Well, that was a weird and unsettling end to an otherwise lovely Druid party.

"Movements that require people to absorb harm in order to advance are not movements that can sustain liberation." - @karlaliliana.bsky.social

A classic anti-masker tactic is to claim that if you don't wear a mask 100% of the time, it isn't worth it. Untrue. Every single time you wear a mask, you reduce the chances for viruses to spread. Wearing a mask always improves public health, even if you only do it occasionally.

Accurate

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends. It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

I've known some of you since LiveJournal. Some since WitchVox. Some from YahooGroups. It's fun bumping into old friends in new spaces, because nerds of a feather WILL flock together, if they have the knack for flocking. Our age cohort learned the knack.

ahahahaaha the last time I used my Glowforge to 3D engrave on this particular material was so long ago I've lost my notes on how to tweak the settings to make it do what I want, so I am reinventing that wheel AGAIN. I want BAS RELIEF, not this surface discoloration bullshit. ARGH.

Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards! "‘I believe you find life such a problem because you think that there are the good people and the bad people,’ said [Vetinari]. ‘You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.’"

Up next? NO ONE can build a mosque so it's not religious discrimination! NO ONE can wear an afro to school, so it's not racial discrimination! As AJ Jackson pointed out, this ultimately attacks Loving v Virginia because it's not racial discrimination if no one can marry outside their race.

Hello?

I need everyone to listen to @emolinsky.bsky.social's interviews with Profs. Yvonne Chireau and Kinitra Brooks @k8dee16.bsky.social #Sinners #Oscars www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/sin...

CONAN: “For the first time since 2012 no British people are nominated for Best actor or best Actress… a British spokesperson commented, ‘Yeah, well, at least we arrest our pedophiles.’" #Oscars

Having a hard time believing this ides of March story, you're telling me senators did something other than send out fundraising texts

IANAL but I’m pretty sure it’s bad when the judge beseeches your lawyer to consult an attorney?

Sticker on top of dive bar toilet, New Orleans

Trofim Lysenko died more than a year before I was born, but he still makes me irrationally angry. He was one of the most evil men to exist.

“Jews are overrepresented in the media.” No, no, no, you’re thinking of cops. Cops are overrepresented in the media.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

please stop ascribing a complex theory of mind to a man who does not have one

I am begging people to read books outside of their specialty, and books older than the last 20 years, sometimes. Because you need to touch grass about what words mean in a broader scope than your demographic and subculture genre. Especially if you're going to be an educator or presenter.

This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating. Must-read reporting by ProPublica.

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

Pete "No Quarter" Hegseth is an explicit believer in the notion that warcrimes are the path to victory. Congress needs to repeal the Hague invasion act, join the ICC, and pack Hegseth into a little box to go stand trial for his crimes

Has a partner ever pressured you to eat less/more/differently against your wishes? If so, what did that pressure look like in action? How did you respond to it? And how would you characterize the relationship as a whole?

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

This whole thread feels like something I've always needed and never had. And now you have it as well.

I’m excited to share this cover reveal for my upcoming new book: Ink & Blade, coming January 2027 from Llewellyn. I worked so hard on this and I’m really proud of what I’ve created. Can’t wait to share it with you all. Pre-orders opening later this year!

You joke but also this is 100% absolutely the case.

the US operation in Iran

the time is here: send us the worst Iran takes

remember when Facebook straight up lied about the "pivot to video" stats and wrecked entire industries? Surely the chatgpt people wouldn't do THAT

virtue signaling is good. practicing virtue is better, but both signaling AND practicing virtue is best.

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.” -Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

Polite reminder to antifascist researchers not to start a left wing of the current Satanic panic. It might not seem like a big deal to you, but I'm just trying to protect and support 100 plus lgbt baby Satanists spread out across the nation, mostly poor and in very hostile states.

Please don’t attempt to clean or restore historic gravestones without proper training. And no “I looked it up on the internet” is not proper training. When I was at the College of Charleston, historic preservation majors didn’t even touch headstones until junior year because they’re so fragile.

*through gritted teeth* we stay silly :3

jana h-s is like night vale for people whose favorite part of sex is seeing the way that she cleans the blood off her hands after jana h-s is like if borges got really into niche yuri jana h-s is like one of those spires in the desert with the fun squiggles on them jana h-s is like a large bird

You ever think about how today's trad wife farm lady schtick is basically the same as Marie Antoinette's thing for cosplaying as a shepherdess

All of this to say: if you’ve ever been on the receiving end of abuse and you’re feeling especially triggered watching the news these days, it may be because you’re picking up on this pattern. What happened is real. Abusers find excuses to do what they want to do. It is not your fault.

every GOP administration since Reagan has been more and more fascist, and every Democratic administration since Reagan has done fuck all about it beyond serving as a pause before the next giant lurch to the right

I am imploring media to remember that just because someone writes an OpEd doesn't mean you have to publish it

For reference, Illinois spent a little over $11 billion on K12 education last fiscal year. "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -some Republican

The point being, anyone who's eagerly awaiting or theologically invested in the End Times shouldn't be in government or military command, because they don't give a shit about the actual, real future, let alone the consequences of their actions in the present; they just want the world to end.

I need a billion dollars so I can personally bankroll a Leverage: Redemption comeback …On television. Yes. Of course.