You think letting him occupy your every thought, take every second of joy from you, you think that’s you fighting back? How would total victory on his part look any different?

I told someone that if I’m not talking about Trump/MAGA don’t bring it up in the comments and they blocked me. A lot of sad things about what’s happening right now, but *one of* the sad things is the total colonization of peoples’ brains by Trump, as he designed, even if they don’t support him.

I have seen this in action. I post stupid observations that unfortunately make it into the discover feed. Some stranger ALWAYS brings that man up, even if i'm shitposting about bread.

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David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

Nothing about this is normal. I don't even know where to start other than to say again -- this is not normal.

you can try alternating between 3 minute bursts of brisk walking / 3 minutes of normal walking if that's a better fit for your fitness level / interests health.osu.edu/wellness/exe...

I think people are turned off by exercise, especially cardio, because they think in terms of all or nothing. They think if they’re not going hard and losing weight, it’s not worth it. That’s totally untrue!

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)

damn. I just searched and the piece I wrote for them years ago about domestic violence and Title IX is gone

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

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This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

What I really hate about this is that it's a strain of Democratic Party know-it-all-ism which is going to assert itself with a lot of $$ and a lot of free media in '26 and '28, which is "We could win this whole thing if you freaks would either just act normal or hide." Do not trust those messengers.

Ooooh! This looks pretty. I have done two raglans prior to this (one completed and one still on the needles), and I think I'll try this for the next one.

Do you harbor similar feelings toward people you believe suffer from other mental disorders? If you're so easily triggered by people who wear a face mask in public, or annoyed with them for "salting your vibes," perhaps it is you who has the mental disorder and should be seeking professional help.

These people aren't masking for shits and giggles- they are the immunocompromised, elderly, and others who are, or believe themselves to be, particularly vulnerable to infections of airborne viruses such as sars-cov-2, influenza, etc.

Even if you truly think that all of these mask wearers are simply suffering from some type of delusion or mental disorder, do you really feel that subjecting them to public shaming and ridicule is the most appropriate course of action and in their best interest?

Dear Jon Stewart c/o @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.

Jon Stewart has some absolute fucking NERVE to be making fun of Long COVID survivors and people still masking on his piece of shit podcast when he’s seen UP CLOSE the government deny healthcare and resources for 9/11 survivors who breathed in toxic air and are suffering decades later. What a psycho

If anyone sees this and knows of a knitting pattern for worsted weight socks done on 9” circs, either toe up or top down, without an afterthought heel, can you tell me what pattern and where I might find it? I have some Tuffy yarn and want to knit some house socks. Thanks!

Our ancestors understood the world through different lenses, this much is true, and would use language very different from our own to describe their experiences, but there is no reason to doubt that our physical and emotional sensations are identical to theirs.

some of the more insidious consent manufacturing i've ever encountered. subtle enough that you might ingest a few ideas before realizing the whole point of the piece is to tell you that being raped and killed by heartless, soulless thugs is fine, actually, and you like it.

clearly laying the foundations to go back to a status quo of "lesser races lack the capacity to suffer"

New U.S. border rule just dropped! Canadians now get photographed EVERY time they enter and exit the U.S. land, air, sea. ✔️ Includes children ✔️ Photos stored for life ✔️ No opt-out Driving over for the day? You’re still getting scanned. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AtXc_G3WGQgG...

it’s pretty nuts how a throwaway line in so many stories about various public figures is like “btw the president of the united states said this person should be killed”

Bluesky was generally better when we all more or less agreed to simply block dumb accounts and move on rather than quote dunk on them for clout.

If, like me, you did NOT get the ONE thing you wanted from Santy (a 95-year-old bachelor farmer with plenty land and a bad cough), treat yourself to a print from an Irish doodler instead - big discounts across the shop, including on bundles, so go on. Go on go on go ON. www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

Don't think I've spoken to a single artist who didn't struggle this Christmas, and I spoke to a lot, so even if it's not my work I'd really encourage people to try to support a local artist that you like instead of big corporations - every single sale makes a real, tangible difference to their life.

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Ha! Kids are so brutal, in the sweetest and most endearing way.

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Oh, I identify with this so hard.

This thread made me laugh, and makes me happy.😆❤️

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This is the MAGA mindset in a nutshell: entirely focused on retribution, can't think more than one move ahead. By suing artists, they won't discourage a leftist boycott, but only add to it. Only so much demand for Lee Greenwood and Russian ballet. And so they run another institution into the ground.

Alas! It is 31 years since the world was deprived of one of its more colourful culinary characters: Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey – better known as double bigamist, child abandoner, amphetamine user, dangerous driver, and celebrity cook Fanny Cradock

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Kennedy is now upset that tortillas have added folate, calling this a war on poor families. (1) Added folate has been present in starch products for ages (2) It's a water-soluble B vitamin (3) It's the low-cost form of the thing he was swearing treats autism (leucovorin is folinic acid).

Happy Marlene's birthday!

The trick with kitchen towels is to have a WHOLE LOT of them and use a fresh one every day, and I’m also a big fan of Lysol laundry sanitizer (they make fragrance free!). This goes double for dish CLOTHS, a fresh dish cloth every time you need to wash is so much cleaner than a sponge

Ana Kasparian praises Tucker Carlson. She praises his frequent guest, Douglas Macgregor, who is a far-right Russian propagandist. Calls Tucker influential with the anti-war left, and says he "brings up some thought-provoking points on a lot of issues that I care about."

We have also somehow all forgotten that Star Trek IV (despite being a good movie) had the worst visual depiction of time travel in film history: bsky.app/profile/core...

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

all these guys just get mind-bendingly lucky and then act like it proves they're the world's most special boy

i’ve gone my whole life without learning much about this dude, but i just cracked open his wikipedia page and, uh, it just jumps immediately into “as far back as i can remember, i always wanted to be a scab”?

I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.