I do not understand why we as a culture have decided it's a good idea (possibly even admirable) for a person to spend tens of thousands of dollars forcing their body to carry a baby if their body has already repeatedly said "Fuck no, not doing that."

I noticed a neighbour had set up a little library box in their front yard. I checked the books and saw they were all jumbled up. I had only moved a few when a net fell on me. "Gotcha! Oh..." "What's going on?" I asked. "There's a feral librarian around." "Ah. Catch, tag, feed, release?" "Yup."

folklore is great because it includes things ranging from "if you use an umbrella for a hundred years it will become alive" to "what if there was a Really Big Skeleton"

Citizens United was bad enough. but frankly, at this point, I'd be fine with banning companies from donating any more than the average person is capable of donating. Cap Home Depot's contributions at $500, hell $50, idc. corporations are not, and should not have more power than, people

“Someone should invent a high tech self-replicating machine that uses solar energy to remove carbon from the air and turn it into a sustainable building material. Oh wait, that’s what trees are.” (Surveee) Alaska is home to two of the nation’s largest national forests: the Chugach and Tongass :-)}

everything that has ever been labeled "Millennial" was either an 80 year old hallucinating what they imagine a young person is like, a 50 year old badly imitating a young person, or a 20 year old that doesn't realise they are seconds away from midnight

Yet another reason to prefer paper menus, besides the fact that not everyone wants to have their ducking phone out when they're trying to have a nice time with friends.

If you don't fill in the "suggest a word" form multiple times a week, do you even really play Spelling Bee?

Good morning! It's a lovely day! In fact, here, have a prehistoric hippo-deer with side mirrors. As a treat.

These images are spiritually related #jimothy

Thank you, Streisand Effect, for bringing this lovely and informative lil' ditty across my feed today. youtu.be/Gg-SCpXba64 lyricstranslate.com/en/danger-da...

"What is your favourite part of your job?" the reporter asked. "That's a tough one," said the book. "For me, I would say being re-read." "Because it shows you were loved?" "No, you can feel that at a first read. It's that I can show more than the first time round." "It's more intimate?" "Yes."

WHAT middle class?

Trent Reznor takes up miniature boatbuilding: Nine Inch Sails

Trent Reznor takes up hiking, but only extremely short distances: Nine Inch Trails

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

profiteering is the fundamental problem "If I CAN eat/kill/screw/take/own it, I should be allowed to" is what holds up the entire artifice of capitalism as the climate reacts to human sadism, the veneer of respectability (and the rationalizing) doesn't work like it used to.. hence the fascism

Gods, if 2026 could be the mirror-universe version of the celeb dieoff of 2016, I would be sooooo fucking happy.

It's oddly validating to learn that a small change I sneakily made without permission at the monastery I used to live in is still going strong 5 years later.

Oooh, I hope this is one of those regional regulations whose effects ripple out to the internet at large!

We really should stop calling it "age verification." Because that is not what it is. Call it "forced doxxing" instead. Most people think the concept of age verification and protecting kids online is common sense. So we must rebrand it to reveal its true purpose, which is something they will fear.

My dad recently said, about something else, "You can't expect a pirate to plant," and I seethed with rage that he did not drop this insanely useful metaphor ten years ago.

Y'all really need to get honest with yourselves about whether you're asking someone "How are you feeling?" because you care how they feel, or if you're asking so that they'll say "Better now" and you can stop worrying.

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

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Rich people giving away money is not a solution to wealth inequality, it’s actually a *symptom* of it, because it gives the ultra wealthy outsize power to decide who deserves largesse and who does not.

Run on this! It's a real thing! People want to hang out IRL but hanging out IRL is too expensive.

“We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can (and do) read worthwhile books.” ~ W.E.B. DuBois

I would kill or die for Larry

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

Damn, even the legal spyware is afraid of carcinization. If we teach the crabs to read, they'll come to convert us all!

Anyone else read this and think power-mad LEOs will see it as incentive to 🍇 female detainees? "Oh, you're here on a visa? [unbuckles belt] Not for much longer, you're not." 🤮

When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Um. Considering the AQI where I'm living was in the red last week and the sky was super hazy thanks to being downwind of large fires, I, uh... Might be tempted to take this literally and build myself a "Oops, the fire is here now" go bag. 😳

"What do you think about [new tech thing]?" Me: "Are tech bros a bit too excited about it?" "Yeah" Me: "Let me know when they're tired of it" "When will that be?" Me: "When the tech is boring and useful"

"Stay Weird!" Poster spotted in Albuquerque

Okay, who else here is old enough to remember when these were code-named 'Ginger'?

Me, an autistic person, at the end of every encounter with other people.

Archaeologists all standing around it like "Aight, who gets the curse this time?" and drawing straws to see who has to pull it out

I got caught in a thunderstorm that turned into an overnight snowstorm right near there!

Lesbians I‘ve encountered this year during Pride events, but they’re birds.

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

Establishment Democrats scowling at their noses in the mirror and reaching for a big knife

On the one hand, Would. On the other hand, he's not so hot as to keep me from noticing that he's holding the Worst Wine Glass Ever. That fucking thing is a spill waiting to happen. It's all surface area and no depth! (Not unlike many twinks, lol)

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

This is seriously the white-trash-iest timeline.