I love when there is, every so often, news that is good

I absolutely would not, because it's a social pathology, not an individual one, & the DSM is not for bad behavior, it's to identify suffering people's problems to fix them.

Hard agree with rimidar on this. In fact, nothing has discredited wistful conservativism more to me than seeing people start to do it about times I lived through. Yeah the n64 was pretty dope when I was 10 years old, I guess; don't really think that should drive our immigration policy tho you loser.

this too is Torah 🥹

Ich bringe a sorte of "adde an extra E to everyethinge" vybe to the wordes that spellcheckeres trewelye lyke not

Starshippe Captayne: "To complete thys mysterious taske given us by the council, we must fynde a strepsirrhine primate!" Startshippe First Officer: "Aye aye, Captayne." Starshippe Captayne: "No, just a regular lemur."

It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.

"The series aims to re-emphasise the importance of knowledge sharing among people, as has been done for decades: communal exchange of information and expertise based on years of lived experiences, informed by local realities, and motivated by the need to feel connected with one another."

This part hits. I've been carless in the US (by choice and without shame), and even in some of the most public transit-friendly cities it is difficult and wearing. It's not just the challenge of getting places, it's the sense of hostility.

Lois McMaster Bujold, T. Kingfisher, Ann Leckie, Everina Maxwell, Freya Marske, KJ Charles, Nghi Vo, Karen Lord... off the top of my head.

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

this is called "doing something"

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

"Humans won't work unless they're forced to" is a myth for stupid people. If you're paying attention, humanity loves to do the job... they just don't like to be exploited and abused just to survive, the 2 tools people THINK you need to inflict upon humans to make them work.

A record year for dam removals reconnects US rivers, reconnecting over 7,900 km of rivers. Many of the structures were obsolete or unsafe, and their removal is already restoring fish migration routes, reducing flood risks, and reviving ecosystems. American Rivers buff.ly/LwcNbjh #ShareGoodNewsToo

This is a very good thread that tells us not only about Hungarian politics but something very important about American political imaginaries. It absolutely benefits authoritarian sympathizers to understand authoritarianism as much more extreme than it usually is in reality.

BTW, you can all freely quote post this in response to any Platner supporter. Even better if you can find database entries for your own murdered relatives, and post them in response to Platner supporters.

roosevelt island has volunteer “petal protectors” who stop people from shaking the cherry blossoms 🥹🥹🥹 lovely new story from @lillysabs.bsky.social:

Today would've been John M. Ford's 70th birthday. Here are his two most famous sonnets.

Am I sad and listless because of: A) the state of the world B) holidays with my family awaken all the latent body negativity in me C) some of my least favorite work tasks happen in April D) I went to bed at 2am last night for absolutely no reason E) all of the above

The time it takes to write a joke, from conception to birth, is the jestation period.

Games like darts, billiards, bowling and chess completely give away what's going on. The ONLY reason to segregate these sports by sex in the first place is because men cannot emotionally handle losing to women. The ONLY reason to lock out trans people is bigotry.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

"When my wife's beloved Kindle DX was bricked by obsolescence through no fault of her own, it gave me a frisson of excitement and anticipation to take on Darth Bezos and break open the Kindle so she could once again read her favorite books" www.zdnet.com/article/your...

“Most large companies are spending more time strategizing against their employees than against their competitors.” 🖐️🎤

Every major US newspaper that covered this super positive cancer news ran it w/ a headline like “Young Women Gettinv Cancer More! What’s Killing Them?” Distorting higher *detection* into higher cancer rates, to turn bad news into good & make clickbait. This is why we need to #ShareGoodNewsToo!!

“Education, Kane knows, is profoundly and stubbornly social. ‘There are a lot of students who need accountability,’ he said. The answer is not more surveillance, but more companionship in the struggle.” THE ANSWER IS NOT MORE SURVEILLANCE, BUT MORE COMPANIONSHIP IN THE STRUGGLE. Hallelujah!

The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide. He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.

Five books to get to know me by 1. Beauty (Robin McKinley) 2. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man 3. Curse of Chalion/Paladin of Souls 4. The Best of All Possible Worlds (Karen Lord) 5. Till We Have Faces

this is just avocado toast all over again

Eeee! I like to think the three monarch butterflies I cared for made the big migration safely. In any case, that’s great news. I’m super happy, I’ll cry <3

Me at the Seder when asked to read Karpas:

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.

🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴 chag sameach everyone

This is an amazing story that should not be missed.

Conversion therapy is abuse. I would support classifying it as such and banning the practice outright. I think the abuse classification is important because it’s the first step in being able to hold perpetrators accountable for the pain they inflict on the LGBTQ community.

This Trans Day of Visibility, I want cis people to understand that we don't need "validation." We need *action.* Write to your representatives; call out transphobic language; write letters to the editor; campaign for gender-inclusive washrooms at your office, school, or business. *Do something.*🏳️‍⚧️

This. The idea that an education must be exclusive in order to be good is one of the more destructive--destructive to the project of education itself--scams out there.

Dear Christians who like to appropriate Judaism: Jesus did NOT have a Passover seder, (that developed after the fall of the 2nd Temple in 70 CE) but he WAS commanded to clean leaven from his house, so if you want the fun! parts of being a Jew, you can enjoy scrubbing your fridge like I am now 💕

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

In all seriousness though, elder millennial jokes aside, I think it’s important to resist the media framing of any mainstream resistance to the status quo as just the shrill nonsense of middle-aged women with nothing better to do. This isn’t the first time they’ve run out this playbook.

I never appreciate aphantasia as much as when I am reading a @tkingfisher.com novel and think "wow I don't think I would ever sleep again if I had a visual image of this in my mind". Wolf Worm was amazing, incidentally, and a reminder of what I love about horror.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Nope 👾 🪡 #DHmakes

It’s such a laughably bad argument for the war on Iran to say “The people there want regime change.” I want regime change in the US, and I 100% do not want the US to be bombed. F off with garbage arguments.

My five year old would like to know why we aren’t getting a laser cutter for chocolate so we can make giant chocolate statues like Amaury Guichon. He also asked if we could make a giant chocolate statue for Shabbat dessert this week. For some reason, I said no.

for no particular reason here are some nostalgic fantasy books from my childhood that i have read to my kids! the enchanted forest chronicles the chrestomanci books the dark is rising series the hobbit gregor the overlander percy jackson the black cauldron inkheart island of the aunts

I have no idea why the Atlantic chose this godawful headline for this article. It's actually pretty good, and about precisely what Claire is describing. Basically university administration and Trump efforts to suppress campus protest have worked. It's very very bleak.

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers Poe: joanne was explaining death of the author Poe: what do you think, mary Shelley: death of the author eh? Shelley: [brandishing swicthblade] i think it's a good idea Rowling: i Rowling: i have to go