i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Hey--I'm proud of the work you've done. No, stop that. It doesn't matter if you don't feel like it was enough or recent enough. I'm proud of you. Keep going or rest as needed. You can do this 💙

My father was supposedly one of the smartest people in the world, and he hated that elitist nonsense. He loathed the idea that intelligence is something you're born with, a single trait that can be measured. It leads to eugenics and bad policy. My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

It aligns with this concept (one a lot of people seem to have incorporated as FACT) that humans are static beings. That we do not change or grow or learn. We live in a time of deliberate ignorance. I don't think intelligence is an unchanging trait.

What a delight to learn that most people aren't in fact raging LGBTQ-phobic shitweasels

All crew, Do not click on links in emails. They pose a major security risk. For more information: http://bit.ly/1MUISmu Worf

You know, we have for nearly 50 years taken it for granted that it is indeed fun to stay at the YMCA, and yet this popular assertion is back only by a single, non-rigorous, musical anecdote, I propose it is time for a study with a control group, which stays at a Holiday Inn Express

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people? Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help! A thread!

One reason manga is more accessible than US comics is that with manga you can start reading at volume one and expect to continue directly through the next numbered volumes under the exact same title in order without major shakeups in the direction of the story or the creative team every few volumes

She offered to row the old wizard and the young king out on the lake. When a hand emerged from the water, holding a sword aloft, the king took the sword. And she took hold of the hand, let herself be pulled down, down. The Lady of the Lake breathed air into her lungs with a laugh. "You again?"

Maybe kill the part of yourself that takes it personally when someone is critical of art you love? Because A) they really are just considering the art thru their specific viewpoint and expectations, B) their experience doesn't take away from yours and C) it's fun to think critically about art u like

A great novel is honed, not hatched. #writingcommunity

gender affirming vampiric fangs

currently the mood rn

199 years after the last one, way to string along your fanbase, Ms. Shelley

giant mech with "student driver" stickers on it

It can be incredibly hard to see your progress when recovering from depression or burnout. The whole world keeps demanding certain benchmarks of you to the point that it’s easy to feel like a failure despite your hard work. Remember your progress is your own journey. Every win means something.

GM meant to have an NPC call my character—an absolutely huge jacked FBI agent—a wretched bitch. Slipped up and called her a wretched butch instead. I’m never calling her anything else

General pieces of advice for any age: 1. Save your WIPs and back up your files regularly. 2. Participate in communities--online and offline, with people like you and people unlike you. 3. Find foods that work for you and provide varied nutrition. 4. Do not talk to cops without a lawyer. 5. Stretch.

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

On every interactive internet-connected device around the world, a question came up in the user's preferred language: "Do you agree or disagree with the proposition that it is morally wrong to claim you can own the body of another sentient being?" I'm really curious to see the result of that poll.

Bluesky, thinking it was building a protocol, stumbled into running a platform filled with a highly active user base. All they have to do is not fuck it up and they got a business here!

This week at an event for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, a reader asked in a gracious and cheeky way what I would hope white readers in particular would get out of the book. Or more directly, what I would TELL white readers. And this was basically my answer: African-Americans are experts on America.

Your life won’t follow some age track. It will happen according to your choices and forces beyond your control that mostly don’t care how old you are. Eat well, keep healthy, and do what you need to do.

Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”

Apropos of nothing in particular, I think I want to start referring to hats as "skullpants."

Checks out

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Just adding some thoughts: it's also proven to be a story that produces SUCH warm fuzzies in me, being a world which has space for EVERYONE to be a hero (or a villain), whether they be women, queer, a racial/religious/gender minority, or a brilliant actor from a faraway place. #savewot

A NEW look at our modern love letter to classic turn-based JRPGs! ⚔️ Engage in cinematic turn-based combat ✨ Step into a world map set across different eras 💪 Utilize devastating team combo attacks Wishlist Threads of Time here: s.team/a/2090210 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdd8...

Consumer-facing "A.i." is controlled by rightwing billionaires with an interest in spreading disinfo. Excise it from your lives, friends. It's trash.

You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity.

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

I mean, yes, mass marketing email, I think you are correct, and yet I despair at ever being able to wear a leather skirt as well as Martin Gore

Speaking in my unofficial role as the most official looking Taco Bell account here, everyone quit because work sucks and they don't pay enough

If you want your favourite independent creatives to make more stuff then you need to give them money, it's really that simple.

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..” @marketwatch.com www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

Today's been a lot and I decided early on to offer a little counter-programming to the feed, I hope it's been useful to you today, here's tonight's sunset

Take pleasure where you can find it. You never know what's coming down the pipe to stop you enjoying things.

They’re real! Limited editions of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, available soon!

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

FF6 Celes🌹セリス　 （Drawn in 2024）

The sunlight of your life has just found you. What a joy to live your way into the warmth of your next decade.