A lot of people assume that Amsterdam has been biketopia since time immemorial but it actually was car hell for decades before the citizens became fed up with car fatalities and forced the government to rebuild everything around mass transit and bikes. It took time and will, but they did it.

On this date in 1962, Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was published, and it became one of the most-influential books in the modern environmental movement.

It was only after Jonas Salk developed the first safe & effective polio vaccine that the need for iron lungs declined. When asked who owned the vaccine patent, Salk famously answered, “Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” 7/7 #vaccineswork

why are rich people so damn boring? if I had all the money in the world I would create my very own animation studio, pay all my employees really well and have them animate my favourite fanfictions

This only happens to you once

A nuance that the doomers and cynics on social media often miss, I think, is that this administration can simultaneously be the most cruel and racist and vindictive people alive... And still have no fucking idea what the consequences of 80% of their actions will actually be.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

Visiting fam where a cold is going round. Hit me last night; in my fever I dreamed clowns erupted from the ground and paint-balled ICE henchminions.

Comics. As a kid, we were told they were trash, and I got hold of them very rarely. Except the daily paper funnies, which I began reading in kdg. Faves were Rick O'Shay (gorgeouns scene) and Mary Perkins On Stage. Involved plots. And as a teen, I passionately loved Doonesbury.

Good morning

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

Facts: Tylenol is safe. Climate change is real. Donald Trump is an embarrassment to the United States.

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In case this wasn't already clear:

The world is too often unbearably heartbreaking. In lieu of all that, here is my cat, Maeby. I love her.

Trump is so vain that he wants to make it ILLEGAL to make fun of him. It really is the definition of pathetic. @jamellebouie.net nails it, as always.

This is so lovely - a town in Wales has put up loads of different flags. Shall we all try and do this xx www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Sending love to my trans peeps out there fuck the administration cis folks: donate if you can southernequality.org/tyep/

#Pinks #ProudBlue RIP Robert Redford I so agree! ✅

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Oh, and if anyone was confused. You build houses for the unhoused. Not kill them. Thank you.

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

If you love these books, have we got a progressive sci-fi / fantasy conference for you! Sirens is happening! March 2026! Five days of reading, learning, and community-building, all based on speculative fiction's blueprints for more inclusive, more just, more joyful worlds for people of all genders.

They had kids, too.

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It’s important to remember that a shit ton of the Civil Rights movement, the Abolitionist movement, workers rights in the early 20th cent among other American social justice movements were formented in church halls and synagogue lobbies

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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

endlessly grateful to exist, to trot with my buds and share stories. to look up at the moon and think about everyone else who has looked before. to have taste buds. to watch the seasons change. so many wonderful things are just GIVEN to us by existence, it can be hard to remember to say thanks

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

People used (and still do) bitch about Yule-season decorations going up right after Thanksgiving, but this went up Labor Day weekend—and it’s not alone

a timeline cleanse

This one is titled, “The Motherlode.” #dogsofbluesky #pitbulls #pitbull #bluepit #pittie #pibble #tennis #petsky #rescuedog #adoptdontshop #playball #happydog

The only things for which Charlie Kirk was an advocate were bigotry and Charlie Kirk. Thank you for coming to my TED talk

Americans have short memories—keep reminding them. PLEASE SHARE!

I cited actual Kirk quotes where he calls Black women less intelligent, demonizes me for being Muslim, & dehumanizes LGBTQ people—& his supporters are upset at me for “speaking evil of the dead.” If quoting him is “speaking evil” maybe ask yourself why you followed someone who believed evil things.

Fiery-throated Hummingbird at Paraiso Quetzal Lodge #CostaRica #hummingbirds #birds #nature

excellent. MORE OF THIS.

Couldn’t have said it better myself…

Crying as I type . . . (with laughter)

The video thing also hugely favors "traditionally attractive" authors, which, uh... Do we need even MORE things to narrow the demographics for who gets to be successful in publishing?

White Christian Nationalism has nothing to do with Christianity and everything to do with Nazism.