What's so remarkable about this is how it acknowledges Sanger's turn into eugenics, and explicitly rejects it, and then pushes for alternative caregivers like doulas and midwives. As someone deeply interested in how male politicians talk about bodily autonomy, this is REMARKABLE.

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ICYMI, earlier this year, Ars Technica covered one of my shark research fundraiser charters. Yes, I can bring you and your group (of up to 15 total people) on a shark research expedition in Florida! Interested? Let's chat. arstechnica.com/science/2025... 🧪🦑🌎🦈

I am not anti-fishing. I am not anti- shark fishing. But hammerheads in particular are species of significant conservation concern, and one of the worst candidates for “catch and release” of any known fish species. And it’d be nice if media coverage *of hammerhead fishing* mentioned that

"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

I am never leaving this app.

In the replies someone shared a picture of a raccoon stealing a lemon, another person grabbed it and made it their avatar and changed their name to Lemon Raccoon and now they’re helping create lore THIS is what I’m here for

Fat bear season approacheth.

I really only knew Dr. Darren Markland via social media. But his front line reports from the ER during Covid moved me to tears. His bravery, his compassion, his commitment to patient care, and to the truth, were unparalleled. In the worst of the pandemic, he was the hero we needed. #yeg

Bob Vila, welcome to the Resistance.

the list of performers doubles as a list of people who believe money is more important than principles

Have some adorable

There's a woodland beef!

not queer, as in gay. Queer, as in fuck fascism.

Just recently @hankgreen.bsky.social had a good video putting forth a theory as to why a bunch of people are embracing certain drugs as miracle cure-all's. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC9g...

Microsoft is cutting access to SOME Azure cloud services to a unit of the IDF, found to be using those services for survailance and tracking of Palestinians. It's far from a full withdrawl of services, but it is positive progress. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

I honestly don't know why people are in so much denial about this. I keep seeing variants on "how could POC have possibly been present in Georgian Britain?" like, have these people not heard of ships?

By the way, if you have a big-ish account I highly recommend holding weekly art shows for followers. It's fun, you might find new artists you like, and most importantly it makes a huge difference to many small artists and crafters! 🎨

"Comrie gibberish" 🤣🤣🤣 I love my goalies.

crab safe from the vertebral scourge 🦀

Listen, everyone is going to put their heads down on their desks and close their eyes, and whoever broke this timeline can fix it, no questions asked.

The 40 cloves of garlic you put in this pasta recipe will be the best 80 cloves of garlic you ever eat, you certainly will not regret putting 120 cloves of garlic into your pasta

Some people here love to dismiss ‘sportsball’ but S. African teams being banned from international competition was an important factor in ending Apartheid because it made their crimes real for non-political folk.

new Worst Kind of Person just dropped!!!!

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

CHOTINER: I don't know, I just feel like I've been tacitly operating in a moral framework that would fall apart with even the barest scrutiny. But maybe that collapse would bring new clarity DOCTOR: Listen, there is an interviewer I want you to talk to. The best in the business. CHOTINER: ...

sometimes i listen to this to hype myself up even though im not welsh, dont play football, and wales lost very badly. it was just a very good speech youtu.be/1fpV0OFC0vc?...

BE SINCERE CARE ABOUT THINGS CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER BE A FUCKING GODDAMNED PERSON

The answer to why people think sex scenes in pop culture are unnecessary is that we as a society scorn people who practice the craft of making them good, and also scorn the very concept that it is a craft to begin with. It is, very frankly, a skill issue.

We’ve never seen more than a monarch or two all summer but this year we had a couple hundred spend the night and there were dozens around for weeks! (This was year one of converting our yard to native prairie and we’ve had more butterflies in general, but I’m not sure that’s relevant to these guys.)

You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

This morning's sunrise kayak was truly something remarkable. I got to watch a pack of at least 8 or so coyotes just living their lives along the limestone cliffs flanking Lake Winnipeg. This was the first encounter. I wonder if that was where it spent the night. #mammals 🌿

Winner

major traffic incident

rough day. not much I can do. so here's a frog.

Already bracing myself for the total meltdowns people are going to have when AO3 is down for a planned 20 hours on Friday.

CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

Let me preface this a bit - I don't consider myself a part of any Native American tribe. I have the necessary requirements re: blood quantum for two tribes, but I wasn't raised on a reservation and there is a shared...trauma that comes with that. I don't have that. So I don't feel membership-worthy.

okay, if we're talking about the Second World War again, please enjoy some malicious compliance from 1944 courtesy of my grandfather, motor mechanic aboard RML 497

can we at least start litigating some different wars? somebody do some wars of the roses posting, that could tie up the timeline for at least two years, you can cross the streams with GoT posting and really deep fry some brain worms

It’s the QUARTER-FINALS!!!!! It always shocks me how quickly everything moves from here to the end.

A local Saskatchewan author has released her second book, which follows a young boy obsessed with video games who suddenly finds himself immersed in the natural world.

rad video, but learning that the whole thing stemmed from Dyson hating SETI makes me hope we eventually find a solid-shell Dyson sphere around a white dwarf solely and specifically to spite him (white dwarf because it's the only scale where it would be even remotely possible)

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Chotiner interviews Janeway

where my french and indian war nerds at (this isn’t a joke, where are you, i’m so alone)

The funny thing here is that this is the most amazing advertising someone selling curses on Etsy could hope for.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

CHOTINER: And you didn’t know this person - what did you call him again? CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty? CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived CHOTINER: So you’ve said