There is currently no ETA for reopening U.S. 101 north of Lincoln City.

I am very sad that I live in a time where the follies and pecadilloes and bombast of oligarchs are broadcast constantly. I'd like to have a day when I didn't hear about a stupid, venal, brutal thing they did or said.

I know delivery/taxi driving isn't as culturally valuable as art, but it would've been cool if people had 1% of the same outrage over one of the last decent working-class jobs being degraded into a tech-feudal nightmare where you have zero rights/protections and are lucky to ever make minimum wage

People in the work chat: My insurance costs for everything skyrocketed this year. What the hell? Me, knowing I cannot be political to these people: 🙂

Exactly what GCs are doing to trans community. Difference is, we can’t get bored. It’s our lives, our right to exist in the world. The effectively infinite remunerative rewards available to attack lawyers employed against trans rights means this could be endless. …

I'm at a hotel and I need to take some meds. I didnt realize I would need scissors. So I went to Waitrose to buy scissors. Except you need an ID to buy scissors, which I didnt have! I finally begged the guy to let me buy them. I got back to hotel and realized I needed scissors to open the scissors.

Voting in the U.S. is an unnecessary complicated mess because that's the way the powers that be want it. If they wanted to make voting easier, we've known about the existence of Saturday for centuries now.

None of this is a *surprise*, but given how effective Heritage has been at getting its Project 2025 goals implemented (and in less than a year), everyone needs to be taking this shit fucking seriously.

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This is the centrist to fash sympathiser pipeline, "they wouldn't be so rightwing if you weren't constantly asking them to be nice to trans people and migrants"

judy blume's are you there goddamnit, don't leave me on read motherfucker

This is why I pay for the World Wide Web. Because it delivers ART!

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

If you've escaped catholic indoc: On 12/8 the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is observed, which refers to *Mary* being conceived free from original sin. The WH has sorta commingled a couple of heresies here, adoptionism (embryo Jesus isn't God, but is adopted by God at birth 🧵

This at the same time that Texas passed a law (on hold in court right now) banning Gay Straight Alliances and other LGBTQ clubs in schools

Without formula I’d be DEAD. My mother couldn’t produce anywhere near enough milk (she had small and fibrous breasts). But RFK Jr is a fucking eugenicist who believes that is the RIGHT outcome in the case of families like mine.

i don’t really care abt this old vs nu trek debate but this is a v funny thing to say about a franchise which has a literal mirror universe where everyone is Very Evil and also has a moustache

I will note that, once again, @people.com does a better job here of reporting accurately while upholding human dignity than many of the supposedly serious outlets. The ethos of Teen Vogue lives.

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horrific and unforgivable. genuinely difficult to read. the rest of what i'd like to say would be ill-advised

If it hasn't been said, I'll say it: No woman of color would ever be defended in this "she's just a smol bean" fashion & many Black, Latina, Asian & Indigenous women have had their lives & careers destroyed for nothing, or for far, far less. Same goes for trans women. These are just fucking facts.

It’s interesting how Seven was angry and passive aggressive for a chunk of PIC S3, but she isn’t called emotional like Burnham. Both characters have emotional reactions to situations that are understandable, but as a society we see crying as weakness.

The Supreme Court is working hard to turn this country into a despot's dreamscape—while making it nigh impossible for good people to make lasting change for the better. Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.

The entirety of the far right system is starting to amplify the messaging needed to build the social capital to enact Their grotesque will on society. They are normalizing calling for the extrajudicial murder of their opposition at home while training for it abroad and normalizing it to their base

Elon Musk has also called for summary executions in the most racist way.

Today I discovered that due to the way insurance "negotiates" with health care providers, I wound up with an outstanding balance of $8.17. And I wasn't made aware of it because they don't send out notices for amounts under $10. And it went to collections.

Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009): Hangar bay (pictures by the late on-set dresser Maurice Woodworth)

As the trans community have known for a while now - the definition of activist is someone who dares to state they exist

That's just straight-up Christo-fascism.

Today my kid asked me if people tried to go viral when I was his age and I almost started a tirade about how omnipresent phones had ruined people’s brains until I remembered call-in shows and baba booey

And so the cycle continues: Trump wrecks the market with his own policies, then uses taxpayer money to bail out the damage, and somehow sells it back to voters as a win. Truly exhausting.

*tap tap* bsky.app/profile/dani...

Fuck the institutionally anti-trans BBC. They’ve made some pretty epic news reporting blunders in the past, but their reporting of the Peggie case is off the fucking charts. This isn’t reporting. It’s propaganda.

Any of you Internet Sleuths (tm) 🔎 know how to figure out the origin of the meme phrase "sad that we need a dead man's emails to believe the testimony of 1,000 living women." ? (I might use a stronger word than, 'sad', personally, but...)

Hell is empty and all the devils are here

Interesting video by Jessie Gender🖖

all of the shit about how if you allow people to transition kids are going to be peeing in litter boxes was just the mirror image of the reality: as soon as you enshrine immutable gender difference in law you're going to have legally required Lady Meals For Her

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

the law is real until it gets to SCOTUS at which point it becomes fake, which doesn't bother the six reactionaries at the top but does undermine literally everyone else in the profession

quite something that almost every court in the land except like one in Amarillo and the highest in the land routinely tell Trump to go pound sand

If me saying “Fuck these Nazis” is virtue signaling, so be it.

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

It’s all just words once the implied contract of separation of powers and judicial restraint are bulldozed for ideological points.

as I've remarked before, cyberpunk isn't 'I glitch into the webframe and draw my katana', it's 'the life of a man working for a criminal syndicate in Myanmar who spends his days pretending to be different women online to steal from the elderly'

It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.

@chloehowie.bsky.social I thought of you when I saw this and thought it might give you a giggle - youtu.be/HNEsiI9yBGM?...

I’m not a pilot, but I am something of an disaster nerd, and this gave me a good laugh