Shanah Tovah! May the coming year be as sweet as honeycakes and as savory as brisket, and may it see fascism ground into a sticky paste suitable only for scraping off the bottoms of our shoes

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Heat killed about as many people in Europe in 2024 as the US killed in Nagasaki in 1945 by dropping an atomic bomb.

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

What. the. actual. fuck.

Cool analogy. Women are definitely relevantly like currency. no intrinsic value, just instrumental in the pursuit of other goods. Love it!

Yeah, no, that’s fine, just knock those books right out of your way. Very considerate of you to be in alphabetical order. Thanks, cat.

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Happy Equinox!

Gender affirming care for minors is more reversible than sports injuries.

L'shanah tovah! May it be a sweet and happy year!

Yes. Two related points: 1) it’s incoherent to say that all speech—even if incorrect, scientifically inaccurate, cruel, or fascist—furthers the marketplace of ideas, except one kind of speech uniquely: “that guy is racist and should be fired,” which is special bad speech that ruins the marketplace…

More of this!! 🤩

I'm losin it at the crow definitely knowing when it won, too, throwing its head back with a smile and struttin like aaaayy das right!

Disinfornation and the for-profit healthcare system, in no small part. "Stocking the shot is now financially risky for pediatricians." "That means they need to estimate how many doses they expect to use and hope that their calculations match up with demand." time.com/6694944/kids...

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Holy shit

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

One of the most important life lessons I ever learned is that how people treat you is a reflection of their character. Not your worth. Stop scrutinizing yourself for why people are shitty to you. It’s because that’s who they are!

She says the most likely reality is that a vanishingly small population has absolutely none, the majority of people have some at least some of the time, and a more measurable number but not a lot have it in ways that prove problematic. She pointed to this: doi.org/10.1177/0956...

The reason Reform gets so much coverage compared to other parties, parties with more representation, is because the media is full of people who support far-right politics. It actually is that simple.

I will always prefer warm weather and blooming flowers but, ok, I admit: it’s pretty.

When I first learned internal monologues were real and not a metaphor, I was horrified. Sounds like having your own skull haunted. With this news, I'm yet again relieved to find myself in the apparently weirdo camp of not having one.

think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all

Happy Autumn!

White supremacy is assuming a white man doing hagiography of a neonazi is smarter than a Harvard, MIT, NASA trained woman astrophysicist.

elite centrist/lib transphobia is one of those classic contrarian things where they’ve built up a huge pile of facially convincing “evidence” that collapses immediately if you put it under serious scrutiny

I say this as a US citizen who counts my trip to Beirut as one of the coolest things I've gotten to do in life: What makes this horrifying isn't that the victims were US citizens. It's that the US has enabled a rogue state to kill civilians with impunity for two years.

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

Enya took her piles of money, bought a castle, and lives there alone with a bunch of cats. Enya is correct.

According to the last time the data was updated, the CDC reported only 13% of US children were fully vaccinated against Covid. With the new updates to recommendations, this will only get worse. More sickness, more disability, and more death. A whole generation failed.

You shouldn’t murder people like this. Nor should you honor them.

Probably just racism if I'm being honest with you

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

D's grotesque embrace of censorship at schools re Palestine gave Trump a lot of leeway, both to target speech and to gut education.

The BBNJ is now international law. It provides a framework for conservation and resource sharing, but like all things related to the high seas, enforcement is limited. And of course, the US hasn't ratified it (nor do I expect that it will).

More Arendt for the moment re Disney/ABC et al: “It was precisely the members of respectable society, who had not been touched by the intellectual and moral upheaval in the early stages of the Nazi period, who were the first to yield. They simply exchanged one system of values against another”

I know this is supposed to be evidence of some kind of "when they go low, we go high" moral superiority but given *checks notes* everything, it seems more like a really bad way of doing politics.

At yesterday's 80th @UN General Assembly, the High Seas Treaty was FINALLY ratified! 🌊 🦑 Aka the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdictions (BBNJ) Agreement, it now officially enters into force in 120 days, becoming international law in Jan 2026. highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratif...

Thoughts? #philosophy

Despite being texted by democrats for donations nearly on the hour every hour, I refuse to give that party another single dime of my money. On the other hand, if there are viable candidates willing to run against Schumer and Jeffries, I will reconsider. I may even volunteer to canvass.

Kids and I got our Covid vaccines. Fuck you, RFK jr!

This really is the through line for all the discourse. Once the legal barriers to higher ed and banking were removed, it took less than 1 generation for women to outcompete men. They hate having to treat us like real people instead of their on-call personal domestic sex servants.

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

In these dark times, it gives me great comfort knowing that, despite the deep and obvious yearnings of his heart, old tim dolan will never, ever be pope.

The fact that Charlie Kirk was viewed as some kind of a Titan of free speech and debate shows a bizarre trend where it somehow became acceptable for adult non student conservatives to invade college campuses and talk about why women and black people shouldn’t have basic civil liberties

By the way, what’s happening with abortion rights in Missouri—where voters certified a pro-choice constitutional amendment that Republicans have effectively nullified—is a disgusting insult to democracy.