I remember when she told me all she really wanted to do was stay home and have kids and she was afraid I'd be disappointed in her and I was like girrrrrl feminism is about having CHOICES, not killing yourself to do shit you don't want to do. She got the life she wanted! I got the life I wanted! Win!

if you have a bunch of blueberries and one of them is moldy, exposing the others to it doesn’t make the moldy one healthy. it just makes them ALL moldy.

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

btw i don't agree with folks who say posting here doesn't matter because every time i help organize an event, people show up in real life & tell me they heard about it here on bluesky it absolutely matters if you make a habit of organizing & sharing practical suggestions of stuff to actually do ❤️

Anyone who has been in or worked for a union knows that a huge part of the challenge is that unions have to represent both the worker who harasses their colleague and the worker who gets harassed. It’s not always david v Goliath! People can be terrible to each other!

Just a reminder that ICE didn't exist until 2002. It's not some longstanding institution that must be maintained. It was created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and it could be gotten rid of as easily as it was created.

“people find discussions about Disabled people's realities threatening” - this is so true. Our culture is terrible at facing the frailty of human experience and presume anybody facing it is just doing Life Wrong.

“No you see, this is different cause it’s Internet brainrot and not like when I was kid quoting American Pie sex jokes that I was too young to understand at every opportunity”

In March 2020, I predicted that mail-in voting would be the defining issue. I spent 2022 warning about rightwing voter challenges. In 2024, the GOP was preparing to block certification if Trump lost. In 2026, it will be DOJ use of voter data to undermine state election administration.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Nobody needs to hear this but I bought a giant bag of navel oranges a couple weeks ago and just remembered all I need to do to make orange juice is squeeze dem oranges and anyways, very excited and grateful to have fresh squeezed oj today

“If it were really that bad you would be in hospital!” People say this to disabled folks all the time They don’t realize that if we went to the hospital for every flare, we would live there They don’t realize how dangerous hospital settings can be They don’t realize how little help is available

So what we know is that giving people the space and freedom and time and resources to explore multiple areas of interest at the same time is linked to what we consider one of the major periods of advancement and development in European human history. Folks are now arguing to reject that as a goal.

#langsky #linguistics #lexicographers any y’all got help on this front? I also would love to read about this!

Yeah, it's good if you can produce your own appropriate levels of thyroid hormone, too, but if you can't, store-bought is fine. Store-bought is fine, motherfucker.

and still: “Ridiculous the waste sad time /stretching before and after”

Handel’s Messiah: Name your favorite recording thereof, stat! (Hoping to hear from ppl like @musicologyduck.bsky.social, but I don’t wanna presume and I’ll take all opinions!)

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“Ridiculous the waste sad time stretching before and after” (TS Eliot, especially prominent when scrolling social media or playing stardew too long…)

You will be visited by 3 spirits

The times I heard “those who can’t, teach” as an aspiring English teacher when in high school… innumerable.

“It’s a decidedly nonhuman, anti-human hue.” Yes.

trying to fit in here on bsky, so I’m quote replying with an attempt to build a new take on a phrase in the hopes of finding some dopamine likes

A question I have about alt text is for chart images. Is it acceptable for alt texts to not just describe the charts but to include an interpretation of what I am supposed to understand from seeing the chart?

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced

why is the song “unanswered prayers” stuck in my head upon waking? Feels ominous

Is anyone aware of anyone appealing a plea deal or other guilty verdict entered under one of the improperly appointed US Attorneys? Literally asking for a friend. (Although not one directly affected.)

Hot take: metaphors are where the actual heavy conceptual lifting takes place in most theories, models, ideas, and arguments. Treating them as aesthetic literary devices makes people less capable as readers.

they should have a separate color of the year for people who haven’t lost the will to live

So here's the Good news/Bad news depending on how racist you are: White people are already extinct. It already happened, hundreds of years ago.🤷🏿‍♂️ bsky.app/profile/mekk... Your great-great-great grand pappy was getting busy before racism was invented. Now none of y'all score 100% on your 23 and me.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is convincing people that "politics" is somehow unrelated to the real world and people's real lives.

There is way too much required "Are they a Nazi or do they just like runes?" in this reality.

How do I generate unique posts more? Just write them, I suppose? This Anisota Harvest thing has me thinking up posting challenges for 2026 - like I need to avoid phrases like”has me thinking”

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I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

Since this post, nearly 300 of you donated about $11k and I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. The union shared photos with me today of food being distributed. Remaining money will be evenly distributed among the 160 union members in the form of gift cards. Thank you. ❤️

'Why did poetry have such a seductive effect on the bots? The scientists suspect it’s because these large language models have been tuned to recognize “prose-shaped” danger, and are less prepared for figurative, compressed, or metaphorical language.'

the video is hysterical www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Km...

I’ve forgotten this sometimes but being able to discover something you like, curate it, and make time to enjoy it *is* intelligence, connecting with art is intelligence, empathy is intelligence, the way of the dullard is to find nothing meaningful in art except for a way to seem snidely clever

I don't care if a non-disabled person accesses a disability accommodation for the same reason I don't care if a child whose parents are rich gets free lunch at school. We don't need to means test being a kind person. I have better things to do with my time than be a cop over social services.

All I want for Christmas is a lexicography-centric holiday movie, is that too much to ask?!?

Why can’t we live in times when all the news is this marvelous?

(crying) you know what. fuck you

Ghost of Past Simple, ghost of Past Continuous, ghost of Past Perfect Simple, ghost of Present Simple, ghost of Present Continuous, ghost of Present Perfect Simple, ghost of Future Simple and ghost of Future Continuous. Sounds tense

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

@profanity.accountant I’ll give this a go. I think I’m generally mild mannered, so looking forward to this count!

Anyway, there are legitimately people who think this type of rhetoric is more acceptable than advocating for student loan forgiveness, or immunocompromised people wearing masks during a pandemic.

I have been thinking a lot about trust as currency - I feel like this thought is related, how the destruction of trust connects how our culture and our economy are being dismantled

To support self-managed abortion, feminists are creating a global network of online abortion doulas—trained companions who offer one-on-one support by phone, email and text to people using abortion pills.