Does anyone know someone who wants to make a historically inspired queer dating sim? I have ideas, but lack the experience to actually make a GOOD game. Maybe I should write it up into a web novel and see if anyone bites…

TikTok’s suppressing the hell outta this video so maybe yall will share it 🤭

I work at the sort of school where a kid is reading a beautiful cloth bound copy of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. “It’s my favorite book.”

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Here’s why you were barraged with spam today.

After signing up for self-deportation, Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved to an unfinished basement. But DHS never sent them the promised plane tickets. Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent. ➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6

Every Discourse on this site is evidence of how it's not good to treat K-12 history education the way this country has.

Here's the big open secret: biosecurity isn't bipartisan. Joe Lieberman was an egotistical Democrat and is dead. Health security is a negotiated compromise on the speed of progress on the root problems at the heart of public health versus the state's interest in economic security and sovereignty.

I got to hold a toddler today and that was really awesome. Kids are super cool.

A story isn’t bad if the reader/audience has figured out elements of the ending. Not everything has to have a mysterious, or shocking twist.

Just a reminder that Columbus didn’t think the world was flat, he thought it was shaped like a breast or a pear. 🍐 I wish I was kidding.

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

Genuinely makes me a little crazy that many large legacy outlets are printing that Bari Weiss' free press cared as much about reporting and accuracy as real journalists despite that being a factual statement that is easily disproven.

Dawg you cannot make the question mark that small, it just looks like your sign says “Jews for Jihadists”

On Wednesday, a barred owl flew across the parking lot and perched in a branch right in front of my car.

Sunday in your nations capital: Shut Down Day 12 Obviously Congress is out of town for the weekend because why would they be working during a crisis The Smithsonians have run out of money and closed. Anxiety is high. Does the dancing frog want to come here?

To many Canadians, Jonathan Crombie will always be Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables but he did so much more in his life and career. He was a great Canadian actor, taken far too soon. This is his story 🧵1/12

I've made this scale to help people out during this holiday season

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Husband: We need a new stud finder, this thing says there are no studs in the walls… wait, if I press this button, it says the walls are ALL studs? Me (queer): Well, it is Pride weekend in Atlanta… Husband: *facepalm*

I learned a lot about myself while teaching Chinese philosophies over the last couple of weeks. Gen Alpha is surprisingly open to Legalism.

Columbus was arrested in his own time because of his horrific crimes. Just saying.

Well said.

Y’all dont want a functioning democracy. You wanna feel like good people and forget that other people in the world exist and are willing to sacrifice whomever for your own comfort. You’re just as selfish and delusional as Trump supporters.

Happy pride, Atlanta! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

"I just left a hipster Nobel coffee shop, and all the Nobel Prize winners were whispering to each other how they all really wanted me to get the prize and how I deserved it more than them all put together..."

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* Performing Arts is also threatening to them because it often communicates and embodies the learnings from the first two ✌🏼

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Think of modern art and Picasso, O’Keeffe or Dali may first come to mind. But Nigerian artists have made key contributions throughout the 20th century — and their influence is being exhibited in the first show of its kind at the Tate Modern gallery in London. https://cnn.it/3IzBjKk

Okay. So another Dem just tried to fight me in my mentions over Amy McGrath. It was pure armchair analysis, and weird. But here's why I'm bringing it up: we HAVE to get it together, fellow Dems. We're seeing democracy-eroding acts from this administration Every. Day.

One issue I talked about in Slave Revolt on Screen was how the early 2010s burst of energy at Ubisoft & other companies - diversifying characters and narratives - faced a backlash after GamerGate. The women developers who'd made great games NOT celebrating colonization & conquest lost jobs./

Dude posted this saying his daughter will be his "second mom" thinking this is a positive message about little girls. 😒

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

WEST VIRGINIAN: “If the subsidies go away I won’t have health insurance. I won’t go to the doctor. This really is a life or death situation.” #TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax (This shutdown is making the case for #MedicareForAll better than we ever could)

sociology and anthropology are dangerous to them, because those fields help us understand the power dynamics, ethics, and human cost of what the industries they like better are doing. Performing arts is hugely important for the economy, but it doesn't benefit them directly.

I find it strangely beautiful and freeing that (even if just a few cases, and with a struggle) we've made it possible for peoples to be 'voluntarily isolated' & it is incredibly telling about the grossest side of humanity that there are others whose immediate instinct is to try to violate that right

In my neighborhood: 2 different dads were Peeping Toms and apparently got into a scuffle over terf. 3-4 kids overdosing on heroin. They weren’t together, no social connections or anything. My mom SWORE our gated community would be “safe.” LOL.

One of my favorite parts of Chinese imperial history is when absolutely AWFUL emperors betray their allies and advisors who are somehow surprised by the emperor’s behavior. I also love when there is finally a rebellion and everyone working in the palace has just been waiting to help the rebels.

The scientific method is not designed to solve EVERY mystery. It can help untangle cause-effect in important ways, save lives, the planet even. But it cannot tell you what it all Means. This does not mean Meaning does not exist. It means that science is not the best tool for exploring that.

Is there good recent historical work on the Barbary pirates? I know Colley has written about narratives of enslavement, but is there anything by someone using non-European sources in a significant way? 🗃️

The X-Files didn’t prepare me for this.

I'm genuinely starting to think that the people who say they want to see American's really fight back are really saying they want a specific kind of visible, stereotypical depiction of protest, and have zero zero tolerance for the kind of groundwork it takes to make change happen.

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this is bad but not as bad as people think 1. it's gdp GROWTH not gdp whole 2. one of the main criticisms of gdp as an indicator is that it doesn't actually capture anything of use to everyday people, such as "job creation." just reallocating capital is "gdp growth."

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