreement.”

"How do we get The World to quietly kill these people that it would be awkward for us to directly murder" is state policy for a lot of unwanted populations. It's why our southern border policy is designed to funnel migrants into brutal deserts where their deaths won't bother anyone.