for Bay Staters, don’t miss this thread!

A great moment to remind people, from my own roots in the Bluegrass / Mountain Music community: Sea Shanties are Black Music. From a thread I posted on Twitter way back when, when The Wellerman was having a moment:

"WUUUHH, the Left's whole problem is they can't stop eating their ownnnn wuhhuhuhuh" Meanwhile, the Right:

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

I enjoyed Mamdani's whole shtick as much as the next person, but here's the thing: NO politician can ever be relied on. They are constantly under immense pressure to sell out and suck up to power. Most, if not all, will bend at some point. This is why we too have to keep the pressure on.

Just snagged one of these! Help trans Kansans reach safety *and* get an awesome sweatshirt. 👇

Script if you need it: I’m calling to tell Representative ____ to oppose H.R. 7661. This bill would pressure schools to remove titles that discuss lived experiences that some politicians find controversial. I don’t think trans people are controversial. (contin)

S a v a g e: "USA bombs schools because it knows from experience that's where most guns are."

If watching a man slowly but surely talk himself out of his own thesis, then back into it again, then out of it again, and finish with a little reductio ad absurdum is your thing, then boy, have I got an article for you

Okay, no more tattoos for a while. You just got one, and- HOLY FUCKING SHIT

I will not kink-shame as a cheap shot. I will not kink-shame as a cheap shot. I will not kink-shame as a cheap shot. I will not -- oh fuck it I WILL.

People say Shakespeare's "the fringed curtain of thine eye" for "eyelid" is the most tortuous metaphor ever written. Melville: hold my beer

The USA has never had the moral high ground.

Autism is a spectrum

Probably my most MASSIVE @kennysbookshop.bsky.social haul ever (thanks to my papi-in-law for that gift card!) I've had a couple of these on ebook for years and you know what - paper is just better.

So glad to see this today. It's vanishingly rare to see trans people telling our own stories in a major media publication like Cosmo. I hope a lot more will follow.

“My little girl was completely burned” > this is what the Dutch government and EC president & ministers think is OK. We are lead by vile folk.

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This is such an unfair question to ask a recovered binge drinker. Like, I would need a mega-thread and most of it would be "and then I blacked out for four hours so I have no idea what happened but the next day everybody treated me VERY differently."

It's so funny to me when someone comes out and proudly announces that AI is doing literally all their work for them now. Like, "That shit you've been smelling? Yes, yes, it was ME, MEEE, super genius me, who pooped their pants and got away with it! None of you dummies had any cl-- Oh."

Oh yes clearly we are running out of effeminate gay boys, this is why RuPaul's Drag Race has only been going for 18 seasons not counting All Stars or spinoffs and has franchised out to half the known world.

But when you ask “which women” or why the panels are all white or why the profiles of “victims” are all white You will be told you aren’t being scientific If you try to write about it including intersections Folks will ignore you for DECADES www.salon.com/2013/10/18/n...

WTAF is wrong with people

I love the idea of Españoles eating jamón in zero gravity while SpaceX continues blowing up rockets and the USA slips ever further into technological irrelevance. There will be eye-bleedingly stupid Spanish comedies made about it. Arturo Vals will host a 4-hour special. The Javis will be there.

#OtD 3 Mar 1913 thousands of women marched in Washington DC demanding the right to vote were attacked by a mob while police stood by. African-American women joined the parade despite the racism of organisers who tried to exclude them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1020...

Meanwhile, on El Intermedio (think Spanish Daily Show)....

I wandered lonely as a cloud

wait, THIS GUY had a terrible take???????????????

Butthurt NYT journalists asking "what is happening on this website" while trans people are asking "what is happening to humanity" is so emblematic of our empathy-impoverished era. We're a bit tetchy rn you know, due to all our rights being rapidly stripped away.

Filing US taxes as an emigrant is needlessly difficult and expensive, especially for those of us who get paid in circus peanuts. That's it for today's extremely unoriginal rant; tune in tomorrow for "Community should've ended when Donald Glover left"

“Back in the day, a lynching was called a suicide with a wink and a smile... In the present day, they’re still called suicides. But now people take that seriously.”

The Yiddish Lit professor I TA'ed for in grad school used to say that most people vastly underestimate the degree to which violent millenarianism was going to affect the rest of our lives. That was in 2007 & everybody thought he was nuts. One of the smartest people I've ever met.

I'm amazed by the people who are still posting on here like it's 2023. "A brand new month of adventures lies ahead of us! Can't wait to see what March has in store!" Gurl, where the fuck have you been the past 16 months?

1. Funner facter: this is because "continent" is not a scientifically defined object, it's just a term of convenience or custom. So when someone states there are 7 continents, that's western chauvinism. 2. The OP crybaby that started this thread apparently is unaware of character limits in posts.

Fun fact: here in Spain there's no such thing as "the North American Continent." There's only one American Continent, which is comprised of both North and South America. A person from Brazil, or Uruguay, or Canada is, therefore, also an "American." The US is not all of A. USian is simply accurate.

Is the proof in the room with us right now?

Happy 1st anniversary to your one and only source for the most up-to-date news from the second-to-last decade of the 16th century! What better way to celebrate than with good ol' "play the sodomites or worse" Philip Stubbs?

lack of care plus exploitation are the privative and the positive that violate inclusivity — great use of BAFTA SITUATION to place blame where it belongs and to educate others 🎯

A thread so good it earned a follow. This is the pep talk we all need today. 👇

There it is. Blew up a school. Claude Code at work.

Listen a lot of us always knew the "bubble" thing was engineered by angry bigots as a way of preventing us from isolating them. This was a virus telling the immune system "omg stahp oppressing meeee" and still so many fell for it

I took my daughter to a K-Pop event today and, as you'd expect, the audience leaned heavily to the 7-11yo girl demographic. And I found myself looking round and thinking that what happened in Iran today was the equivalent of the quarter of the crowd I was standing in being wiped out. 😢

everything about this is so unspeakably evil and rage-inducing, but the fact that a non-zero number of Republicans believe Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei are the same guy makes me want to S C R E A M

Bloody backpacks. Your tax money at work.

Well I noticed that the tattoo place down the street was doing a 30€ flash day so guess how I'm spending the first day of the stupidest war ever to loose its dogs

The administration that rapes schoolgirls with impunity has no problems with bombing them either.

If the Epstein files showed you nothing else (and it should have shown you a lot), it should have shown you that things such as war with Iran are not a “distraction from the files.” They think it’s fun to make ppl suffer and die. Anyone not part of the predator class is expendable to them.

TAKE THE FREEDOM! TAKE IT! WHY ARE YOU RESISTING! STOP RESISTING THE FREEDOM I'M DROPPING ON YOU AND YOUR KIDS' SCHOOL!

Life is short, I'm gonna start posting something really stupid and unimportant every single day, just as a little treat to myself; a wee howl into the void 😃

Had Vera Lynne's "We'll Meet Again" stuck in my head all morning, no idea why, total mystery