In teaching Sex Crimes, I sometimes float the disconcerting idea that a reason many male judges and jurors are so defendant friendly in rape cases is that they are remembering their past conduct. There is no way to know but it is a plausible inference worth thinking about.

For the ppl saying that women are liars cause they only speak up when a man is running for office, consider that most victims are just happy to escape and our peace is more important to us than “justice” but if our abusers were about to gain power, we’d feel morally obliged to say something

You know what? Tell him what he wants to hear, then do the smart thing and block his number. It’s what women have to do with men like him ALL THE TIME. Self-protective boundaries AREN’T just for dating, friends and neighbors.

Left-leaning cis men: You have to stop. You have to stop running your mouth about “credibility” and “timing” and learn even ONE thing about what it’s like to live with that kind of demonization and invalidation over one of the worst things that’s ever happened to survivors.

PSA to writers and media folk: Beware of emails offering you writing work that have "csapptrack" or a similar name for the domain. They're part of that International Association of Professional Writers & Editors (IAPWE) scam. DO NOT REPLY. And sure as hell do not click any links in those emails.

Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.

I removed by nitro sub when the news dropped a couple of months ago, mine is going to finish at the end of august and I urge you to do the same. I've been using it to boost our Alblune server but I don't care now, they don't deserve our money. I don't care if my server looses emotes or banners

I really don't think normal people appreciate the degree to which the entire right-wing political class -- all the way up to the top -- has descended into a bizarre online fantasia filled with dark, violent conspiracy theories.

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Remember when egg prices were breaking everyone’s backs? Turns out the prices were fixed. This punishment isn’t fitting the crime. The difference between $1.2 billion in profits and a $3.3 million fine for lying to consumers is insane. The math isn’t mathing.

lol who else feels like they're back in the 90s booting up DOS when loading Stardew Valley because you added over 60 mods to it and it now takes forever to load

anyway, here's a frog

There's a reason why Arkane is a separate line both here and in the Xbox statement when compared to other studios French labor law requires a consultation process with the studio’s works council to ensure there is actual justification for the move and that all alternatives have been exhausted first

We had some leadership changes on Lily’s Garden and one of the new guys told me we “[didn’t] need an Arab character because we already [had] a guy with brown hair”

Reminder: there is no excuse for smearing women who come forward about sexual assault. It doesn’t make you righteous because you agree politically with the abuser.

he can't define it. not just because his brain is rapidly turning into room temperature rice pudding before our very eyes, but because he never could. none of them can. for reactionaries, 'communism' never had, nor has it needed, a consistent, meaningful definition. it just means 'bad stuff.'

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I was in two intensive week-long workshops this year with neuroscientists, philosophers and computer scientists and not *one* thought LLMs are conscious, or that anything is ‘mysterious’ in a model trained on scifi and Internet chat doing woo-woo musing about self-consciousness. And do you know why?

netflix designing shows for second screen viewing really feels like a self fulfilling prophecy where they make stuff you don't have to pay attention to so people pay less attention and so the shows are made to demand even less attention in an exponential downward spiral of increasingly boring shit

Woah. This video by Farm to Taber just blew my mind. youtu.be/BVRRcQjKcPM?...

Sweet sleepy baby 🥰

‼️INCREDIBLY URGENT: NEED $1850‼️ I'm about 2 days from a potential eviction notice. 💼 I AM EMPLOYED, only part-time. ⚕️ My fiancé had emergency surgery = out of his full-time work. In a sea of recent layoffs, I'm still trying to recover from mine in 2024. I appreciate anything. gofund.me/65eecfeac

Just added these beautiful new matte dragon scale earrings with contrasting shiny black teeth to the shop, check em out! #bsnm #jewelry www.varanidparadise.com/shop/p/w19al...

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

The billionaire co-founder of AirBnB wants you to blame the babies of undocumented immigrants for starter homes being unaffordable.

Liora says good morning and to do neck stretchies 🌞🌞🌞

Worked better than coffee for improving my morning. finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...

Simply amazing that there are deadly heat waves all over the world and climate scientists predict that future summers will get progressively hotter, killing vast untold numbers of people, but there are still people who believe that trans people are the biggest contemporary threat to humanity

turned this on for a second to see markwayne mullin visibly drunk and stumbling around while lutnick watches fox news with november rain playing

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

My holiday weekend plans: sorting beads and chilling with Liora, then taking an evening walk and getting a burrito! I sorted my 11/0 seed beads into this cabinet and set aside about 60 tubes I plan to sell on Craft Remnants, though I’m open to trading with them too. Then look who monitored me!

We've been dealing with some stress but my Dragon's Den mystery box from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social arrived and I'm already low-key obsessed with one of the necklaces. The texture of the large pendant is so awesome. Also, they put on magnetic clasps because my disabilities make clasps difficult.

In my day, $18 of Taco Bell was enough food to kill you.

On this Fourth of July, celebrate by getting yourself or a loved one a $20 ticket to learn about all the ways in which Samuel Alito is a whiny pissbaby. www.32auctions.com/organization...

im also chinese and it sucks shit here because i see so many things we left china for replicated in real time

American Ceaușescu

Sometimes, I’ll put my hand on Liora’s rock ledge because she likes to climb onto my hand and cuddle her brontosaurus neck on me. Not today! She nudged my hand like a cat because she wanted to rest on the ledge, but have me pet her. I love my sweet, snuggly baby 🥰🦕

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I’ve had to take a break from jewelry-making to rest and organize supplies this week, but I got new listings up at Craft Remnants! Excellent deals on wholesale pack remnants, Czech glass beads, rhinestone chain, and more! Just listed a total steal on Czech pearls😁 craftremnants.com/collections/...

I've hit $180, which is a good start, but it's harder to raise anything on holidays, so I would deeply appreciate your support as soon as possible. Anything counts- the last amount received was $10, can you match or outdo that? And please keep sharing!

Not really surprising. Democracies were supposed to allow people to change their material conditions when they needed to and our system hasn't provided that in decades.

clocking in at the office

A little dinosaur was just CLOBBERING me in kissies and kept putting her little peet on my hand and AHHHH I just love her so freaking much 🥰🥰🥰

The fact that Europe's lack of air conditioning became a pissing contest instead of resulting in mass solidarity for climate justice feels like the laziest psy-op

This was slapped on a bus station and I’ve been laughing at it all morning

Proud that UVW-CWA is able to support workers with this fund. You do not have to be a member to apply! I would be great if you joined tho! 💪🏽

AI is doing one useful thing, showing us how many bosses are either unnecessary, unqualified or need lots of therapy. But actually we already knew that, so never mind.

Thank you for the boost! This shawl for @romancingthevote.com is over 90 inches long and the fiber content is Merino wool, silk, and suri alpaca. It is so incredibly soft, lightweight, and warm. Current bid is sitting at $80 which is a steal for the fiber content alone!

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