load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society

I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.

Your kid has crayons in the classroom? There's food at the church potluck? The picnic goes of without a hitch? The political event has the right people invited and the speakers told the agenda? The play in the park happens in the summer?

Even looking closer at home: Your child is wearing mittens and underwear? You have dinner on the table? The floor has been swept?

anyway, my dudes, you are too old to believe in the logistics fairy

Anyway this is the shit that they call "unskilled labor" but it is actually really fucking hard to be able to anticipate needs and meet them before they come up.

There are a lot of men out there who do not see any of the logistics happening around them and they're like "wait, where the fuck did these hand warmers come from?" Look at every kid wearing mittens, and that's your answer. From the people who have been silently keeping hands warm for centuries.

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I love this so much. Especially that being given actual power to do a real thing made the students engage more deeply.

My father in law just described this as the most compelling party political broadcast he's seen. "Homes are for living in - not landlord's portfolios, energy is for warming those homes - not record dividends, rivers are for nature and swimming in - not being poisoned to protect profits" 👏👏👏

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New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

She had to perform CPR on her BABY.

You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes – the walls, the walls!

Let me give you a thought experiment: Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should. www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...

We would ask that those who support the co-accused refrain from using their name or face in social posts. This wrongfully accused individual values her privacy, and has requested anonymity. We would encourage BASH BACK supporters to respect that.

We made it very clear in a response to the Mail that this individual had no association with BASH BACK, it seems the Daily Mail's Martin Beckford values endangering vulnerable people over telling the truth Shame on him. Shame on the Daily Mail. Shame on Toby Young and his FSU.

Desperate for revenge - and with nothing to go on - the FSU has declared an injunction and used its media connections to make libellous accusations, putting an innocent trans person in danger while interfering with an ongoing legal process. So much for "free speech". xoxo BASH BACK

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

So good to see @jamellebouie.net contextualising what’s going on in the US as ‘everything is Gender’, one of the few public intellectuals to get it youtu.be/N1DVvGlzGEs?...

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

"move slow and repair things" could save the world

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

"All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience." Must-read from @michellegoldberg.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o... 🎁

A reminder that this feed is here. I like it especially on days like today, when my fingers keep twitching towards my phone and the news.

you’re probably sharing AI & misidentified photos

I’m struck by the contrast between this and the UK’s insistence on abandoning civil society in the name of austerity and “tightening the belt.” It underscores how much it’s driven by choice, not need.

This is really, really great. wantmymtv.vercel.app

"There isn't an obvious answer" implies that there is a non-obvious one. It just cannot be done. It's just simple math. The decision to demonise migrants and treat us as a strain on the UK's resources when we are the exact opposite is in fact a decision by Labour to destroy what's left of the NHS.

I'm still so mad they banned Ruaa :(( Please PLEASE share her campaign. She has been trying to get shelter while Gaza has been having strong rains and winds and a drop in temperature. Palestinians are freezing to death :(((

behold the face of a cat who cannot read and has no social media

The government had long wanted @a transition of power” in Venezuela and kidnapping a president is a super simple way to do it - well done everyone - it’s Satan I feel sorry for , such company for eternity

He needs time to wet his finger and check the wind direction.

you gotta laugh at stuff or you’ll cry

I was going to try to say…something about the year behind us and the year ahead but I couldn’t think of anything better than this post I have thought of often over the past challenging year.

AAAAHHHHHHHH 🥰

I was walking with my then-small child in Edinburgh, and I let the kiddo spit on the Heart of Midlothian, as is tradition. This caused a roar of delight from a Spanish-language walking tour nearby. From the guide’s proud gestures, I believe we had just illustrated his point at the perfect moment.

Either my citizenship is the same as yours, or what's the fucking point

If the one I’m currently reading counts, all the mains are currently college students. If we’re going with last completed, I’m either a spaceship AI or a werewolf space pirate.

This combined with this Government’s extraordinary attacks on the right to protest is especially chilling. They really have everything they need here to exercise absolute control over the population.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Appreciate shares, can't really type these anymore. Six families & a camp. Six? Seven? medical emergencies, including three children, not including a newborn who needs good nutrition amidst widespread hunger. Click “weekly” on anything, it helps.

You need to read this story.

Bluesky working hard on Christmas to mark as spam a newborn baby in the Holy Lands

Genuinely how is this not an “are we the baddies” moment for everyone involved, from the cops on up to the PM.

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for