Day 18: Park #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 A Long Walk Jill Scott Let's take a long walk around the park after dark youtu.be/5SK48Bk_RnI?...

Adding a second song that actually has a recording available Day 17: Horse #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 Don Quixote by Gordon Lightfoot Through the woodlands, through the valley Comes a horseman wild and free Tilting at the windmills passing Who can the brave young horseman be?

"A Horse With No Name" America Day 17:Horse #LyricsPrompt #LyricPrompt2025 youtu.be/na47wMFfQCo?...

Day 17: Horse #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 Belle and Sebastian "Judy and the Dream of Horses" www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIVZ...

Oh ha ha yeah, it's complicated but basically: The king declared The reign of Mohammed ibn Saud, from 1727 on, as the foundational moment of the Saudi state. Until recently, that was in 1744, when ibn Saud made a pact with Muhammed ibn Abdul-Wahhab to spread his specific interpretation of Islam.

"Living at multiple axes of oppression can be heavy. The many identities you hold and your lived experiences are not in conflict with each other; they make you sharp, whole, and extraordinary. You may not see yourself that way yet, but I believe in you and who you will become.… (1/2)

No, Mr. Pak: They expect us to die.

100% this. The use of the word "biological" here is disingenuous. Until the current moral panic, sex assigned at birth (for that is what it is) was simply an annotation on a birth certificate. It has as much relevance to a trans person's adult physiology and health as their recorded birth weight.

This is going to be really educational, he's going to learn all about modern gender issues and also probably miniature wargaming.

Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?

Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them. I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.

Day 15: Evening #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 The Kinks, "Waterloo Sunset" Chilly, chilly is the evening time Waterloo sunset's fine youtu.be/2dbEZIq-LkI?...

Day 15: Evening ##LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 As Tears Go By, Rolling Stones It is the evening of the day I sit and watch the children play Smiling faces I can see But not for me I sit and watch As tears go by m.youtube.com/watch?v=37_J...

Sad news — Alice was an inspiration and a pillar of disability activism. May her memory be a blessing.

Oh great, another inadequate healthcare announcement! Once again, they're touting the failed private surgical facility model. This is just one more ideological attempt to force further privatization on Albertans despite the evidence that it doesn't work. www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

A countdown clock somewhere has started and Peter is sighing.

Point one: that's not what the author wrote. Putting quotations around your interpretation of the authors words in order to present it as a quote is deceptive and manipulative. Admit this, and apologize. You are better than this. The actual quote was "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die".

My maps app has developed a very pregnant pause when giving directions: “Turn onto Trans . . . Canada Highway”

I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs. Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.

Day 13: Summer #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 Summertime| Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong youtu.be/2HJCN3upMHE?...

Day 12: Fire #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 James Taylor - Fire and Rain youtu.be/EbD7lfrsY2s

I don’t think I’ve ever related more intensely to a character than Rhea Seehorn watching the whole world be brainwashed about a virus and being told she’s not allowed to lose her temper about it.

So sad this keeps getting shared with the attribution cropped out.

Everyone ten years ago when The Force Awakens came out: “Wow, this is dumb. Why are the fascists just doing the exact same plan again?” Everyone now: “Oh.”

Day 11: Coat #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 The Beatles, Two of Us "The two of us wearing raincoats, standing solo in the sun..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Z7...

Day 11: Coat #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 Leonard Cohen, "Famous Blue Raincoat" I have no issues making all of my prompt responses CanCon, but I don't have the breadth of lyrics memorized such that I won't repeat artists. The first of many repeats, I expect… youtu.be/ohk3DP5fMCg?...

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform? thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

I had to transcribe a translated version of this meme.

Pretty grim to see it laid out like tgat

TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.

Those who enjoy both The Rings of Power (season one, specifically) and Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein may be interested to know that both feature the same costume designer: the wonderful Kate Hawley! Hawley also worked on The Hobbit trilogy, which del Toro was originally set to direct.

Authors are constantly telling people how they made it! It's just that it takes a LOT of hard work and *patience* but people like this didn't wanna hear that advice. They think there's some kind of secret code or magic words that'll let you skip all that.

My little cousin in Belgium is paying a few hundred dollars a year for university Americans, we could have this too, actually 😭

So far, #Novellavember is going great: 5 books in 9 days! - Ring Shout (P. Djèlí Clark) - Runtime (SB Divya) - A Mouthful of Dust (Nghi Vo) - Envy of Angels (Matt Wallace) - Yellow Jessamine (Caitlin Starling)

Modern Traditional Prometheus. Prometheus.

Day 9: Orange Song: Aquarius Artist: Boards of Canada #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 This one is mostly a (highly engrossing!) soundscape, but today's word is pretty evident throughout.

I’m pretty sure I’ve played this D&D adventure

This had me crying my eyes out on a Saturday morning. You’re welcome

this is a perfect 30 rock joke

No one* is ready for my “Bruce Wayne is Chinese-American (the name was changed from Wang when the family emigrated)” Elseworlds *no one with the power to let me do it, anyway

Day 8: Rest #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 Madness - Our House Father wears his sunday best Mother's tired, she needs a rest www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJf3...

Best thing about Pluribus after the first ten minutes is the (more or less) accurate representation of a biology lab

Lest it seem like I am in agreement with the likes of Peter MacKinnon and Jack Mintz, let me be clear: - Increasing tuition is not a viable solution -- governments need to properly fund universities. - Also, education should be free for everyone.

Working from bed, dude! sleepisthenewsex.squarespace.com/episodes/epi...

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

@sleepisthenewsex.bsky.social www.bluejayscentral.com/mlb-team/tor...

Budgets aren’t just numbers; they’re a reflection of what we stand for. And #Budget2025 shows #Canada turning away from the world when humanitarian needs are rising. Our reaction: https://ow.ly/ISuF50Xnu7o#Budget2025#Canada#cdnpoli