The same people who claim we don’t know what a “woman” is are having a real tough time defining a “child”.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor? Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark? Now available for free! Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room! Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!

This should be on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.

Blue sky mod team if you need someone who has read a lot about speech act theory to parse which things count as threats, hit me up! You will still get yelled at the same amount, but I can tell you what JL Austen said about the post

Been so long since a good thing happened my brain can barely process it but a good thing happened and I got what I wanted!

It really is the little things that carry you through: like friends dropping off homemade cranberry bread that’s still warm to wish you good luck 💛

The thing about cruelty and inhumanity is that the limits of who is affected keep expanding and expanding until we shove it back the other way

May your coffee kick in, before reality does.

This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????

Abolish gender. Abolish the family, abolish work and abolish sports.

This is a famous cheese empanada in Chile that basically has a pool of melted cheese inside. Some people are shy on the cheese. Not these guys. Deep-fried and cheesy.

Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers. It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.

This is designed to tank public health & primary care by excluding public health professions, advanced nursing practice, physical & occupational therapy from loans that can cover the cost of education. This is going to make an existing workforce crisis worse. aspph.org/department-o...

Idk the precise amount of melted cheese that could fix me but I know it exists.

If you’ve never been in an abusive relationship, that’s amazing. But it’s weird TO ME to frame your experience in a way that suggests that the people who have gone through it are a certain “type” of woman.

Anyone that loves Grok has never satisfied a woman physically or emotionally.

I’ll take “what would a country that’s speed running its own destruction do?” for 100, please.

Basic carpentry. I built on the knowledge over the years to build my kids a tree house in part to honor him when he died.

I have a thing happening today. Could be a big deal. Could be a nothing burger. Good vibes please 🤞🤞🤞

Our Piper at the Gates of Dawn jumper stirred a bit of Satanic Panic! Thank you, @davidmbarnett.bsky.social, for covering this story for The Guardian. By popular demand, you can get the jumper that got banned from Westminster Abbey here: everpress.com/hellebore-pi...

You can really see this with Gaetz, seeking out the most vulnerable girls because he would have the most power over them - and because they would think he was impressive.

Priorities.

Finished another pillowcase (this one is a gift for my aunt and uncle). #crochet

In defining rape in law and public discourse, Catharine MacKinnon wrote, "The level of acceptable force is adjudicated starting just above the level set by what is seen as normal male sexual behavior, including the normal level of force, rather than at the victim's, or women's, point of violation."

on call in style... I have literally the best wife in the world

The unspoken assumption behind “raping 15 year olds is different than raping 8 year olds” is that teenage girls are legitimate targets of desire on account of (sometimes) being adult shaped. But if the adult shape was the source of attraction, and not the vulnerability, these men would date women.

All I say about Fetterman’s health crisis is that every American deserves access to the same quality of health care he’ll be able to take for granted.

Somebody come and hold my hand so I don't buy a Le Creuset dutch oven I absolutely do not need.

FWIW Americans can go to college in Sweden, studying in English, while enjoying things like safety, gender equality, quality of life, and constitutional rights – and without breaking the bank: utbildning.su.se/english/educ...

That women enjoying sex is taken as a sign of "perversion" is also imo the pervasive underlying social norm that explains why the vast majority of pornography is misogynistic in tone and content. And seeing this "body count" BS creep in with young people, seems the pervasiveness ain't going away 🙄

Can confirm.

Thread, but THIS. Also the ability to say, “I’ve tried that and I’m not into it.” “But maybe you just haven’t done it with the right guy!” “Sir. I assure you.” In your 40s you know that sex isn’t supposed to be disappointing. In your 20s, maybe you don’t know yet.

Can't speak for the whole world but here in the US the totality of sex-ed is based on the inevitably of the male orgasm. That women can-- let alone should-- also enjoy sex is tantamount to heresy. Better a woman stigmatized than satisfied.

The entire American experiment is based primarily on the mindless pursuit of wealth resulting in a culture of artifice where unremarkable people who were born or lucked into extreme privilege are treated like kings by armies of sycophants all rushing to the same trough?

It’s me. I’m 40% of women.

A convicted felon who had also been found liable for sexual assault and committed additional crimes in plain sight was close with a notorious child sex trafficker and likely participated in some of those crimes too got elected with much of that known and spent his presidency railing against “crime.”

Clearly we need millions of podcasts about the womanophere and why it wants to get the fuck out

So when the aurora borealis is faint enough, you can capture its glow with the Milky Way 😍 Berthoud Pass, CO last night

If there's one thing that every survivor has in common, it's the complicit enablers who looked the other away. Predators only succeed because of their their inaction. As a survivor of childhood sexual assault, my heart goes out to others who, like me, are reliving their trauma right now.

yearning for "a liar in a normal politician way" sums up a lot of liberal political nostalgia post-Trump and explains why Dick Cheney seems mournable and David Frum interesting

Stop asking the internet if people still go to the library. Yes, every day, 7 days a week. Still free. Still a safe space. Still no purchase required

The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them

too complicated imo. how about “ever notice how the people complaining about cancel culture are pedophiles?”

Just one of those emails would bring down any politician in any democratic country.

I’m sorry I can’t help myself.

Something any survivor of abuse can tell you is that one of the most painful parts of surviving abuse is the isolation that follows. Abusers are seldom abandoned, but victims are.

Maybe it’s because I’ve been doing this parenting thing solo with neither support nor a break but no sentence has made me feel more alien than, “I still jones for the sweet high of looking after them.”