Ngl it was kinda hilarious when someone suggested Dolly Parton might die last night and the entire Bluesky community said FUCK THAT and now she's doing better. People talk about the power of prayer but I think we tapped into something deeper and darker.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Two very different things seen by me today.

It took me an embarrassingly large number of years to get what privilege is. I genuinely believe that a lot (but definitely not all) of the opposition to social justice is due to poor terminology. Every time I explain privilege this way, the person I’m talking to gets it.

these are questions hard for me to empathize with, as someone without the privilege of being able to go even a day without worrying about how racism impacts me or my friends. privilege is not visible gift, it's an invisible lack of a curse. Invisible to you, but unavoidable to us.

I should to point out that one’s religion is largely based on where someone lives and the beliefs they were brought up with. People who leave their childhood religion or join a different one are *extremely* uncommon in the general population. It’s more common to keep it and believe differently.

Please understand me when I say the next thing: I like Sanderson, I like his work, and I believe he’s genuinely a nice person trying to do the right thing. (The pressure on Amazon, for example.) He isn’t the greatest writer, though. He’s just good. I have other recommendations I give before him.

If you ever ask me to read sanderson I immediately assume all your other reccomendations are dogshit

In case you wondered… also, it was six viruses, not four. 😉

I'm gonna get my Kellis-Amberlee after all!

The news is both good and bad. The good news is that the ER doc has graciously agreed to prescribe 2 weeks of my husband’s medication. However, that’s also the bad news - it’s only for two weeks, and that’s not enough to get him to his next appointment. Welp. 🤷‍♂️ I guess this is just Round One.

I have to take my husband to the ER today. We’ve been planning to go for a couple of weeks now, but today it has to happen. And no, we can’t go to urgent care. So what’s the emergency that came on gradually and we can’t go to urgent care for? He needs a prescription filled. #USpolitics #medicine

This is exactly why putting people in positions of trust needs to go back to being more about respect for the power they’re given and less about whose team they’re on.

Discworld QOTD, from Thud! “‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodies? Your grace.’ ‘I know that one,’ said Vimes. ‘Who watches the watchmen? Me, Mr Pessimal.’ ‘Ah, but who watches you, your grace?’ said the inspector, with a brief smile. ‘I do that too. All the time,’ said Vimes.”

if your response to this - a basic statement of sympathy about an attack on a synagogue - is to bring up Israel, please delete your account

the single best decision I’ve made about how I use this website is that I do not argue in my replies I ignore it or I block people, nothing good ever comes of it and I am just some guy and not the sin eater for every moderation decision

It should go without saying, but unfortunately it doesn’t these days…

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter and a dismissal notice reviewed by MSNBC. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

@annabower.bsky.social on LegalEagle today, talking about the ludicrous Comey charges: “[T]his is where it’s about to get *really* stupid. Me:

Yes, indeed - what has changed? If my mother hadn’t been there to fight for me as a kid, I can only imagine the damage that would’ve been done. What actually *was* done is bad enough!

That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Do you want to screen Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile in your town or city, unlike a cowardly major movie chain? Email us at [email protected]. We'll allow you to screen it for free. Yes, again, this is real.

I’m going to say this again because it seems to be relevant again: the “inherent value” of any business is the people involved - customers, employees, managers, and the surrounding community. You *cannot* grow a successful business in the long term without the people.

I’ve tried and tried so hard to get this across to people, but of course, Terry Pratchett does it better and with fewer words. Fault and responsibility aren’t the same thing. It doesn’t have to be your fault for you to be responsible - it only needs to be something that needs doing.

Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky “You couldn’t say: It’s not my fault. You couldn’t say: It’s not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn’t have to want to. But you had to do it.”

it sure would be nice if The People could remember things like “actually this guy sucks and we shouldn’t put him in charge again” for more than five minutes, or consider the possibility of building housing but you work with The People you have

It’s also because I am an avowed geek of all things uncommon. And also a grammar nerd.

Discworld QOTD, from Mort “Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.”

Granny is my favorite person on the Disc because she cares to know Right from Wrong and deliberately chooses Right - not because of any moral values but because it’s what must be done. That fact easily makes her the most powerful and terrifying person anyone knows, including the gods.

the thing that Granny and Vimes have in common is that they are people who know, at their core, what is right and what is wrong and have consciously chosen to do what is right and the worst villains, on the Disc and in real life, are those who know the difference and choose to go the other way

Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade

Brilliance was never one of Kash Patel’s redeeming qualities. In fact, he has no redeeming qualities.

In a post I won't share in full since it contains little new information (but will link here: x.com/FBIDirectorK...) and no acknowledgment of who was killed (immigrants in detention), Kash Patel posted the following image he says was on "unspent shell casings."

Everyone seems to forget that the primary feature of what many call “socialist” (or, equally incorrectly, “communist”) nations we fought in the past wasn’t liberalism. It was authoritarianism. The liberalist promises were always the sugar to sweeten the medicine that dictators gave their citizens.

They told me if I voted for Kamala Harris, we would have a literal socialist economy within eight months.

These people are all in a massive anti-science cultist human centipede. They all complain about eating each other’s shit, but they keep making more to feast on.

Wow. What a dishonest, shitty take. And worse - even if the premise of the headline were true, it’s not something to mention like this. Don’t punish the behavior you want to see more of! I wish I could read the article, but of course, the NYT paywall says “no.”

The insistence on arguing about “both sides” while our country descends into fascism is a real choice.

I will not link to it. I just want to reiterate that thousands of books have been banned by the right. And American Dirt sold millions of copies.

Again, this is a broad coalition of people across the ideological spectrum whose top concern is making sure everyone rues and laments the “Woke Times” forever. It’s very much akin to the myths around “Negro misrule” in Reconstruction, which justified Jim Crow.

And it's party bosses at all levels. Philly has a DA who looks to be cruising to winning a third election. But because he's a progressive DA who hasn't kissed the ring as much as they'd like, the City Committee keeps refusing to endorse him.

And what happened after that is they started revealing all these corporate friendly proposals, refused to have a Palestinian speak at the Democratic National Convention. Basically did everything possible to isolate everyone but their corporate donors. And it worked!

How about, instead of supporting fascist collaborators, I just not watch network television, cancel any subscriptions that benefit the networks, and never watch the episodes posted online? I’ve been getting my news on my own for a while now since I can’t trust the networks anymore. It’s no loss.

This just in from Sinclair: "Beginning Tuesday night Sinclair will be preempting 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show's potential return."

I beg of you, please, do not make me have to defend Bill Maher from government censorship

*If* you follow the references and citations and "see also" stuff, Wikipedia is an excellent. Just don't cite it. Cite the external sources they rely on after you *read it for yourself, dammit!* The "no original research" thing, by the way, doesn't mean what most people think it does: