Das Büchlein von @timothysnyder.bsky.social gibt es zudem momentan für 5€ portofrei bei der BpB. Dringende Empfehlung! www.bpb.de/shop/buecher...

We see your Humble Jumble Lane and raise you Crack-brain-court and New Martin Street a.k.a. Shall-I-go-naked-street! These are from Whitechapel, London, in the early 1700s. Does anyone have any more stupendous street names, from #OnePlaceStudies or elsewhere, to share on #OnePlaceWednesday?

*sits on chair backwards, youth pastor style* Hey gang! Today we're going to talk about jokes, and how context makes them work, and one really common reason why someone who doesn't know you well might get upset with a joke that uses your good nature as the puchline to a raunchy or edgy joke.

When I first started using Kagi, I thought unpersonalised search would be a problem; but I’ve been a user for over a year and the results are consistently better than google’s Turns out search personalisation might have been of benefits to advertisers, not users, all along?

Punk Cat PSA

Really hoping this will be my 2026

OMG 😭 Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure." LIFE SAVING! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...

I am begging the users of this wesbite - of all the websites that work like this - to understand the basic fucking manners that are involved in talking to other people on here. If you hit Reply, the original poster is going to take that as a direct response to what they said, because it is.

Aktuell werden Unterschriften für eine Petition gesammelt, wegen einer möglichen Einführung eines Registers für trans* und nichtbinäre Menschen. Wenn ihr wissen möchtet, warum es dafür Unterschriften braucht, empfehle ich euch die Geschichte von Adele Haas anzuhören. 1/2

@blackforrestgirl.bsky.social Nur mehr 11 Tage & 18.000 Unterschriften zu wenig. Unterschreibt, repostet & vor allem: Bitte jeden Tag teilen & was dazu schreiben, sonst wird sich das nicht ausgehen. Das erfordert echte Aktivität als Solidarität. Danke! epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

If you cite a work, you're telling your reader that you've read it and verify that it says X. If you haven't read it, you're lying to your reader. Lying is bad. If you do it as a matter of practice, you're a liar. Liars cannot be trusted to convey knowledge.

“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.

My should-be-entirely-non-controversial position is that any personal assets over, say, $500 million should be taxed at about 90%, and if you're genuinely opposed to that, why? What human being needs that much money? Or more than that? Capitalism is a sickness.

Unsurprisingly, procrastinating all day has not made the thing I need to do spontaneously resolve itself. Maybe if I procrastinate another half hour it will?

Hey du, es ist okay, dass du Angst hast. Es ist okay, dass du überfordert bist. Es ist okay, dass du Hilfe brauchst. Es ist okay, dass du gerade nicht belastbar bist. Es ist okay, wenn du keine Leistung bringst und keine Erwartungen erfüllst. Es ist einfach okay, dass nicht alles in Ordnung ist.

Relatable Corvid

Ooh have to update my #proofofcat for the new season. Behold: winter cat with newly finished sweater 🧶

Mood

This path leads to chaos.

Apologies for starwars

need-a-penny, take-a-penny

Periodically I see people justifying means-testing to ensure The Rich don't get stuff for free when they can afford it. I see the logic, but we can just tax them more. Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is *deep breath* IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.

"Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation"

"Forgive, don't demand accountability" is a perfect way to maintain the existing power structures and ensure that nothing changes.

I keep saying this but it’s at least very interesting that many doctors didn’t think ADHD persisted into adulthood until you couldn’t buy Ritalin over the counter anymore and most people stopped smoking.

Perspektivwechsel

god tier

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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke history is a fucking joke lmao

This is why the Right jumped on the trans issue. They know their politics is based on disgust. If your reaction to trans people is disgust, they can start you on the journey down the road of legally enshrined prejudice and discrimination, and fury at people who dare point out what you're doing.

I've been explaining to my mom what ADHD is like because we've got ppl in our lives affected by it and the looks of horror she gets when I get to the part about how the feeling of reward after completing a task is just not there and how that makes it so much harder to start the task -

Ouch

The book spam I'm getting has taken a strange turn

1. Campaign on big issues that are directly relevant to your voters 2. Don't get distracted from point one 3. Present as a decent human with manageable baggage 4. Don't be old as fuck. Go forth and do likewise

Unprecedented events unfolding this morning: Yara, who never sits in my lap*, has just jumped onto my lap. Where Leyla was already sleeping. And Leyla, who absolutely hates having her back or butt touched, not only tolerates it not is actively grooming Yara! Feeling like the end might be upon us.

we do bones, motherfucker

Whenever I meet a "feminist" who wants to abolish sex work, I instantly know I'm talking with an unserious person who is not willing to do the work. Let's imagine, for the sake of the argument, that they were right and all sex workers were trafficking victims who wanted to leave sex work. 🧵

This is one of the most wonderful book series I've ever read and the first one is now only 99p!

Look I'll be completely honest. You will not get anyone out of radicalized right wing ideology like MAGA via posting or voter outreach. It will only happen through a genuinely trusting and caring relationship. If that's your ministry, great, but you cannot demand it of everyone.

I collect inspirational footnotes and share them from time to time:

I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you didn’t know any geek girls in high school or you don’t know any now it’s because they didn’t trust you and you’re *NOT A SAFE PERSON* for women to be themselves around.

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

If your values don't apply to everyone, they're not your values. They're just a favor you do for people that you like.

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes