If a man calls a woman “crazy” please know that it’s actually code for “she is reasonably upset by the compounded experiences of injustice that her mere existence has subjected her to and I don’t want to acknowledge it or I fear I will realize I’ve benefited from the culture of it.” Hope that helps!

“Those living in a household with at least one disabled person experience rates of food insecurity about double those without. A recent analysis released by the Center for Economic and Policy Research… showed that 20.4% of households containing at least one person with a disability rely on SNAP”

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

1/? On Reddit, I've already seen lots of $small donors getting their donations to Fetterman back. But what was kinda disheartening was the sheer amount of WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT/ALL POLS ARE THE SAME. Why bother getting $small donations back? Why bother donating $small to begin with? Hmmm.....

I live in LA County and was discussing this with someone recently. They asked what happens to unhoused people who are “swept away.” My answer was that they die. Unhoused people are ki!!ed by government “clean up” projects. On average, 7 unhoused people die every day here…

Memphis is experiencing gestapo-style raids 24/7 now. Our local media is failing us and the national media is ignoring this black/blue/incredibly poor city in a red state. I guess we just aren’t as sexy as LA or Portland.

CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction

yet again reminded of the television show where 30+ year old Xiao Zhan played a 7-10 year old

Scarleteen has been providing accurate, inclusive, joyful, sensitive, trans and queer-led sex, health, and relationships education since 1998. We believe health educators should have healthcare and we’re raising $40,000 to do it. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...

The "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to actually file their annual shareholder reports. Same thing with AI: hype for the consumer, extreme skepticism from the analysts. Papers that report on this stuff rather than on "CEO said a thing" are going to be more reliable.

They're EXCELLENT amendments, my favorite of which allows creators to defend their books when they're challenged.

Hey everyone can yall brag on yourselves to me? Tell me about something you’ve created that you are really proud of? I just wanna bask in your talent.

So I do still have one space open for a marriage of convenience for the sake of health insurance.

🚨 With a 60-40 vote (the same breakdown as yesterday’s vote), the Senate has PASSED their negotiated federal budget deal. The deal now goes to the House. Floor vote is expected on **WEDNESDAY** Call your House Rep 🔥📞🔥

I waited a day to say this bc I respected everyone's right to vent some anger, but *remember to focus on what you can do*. Whether it's defending your community, taking action around what you've been venting about, whatever — but don't let all of your energy get captured in the social media space.

Also in case its not being mentioned in your feed, there is still a remaining vote for this and Somehow they didn't anticipate the outrage, so there's apparently some hesitation now. If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

In Peru we are fighting to replace a 1993 Constitution written by a dictator, but in the US people still somehow think it's reasonable to run a country based on a 236-year-old document that is openly white supremacist.

Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

One good thing: seeing so many abled folks angry on behalf of disabled and chronically ill people. Not just angry for themselves. Specifically speaking out for us. If we care about each other, we can win.

Reading an article about the signature film techniques of Taiwanese directors, and I love this - "Hou [Hsiao-hsien] prefers to use a long take and a deep focus and [Edward] Yang strongly resisted the use of zoom." I have not quite watched enough films to fully appreciate this cut, but I see it

Finished Fated Hearts. It was fun and all, but I think my favorite part was Wen Zhuliu finally getting to have fealty to a person he respected mydramalist.com/people/16446...

Ariadne Marketou and Alexandra Rodler have a new article on “Ochres as earth pigments in Hellenistic and Roman polychromy: State of the art and future directions on material origins and trade” in the JAS! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I do love a pigment trade article. 🎨 🖌️

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Never saw the appeal in advent calendars until now. Bring on the eel facts!!!

Weirdly affirming to have the dog alert me as being a fall risk lol Like, I KNOW, but every sixth doctor or so still says I’m just stressed and need more plants or a hobby lmao

I'll just let the experts do all the explaining. #SNAP

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

This is the most comprehensive reporting released on the DHS-alleged shooting so far. Read the entire story (reminder: reporters don't usually choose headlines). For folks asking if it's true an ICE agent was shot: no, that is a verifiably false rumor. No injuries. A lot else remains in question.

To which I add this wonderful Bruce Sterling passage, which for many years I kept beside my keyboard.

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

The Trump administration is making peoples lives worse and an almost fractal away, from the petty to the genocidal. My best hope is to make sure that when something happens to an individual and their life gets worse, whether in tiny or big ways, they correctly blame Republicans for it.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

I miss chowbus.

The ACLU petition still hasn't reached it's signature goal? WHAT? That needs to change now. 200k signatures is nothing, let's GET IT. AT LEAST! action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

Who wants to pinky promise with me to finally switch platforms *this month*? It's on my to do list for 2025 but I gotta get on this asap

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

just finished uploading photos to the auction site, check it out!! www.32auctions.com/bundled2025 everything looks so beautiful! (don't forget to view the site logged in if you want to be notified when bidding opens)

"Boyd was 22 when she was shot by an off-duty police officer in 2012. The officer, Dante Servin, was later acquitted, and that verdict became a rallying point for the #SayHerName movement and a reckoning over how the city values the lives of Black women and girls." www.wbez.org/arts/2025/11...

I would like (at least) one of these!

You might, uh, commemorate this event by ordering the Rosalind Franklin memorial anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories for your local library. www.atthisarts.com/product/rosa...

10/10 take. No notes.

I keep waiting for a credible report to come out on how the environmental costs of generative AI have been overstated but every article is like "lol no it's much worse than you imagine."

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

I don't think people realize how much a trillion dollars is. Let's say you get paid a million dollars per day. That's a lot, right? If you spend none of it and pay no taxes, you'll have a trillion dollars in approximately two thousand seven hundred (2700) YEARS. No one should have that much.

I should mention this again: Worldbuilders Market worldbuildersmarket.com/search?q=mar... has Murderbot and Sanctuary Moon merchandise where the proceeds go to charity. At this point as far as I know there is no other licensed official merchandise.

Every time the Belgariad comes up - and it's a series that for all its flaws was loved by a LOT of people in its day, including me - SOMEONE ends up being one of the Unlucky 10,000 learning for the first time how horrible the Eddings' were. I don't enjoy that, but I do think it's important to know.

This is one of the funniest apologies I've ever seen

Remember, if you accidentally misgender or deadname someone, it's very easy to just say "Shit, sorry," and then say the correct name or pronoun. The two important follow-ups are to not rend your garments and make it all about you and to then also make sure you work hard on not doing it again.