The Iranian Embassy in South Africa weighs in:

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i know however bad a day i’m having, someone in star trek is having a worse day. it’s probably miles o’brien

The incomes of the landlords doubled. Wages barely kept pace with the price of food products, but the landlords’ incomes rose five times as high as the price of food products. The landowners and well-to-do peasant proprietors are growing steadily richer.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

So yesterday TikTok decided I needed to see a bunch of videos about a system someone has come up with for using the way a cis man's pants fit & how his fly lies to guess the size of his genitals. This needs to stop. 🧵

If we bought a few less bombs, we could probably afford nice things. One thing I'd like to see from the next presidency would be to appoint a special commission to prepare a report on the actual cost to defend the United States from attack. Not foreign wars. Just the cost to defend this country.

You got most of it but left out his sexual assault and alleged child molestation

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

The WWT has secured more than £548,000 for a major wetland creation and restoration project in South Wales:

Seth/Will/Angie! Please! In return Will has invited Seth the cute doctor down to an exclamation autopsy finding and they are bonding over the fact that they both love The Mummy 💑

Will and the sweet doctor are so cute together. Just let will move in with him and Angie! The doctor came by to invite him to a lecture on parasitic worms #willtrent #willtrentshow #willtrenttv

No author worth reading uses AI.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

I wish people would stop calling it a "war of choice." I get what you're trying to say and I support pointing out that this was all very unnecessary, but "choice" refers to something different in America and bodily autonomy rights are already struggling

Oh look, the government's Cass-ed autistic/ADHD kids. Right down to the 'there are too many AFAB kids who're suddenly presenting as trans/autistic/ADHD, they must all be making it up because they're silly little girls who don't know their own minds'. For fuck's sake.

Absolutely incredible watching them run the same playbook on children with ADHD and autism that they did on trans youth.

New #hyena study ! 📢🧪 Spotted hyenas LOOOOOVE TO PLAY, even as adults! But how do these powerful carnivores make sure that everybody involved knows that they “just want to play”? 👉 They use a combo of visual and vocal signals, depending on the context! 🤓 doi.org/10.1007/s002... 1/5

I want all countries to stop bombing schools. I want my country to stop bombing schools.

On Trans Day of Visibility, we're celebrating Christine Goodwin & her historic victory at the European Court of Human Rights which led to the Gender Recognition Act 2004. Read about Christine's victory and what it meant for trans rights here👇🏽 amn.st/6003B6mBcS

Oh is it science-fiction-shouldn't-be-political-o'clock again already? It is. It always is. Writing is. Writing is a political act. Possibly why tech bros want to take it away from us. Keep writing. The madder the better. You mightn't hear the song you're putting out but others will.

Trans day of every tabloid shuts the fuck up about us forever. Trans day of let us have our healthcare and leave us the fuck alone. Trans day of tearing down the panopticon. Trans day of let us control the narrative instead of deferring to some cis sexologist's hallucination.

Andy Weir is a middle-aged white guy so it's not really surprising he thinks this, though still a bit disappointing. Though that second paragraph. Like... if two civilizations are at war that's political, dude. It's ALL political.

The American Medical Association was formed by white men who wanted to push midwives out of the abortion business. It wasn't about religion. The abortion moral crisis is entirely concocted.

Good job getting done whatever you could manage to do today! I'm so proud of you. If you managed to eat even when it's hard to prepare/eat food, I'm proud of you for that too. You're doing your variable best and I applaud you for it. 🖤💙😷🥄

Universal Basic Income works. It works extremely well because what people need is cash, trust, and dignity, not paternalistic bureaucratic hoops to jump through to exist. And yes we can afford it because the lack of it is very costly. UBI should be seen as an investment with a large expected return.

Will is so nice to the vampire guy. 😊 Bones could learn some things from this

Will Trent is such a marvelously gay show. Thank you, Will, for knowing that vampires are not associated with pentagrams. I'm sorry your dad is an idiot who doesn't know what the word exsanguinated means even though he's worked in law enforcement for who knows how long

The only part of a truck where "bigger is better" is the bed. The bigger everything else is, the less respect I have for you.

I'm getting married in TWO DAYS 👰👰🏿 and it would mean a lot to me to have the giveaway for my upcoming book promoted more (twenty copies up for grabs! I don't want to worry about social media this weekend!) so good people of Bluesky, please do your thing and repost this like mad.

Will trent, Angie, and the nice doctor should just become a policule already

@noamscheiber.bsky.social I heard you on Adam Conover's podcast 🙂 Check out this effort in Kansas City! www.kcur.org/news/2026-03...

@adamconover.net check out this effort in Kansas City! Loved your episode about white-collar workers www.kcur.org/news/2026-03...

Check out the new Factually! episode with Noam Scheiber wherever you get podcasts. » Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... » Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1l2V... » YouTube: youtu.be/bnCtYkj0lgY

@banditelli.org check out this effort in Kansas City! www.kcur.org/news/2026-03...

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

I just hate how stupid everything is

It’s always bothered me how readily people seem to see “Believe Women” as the start of some terrifying, socially disastrous ~slippery slope~ ending with us wreaking havoc on innocent bystanders. Is this threat so compelling, so viscerally realistic, that disbelieving us is the only viable default?

Ahh yes, nothing says “let kids be kids” like “using fancy calligraphy to sign checks.” Why, I remember when I signed my first check at the age of 8, using a fountain pen made of whale femur and ink from a Humboldt squid

Frodo and Sam reach the mountain’s foot. ‘What a tale we have been in, Mr. Frodo, haven’t we? I wish I could hear it! And I wonder how it will go on after our part.’ Molten rock flows past. Ash rains down. They fall, senseless, but are caught up by two great Eagles of the north.

Mirri is doing her best

Digging into the financials of searchlight, the argument, open philanthropy, third way etc. and it's remarkable how this post-2024 blitz of calling on Dems to abandon the groups and especially trans people, is funded by the same vc and hedge fund billionaires.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar LGBTnation United Nations' 70th annual Commission on the Status of Women overwhelmingly dismisses US proposal to adopt an anti-trans definition of “gender” w/ only Pakistan & Chile supporting. Said one LGBTQ+ intl group, "It stops here."

On the flipside, they're walking distance from my house, extremely nice to me and my dog, don't often try to sell me things I don't need (my last vet kept recommending $5K teeth cleaning for my cats), and very Queer-friendly (a perk for me!).

Best part of this vet’s office is that all the exam rooms have couches we can sit on. My dog has always felt safest on the couch. (I’m not trying to hide in this photo, she just begs by pressing her face to my face and she’s begging to leave)

This room is full of cat beds but APPARENTLY they are now only acceptable if they are within an 18-inch radius of wherever I am sitting

Love this. Also, fastest way to end issues at airports would be to ground private jets, due to capacity constraints, until TSA problem(s) resolved. Over in 24 hours.

It's that time of the semester when I advertise the fall entomology class.

Trans and queer folks have joined, and often actually led, American's efforts to safeguard our immigrant neighbors, but nobody is talking about it. @evanurquhart.bsky.social traveled to meet some of these heroes in the wake of the Maine ICE surge. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...