Did you know that Ursula K Le Guin had a lot of her best ideas while chatting with one of her trans friends? Just goes to show you have to crack a few eggs to get an Omelas

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Yeah I'd happily live in an apartment if it were soundproofed. Hell, I'd appreciate if my standalone had thicker walls.

Also, along with institutional reform, the platform must be “We are resetting everything to January 20, 2025 by repealing every illegal Trump EO on Day 1, & many senior Trump government & DOGE criminals are going to jail for the rest of their lives.”

Again, the illegality of firing on shipwrecked mariners is so absurdly well established that it is used in the manual training material as the example of an order *so obviously illegal* that no further information would be required for a servicemember to be obligated to refuse it.

words, what do they mean www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

We regret to inform you that Ron Paul is entirely correct here.

Uh, I accept those congratulations. Forcing a university to act to discipline a professor who evidently harassed colleague and possibly students - under the advice of a notorious sexual predator, even! - is Good, Actually.

“What if Chicago is uninhabited because it was hit with bioweapons (more than once I believe)”

As @gelliottmorris.com notes, the welcomePAC report on Dems shows that the least popular parts of the Dem agenda are things not on the Dem agenda, while the least popular parts of the GOP agenda are things Trump has done this year. open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

I can't get over how the right-wing doesn't understand modern militaries, with the majority serving non-combat roles. You think the best IT security & logistics personnel spends two hours in the gym every day to look like the cast of 300? They're at furry conventions and model train shows.

I really relate to this because I'm also still mad at a major awful OSR figure from a decade ago less because they were awful and more because I can't get over how bad the argument was

Some of you guys need to learn to like things without having to make them communist. “Pickup basketball in my neighborhood after work provides a space free of the extractive logic of capital” no it doesn’t.

An excellent summary of key points that you would think would already be more widely understood than they in fact are.

may 4th is such a special day to see the nation and really the world come together to share their love for a classic piece of pop culture, the 5-4 podcast

Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.

Alternate universe where Game of Thrones still doesn't have the word "kneel" and uses "bend the knee" to show deference, but they mean "squat"

big lesson for america here: one reason you dont elect people who believe bull shit like "theyre eating the pets" or "theyre putting kitty litter boxes in the classrooms" is bc if they get in power theyll believe bull shit like "tariffs are a tax cut actually"

watching Derry Girls with my GF and saw @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social and we absolutely lost it seeing our beloved Old Spongebob... amazing performance as always!