I had not clocked until now that they really are sending out “Sir Rich Barrons” to tell the public they have too much and they need to sacrifice, so we can impress the Donald by giving that money to Raytheon instead

Well dang, this is a cool read about urban forests!

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i will succeed because i am a pervert 🥳🫡

Da'shaun L Harrison's framework for understanding insecurity remains unmatched Ofc I don't feel worthy -- im a fat black trans person on rainy fascist island. Most of society is structured to obscure/strip away the worth of me and mine Doesn't make it easy to deal with tho

Watching this country slide towards fascism because about 20 people don't want to pay any taxes would be disheartening...if I hadn't been watching it happen for 10 years

It’s so amazing to see Jhalak reach 10 years!

To add to this: the girlbossification of bingo app adverts to try and dress it up as not just being gambling makes me sick

I'm still really sad that my PhD proposal was rejected I was going to study anti-fatness in queer culture but idk if that's possible now (Especially cause funded PhD's are relatively uncommon Fat Studies barely exists in this fuckass country)

You forgot 3. try to live forever 4. have as many kids as possible

Dykes, sapphics, etc: I'm writing a piece about how "divine feminine"/"high-value dating" language & ideology is creeping into our communities. I wanna hear your experiences, have you been seeing more of this on your feeds, on the apps, irl? How does it make you feel? Drop me a DM :)

the diets prescribed to fat people in order to force intentional weight loss often contain the exact same details that would be called anorexia if the person weren't fat.

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

A theatre. Itd be like 200 seats, have a bangin cafe/bar attached and only show work by people from the Global Majority

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

Ive had a long day so this might not make sense but to "yes and" this post Im infinitely less interested in the comparative "feminism" of personal choices than the world someone is trying to build.

On twitter i was a proper lil take machine. I'd be out here chatting shit all the time But now I want to keep my thoughts offline. Is this growth? Or am I just a freelance artist who gets to chat shit for a living?

Some of my fave nonfiction books: Stolen by Grace Blakeley Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom Times Monster by Priya Satia Burn it Down by Maureen Ryan When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe (Boys get one, as a treat)

On Monday I got rejected for a PhD. But today I got to see a contemporary opera in rehearsal And tomorrow im gonna get shitfaced with my oldest friend So like, I might not be smart enough for academia, but I'm an artist with amazing friends so I can't really complain

I get really annoyed by the way people use the terms "mental illness" and "mental health" interchangeably, but then I see someone say "this is a really difficult time for people suffering from mental health" and I laugh, because yeah, imagine not being able to dissociate as a little treat right now

I cannot even begin to express 1) how monumentally stupid this is and 2) how it absolutely will not work Do they really think theyre the first government to want to control the papacy in the past 700yrs?

Ogres - Strippers - FFS Surgeons Will all grind your bones to make their bread

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and now every time a Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

1488 Jump Street

Wear the shorts. The clingy t-shirt. The sandals. The tank top. The whatever. Prioritize your physical comfort over people who can and should be told shutting up is free a lot more often. Stop hiding because of Those People.

I’ve started investing in stocks: beef, chicken, and vegetable. Someday, I hope I’ll be a bouillonaire.

Suspect Waits Patiently While Cop Sounds Out Miranda Rights

Honestly when I see or hear people using these, I treat them like they have a Nazi tattoo. You don't get to use Nazi language and not be treated like a Nazi. You just don't.

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Oh my god. Perfection

Over 1,200 people have been killed in Iran since Israel and the US launched its illegal attacks. Leaders may frame strikes as "defensive", but human beings will grieve all the same. Starmer is dragging Britain into a catastrophic war. It is other people who will pay the price.

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

This is beautiful news 

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

fuck. did you know if you change things early in the plot, later plot elements need to change, too? someone should do something about that

only about 20% of bsky users can see the words hidden in this image

Back on twitter (and tumblr before that) i used to think out loud way more. I kinda want to do that again? But idk what I'd talk about. If you used to follow me way back when, I'd love to know what you want my take on (if anything)

If you don’t want ICE on your block but think “Abolish ICE” is too extreme, you desire a terrorized “other”…just not where it inconveniences you. If you are, say, a mayor or politician with this view, then you want freedom from terror while also wanting the option to set terror upon others.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Don't let an app sync your fucking contacts.

I am once again asking people to stop talking as if "queer romance" and "m/f romance" are mutually exclusive categories.

Being faster is not the same as being more creative. Creativity is about exploration, learning and problem solving. That’s not something you can just outsource and expect the same level of satisfaction or growth from.

The “forever” implies that after my own death, an AI simulation of me will take over and continue the conversation

Pro-immigration rhetoric from politicians when?

well this was certainly a plot twist