the way it works is that if i say, "i'm a black american," sam alito thinks that is "dividing people up by race." but if someone says, "get that jigaboo out of my country," alito thinks, "looks like nothing to me"

“Abortion bans don’t stop abortions, but they do kill people. They kill women, in higher numbers, but in many of the same, preventable ways, that these women were dying before. All of which was completely and utterly predictable.” - @amylittlefield.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Egypt and Iran have requested that Pride events in Seattle during their World Cup match be canceled and… no. Welcome to Seattle. This might be the most patriotic I’ve felt in my life. Pride isn’t happening during your game; you’re here during Pride. Suck a rainbow. apnews.com/article/worl...

I feel like all the nature and science magazines I grew up with as a kid are either defunct or are being dismantled for spare parts. Nat Geo, Discover, Sci Am, Natural History, the works. How does this shape the next generation of kids?

@jackbern.bsky.social i'm really sorry if everyone's about to tag you in this, but...

The polystyrene keeps the building comfortable w/o significant energy loss and would do so whether the concrete was there or not. There’s no thermal mass assist here at all. The concrete protects the rebar (until it doesn’t), and that’s its major contribution. It’s a great paper:

Extending a conversation I had with my therapist today: I have no idea what flirting is.

Adipose & the omentum, etc www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

Why I Don’t Use “Patient Zero”

We have no money. You know this. Why do you keep asking why we’re not doing things we used to do? It’s because we have no money. We. Have. No. Money. We have no money. There is no money left. It’s all gone. None of us have it. No money. Nope. Money gone. We don’t have it. No.

When I'm feeling jaunty, I'll throw out a "fairest and fallen."

What a fascinating way to spell "young adults can't easily afford to have children in the last two decades"

That's the one we use in the #YoungWizards universe. :)

Wait are the Canadians booing it too? I thought that was just us

Seriously, this. I want a Supreme Court (& all courts, tbc) made of people who started in community college, transferred to their state school, worked on Innocence Projects and law school divorce/intimate partner terrorism clinics, plaintiff labor lawyers. Ivy League should be a kiss of death.

Copied from July of 2020. The US, where #ADHD is a punchline, something you give a cartoon character to laugh at them. Where the depiction is of a disruptive white boy, who bounces off walls & probably just needs to be patented better. For 30 years I never recognized myself in those portrayals.

My mother, the inimitable Jane Yolen passed away this morning after a blessingly short fight with Alzheimer’s. She did not suffer, and went peacefully into the ether which, I am certain for her, will be filled with words of the most exquisite beauty and meaning.

"I believe in story. It helps us make sense of the world in all its messiness, glories, mismatches, and marvels." - Jane Yolen, 1939-2026

*inhales deeply as a disabled genderqueer person* Video framing attack on 504 as anti-trans. Nope. Nope. Nope. Could it be used to harm trans people in schools? Yes. Is that the point of attacking it? No. They want to kill disabled people. They have been very, very clear about that.

Anyone sane on the US is already embarrassed by this, but FIFA is rapidly losing all its credibility over sticking with a host country that is actively hostile to and persecuting both FIFA officials and players and coaches.

Seems reasonable to me the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

Hey folks. As some of you might have seen on the blog, Paizo was hit by layoffs today. I am safe but I don't feel particularly good about it due to many of my dearest friends finding out they are losing their livelihoods. As these fine folks are looking for jobs and mutual aid, please boost them.

Think about this research nearly every day now reading the news.

FIFA knew damn well that this was going to happen and yet they persisted on having the World Cup here in this racist shithole. Every team should boycott, but I know they won't. Athletes think they're immune to this stuff until something bad happens to them.

Based off of a type I made in another post, I am now going to remind everyone that you cannot spell Felon without Elon.

This is the only appropriate reaction.

In addition to everything else about his life and work, and all the joy he brought others, the lasting memory of Anthony Stewart Head for me will be his reaction to hearing the story from Charisma Carpenter about her treatment by Whedon. "How could I have missed this?"

“The Founders would never have wanted… hang on, I’m being handed a note.”

Even more recently than that though. I learned a few years ago that "nothing" was Elizabethan slang for vagina. So "Much Ado About Nothing"? Also the scene i. Hamlet where he lays his head in Ophelia's lap and talk about thinking of nothing? Yeah layer of meaning.

Those agendas and biases can be anything! Case in point: you think the fruit in the garden of eden was an apple because a guy translating the story into Latin wanted to make a pun.

Terrible news.

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

A warning to anyone planning to attend a World Cup game: Do not attend a World Cup game in the United States. Even American citizens are at risk of being kidnapped, beaten, murdered, or placed in an inhumane detention facility. A football (soccer) game is not worth the risk. STAY HOME!!

Thread, and nested.

WAIT NO WAY THIS KIDS BOOK TELLS THEM HOW TO MAKE CHLORINE GAS AND EXPERIMENTS TO DO WITH CHLORINE GAS WHAT IS GOING ON

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

Very worthwhile read.

The mice are eating my bean seedlings. Have surrounded the sprouts with Slap Yo Mama Cajun spice blend in hopes this will ward the mice off. Of course these are New Mexico mice, so their spice tolerance is probably higher than mine.

I need one (or more) of these.

If you see this, post an anime you love. My first anime love, probably my first gay crush, although teen me wouldn't understand that for another 2 decades.

I really wish that people like TCW would grapple with the fact that Elon Musk murdered hundreds of thousands of non white people because he is a white supremacist. like, maybe he's objecting to Black people on screen bec. he is a mass murdering Nazi.1

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

I could never, under any circumstance, hand it to Mitch Motherf––ing McConnell. He's a prime reason why we're in this mess.

Speaking as an American: Good! FIFA should have pulled out of having the US host 2 years ago. The US isn't a safe place to be a foreign traveller in right now.

This had to come out. I wrote an article in The Conversation about this whole Timmy ordeal. Together, we have learnt many lessons from this event. theconversation.com/timmy-the-st... #timmy #freewilly #germany #whale #op

Listen, you've already convinced me to buy it, you can stop with the hard sell already.

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

FIFA painted over a beloved Wyland mural of whales, one of just 100 in the world, to advertise for the World Cup. Apparently without talking to anyone before doing so. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

This gave me a lot of pangs