The UK Trans Experience: you can be arbitrarily included in a lawsuit that has nothing to do with you, be included in national coverage and have dozens of articles written about you, be found innocent of everything and still have journalists follow you to different countries to call you a pervert

Just making sure I’ve got it correctly: Hasan Piker has a history of controversial statements making him a unacceptable risk for the electoral prospects of Democrats whereas Tucker Carlson is a high profile defection and proof that a big tent approach is working?

Ah the classics

I always thought Sun Tzu's "Art of War" was a little simplistic and obvious but it turns out yes, you do literally need to tell the Secretary of War "you need to feed your troops and keep them from being wiped out by preventable diseases"

This bundle of spicy queer stories (and two stories of mine where the heat mostly comes from a goblin who likes burning things) has sold 369 copies. Grab one while you can to get these amazing savings. itch.io/b/3612/spicy...

holy fuck I finally got a referral to see someone about fixing my voice and the insurance estimate is $700 for just the first fucking appointment kill me now

In which my soon-to-be adult son learns I was doing tooth fairy things before he was even asleep because I learned sleight-of-hand magic as a kid

they pipe in squeaking noises during basketball games, shoes don’t actually make that sound

Things I keep saying that no one likes.

Another reason I kinda wanted to talk about how hard COVID was for so many people: I think recalling those memories is HIGHLY relevant to the vibecession discussion.

Identical twins where one of them is trans and the other one is cis should do this

I love that in these two Ren Fair outfits, a good two decades or so apart, I still have the exact same coin purse.

this is a great idea. i think the san francisco giants, the houston astros, and the boston celtics should also do this

horseshoe theory is real. leftists almost got kat abughazaleh elected into congress and now it comes out that her boyfriend owns infowars…

If you're still in line not to hand it to the Catholic Church STAY IN LINE

Yesterday was the anniversary of the OKC bombing but now for Alex Jones this week will always be associated with tragedy

It brings me great delight to note that we have our first varsity women's flag football team in my membership: www.freep.com/story/sports... Go Emus, I mean, Eagles!

happy lesbian week

went to infowars.com to check out the new editorial bent and i can't tell if it's parody yet or not

*going back in time 15 years to warn myself about the future* “The president is an open pedophile. Over a million Americans died from a plague. Pasta sauce is recording people’s conversations!” “Haha ok sure where did you hear that, InfoWars?” “INFOWARS IS GOOD NOW!”

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

The Onion!Infowars Store having both a "turn your piss into gold" and a "turn your gold into piss" product currently "sold out" is an extremely good bit.

i just went to his site and saw this shirt he's selling. who is the info war, well guess what it's you

Phillies home record in the era of: Harry the K's: 969-762 (.560) Ghost Energy Deck: 5-10 (.333)

Im sorry, WHAT

monday motivation

I'll simply say again that for Shlaes to resurface in The Economist at this moment is an indicator of an ambient concern that Rooseveltian policies and politics are increasingly likely. The thing about the New Deal is, it was *immensely popular.* That's terrifying to certain people

The Phillies biggest roster problem is very clearly that their lineup stinks. And it stinks in ways. Everyone knew could/would happen. They have a formidable top three followed by the worst bottom six in the league. Their 4th best hitter is probably better off as a platoon guy

HAMMERS

Michael Rubin needs to [static]

John Kruk has been in something infinitely cooler though: Aqua Teen Hunger Force youtu.be/VcXVtC_AN3o?...

Man you gotta get way too close to the moon to get a good photo of it with your phone

It’s dawning on me that Kruk at this point is one of the few elder statesmen of baseball who will actually speak his mind that has also been enlightened enough to not say anything truly awful.

Go birds

Only a Luddite-style smashing of the self-serve Ghost Energy Drink kiosks at CBP will appease Base Ba’al and her BABIP demons.

If you ever think that getting rid of Trump will solve all our problems.. roe V wade was abolished a year and a half into bidens term. Supreme Court ruling businesses can discriminate against lgbt people were also in that term. It was all on HIS time. With GOP judges. We cannot ignore this.

The Phillies are the only team with a BABIP against over .330, they are at .358. It really is wild.

Run the ads, Dems

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

legitimately upsetting to see john kruk in a suit on sunday night baseball

I once challenged someone online to give me one example of an elected Democrat using the phrase "birth-givers" in place of "women" and they unearthed a single transcript of a three hour long hearing from the Congressional Black Caucus in which it appeared once.

personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life

Forget about the substance, the reveal that “most of” the justices talked to Mollie Hemingway for her book is bananas. Hemingway is a right-wing freak who runs a conspiracy theory blog. If literally any of the justices are taking this person seriously, the Supreme Court is GONE gone.

I’d never do Simpsons trivia because I know roughly 10000x more about the Simpsons than the median human being and roughly 10000x less than bearded men who do Simpsons trivia

i've seen some cis women say similar stuff, that knowing a trans woman ended up making them feel more connected with their own feelings on femininity as a result. its kinda nice to know the same is true for guys. its almost like transphobia hurts everyone, not just trans people.

Deeply embedded in this document, beyond the base bigotry, is a vision of a world where the only escape from the lower classes is death. It is a static world ruled by a sclerotic billionaire class, where the lack of social mobility pushes Earth further into the technological dark ages.

WAIT WAS NO ONE GONNA TELL ME COSTCO HAS DELI MUSTARD FOR THE HOT DOGS NOW???

I'm saying I'm making pride merchandise, but they should let me do it.

The X-Men are metaphors for victims of oppression, and their villains are oppression and bigotry.