The UFW wishes our Jewish friends a sweet #RoshHashanah. The first institutional religious support for grape strikers came when boards of rabbis in big Eastern cities declared boycotted products non-Kosher. More @ ufw.org/roshhashanah

Can't speak highly enough of @queerasl.bsky.social. I've taken their 101-103 classes (and may well again, since I've lost a lot due to lack of practice--my fault) and found it a really wonderful, welcoming experience.

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Male Andean Cocks-of-the-Rock hanging out a lek. Males show up in groups and like to show off for the ladies. These birds can be found in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains. Nono, Ecuador, 2023 🪶

Almost all abuses of the Medicare system were done by corrupt providers and insurers, and almost none by people needing healthcare. Republicans know this. They don't care. Poor people don't deserve healthcare because billionaires and huge corporations want more tax cuts.

I am begging men to do this. Begging.

Okay, I misread this as "trans women build nations" and was like woawwww based based based based ...but also, woaw!!!! based based based!

Discworld QOTD, from Pyramids “No one is more worried by the actual physical manifestation of a god than his priests; it's like having the auditors in unexpectedly.”

Look at this map. A human did that with nothing but their feet and a bicycle. In nine days.

Another artist told me once to go see the full-size Muchas because you can see all the errors. I did and damned if she wasn’t right. It was a weird relief.

Sergei the cat occasionally wishes to be held like a small malevolent tree sloth. Kevin is listening to music and dancing around, but Sergei still wishes to cling. *Sumo Cyko comes on* KEVIN: Okay buddy, it’s about to get exciting. SERGEI: *purring intensifies*

meanwhile costco was all “DEI is good and we’re keeping it, fuck you” and they’re now basically printing money

Do not underestimate the soft spoken, the kind, the gentle. It takes strength to be those things, sometimes more than you will ever know. If you look closely at someone who conducts themselves honorably, you will find something fierce inside.

Why does EVERYTHING have an app, a club, a subscription fee, or all of the above? The internet was supposed to be fun, and now I have to pull my phone out all the time or I’m “losing money”.

Insurers sometimes deny coverage citing lack of progress, labeling patients’ conditions as chronic. Yet if they do make progress, insurers have also used that to argue patients no longer need treatment. Doctors are left to walk a tightrope. (Published Dec. 2024)

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

I can’t help it. The grackles are still here, and need to be photographed 🤣 The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣 #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

Audre told us.

The cattle manager at our current field site and his partner just got a new puppy. Say hello to the new apprentice farm dog! She's bitty and the world is so confusing but she knows she likes cows and she's a Collie mix from a herding line 😁 She's so adorable!

I hate telling this story, but when tear gas is in the news... telling always feels importantm Tear gas is an abortifacient. When I was tear gassed, we were trying for a baby. The following day, I bled in a way I never have before. Like no period of my life before or since. Horror movie stuff.

"Eliminating all HIV prevention means the end of state and local testing and surveillance programs, educational programs, and linkage to lifesaving care and treatment, along with PrEP. It will translate into an increased number of new HIV infections, which will be costlier to treat in the long run."

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy

This is Ella, my largest orchid, before her most recent molt. She's bigger now.

Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.

Johnson et al. 2016 predates Dawkins' last decade of appalling bigotry: repository.rice.edu/server/api/c.... Their focus was: "critics perceive Dawkins as misrepresenting science and scientists." But I note this: "female scientists were much more likely to mention Dawkins in their interviews."

"smoker" is on the CDC list and basically impossible to disprove

This is literally the important takeaway. Whatever else, they're going to make it de facto illegal for a trans person to appear at a protest (or even just recording ICE with their phone), and potentially even a legal liability to *every single cis person present* to have one of us there

*screaming intensifies* www.reddit.com/r/Plumbing/s...

It's seriously great and makes a good entry point to see if maybe you'll enjoy reading absolutely everything else @kjcharleswriter.com writes, which I do. She's on my "auto pre-order" and also "auto bump up to top of TBR" list

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” but here’s the explanation.

We are thrilled to reveal the cover for THE WONDER ENGINE by @tkingfisher.com! ⚙️ In this brilliant sequel to The Clockwork Boys, old foes resurface, and Slate and Caliban are forced to deal with the echoes of their past choices… Coming March 2026 ♥️

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

I think everybody could use some good news today.

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."

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

You - yes, YOU - can help protect the LGBTQ+ community here in California by telling Gov. Newsom to sign eight - yes, EIGHT - equality bills currently sitting on his desk. This link will help you do it in one step, today: app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag...

I approach news stories about polls with skepticism, but sometimes you get a response that has to be significant.

Still makes me a little nuts that the singer of the Gummi Bears theme is Joseph Williams: lead singer of Toto, singing voice of adult Simba in The Lion King... And John Williams's son.

I’m going to tell you about our most recent kitty, Izzy “the Izz” Isabelle. I thought maybe we wouldn’t get another cat after losing Stella unexpectedly. We were broken, I was extra broken, and Dirtbag Henry was broken, and anxious, and I knew he needed a friend.

every kid that grew up in the closet learned this young every trans kid learned this young Stick with your queer community; we've been through this shit, we know how to cope, we'll teach you

not everyone has a guardian angel, but everyone has the opposite of one

Are you a trans, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming artist and/or poet in NYC? Apply to Transcend--a 12-week paid project where artists will create life-size multimedia self portraits in a communal space. projecttranscendnyc.wordpress.com/apply/

It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do

Another great thread from Dr Flowers

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior