i'm not really trying to be cute about this a lot of you have fried your brains on the news and have been engaging in some incredibly offputting, antisocial shit and you should feel bad

if you you are soulless enough to embrace TERF politics, it brings me great pleasure to remind you that you will end up a loser, in addition to being a bigot

I heard from a friend at a top school that their law review had received an absurd number of submissions (even more absurd than usual), they think because law profs are now using AI to write articles. :( if that's widespread it certainly could be lessening the likelihood of all articles getting read

this has nothing to do with being bougie. if you wake up every time you turn your head at night for a month straight, $200 on a pillow will feel like nothing.

Neglected prioritizing my mental health even as I became unable to drive an hour and a half away or to walk more than five city blocks due to anxiety. A stitch in time saves nine years of your life

Can date my earliest memory to within an hour (the eye of Hurricane Andrew passing over my hometown).

I think everybody basically registers that there are a large number of religious liberals, I think a lot of people just sort of subconsciously file them as ineffectual useful idiots for reactionary religious people, who are the real religious people. Volkism, basically.

FWIW, it’s probably generational. I grew up in a moderate rural Methodist church with folks of all kinds. I didn’t understand that it was a norm-shaping experience until much later. That was right before the demographic crash, and with the demographic crash, there’s been a new baseline for folks.

People can’t grasp that Christianity is like 2,000 different religions wearing a trench coat.

Northerner detected. Nobody in the South thinks “y’all” is appropriated when other folks use it. More people should use it. And Parisians are perfectly polite to American tourists trying to speak French, though they’ll usually switch to English so you can get the conversation done.

why is the actual financial market replaying the end bit of @maxgladstone.bsky.social's DEAD HAND RULE, except without the vague hope of Kai Pohala/Tara Abernathy/Elayne Kevarian figuring out how to stop the vampiric draw orchestrated by forever-growth monstrosities (btw, read Max's books)

Trans Louisiana lawyer here. The administration guidance is evil. It will cause real harm. It is also one of many decisions the administration has made that have been struck down or put on hold. There is every reason to believe that this will also be subject to injunction. Do not panic.

I was radicalized by a kind elderly Presbyterian minister in a brightly colored cardigan who played with puppets and told me that people could like me exactly as I am and that everyone is different and that's great and we should like them exactly as THEY are.

Kind of. But the thing is, you can't just post about politics all the time no matter what's going on. Even people in active war zones don't do that. It's not good for people to live in a constant state of anxiety, and it doesn't solve anything.

I love reading but when I read a lot of really good books it both energizes me and discourages me from writing. Because, like, wow. I don’t think I could ever hit that level of quality. On the other hand, I don’t need to. So I should work on internalizing that.

Happy national Pokémon day! If you were a trainer, who would be on your team? Wooper Haunter Pinsir Bellossom Tinkaton Tsareena

happy 30th!! #Pokemon30 #ポケモン30周年

Are there any good articles or book chapters (an entire book is a bit beyond me at the moment) on Eastern Orthodox hamartiology and soteriology? What little I have read is deeply compelling in many parts. ⚓️ #narthex

I know this comes in cycles every time this admin does something terrible, but this sort of thing goes so beyond "better things just aren't possible" dooming and into pure egotistical america-is-the-center-of-the-universe posting

pokemon 30th anniversary #ポケモン30周年

Well, it is my birthday, which means it’s a day on which I get unreasonably sad (and have for at least the past fifteen years) for no apparent reason. I would appreciate images of things that you think are nice, if you feel like giving me a small shot in the arm of happiness!

I am SO deeply tired of Alejandra Caraballo's histrionic inaccuracies spreading like wildfire through the trans community, leaving those few of us sober enough to realize that she is a completely untrustworthy source having to repeatedly talk people back from very serious cliffs. Just. So. Tired.

Sigh. Yes, they can. Drivers licenses are state powers, and the states have the option of withdrawing their enforcement or acknowledgement of the National Driver Register. I am deeply tired of this lawyer who should know better repeatedly making people panic by spreading misinformation.

I don’t think I’d be half as antipathic towards the UK as a concept if it hadn’t managed to infect my country with its particular breed of transphobia. As it is, though, Rowling and her ilk have made my republicanism practically Robespierrean. “But Liz she isn’t a nobl-“ I do not care.

You can't sue the government if postal workers accidentally drop the glassware you ordered or lose a letter from your pen pal The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that this means you also can't sue if postal workers refuse to deliver your mail because you're Black ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...

You don't need to believe that you're a bad person or that you've done something morally wrong or made any sort of choice at all to be able to recognize and sincerely regret the negative impact you may have had on someone. The ability to do that is critical to a functioning society

First, (and less importantly) because the idea that "apologizing for something" requires either being ashamed or accepting moral responsibility for it is a *deeply* toxic idea that I strongly believe needs to be stamped out for the good of society. Apologies are about connection, empathy, & regret

I remember being in this tunnel on my trip to DC and feeling like I was about to be attacked by the Hiss.

Heads up folks: @thetnholler.bsky.social posted an AI-generated video this morning that was a deepfake of the captain of the U.S. women’s hockey team, and they seem to be promoting it as if it’s a real video. So watch out for that and don’t spread fakes.

Post old memes to confuse young people

it really is astonishing; this was the first men’s hockey gold since the literal miracle on ice and they couldn’t manage six hours before they turned themselves into the dipshit brigade for 60% of the country

"the dialectical pspspsps" I am dying

OCARINA OF TIME alone justifies the console’s status. Then there’s MAJORA’S MASK, MARIO 64, MARIO KART 64, SUPER SMASH BROTHERS, STARFOX 64, MARIO PARTY… Silly contrarian take by someone who probably has a SNES shrine in a closet.

Ah m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgaq...

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.

This guy gets it.

Realizing the extent to which I have religious OCD as a skeptical-to-the-point-of-atheism Christian feels like walking up Everest’s lowest slopes only to see K2 slowly growing taller (and closer). BAD LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ⚓️

Gen Z heart technology is reaching unprecedented levels

My official Stancil Stance™️ is that everyone should subscribe to their local newspaper, take a Stop the Bleed class and volunteer at an animal shelter.

you can dislike Bsky, that has very little to do with whether posting on a site dominated by Nazis and run by a Nazi is a good idea.

It's honestly on the people who organized the event that didn't take measures in advance to protect both the Black attendees and the person with Tourette's. This seems both predictable and preventable & I would imagine it's mortifying for both parties. Ultimately context & intent do matter though.

Begging priests to resist the temptation to include diet talk in their Lenten sermons. That’s y’all’s Lenten discipline this and every year.

if someone is saying shit like "it's lowkey biphobic that you support AOC even though she won't legalize cannibalism" or "you realize that expecting your room to have windows a luxury belief right" what you're seeing are the charged particles being shot off from polycule fission

this website is a machine for surfacing extremely rarefied internecine beef from toxic friend groups and you need to be able to recognize when it's happening and avert your gaze

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

You can tell I just spent an hour and a half watching one because I unironically used the word “keen”

Enough stupid food discourse. Someone tell me why the UK puts out so many and so many GOOD mystery shows? It’s not simply a matter of quantity; they’re consistently very, very good. I know a lot are based on novels. But what makes the British mind so keen on mysteries?

Between takes on set Peter Cushing painted wargaming figures. He'd invite female costars to join him if they were new, looked lonely or being perved on by others on set. "Scream Queen" Ingrid Pitt proudly showed me the little figures they painted together once. Kept them all her life #nerdlings