Pratchett's "Brownian motion of society" theory stays winning. #Discworld

Just gonna keep suggesting this: We are letting bad people set our information agenda when we talk about them all the time.

I'm all for woke 2 as long as we agree woo-woo is out, I want aggressively pro-science and medicine thanks

The clarity of this moment is its only gift

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Ahem "Pepper the Frog" Is that anything?

Girls, my husband just tossed this in my lap and told me it was the worst true crime he'd ever read. I tried to explain it's erotica and he doesn't believe me! Says it's too gross to be sexy .

I am curious why these protests are getting such positive media coverage vs the 2020 ones.

Tomorrow I have to log onto my WFH job to face the coworkers I tried to tell "see you soon!" only I got flustered because I *don't* often see them and changed it halfway through to "see you never!" 😳 My life is a Brian Regan skit.

This is the #Exvangelical origin story.

They are not marketing hate; they are marketing fear and selling hate as the solution.

I hope that Sir Terry Pratchett somehow knows how much "you do the job that's in front of you" has done to keep my life duct taped together at times.

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry." Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

The Curb Cut Effect (Spicy Version)

Declaration of Independence List of Grievances Bingo

About to make some future archeologists very confused

I don’t know if this is Wyatt Russell or not, but everyone—from celebrities to politicians—should follow his lead. He stood in LA & told the military the truth: they’re on the wrong side of history. You weren’t sworn to serve a wannabe dictator. You swore to defend the Constitution & we the people.

ICE recruitment booths at divorce and family courts

This is the thesis of Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order - that states only flourish to the degree the can keep the rich in check. Eunuchs, Janissaries, civil service exams, monasteries, Mamluks are all strategies states have used to keep rich people from influencing politics.

If you ever wondered what it's like being Amelia Bedelia's mom, my daughter's suitcase contains ONLY pajamas because I told her to "pack for three nights".

[Changing a diaper] I'm at the poo-poo butt/ I'm at the pee pee smell/ I'm at the combination poo-poo butt and pee pee smell.

I made my therapist cry what do I win?

As the prophecy foretold. I'm watching Shahmaran, which led me to the Lilith Wikipedia article, which reminded me of-

Also there is some transcendental gap between the banality of evil and the truly otherworldly pain and suffering that evil causes and idk if any philosopher has ever really been able to do more than point out how scary that gap is.

Hello, I am real human woman JD Uterus. I very much wanted to return to my job as a nurse and/or secretary immediately after I pooped my children out of my ovary or however it works. All of my many female friends agreed the last time we were braiding each others' hair! Pregnancy rules!

"Almost every single routine was disrupted, in every single household and business and institution. Almost every continuity with pre-pandemic life was broken. Resuming is never quite the same as never pausing. Stopping a thing changes it forever" open.substack.com/pub/thedelet...

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

Hey #Discworld ppl, do you have a source for a horse necklace like Tiffany wears? I'm assuming it's based on the Uffington chalk horse

Why did "weird" land but "deplorables" didn't? Is it the JD Vanceness of it all?

Ok but I lived close to an Occupy site in 2011, and y'all don't know how real this is 😭. www.theonion.com/americans-ex...

First time using a food processor on my 72% hydration sourdough bread. Was going for more even crumb and thinner crust, and it checks both boxes!