reposting with alt text because I think the choice to include homophobia and transphobia in particular here is actually very much worth drawing attention to. nuns emphatically stating that those “do not reflect the qualities of a saint” is a very clear callout of Cardinal Dolan

I’m probably going to be linking to this a lot because it’s one of my favorite reviews I’ve ever gotten. (The @ writer_wells001 ID is not me.)

At risk of oversharing, following some really dark years I've made an effort to reach out to guys to hang out and talk about some "real" stuff and it's been great. When everyone is lonely you don't have to worry about coming off as needy when you say corny shit like "hey, do you want to be friends?"

something that stands out to me is a parsimonious reading of this graph also suggests that there was a very substantial female isolation problem 30 years ago that went completely unremarked upon until the current wave of isolation additionally caused that gap between men and women to close markedly.

a better way into the "male loneliness" story is that we have a whole of culture hanging out crisis which is somewhat concentrated among men but hardly exclusive to them here's one (of many) on point survey results www.americansurveycenter.org/research/the...

I’ve been on a real Britbox mystery binge lately and I feel like the other comfort factor of a Cozy Murder is that they frequently acknowledge the ineptitude of the police but posit the existence of alternate independent crime solvers more focused on protecting the innocent than punishing the guilty

HUGE win! Big thanks to the many tech workers and organizers who made this happen 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @bdsmovement.bsky.social @notechforapartheid.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I've been doing this in my suburb and it's such a good feeling to see these invasives knocked out. It's small but definite progress, and easy to achieve with some clippers and gloves.

We really, really need a lot more people to do this. Will it make the current DSCC mad? Yes. Do we need to make the current DSCC mad? Yes.

Geothermal cooling of NYC subway stations. This is my favorite idea of the month. (The MTA has issued a request for info! That's actually a legit step towards having this happen someday.)

A very big Onion announcement: The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece. It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd. Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

It's genuinely insane that this isn't a bigger news story. Where the fuck are they Where the FUCK are they

So anyway, turns out plasma in menstrual blood can completely heal wounds in 24 hours. hudson.org.au/news/womb-to...

Manny Jacinto posted this bc he knows how sad and anxious we all are

This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on. They've outlived dozens of ships.

The ideal social media is not actually any particular instance, but an up to date contact list. Everything else is details, and every hangout spot will inevitably go rancid.

YOU SHOULD WATCH "KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE" IF 1. You just cancelled Disney+ and want something on-the-nose thematically appropriate. 2. You wish Steven Universe had been more "Empty Spaces". 3. You still own Utena merch. 4. Look just watch it watch it look it's on YouTube how can I make you watch this

God I haven't been hit so hard with the "I must protect her" beams by a character in a long time and it's funny because that's sort of the entire point of her in-universe design. I got got by a fictional marketing department.

"once upon a time, there was a princess"

Knights of Guinevere is my kind of shit ⚔️

The 'Knights of Guinevere' Pilot Brings Some Good, Surreal Sci-Fi

Frankie Knights of Guinevere why are you a Disney Adult, this is torture for me personally, to show me a sad funny butch then opening the closet where she keeps her funkopops

two moods (that are one mood)

I love creatures 🌱

I literally needed to know this exact thing, so thanks to this guy.

I didn't buy the idea that Van Hollen was seriously considering a presidential bid in 2028 until I read this profile of him just released in WaPo

The new version of "sounds fake but OK."

Hello Sunshine is a horror mystery GN about a boy who comes back from bible camp to find out that his secret boyfriend, Alex, is missing after a very public mental breakdown. #comics Available now!! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...

Fuck this is so upsetting. I wrote about Bluestocking Books in my newsletter last year, bc it's an indispensable community resource and one of the last feminist bookstores standing. I hate that it ended this way. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

There was a bit of research recently that showed people with ADHD were MAGNITUDES better at 'gathering' than neurotypical people. You'd send them out for blackberries, the NT would come back with blackberries. The ADHD would ALSO have mushrooms, hazelnuts, eggs, and information about deer tracks.

guinevere #art

Tylenol is actually a very dangerous drug, it’s the most common cause of liver failure. We’ve known that for seventy years. No one gave a damn about the ANNUAL 56,000 emergency department visits, 2600 hospitalizations, & 500 deaths.

the neurodivergent the queer the disabled

With everything, I’d almost forgotten to feel angry and sad about when I was pregnant and in pain and under constant scrutiny and judgement. Got me! Back to being angry and sad about that, too! Add it to the list! (Neurodivergence is beautiful and pregnant people can take acetaminophen, ya dopes!)

Kid Gloves is a moving combo of memoir and research about the difficult experience of being pregnant in America. I highly recommend it!

Some news.

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

So @jimmykimmel.com's first words back tonight--"As I was saying..."-- were an homage to Tonight Show host Jack Paar, who used those words when he returned after walking out on his show in a censorship dispute with NBC. From 65 years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrhQ...

Also two things are true: It is deeply unfair that so many people who aren't white men lost their jobs and aren't getting them back and that is shameful for the country and us. And also: they just got humiliated and it is okay to be glad because next time more people will believe we can best them.

Reading this thread I learned that Brick Immortar is actually real and am now gonna bookmark this because apparently maritime disaster history is my stress-release valve

Okay, this I did not know. Angela Lansbury used to do this with Murder, She Wrote too.

maybe I’m just in a good mood this morning but this feels like a thing we might look back on as a turning point, even if symptomatic rather than causal

Super Typhoon Ragasa, a T10 (highest possible typhoon warning) is wrecking Hong Kong at the moment. This is video from the Ocean Park Fullerton Hotel.

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

People have asked if this is like white people wearing kente cloth but now that I know that it's a specifically Bukharian garment I'd say it's like white people wearing kente cloth at an event for Egyptians because "hey, it's African right?"

I was in a WILD mood when I wrote this

I was so glad I got asked about prospective nonprofit clients who only want to pay me if they get the grant, because actually nothing makes me spicier

this is the most chotinered a chotiner interview has ever chotinered

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