biscuits not having 2 sections and triscuits not having 3 sections feels like violent crime

"purity tests" "circular firing squad" "the left eat their own" are such bullshit phrases. people disagree on politics! that's how it works. deal with it instead of whining about marginalized people correctly pointing out that certain "compromises" only strengthens fascism

My new YouTube Music account glitched and thinks I have only ever listened to "Ass Like That" by Eminem.

Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants: The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.

A small child recently described her cat to me by saying "She's orange with pink toe beans." I hereby request that every cat description should henceforth include toe bean color. This is vital information we have all been keeping to ourselves.

Catie Malik is once again King GOP's preferred candidate. She also answered their candidate questionnaire...with a very transphobic answer regarding trans girls in sports, whom Catie calls: "males who identify as females". 4/ kcgop.org/non-partisan...

The test he took at Walter Reade, which he brags about all the time - "Man, Woman, Camera" -- was not an IQ test, but a test for encroaching dementia.

Hot take: it is both sexist & transphobic for Google to make it impossible to EITHER change your email address OR export all your shit and then import it into a new Google account. Changing names is NOT a weird use case, it is an extremely normal human activity that tech companies should cope with.

Have you ever TRIED to find help?!? You get sent resources, and every resource you contact is there to find you resources. So then you contact those resources only to discover they’re just there to find you resources. WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO DO THE THINGS?!?

There’s been deserved disgust and ridicule for RFK’s bizarre idea of what autism is. But there are disabled children for whom the below is true. RFK is saying their lives are worth less. People like my brother are worth less. This is plain, overt eugenics. Antivax is and has always been eugenicism.

I'm going to the autism gulag. I'm going to the enemies of the state gulag. I'm going to the combination autism/enemies of the state gulag.

Beating a dead horse here, but higher ed is an incredible source of American soft power The international students we educate at places like my institution, Harvard Kennedy School, bring their educational experiences to their home countries in ways that greatly enhance US interests

JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.

Reminders: "Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific. Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens. Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant. Never again is now.

The last place a colonizer leaves is the mind

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

The one time I made it to the national track champs, I was on the B team in the 4x400m relay, and we came in 6th. Which was last. The A team won. Did I resent them for having better builds than me? No lol Like I really need people to get a grip, you don't get to police bodies because you lost

Excluding trans girls from sports on the basis that it is not fair to cis girls is like saying that ballet dancers with unusually strong tendons should have their tendons forcibly damaged so that people with more tendency toward injury can have a fair shot. Which sounds ridic cuz it is!!!!!

"I don't like any of these extremists on the right or the left! I just think we need the basic common sense middle ground stuff, healthcare for all, taxing billionaires out of existence, trans rights, abolish ICE, all the normal stuff"

Let's talk visas this morning. People don't know what they are and that is resulting in very imprecise language (glaring at you, Rubio) when we should all be on the same page. Longer version of prior complaint follows. 1/

this reads like a shitpost but i am living it

I often say that living well is the greatest revenge. It is also an excellent way to throw off suspicion from my actual favorite revenge, arson.

All Cats Are Beautiful

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

For your consideration, my contribution to the discourse.

Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

The average person with the flu gives it to around 1.4 people. The average person with measles gives it to between 12 and 18 people.

here to fix metadata about rail lines in Japan, but like, wokely

What incorrect details have ruined your suspension of disbelief lately? Here are a couple of mine from the last month: * someone (who had never driven before) leapt into a 1920s Model T and started it fast enough for a quick getaway lololol * a beekeeper was worried because bees were swarming

"We've got too many people here. They're up against the barricade. We're losing the barricade"-- phllly pd scanner rn and also les mis, victor hugo, 1862

The idea that there should be a public debate about the appropriate medical care for a minuscule population of children remains one of the most absurd lies that these liberal transphobes, NYT edit board included, tell themselves. No there shouldn’t! It’s not an appropriate matter for public debate!

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

hi everyone, dropping back in for a moment to share a resource that has been great for keeping me informed while keeping me sane. I highly recommend whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com. getting my dose of batshit news exactly once a day turns out to be the way to go, at least for me.

A guy at this EV charging station just wandered over to another guy at this EV charging station and offered him a tech job.

Me opening the news every fucking morning

The most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices. We hammered this time and time again and yet.

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,

Did you know? In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine. The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.

Orwellian, if Orwell were really stupid insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Disappointed to see so many people on the left complaining about the TSA being gutted. The TSA wasn't keeping us safe from any of this.

Touch grass. Now touch stone. Now touch water. Now spill blood inside the glyph. Now light the brazier

running the federal govt the same way I figure out which breaker powers the garage

I would in no way have guessed the popularity order of these actions.

Finally got my skulls set up in the new apartment 😍

2024 was the hottest year on record. Ever. In a few years you may remember it nostalgically as the coolest you've experienced since. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/2024-the-h... 🧪