*Laughs in winter isn't the barrier, it's the infrastructure.

I live in Boston and my husband and I ride our e-cargo bikes all year long. In fact I was surprised to find that far from being something I need to suffer through for purity, I absolutely *love* cycling in winter. And good gloves, shoes and a wool gaiter for the ears costs maybe one car payment

many communities make it easy to ride bikes year round, just like many communities make it easy to drive cars year round. it's a choice that any community can make

Today on the blog: Essay by a Librarian About Having a Controversial Job and My Thoughts About the Responsibilities of Being a Librarian in the Public Eye raforall.blogspot.com/2025/09/essa...

I want to note particularly that this piece 👇🏽 identifies Kat Abughazaleh as a Congressional candidate, as opposed to other outlets. truthout.org/articles/im-... Also, the actual viral photo is this:

"Pain only hurts" is the hardest line of this interview

“[F]ocusing exclusively on technology in Israel’s committing of genocide in Gaza, or any war ..., could risk a major mistake: absolving the perpetrators’ responsibility for crimes they commit using technology.”

Without hope, there's no surviving this. Without anger, there is no changing this. truthout.org/articles/im-...

I’m a Primary Care Doctor. My Patients Are Scared to Show Up Due to ICE. truthout.org/articles/im-... (I wrote a thing in @truthout.org about what it's like to be a primary care doctor when ICE is attacking my patients. )

Please help us support our editors and other staff so that we can keep publishing stories like this one! globalvoices.org/donate/

Folks can DM me or @ me if you want your name and a sentiment on a big card for @isobelcarr.com. So many folks in the romance community will miss her and want to let her know how much she meant to them. Communicating those thoughts is a task I can take on.

In case you didn’t realise: The point is not that Jimmy Kimmel is particularly beloved. It’s that the President used the FCC to remove/fire an entertainer for criticizing him (by using his own words) when we have freedom of speech. It’s the government abuse.

PSA: If you're at FanExpo Canada this weekend, take a moment to stop by the Bell Canada A I Photo Booth to tell them how upsetting it is that they're undercutting the artists of Artist Alley by offering free A I photos (that's trained on the stolen art of creators) to attendees.

"Fifty-three percent of Democratic voters said they preferred politicians described as similar to Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani, while 33 percent favored those similar to Schumer, Jeffries and Pelosi. Fourteen percent didn’t choose."

“‘I’ve been here more than a dozen times, and every single time I have seen a lawless abduction,’ said Comptroller Lander, while sitting cross-legged on the floor outside the elevators of the first floor of Federal Plaza.”

The Emperor endorses Crafty Cow Cat Sofas.

what fucks me up about the Bluesky TOS update is fucking every adult creator i know wants MORE labels and filter options. we WANT more granular control over the labels and spoilers we can put on our work so people who want to curate their timeline to avoid us CAN DO SO

Please enjoy this artwork of Otis from years of yore. #FatBearWeek

This is about someone complaining about a 2% annual levy, which is way under the amount that billionaires increase their net worth every year.

Reminder that there are giant bears eating salmon right now and you can watch them fur free explore.org/livecams/bro...

Absolutely 100% this. If they give up citizenship (which is what they have to do in the US to stop paying taxes) we also win.

Necrocapital will turn the entirety of prenatal care into an app w/ a checklist of warning signs and perhaps a few lab visits. "Governments" and insurance companies will throw money at them, and licensed providers will struggle for resources to provide real care/ become remote monitors of data.

I’m no fancy politics guy, but i’d say any country where you can’t put a man in prison for accepting a literal bag full of cash in exchange for favors from the government is not, in fact, a functioning state.

It would be so cool if the Rapture happened this week Imagine, suddenly all the godly Evangelical people get exactly what they want and go hang out in Heaven with Jesus and shit And we get to have exactly what we want, which is to be left alone on Earth to vibe with our dogs and read fanfic

In May, Kordia’s legal team told reporters that she hadn’t had access to halal meals, which meant she had lost nearly 50 pounds since her arrest in mid-March.

Now, she is using her platform to bring attention to the plight of women in detention, like 32-year-old Palestinian Leqaa Kordia, the second Columbia University protester arrested this spring, who has since been dubbed “the forgotten prisoner” while sitting in ICE detention for nearly six months.

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

I grew up on mini-series like The Burning Bed. Sometimes, violence IS the answer.

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We only need to cover $165 more dollars to fund our SIXTH classroom in a week. Let's get these students in the Mississippi Delta copies of THE HATE U GIVE. www.donorschoose.org/project/the-...

Monopoly and fascism go hand in hand. We aren't free if our public discourse is controlled by authoritarians and oligarchs that bend the knee to them It’s time to break up Sinclair, Nexstar, and big media companies. And repeal the ’96 Telecom Act that let these companies merge

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Someone said “what does this mean” So I’ll try this My mom once told me “Sometimes the only way to be a good Christian you gotta stop going to a bad church” If you believe in love and peace , and they CHOOSE otherwise It becomes your duty to leave

I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” but here’s the explanation.

🧵 "you don't fire the labor stats person when things are going well. People are nervous right now but they are going to be FURIOUS by December. We have gone from shock to fear to anger and just importantly ANNOYANCE these past 8 months."

Farage lying agsin.

Alt-text: the illustrated cover of _Dogs don't break hearts_, showing a young white person with short brown hair, smiling and looking to their left; behind them, on that side, there's a dog with a thick long coat--perhaps a husky--smiling a happy doggy smile, tongue out, looking at the viewer 👇🏽

We started a vacation yesterday, and driving upset the dog’s stomach, so I’ve been up since before 2:00a sitting with the pupper on the covered and screened porch (he prefers being outside when he doesn’t feel well, but it’s raining; bless this porch). Best way to watch a new day start, regardless.

If you think they aren't ALSO trying to interfere in the Czech elections to be held in early October, you're delusional. Russia is running a large-scale, sophisticated campaign to affect the democratic process across Europe.

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Just encountered a fake captcha on a site so uh, watch out, if you "fail" a captcha and it tells you to press windows plus r and then ctrl plus v that's some shady shit that's gonna run something on your computer so don't do that. Be aware that's a thing that exists to try and trick you.

370) Rubberduckbot. A robot that's a rubber duck, for bath-time companionship. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Use Alt Text. Just do it.

This is a good, but VERY long thread, it's long because rahaeli both links to all the scientific papers AND puts the key points in lay language so you should be able to understand with no previous knowledge.

It’s eugenics AND it’s a deep hatred of women and belief that suffering for their children is their job. Acetaminophen is one of the only pain relievers available to pregnant people. If they can get rid of autistic people AND make it women’s fault that they ever existed AND punish women…that’s ideal

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH