right? taylor farms didn't shit SPECIFICALLY on the taco bell order lettuce. it's all dangerous.

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Shout out to these lovely, smooth dancing ladies who provided my inspiration for adult jazz today - www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGyK... We had a LOT of fun until it came time for the second wall of the 4 wall, 64 count line dance...

So apparently the thing going around is that cyclospora is not lifethreatening BUT if you don't get early treatment then you could get a serious case and be hospitalized and BOY what a great time it was to cancel millions of people's health insurance

$81 billion in tariffs you paid given to companies.

Ideally I don’t think politicians need to be emphasizing how masculine or feminine they are. This obsession with asserting traditional gender roles is a very clear conservative agenda and it’s a bunch of made up bullshit anyways

In Washington state, a proposed bill threatens to force all girls, but not boys, to undergo invasive, medically unnecessary genital inspections or hormone tests to play sports with their friends. Policies that seek to exclude transgender youth end up putting all youth at risk.

I mean, foreign nations may have planned to interfere...to help Trump.

You can get cover art made by real artists. You can buy premade covers from real artists. You can use stock images / art for your covers without involving AI-gen images. Writers and publishers have been getting covers made forEVER w/o AI-gen art and we don't have to use the tools of the enemy now.

Hot take: if you're a moderate D, you should vote for the DSA candidate in your primaries. After all the trading's done, a moderate rep will trade away everything you want and you'll end up with R garbage. A DSA elected will fight for MORE than what you want and maybe win you SOME of what you want.

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

I need to choreo a lazy, funky jazz dance for beginners to the Staple Sisters' "I'll Take You There." Help me.

Imagine how disappointed I was when I bought all the early D&D gear only to find out that the whole Satanic Panic was horseshit and I DIDN'T gain wicked cool demonic powers.

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

If he died and they are all lying about it, that's actually a lot worse than all of us making fun of the Schrodingerness of the whole thing.

Some people seem to be forgetting that *everyone* is entitled to due process on American soil. No matter where you were born, you are guaranteed this right. Here’s what you should know.

To all of the pedantic snowflakes: no one will ever accuse you of being AI because no one would ever program a bot to be this fucking annoying. 🚬

Ah I see we’re back to mocking Donnie for being fat. I get the impulse. He is vain. But y’all just sound like assholes to people you actually know. People on your side. Obesity is a disease. There is no moral superiority in being thin.

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

If Mitch McConnell and his family want complete privacy, then he should step down. If he intends to remain in office, the public deserves transparency about his condition and whether he's capable of serving. Period. End of story.

People (or maybe this was all one person) said they liked Platner because he wasn't "smoothgroined" and he was fighting back against HR ladies, and now are like aw man, I didn't know he was a rapist. Yes you did. That's what you liked about him.

Meanwhile, good candidates--especially women, and most especially women of color--are never considered electable, no matter what. These progressives would absolutely vote for A woman, just not this woman. Or THAT woman, should she run. But they'd vote for some non-existent woman at some point. 2/2

What is so fundamentally broken in you as a human being that you think it's okay to do this? To willfully break not only the rules set out when you submit your slop but the trust of the people you seek to work with? To waste time and money and put at risk a small business's ability to operate?

The calmest and most helpful online space I'm in has no men in it.

White men are so consistently aggressive online. It's incredible.

The number of assholes on here defending Platner by saying we have a rapist in the White House so it’s only fair…do you fucking hear yourselves? I don’t hear your rape-defending creep asses bc I’m blocking all of you who are fine with rapists and abusers as long as they’re a white Dem. Eat shit

And while we're on the subject, I can't stand Susan Collins, but the idea that she is solely responsible for the fall of Roe, as opposed to the 44 men in the Senate, the 20 in the White House, and the 5 on the Supreme Court, is ludicrous and misogynistic. She is ONE vote.

One of the most insidious mechanisms of rape culture is the way we treat a rapist experiencing *literally any consequences at all* as "ruining their lives." Not getting an extremely competitive job that literally 100 people have is not only not a death sentence-- it's not a sentence. At all.

There are so many guys out there! The numbers are good we don’t actually have to keep all the bad ones! There are endless guys! Toss the bad ones out I promise there will still be more guys! You’re not gonna run out of guys!

I've been doing sexual harassment and assault research and advocacy work since 2012. If there's one thing people need to understand is that everything, literally everything, is stacked against the victim. Every one who comes forward risks their reputation, identity, safety, and more. 1/2

Fuck every POS who came on here and caped for platner despite every fucking marginalized group warning you. To those I haven't already blocked, EAT SHIT

it would have been so easy to listen to the people who were like "nah" when it came to the Nazi tattoo guy.

Again…it didn’t have to be like this. Maine could’ve chosen someone without a Nazi tattoo on their chest and 1,000 red flags in their background to go against Susan Collins but noooo the Pod Save bros like him

Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights.

I had a book rejected because the publisher didn't want mafia stuff and there was zero mafia stuff in the book, though there were some Italian-Americans.

Cutting costs because my income from writing has...cut itself. How do you host and maintain your website on the cheap, yo? I'm at $200 a year right now for hosting. V good host but...

A reminder that as you see photos of those Patriot Front douchebags today, they are marching on a holiday because none of them have anywhere else to be. None of them have friends or family who want them around on a holiday. No one is missing them today. They're already with their only friends.

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

So the citizenship clause shouldn't count because things have changed since then but ... guns.

UNFUN FACT: In the case of birthright citizenship, three Supreme Court justices found the Constitution unconstitutional.

Mom cat leaving her human to babysit so she can sleep 😴😂😂 Drop a follow

no you cannot personally dismantle the empire. but you can find somebody who needs help and you can help them

The issue is that nonpartisan, independent, and fact-based (good goals for journalism) have been replaced by centrist and equally critical of both parties, neither of which are journalistic principles. So confronted with a radical wing of the GOP, legacy media invents equally radical Dems.

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

What will Margot and Rett be up to next????

What would the recipients of author newsletter think if authors sent out sort of co-op newsletters instead of each author sending individually? I get one group newsletter that I like but also authors send separate and it's too much.