I wonder if it could have anything to do with the fact that everyone who works for you hates you www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...

and god I mean, more broadly - I resent this idea that someone has to look at me to follow what I'm saying, I like writing and I like talking on the radio and on podcasts, I have no professional interest in people looking at my face, leave me alone

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

I'm old enough to remember the time fake stats tricked the entire news media into a pivot to video that destroyed their business model.

Rape, including the rape of children, is a fundamental enforcement technique of patriarchy. So the answer to your question is "yes".

Happy Boxing Day to all those who celebrate!!

i swear i didn't see this before i posted that lmao

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Around the same time, the president of the Toledo (OH) Fraternal Order of Police demanded the book - and any others depicting the police as animals - be removed from the local public library, though I’m unsure if it happened. 4/9

In November 1970, the Prince Georges (MD) police chief stated he planned to sue the local schools to have Sylvester and the Magic Pebble removed from libraries. He was upset because his 9-year-old daughter laughed at the illustration of the pigs. 3/9

In May 1970, the superintendent of schools for Lincoln, NE, ordered the book be removed from district libraries. 18/22 school librarians signed a letter to the supt defending the book. The supt believed the book undermined a program the school had in conjunction w/ the police. 2/9

Updating this from yesterday. This choice made author/illustrator William Steig the target for censors. For instance, by early 1971, there were calls for the book’s removal in at least 10 states (it was published in 1969). Some examples follow… 1/9 #booksky #kidlit

Can anyone identify a comic book from the early 70s involving 1) intelligent pig-people from a parallel earth, and 2) a reactionary Phyllis Schlafly-style "concerned parents" group freaking out at the school board because of evolution and immorality being taught in the schools?

Cheryl Harris's 1993 "Whiteness As Property" identifies this sort of personal injury as a new, post-Brown form of whiteness as property that emerged from anti-affirmative action lawsuits in the late 70s and 80s

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

at a deep instinctive level they can't recognise popular ideas or take them seriously

12 Days of Xmas: Carrots and Cream, Do Your Own Thing He wiped his hands on his apron and looked at the ingredients arranged in front of him. "Okay. Carrots, heavy cream, milk, two kinds of cheese, butter, flour and spices, looks like everything is here and ready to go." The timer went off and he…

could have been a raccoon, but they have such grabby hands, the stabby claws are somehow easier to deal with

sometimes I see my cat out of the corner of my eye, just wandering around the apartment doing cat things, and I think about how strange it is that I live with this random small animal.

Donald Trump just bombed a hospital on Christmas. But a cashier at Target said "Happy Holidays" to me when I was doing a return this morning. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Reminder if you are not aplaroace do not say ligma

Not a form of derangement limited to centrists, BTW. I was once told by some genius that "everyone who uses the word 'tankie' has a deeply racist worldview."

Near 100% certainty she also claims somewhere that "Bernie was a Russian chaos agent."

If you enjoyed that, you’ll love the sequel.

Sam Altman, confidently: within ten years, charlie brown will have hoes

So basically, Kirk, Bones and McCoy *created* the timeline they live in, by traveling back in time and murdering Edith Keeler. They are an ouroboros, they could not exist if they had not traveled back in time to create the world in which they exist.

... or that accident was literally caused by the presence of our heroes. Which means the other timeline, where she lives, meets with FDS, the Nazis win and there's no Federation, is actually the proper one, and this timeline is an offshoot created by meddling time travelers.

So when Edith Keeler gets hit by the truck (sorry, spoiler alert), she's walking across the street distracted by Kirk, Spock and Bones. Either there was an original accident, in which she was in that same spot for no apparent reason (no Kirk to take her on a date, no McCoy to distract her) ...

Haven't had much going on this Xmas, so I've been on one of my TOS rewatches. Had a thought about City on the Edge of Forever. Pre-emptively egging people to just go with it here, and not twist yourselves into pretzels trying to retcon the observation. 1/?

is there anybody even denying that the pardons are paid for or do we just kind of all accept this now?

President Donald Trump gifted the world with nearly 200 Truth Social posts (and counting) on Christmas Day, where he amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and called for a member of Congress to be deported.

The one way we know a politician can endear himself to the American public is to physically assault Santa Claus.

Something seriously wrong with Republicans

He is also extremely an Indiana style Trump era Republican in how old fashioned he is. Update your language to fit the time, what maga figure is talking about “unfunded mandates”; it’s not the late ‘90s, talk about how Santa is an illegal who the military needs to arrest domestically

If the GOP tries something like refusing to seat after the midterms, there's an excellent chance the new Dem House majority finds itself a "tennis court" to assemble on, declares a quorum, and then STAYS THERE with a mob to protect them.

I know that betting on our Congressional delegation isn't usually the smartest, but I have a sneaking suspicion the trump/vance admin is such a leaky ship, that if they try to do a Yoon coup here Congressional Democrats would find out beforehand and evacuate before DEVGRU shows up

Vance Yoon coup

the promise of America, to Miller, is that anyone might transcend the circumstances of their ancestry to become a Nazi

Big strong men come up to me with tears in their eyes saying Sir, we've never seen anything suck shit so badly

www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump... Lowest ever!

My current state rep is my current state rep because during pandemic lockdown his campaign used canvassers not only for standard campaign outreach but also mutual aid outreach to assist isolated folks, especially seniors. He defeated an incumbent who had held that seat for 35 years.

I somehow missed this www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...