"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." - Desmond Tutu

my instructor came close: his foil broke into a very sharp jagged edge which passed inches from my abdomen. and that was at a very mid level of competition. who knows what goes on in the lofty heights

George Wendt could never survive these times

the good news is now my SO has me calling them "honky buckets"

nature is having a moment

don't forget to buy your indulgences to ward off this demon

It's Friday! Let's end the week with a map & some eels! Here is John Speed's 1611 map, "The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland." There are Dutch eel ships on this map. Can you find them? (the answer is at the end of the thread) Wait, you ask...WTF is an eel ship? 1/5 🗃️🧪

I told you guys

this is just a part of the biggest shift on Israeli policy by a major Western European country in well over a half-century. finally, a loud, seismic rumble

they're not trying to convince you, they're trying to con the lowest common denominator. they know what they're doing, the clowning is completely purposeful

China announced a 10% reduction target today. While that's 100% better than what the US is doing, we're all still screwed.

[new Isaac Chotiner interview]

the most horrible, predictable thing is happening. please help or share if you can.

debating back and forth, but this still doesn't even out Schumer wearing Kente cloth. Not close. will keep wondering who actually dared to make that garment until the mystery is solved. so embarrassing if it turns out to be one of us

Sigh. No it doesn’t and this continues to be weird eugenist garbage that Nazis LOVE. You cannot judge someone’s morality by how they look and it enforces very dangerous stereotypes in both directions to do so. Stop this shit.

a win for polluting industries and a win fo inflammabilifier producers. under capitalism, everybody wins

It’s funny how often grifter pseudoscience results in “answers” that blame, punish, and control women, isn’t it?

not sure i can say it, but he can:

Chuck: you still Muslim? Oh, ok, we'll try again next week

Myra Ellen Jenkins' office in Santa Fe is now a dense Santa Fe tourist trap

No #WeAre hashtag, no world leaders marching arm in arm to protest the massacre of 31 journalists in one attack. This is white supremacy in action www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

things that are now woke: Chicago River. as a true patriot, i like my rivers burning like the Cuyahoga in the good old days.

About to cross the border from Mexico back into the US. Deleting this app from my phone, because that's where we are not.

The white paper says “Trans people who aren’t violent are free to continue existing …” but then says that using “cisgender” as a term is a mark of violent extremism.

everyone is stupid about most things. if we're lucky, we're smart about a couple of things, but not as smart as we think.

Dilemma: the last #NoKings we went to Denver to swell the crowd, and it was spectacular, but should we go to our little local #Longmont one instead? The from how packed it felt, last #Denver one had more people downtown except for Obama accepting nomination. Civic duty or making history?

lmfao 😂🤣😂!!!

congrats to drugs for winning the war on drugs

This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read And incredibly damning Huge recommendation

of course one of the wealthiest communities in Colorado reaches for the budget axe against the most vulnerable before considering how the residents who gained most from trump's cuts could pay their fair share.

coates is genuinely a generational writer

Hong Kong feral cattle - new paper, 2025. Seasonal changes in coat colour and sexual size dimorphism in a subtropical ungulate | Royal Society Open Science. led by @tania-perroux.bsky.social - royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

when you log on just to announce you're going to die alone

this is a freaking Seattle suburb. if you think authoritarianism isn't coming to your "blue state," here you go

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.

this is a great point. this whole crackdown might just be a preparation for the inevitable outpouring of mirth and joy, which can happen any day now

men, end your "loneliness epidemic" with this one trick:

Waiting for Italian putinians to come out saying “akstually building drones is STEM and good” and/or “Ukrainians children don’t exist”.

normally would never reskeet AI slop, but i'm only human here....

best "crisis" ever just dropped

This is near Windsor Castle where Trump will be.

3) Generally people are much more concerned about accidentally misgendering my dogs

It is Monday night that feels like Thursday! I’m starting a thread! For each like, a gender thought. I’m not a scholar so “thought” is very likely to be an overshare but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

chasers be like: would sit

this is cool and normal

After publishing an intentionally inflammatory opinion column this morning, there's been a scattered response from the right but nothing like the targeted harassment others have seen. It may still come, but I can only conclude they want to threaten ordinary people, teachers, doctors, etc.

am being incited to misdemean

follow amanda because the stories she writes today are becoming big news with ever decreasing lag time

This is quite literally the greatest campaign email ever by an INSANELY wide margin...

yeah, absolutely, no problem! ...wait! bill kristol just farted and i have to run to go sniff it