My feeling about MTG resigning is that I hope her constituents get a better voice in Congress.

here is written in the Feanorian characters according to the mode of Beleriand: goatse (I'm very sorry)

You are only as secure as the least secure person, or informant, in the chat. What day is it? Shut The Fuck Up Friday.

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Josephine Baker in La Sirène des tropiques (1927)

The four humours: inflammation (fire, irritable), 5G (air, optimistic), vaccines (water, calm), and ultra-processed foods (earth, sad).

Mummy, daddy, look at me Starfleet posted me on Enterprise-D All the crew call it "the big D" I joined Starfleet and I got the big D I got the big D I got the big D I got the big D Duras blew it up and now I'm on the Big E

Badass. www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/pier...

Young folks don't remember the days before Obamacare when chronically ill folks, cancer survivors, and pregnant folks had "pre-existing conditions" and had to pay higher premiums, or simply couldn't get insurance. I lived through that. We don't want to go back.

Cinema Sins is no way to live a life.

Treasures of medieval legal history - A splendid 15th-century illuminated manuscript showing the Court of Common Pleas in session. #medievalsky

You are building a guild hall in 1357. What materials are you going to need? 60 trees from Bolton Percy for 27s. 6d., 100 oaks from Thorpe Underwood for £21, 14 tons of stone from Tadcaster and 20,000 bricks for £6 from the Carmelite Friars of York. That should keep you going!

anyway pouring one out for the zillions of competent, ethical journalists who are currently unemployed

Wildlife report: Bunny was back again tonight after chamber music!

test the plausibility of this for yourself: ask "what sort of efforts would fully counteract the sociological effects of a system where people routinely sold their own children into labor camps?" and see how different your answer is from "years of open terrorism in defense of retrenching apartheid"

Got a great early birthday present this morning: a clean ultrasound and second mammogram.

periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides

Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️ Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

TFW you see the perfect holiday gift for someone you're fond of ... and it's $1100 or so before tax and shipping.

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

Wildlife report: backyard bunny has returned! (May be a different bunny.)

Certain parties will be pleased to know that the NorthPark Center fountain is working again.

Have spent my morning blocking random jerks and mainsplainers as one does when one is a woman on the internet.

Public service announcement- if you, like me, spend a weekend every year driving to every grocery store in your area looking for a gluten free turkey, wegmans store brand is gluten free

Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/468561

The algorithm brought me Cake’s “Short Skirt/Long Jacket” on my drive to work, and I am wondering what other songs celebrate female competence (“she’s touring the facility / and picking up slack”, “she uses a machete / to cut through red tape” etc) from a masculine POV. They must be out there, no?

I enjoy buying indie TTRPGs and immediately renaming them because the author decided to go with "game.pdf" or "final.pdf" (or "final1.pdf", which raises questions that ought to have been answered by the word "final"), but I think my favourite turned out to be named "pdf.pdf". Like, tell me nothing.

Time to open the addiction app that tells me bad news

Disability is socially constructed - the accommodations we make reflect how we value, or don‘t, the people affected. Myopia is a disability but nobody insists your grades are unfair if you wear glasses.

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

Things I like about having a Mini: gas sipper, easy to park, super cute. Things I don't like about having a Mini: being on the road with SUVs whose hoods are higher than the top of my car.

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

if u don't know SWITCHED-ON BACH is insane because the Moog synth is monophonic. meaning every single note of every single chord in every song had to be overdubbed separately. she had to be extremely precise & meticulous to make that album work

You don't end at the tip of your nose. You are your family, those you're in community with, our species, this world, and all their futures. These are part of you. You are vast, and stretch out into the future. You are already immortal. "Being progressive" is just... acting like it.

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke history is a fucking joke lmao

Not a mistake made by the people who wrote those emails, though.

Free healthcare for everyone paid for by taxes on billionaires. Also UBI and free basic housing while we're at it. Actually probably my most unrealistic woke opinion is that rich folks and politicians ought to go to jail for crimes like everybody else, but that'll never happen here.

crazy IG em_clarkson

Gonna have to write my commissioner and the county judge about this BS.

For everyone talking about how sloppy Epstein's writing is, consider that self-editing your words to make sure they communicate effectively is a gift we give to our readers to make sure we're understood. Rich, powerful narcissists don't do that because they expect everyone else to work for them.

I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.

Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife. He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness

The one and only. www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/jose...

So very sad. I understand why it had to happen financially from where we are now, but this is the result of bad choices both at City Hall and (more deliberately) in Austin. One of the "nice things" we can't have any more.

Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves

The kids won't remember but the dc press served as ken starr's personal PR firm and basically elevated him to sainthood

"Legacy (Extended Version)" The Art of Noise China Records – WOKX11 1986 youtu.be/7RoLgq0LQnQ?...