this was the damage dealt to my friends by the end of the evening when i won at mahjong tonight

Underrated that just about every single *serious* diplomatic historian or ex-diplomat, even American ex-diplomats, will admit that American monopolization of the Middle East peace process is actually a primary impediment to the realization of that peace.

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

Not to worry I've been repeatedly assured that the former volunteer army guard for an IDF torture prison in the First Intifada is actually very liberal and also that the magazine he runs is very liberal

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

one reason i do not want Hegseth's idea of boots on the ground is that it's quickly going to turn into some horrific bullshit

aha! ive discovered why i like this so much! Sanguine Technique is a specific drawing technique done with sanguine/red chalk that was especially common during the renaissance, for example. it fell out of popularity compared to graphite and charcoal, but the chalk remains

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

found a (new to me) kind of drawing implement. this is a sketch of Lyta Alexander from Babylon 5 done with Faber-Castell's Pitt-Pastel pencil in the shade "Sanguine"

found a (new to me) kind of drawing implement. this is a sketch of Lyta Alexander from Babylon 5 done with Faber-Castell's Pitt-Pastel pencil in the shade "Sanguine"

im one of the people who learned i react poorly to SSRIs the hard way (by taking one for two years) only last year did i start taking Wellbutrin (a non-SSRI) and its been life changing for me! generally you get used to the baseline they create very quickly and wont notice their effects +

I used to work for an org who’s sole purpose was eradicating childhood diseases & polio was their North Star. I can only imagine the meltdown happening around there now

This is still ongoing - the hearing has been postponed until June. Please share and please donate - trans people and sex workers deserve to have families.

what the FUCK?? holy shit! this is so extensive!!! the absolute amount of features already is crazy!!

Carpenter Brut's still got it

House votes 357-65 to block release of congressional sexual misconduct and harassment reports www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

one of the most common things i see when reading about and learning about all avenues of financial aid for college is the overwhelming number of students whose parents actively refuse to help them with school expenses AND refuse to offer any documentation that'd help their kid

it was hard enough watching how much they made Michael Girabaldi suffer in Season 4. and then you get to Season 5 and he relapses on his sobriety ... what did this guy ever do to the writers

i dont mind coders/tech workers using AI for coding (with human checking involved) 1) bc thats The field where LLMs work best, 2) because it exposes how much the "Tech Industry" is very bloated in terms of $$$ norms compared to most others

Space Cadet Atomic Pistol Flashlite (c. 1950s)

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

A woman with Long Covid won almost one million dollars in a lawsuit against her employer who refused to allow her work from home accommodations. May this set a precedent. Remote work should be accessible to all who need it. It’s a game changer for people with disabilities.

Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing. Persephone: Thank you. Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.

gunna try to take my English/Writing placement test for the school today 🤞

my birthday is March 15th and all i want is for a single tube of oil paint per person. in the world of gift-giving, an $8-20 guaranteed home run is such a steal! if you'd like to play, everything you need to know can be found at this link ive made just for you! 🎨♥️🎂

new monogamous roaches just dropped

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I think about this take more often than I'd like to.

this is what would happen when you took your effeminate son to the largest clinical study of childhood gender variance in the 1970s just by the way

one of you told me about riichi city as opposed to mahjong soul and you were correct that it has SO much more educational and training material like for learning all the yakus and how to score hands but its also all i want to do with my time now. smh. and why do all these girls looks like ... That

if you cut off trade with Spain you're going to find out just how irritated the tinned fish / sardine loving communities can be

All power to President Sanchez

this guy has a whole page on this website detailing his known history of anti-trans activism. hes also contributed to Quillette for example www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic...

Babe, wake up. The Atlantic is doing the "they're transing the gays" conspiracy theory.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

nothing like finding a guy on the local subreddit who is actively an ICU nurse whose public posts are primarily about taking/finding shrooms & molly really going out of his way to ridicule someone for having PTSD bc they wanted to know which ER to avoid

what thou leech thy must seed

Neat "67% [of Gen Z adults are] saying they struggle to cover housing costs. By comparison, slightly more than half of millennials (53%) and Gen Xers (54%) reported difficulty, and 36% of baby boomers said they struggle."

oh dear

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

man we were so robbed by not getting a JMS adaption of this 💔

why did they call it ozempic when "glp-1 shitto" was right there

I’m going to need to cut this line I like from a piece about the Iran War you’ll read tomorrow, so I post it here to tell my darling I will see it in the gardens of heaven: “We will not get bored," Trump said on Monday, minutes before talking about how beautiful the White House drapes are.

Al Jazeera could've posted this any time since 2016 and it would've been situationally appropriate tbh

not good that Paramount's closed the Warner Bros deal. what surprised me reading up on it (though it shouldnt) is that to some extent part of why Netflix was grilled so thoroughly on its bid until it dropped out was the conservative belief that Netflix "promotes transgenderism & diversity" too much

A Saudi official saying this on Al Jazeera, a Qatari media outlet, is far more telling than any nugget of information carefully leaked to an American media outlet. This war will permanently alter the relationship of the Gulf states, the US, and Israel.

finally getting around to reading the Mars trilogy for the first time. they really just start out at full speed political intrigue, huh?

really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying