The thread you need this week.

#TheUntamed/ #CQL #cdrama #mdzs #mxtx

I went and picked him up from the rescue. He is very very sweet, zero spice in him at all. Found rurally, took himself up to a house and screamed for help. He's had a bath, and is currently purring under my chin.

State-level Democrats are actively expending money and political capital to protect us.

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

The act of writing is *thinking*. If you do not allow yourself to think thoughts that feel wrong, you will never get a feel for what feels *right*.

*walking in a winter wonderland* ME: where's bluebird? BIRD: gone ME: w... who are you? *bird looks around shiftily* BIRD: I'm new bird

What the fuck

You are painting a vision of a future in which teachers create lessons with "A.i.," students complete them with "A.i.," and teachers grade them with "A.i." No learning takes place under this system. The only benefactors of this system are the corporations being paid for the "A.i." products.

By the way, Kavanaugh saying this now shows he knew his prior ruling was lawless and without justification.

chris evans shouts "no! i won't go back, you can't make me. i said i was out!" from all around him, a disembodied voice booms ɪᴛ ɪꜱ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴅᴇᴄɪꜱɪᴏɴ ɴᴏ ʟᴏɴɢᴇʀ evans screams and clutches at his arm where his mickey mouse tattoo suddenly burns. ʏᴏᴜ ᴀᴄᴄᴇᴘᴛᴇᴅ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɴᴅ ɪɴ ᴇxᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇ ꜰᴏʀ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴍᴍᴏʀᴛᴀʟɪᴛʏ

I'm Internalized Victim Blaming but it FASCINATES me that Wank and Tell is now a canonical tag

this administration is trying to murder one of the most brilliant services our country offers and it is so aggravating because the post office is amazing! it shouldn't need to make money it is a public good! I love it! STOP PUNCHING IT, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

This is not hyperbole. The same guy who created gay conversion therapy also created ABA. THEY ARE THE SAME THING, BULLYING KIDS INTO BEING SOMEONE THEY ARE NOT FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S COMFORT.

gop lite is consistently the dumbest thing the democratic party does. consistently. on foreign policy, on spending, on immigration. its never the right way. but the party is addicted to it.

If you're a parent in America and you're more concerned about your kid sharing a bathroom with a trans kid than you are with them *getting fucking shot* then you're a horrible person and I hope you get hit by a car.

US citizen born in US deported based entirely on DHS/ICE looking at the paperwork proving her citizenship and saying "nah". No judicial process, or rather a court reviewed it and was overridden by ICE. There is no rule of law in America, and there is no such thing as "Citizenship" in America.

We are not equal, because a male can engineer a woman’s or girl’s expulsion from a community almost effortlessly.

…because she needs a fresh start. But she goes, and he stays. It plays out at all ages: a male abuses a woman he works with, or a girl at his school, and she is forced out of the community while he stays.

ONE of the major parties is going to be the party of populism, and the other is going to be the party of the elite. ONE of the major parties is going to be the party of white supremacy and the other is going to be the party of diversity.

The GOP is being held together by a THREAD by one dude with a very tenuous grasp on 1/3rd of the electorate, and when that falls, it's fucking open season for everything.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

this is hakeem. hakeem is offering up a pre-written post disconnected from what is currently in the news. it has no resonance and seems robotic. this is ted. ted is referencing an event happening right now and of relevance to millions. be like ted. not like hakeem.

ABA is conversion therapy, full stop

Spellcheck is theoretically an incredibly useful and powerful machine learning tool and I don’t understand why in the last few years it has become so bad at its job that now it just actively introduces errors all the time while not catching things like ‘disablity.’

HOW YOU GONNA ALLOW DILDO BUT NOT TIDDY

good morning, death to the nyt

Reminder: it is not correct to refer to Conway as a "Never Trumper." He was, in fact, a Trumper before he became a not-Trumper. He was literally a top pick to run Trump's DOJ in the first term. He was absolutely a Trumper.

“disavowing” your vote does jack shit for the people who said it would harm them and are now screwed by the current thing they asked you not to do

The Christian Nationalists want and moreover NEED a powerful federal government that they can use to implement their project by force. The hyper-rich have zero interest in that, they want to strip the government for parts. You can't have both.

"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"

woof

By Masked Rogue @unmaskedrogue.bsky.social: "If you’re ignoring COVID, you’re complying with the governments and corporations who don’t value your health, or even your life. Why sacrifice everything for the benefit of the rich?" Source: x.com/unMaskedRogu...

The minute by minute battle between people uploading the video and companies taking it down is a real early internet idealism information wants to be free cyberpunk situation

I was so excited to run across more of my favorite motivational messages in my files & just realized there’s still time for #MondayMotivation. It’s still Monday, right? Sure. Let’s go with that.

No.

My millennial heart is so happy watching everyone pirate and share the 60 Minutes piece like we’re all on 2002 Napster.

I am still shocked by the degree that casual racism has been completely normalized in the US. I shouldn't be after the last 10 years, yet I am.

Like I know some of you have issues w/ Hasan but this is the most truthful thing that's ever been said.

I remember reading how therapists are struggling with helping us in a lot of ways right now because we are reacting normally to the totally hellish nightmare world. Like, if someone is ripping off your fingernails the proper response is to scream.

the purpose of a system is what it does and what this one does is disable you.

and no one accounts for the fact that being on these medications forces you to build a life on unstable ground. not because of interent risks to the medications themselves but because of barriers to access

i have been on hold trying to get my medication for 20 minutes. btw if you have adhd you are expected to have time to do this with every pharmacy in town on the last day of your meds every single month. you basically just can't do anything that day. it's a day a month that you can't plan anything on

If Blacks have an equal claim to Americanism it is an even more devastating problem for White Christian Nationalists, because this fact both emphasizes the importance of the Reconstruction amendments and calls into question the wisdom of many of the founding documents.

Petfinder has been Broken AF but you can still view these guys and send an app here: www.petfinder.com/member/us/md... Please give these beautiful cats a chance at a home for the holidays. They have been waiting so so long.

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

America is a culture of child abuse. Ask any survivor - we find one another, we form networks and communities. The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.

The full Weiss memo is dogshit -who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT -who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison —who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison

Important news for the Bluesky userbase (37-year-olds who went to the free Prospect Park shows every summer): Wolf Parade has the No. 1 song on Spotify right now because it's in the gay hockey movie.