In Alan Dershowitz’s case, these cancel each other out #NoPierogisForDershowitz

Gorgeous colorizations of trans history images, and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)

Public libraries are fucking awesome, and something we should all be proud this country actually decided to do. With so much terrible history, this is an unmitigated good, and librarians are a pretty amazing example of what public service can be. Give them love.

Turkeys are flavorless and dry, and they want to live. This Thanksgiving, @mbolotnikova.bsky.social encourages you to challenge the status quo and embrace plant-based alternatives, have conversations about ethical food choices, and create more sustainable and compassionate traditions.

It's a bit wild how much of modern culture has been shaped by a Mormon mom's wet dream over 20 years ago

It occurred to me today that the LLM developers OKing felonious chatbots might be social darwinists

A friend found this on a car parked in Naarm last night, I have never coveted anything more in my entire life

Off-topic: the first time I saw an ad for this show was a billboard on Melrose, and a utility pole was kinda in the way of my view. I read the title as "plumbus"

Goddamn I love Miguel

doctor: alright let's have a look at your chart..... says here you have "no rizz whatsoever" and "a flat ass"... okay... and your CT (cunty tranny) scan came back.... negative... oh gosh....

You fucking people will let anyone off the hook for their violent hateful beliefs and all they have to do is say shiny words you like You’re all a bunch of Nazi tattoo forgiving, Jewish space lasers forgetting gullible marks getting played for fools As a Jew I suggest you all go fuck yourselves.

So people know there's a negative correlation between ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer rates. But is anyone conducting this kind of research (effects of orgasms on physiological health) in AFABs???

Holy fucking shit. I need mfers like this to please define their concepts of "drug use," "palliative care," and in fact what counts as a "drug" and why.

The movie I just finished was shit. Watch this one instead

Cheney should've been forced to live through the dictatorship he set the stage for

Is it unethical to tell people I think they should buy shares in (and product from) a company I invested in? It's a penny stock, but still.

Proud of my celebrity doppelgänger

In case anyone was wondering whether over-whipping can also happen to water/oil/protein emulsions of the non-dairy variety: yep, I just curdled my "cream." Wtf am I going to do with this, make weirdly sweet margarine?? More importantly, I want to understand why cream can't be un-churned.

Telling people who won't vote "blue no matter who" that they're "supporting" Trump et al. is so silly at face value. Choosing to vote for someone you're politically aligned with is more progressive than voting for a Democrat who's far more similar to a Republican both ideologically and in practice

So apparently a bunch of films left @shudder.com at 9 pm sharp, including the one I was just about to watch 🙃 I get contracts end, but damn Halloween is not over on the west coast!!

i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris

I stayed up until 4 am writing haphazardly about "Frankenstein" so you gotta read it boxd.it/bwYrP7

Watched the latest "Saw" so I also had to finally get around to the first "Hostel." Them's the rules

A recent radio piece (linked below, at 18:53) about male contraceptives—including the double standard of side effect acceptability, and to whom the "responsibility" of prophylactics falls by default—made me think about the quandary of men's rights in prenatal parenthood.

There are lots of sounds humans make that I find irritating or disgusting (misophonia), but don't mind when other animals make them. Eating corn on the cob is maybe the only exception: always gross. Can't ignore the association with the visual of the cob after the kernels have been removed... 🤢

All the people defending the Nazi tattoo are telling on themselves and when someone tells you who they are, believe them When he becomes another Fetterman, they’ll whine and complain like we didn’t tell them what’s what

This morning I was in a pretty good mood. Looked at some nice art and science done by humans. Then I went outside and had to look at the trash and cars made by humans.

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Today I realized someone who I'm related-ish to and met a couple times as an adolescent (?) is this guy

Wore only my dorkiest attire to attend an Intentionally Scary Event (first since before the pandemic started!)

Made plans to go outside of the house two nights in a row. Now I have to get ready to spend time among humans, and I have ragrets

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Believing they were somewhat exclusively formed around concrete ideas and opinions, I used to think I was semi-impervious to echo chambers. Realizing the one I might be in is people of ≥ average intelligence; a bubble of critical thinking and literacy.

Why was it Diane Keaton? It should've been Woody Allen

The young cousins in the family group chat are confusing Grandma 😭

Had forgotten that s2e5 of "Enterprise," "A Night in Sickbay," had a fake dog stand (lie?) in for most of Porthos's scenes...

If I had a nickel for every time a driver called me a "Karen" for ~forcing~ them to stop driving so a pedestrian with right of way (myself) could cross a street, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it would pay for six minutes of parking so I could've driven instead of walking.

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My fellow Jews: protect your heart and don’t read the replies to this post. My fellow allies: read all of these replies, internalize the antisemitism problem on the left, and start gathering your thoughts about how you will fight this vile rhetoric.

If you have decided to hold every Jew in the world responsible for the atrocities of one nation that’s bad enough, but to dismiss or celebrate the massacre of Jews in their place of worship on one of their holiest days you are an actual bigot and a monster. “Jews” are not a monolith.

It is very, very bad that "artificial intelligence" is nowhere near the levels it should be at for genuine usefulness, while already being actively harmful. More really needs to be said on models being trained to not produce pornography, when preventing "Here's how to do it" should be a TOP priority

Ghost Baby Clifford is here to announce that it is officially spooky season. Let the festivities commence.

The most disappointing thing about not wanting to ever get pregnant is that if I did want to, and it happened, it would be very cool to wear crop tops all the time. I don't wear them now, but if I were growing a human, you can bet your ass I'd be showing off my burgeoning belly.

Since reading "Twilight" as a tween, I've been bothered by its vampire biology. One night last week, I finally thought through an explanation for at least part of it. (Spoiler alert for goddamn Renesmee, if anyone needs it.) In the series, vampires cannot procreate with each other. Of course.

One of the least-useful "Star Trek" technologies I genuinely yearn for is the sonic shower (and, presumably, sonic toothbrushing, etc.?). No it wouldn't usher in a post-scarcity era, like replicators or transporters. But I know my fellow sufferers of executive dysfunction would agree.

i DEEPLY hate the term. it's patronizing, it's a stupid euphemism, it plays into the transphobic notion that cis people are humoring us, it's epistemological oppression to avoid saying the word trans, 90% of the shit cis people do isn't called "gender affirming", etc it's fucking trans healthcare.

Went to Russell Crowe's Wikipedia page after kinda-watching "Gladiator" because I couldn't remember his nationality. Oddly, he doesn't have one (biography articles start "[name] is a[n] [demonym] [profession]" and often list citizenship in the infobox; not his). But also, he's unexpectedly based??

It sure would've been nice if General Fascism could've been avoided by more people caring about Specific Fascism for "less-important" people

Not non-binary as in "no gender" but nonbinary as in "Roger rabbit gender where whatever's funniest wins"