I keep forgetting and then remembering this. I can’t forget this!!

"i triggered people on bluesky" get a fucking life

Paths to atonement and change don’t have to include power over the people you’ve exploited

Is there any dinner/savory type food you can make with zucchini or squash that isn’t just soggy and sad? Every summer we grow these and every summer I’m like WTF am I supposed to do with all of these?

This is like if there was just one Muppet (Oliver) acting with a human cast (complimentary).

Not lost on me that the high profile "they were right, and i fucked up" apologies have come from women (goldberg, klein) and not from the podbros who are arguably more responsible for this bugfuck mess than anyone else other than the candidate himself.

Mitch McConnell should disprove the haters by channeling all the latent ki in his body into a massive kamehameha wave.

I have nothing else to say other than we were just here! On Sunday!

I am proud of myself for continuing to try to level up my knitting skills. There’s a lot of learning*, a lot of **growing happening *making a shit ton of mistakes **trying (sometimes successfully) to fix mistakes

My work wife is on vacation until Thursday so I’m stumbling around in our database to get some requested data. I am hoping I will be successful and that she’ll be proud of me.

Wasn’t enough room in the van

not for nothing but a lot of us have been talking about @andrealaflamme.bsky.social the entire time this silly conniption fit defense of tattoo boy has been going on

I don't know who needs to hear this but if you can't trust a dude with the little bit of power he has by virtue of being a man, you can't trust him once you put him in the government either.

I have Badgey as my phone wallpaper.

Looks like people are still trying to argue “the only way to stop a bad fascist rapist is with a good fascist rapist,” and please could we not?

Folks, no one has a RIGHT to higher office. OK? You aren't "canceling" anyone when you decide NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR QUEST FOR MORE POWER. Please let's be SERIOUS. This is not what is meant by "no one is disposable." I'm begging people to focus and use your brains. That man can still make a LIVING.

All of this.

Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.

I am not gloating or smug. I'm FURIOUS. I'm so angry that people ignored all the red flags wrapped in a package that is the correct gender and skin color. People ignored all the female vets saying this guy is BAD news. People ignored the NAZI TATTOO, the slurs, the rape apologia, on and on

You do not have to give people “due process” before you choose not to vote for them. You can just be like “oh word the guy who wrote rape apologia and had allegations just got another serious allegation? Guess he doesn’t need to be my senator.”

Oooo! It’s the Cyrano de Bergerac episode!

This youngin’ giving O’Brien shit for being old is a great way to start this episode.

With alt text

Alright. Back to our regularly scheduled programming: DS9 Paramount+ has conveniently forgotten where we are in the series, but it’s a good thing we remembered that the last one we saw was a changeling trying to replace my beloved Martok.

You know, in hindsight, I probably should’ve chosen a lighter colored yarn for my first sweater. It’s not easy learning a bunch of new tricks on a dark blue yarn.

us goalie giving up hole like a twink on prep

I’m going to get back to posting about DS9 tonight.

Bet they used a chatbot.

He’s been attempting to beatbox for the better part of an hour. We still have an hour to go.

WHAT HE COULD HAVE SAID WAS NOTHING. Holy shit.

I guess I didn’t get far enough into Myth America.

I worked for a researcher for a short time who had me dig into the statistics on how qualified a woman felt she had to be in order to run for political office. This was more than a decade ago, so I don’t remember specifics, but I learned not to worry if I was qualified because men certainly didn’t.

Platner’s most enthusiastic backers weren’t banking on there not being additional credible accusations. They were banking on enough people not caring that there were.

This is a hell of our own making. We are going to have to carry this fucking country kicking and screaming to a better future.

As for the men wondering why women wait so long to come forward: because it's humiliating, you dumb fucks. Not because we did anything wrong but because of the way society views survivors and the fact that we're always put on trial too if we report it--as if we're also the perpetrators

I am so fucking tired of woman having to stand on a national stage and tear their hearts open and pour their trauma out in front of the entire country. And still not be believed. Or be told it doesn’t matter because we need her assaulter. I’m so tired of it.

Careless people (white men) do not remember the harm they cause because: 1. They rarely face consequences 2. They feel entitled to commit the harm and/or entitled to not face consequences 3. They cause harm so often that they don’t remember every instance 4. It didn’t impact their lives

This whole Platner fiasco reminds me of how—on average—women feel they have to have a higher percentage of a job’s required qualifications before they apply when compared to men. He didn’t think any of this was disqualifying, and everyone around him also didn’t think it was disqualifying.

WHY ARE THERE ENDORSEMENTS TO WITHDRAW IN THE FIRST PLACE?

The opposite of being milkshake ducked is being oyster farmered (when literally all the red flags are laid out in front of you like oysters in beds)

I have been blocking a lot of people today and I suggest you do the same as you see fit.

You are allowed to ask for more and better from the people who want you to vote for them. In fact, you're supposed to do that. We don't owe them. They owe us.

Why wasn’t the Nazi tattoo enough

I don’t think it was intentional, but his candidacy felt like a serious trial balloon for “don’t believe your eyes, just trust us” crowd. Just an astounding number of very large red flags that we were told to ignore. It’s been an assault on collective truth, much like ai and all of Trump’s lies.

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YUP

Was just reminded that Mrs. McMurray is also a Starfleet captain.

No shade to Eric, I’d like to think that AOC can pick up on creep vibes, and is willing to act (or not) on them.

Sending love to all SA survivors today, whether or not you come forward. You matter.

this statement alone is disqualifying. this is the kind of shit rapists say. also, even if he isn't a rapist...he shouldn't reinforce the FALSE notion that women make up rape to influence elections when we see how Biden and Trump were easily elected. but ultimately, I do not believe him.