I think some men WANT love stories -- maybe not full-on fluffy romance, but romantic thrillers or romantic mysteries, stories where the relationship is a key part. That's what I read when I started reading romance. BUT because those are Girl Genres, men don't want to ADMIT to wanting them.

Excuse me sir, all cats are 10/10

"That's AI." As an 8th grade teacher, this is a new insult the kids have been using this year, even on things unrelated to writing. Someone does something stupid, or ridiculous, or cruel: "Ugh, you're AI."

The Artemis missioun doth show that the thinges that are trulye the most astoundinge yn thys worlde, the thinges that will echo on thrugh historye, are not technologye, howevir marvelous, but common human braverye, wondir, and love. These will be the themes when thys storye ys tolde for centuryes.

Pokémon - Nap Time I hid a ton of Pokémon in this piece. How many can you find?

Any Alaskans: Marian is the real deal and you want to hear her sing.

yeah, I don't want to hear about how the No Kings protests "aren't doing anything" when this is going on, along with Dem overperformances/flips.

a MAGA schism is gonna most likely resemble a smattering of fringe extremist "house churches" like Mel Gibson's father's, with a very insular population & no centralized power. Hutton Gibson's obit goes into some detail on theirs, though very obviously HUGE TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR ANTISEMITISM HOO BOY

The story of our age is billionaire narcissist men who are widely known to be frauds or creeps within their industries but are allowed to destroy the world in plain sight because American media & business view rich confidently-speaking white men through an infinitely-forgiving lens of merit.

editor: you need to rewrite me: why editor: because we need plausible characters me: whats the problem editor: You're claiming its actually possible to turn the Iranian govt and the Catholic Church into sympathetic figures within 12 months???

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. How the World was made. The earth is a great island floating in a sea of water, and suspended at each of the

“All you had to do was pay us enough to live,” the arsonist is heard to say in the video. And if this isn’t another clear sign for billionaires to voluntarily stop being billionaires before it’s too late, I don’t know what is. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Had a thug with kratom eyes from a gang called ICE check my ID so I could get on an airplane about four hours ago. I’m still mad hours later. This shouldn’t be a thing that happens. The agency needs to be dissolved the second power allows it. Even kratom eyes needs to hear the clank of a jail cell.

I bet the Pope is regretting his decision to disband that order of monk assassins right about now.

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

The federal government is literally striking words from official record based on them being too “woke” and pundits are arguing if the wokeness is what went too far

1) they're cooked and they know it 2) it appears that a big reason Planned Parenthood won't get targeted like it did last year is because Democrats refused to fund DHS, effectively forcing Republicans to focus their second reconciliation bill on funding the secret police

How it feels arguing with hawks that the US and Israel had no right to attack Iran while at the same time telling Axis folks that, no, Iran does not have the right to usurp an international waterway

Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky: Bondi deserved to be fired. But we’re really worried about Todd Blanche stepping in. He is not a suitable attorney general. He gave Ghislaine Maxwell a sweetheart deal. He has not listened to survivors.

Fuck you, Bibi.

very cool that Massachusetts lawmakers, who spend all day every day talking about how they're protecting us from Trump, just passed the "upload your ID to the Palantir database in order to access social media" law while saying they're "protecting the kids"

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Update on the security situation around the purchased DHS warehouse — There’s a couple of security guards in trucks patrolling the facility, which is now blocked from entering. There’s camera towers all over the site now too. Also update on the window that was busted out — still busted lol.

I'll be interested to see if the America First movement returns to the tradition of anti-Catholicism that helped birth the Knights and so many other American Catholic institutions. It seems likely to me, especially if the bishops do move for immigrants over ICE en masse.

anti-Catholicism used to be a major pillar of the right-wing in the US - this was when Irish/Italian/etc immigrants weren't white, back when you had to be Protestant to be white

“All you had to do was pay us enough to live”

what they've actually done here quite deftly is shine a 3000 watt Fresnel lamp on the central problem for which Pope Francis wanted an American Pope in the first place: namely, that the American right wing believes they are invincible, they are destroying the world, and they have to be stopped

It's so obvious they're going to make all Jewish people the scapegoat for this fiasco, and the worst part is I suspect *it will work* to pull an audience/coalition together from across the ideological spectrum

I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂 Best with volume up.

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In the US if you're not super online and your primary source of entertainment is streaming for all intents and purposes the war doesn't exist. Gas prices are up but they always go up and down. In my limited experience talking to hundreds of people at the bar I've been the only one to bring it up

I am here for messaging that the THREAT alone - regardless of if it's carried out or walked back - should end his presidency. The die is already cast. You cannot wield the power that man has and say that kind of shit.

Democrats needs to be heading to DC tonight and gather in Congress to move for impeachment even if Congress led by Republican bootlickers is “on recess.” Schumer/Jeffries should be issuing calls for Dems to get back in DC now while have their leadership staffers prep impeachment resolutions now.

Oh, this is just the warm-up. If this is what they’re pushing now, if Platner makes it to the general against Susan Collins, it’s going to be 10x worse, full smear campaign, nonstop. Strap in.

Much better Senator. Thank you. I would add that NOT FUNDING HIM is essential here.

"I don't want to happen but it probably will" is classic abuser language: "look what you made me do." Except it's not on the scale of a household, but of a nation of 90 million and millennia of civilization.....

Is this what the Cuban Missile Crisis felt like? Between this and the flagellants (re: COVID), this decade has given me some deep understanding of why people in history did stuff.

Even if there is no further escalation (and what has been done is already beyond the pale) the casual fucking threat is more than enough. We recognize the words "I am going to kill you and your entire family" for what they are when it's some random asshole saying them never mind the US president.

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I didn't make this, but it needs a reposting.

same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen

The Epstein class are rich perverts but it’s the Putin circle that seems to run the world with impunity (there is obviously overlap)

open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr.'s magic medicine for autism.

It would also be helpful to share public plans for handing Trump over to international authorities to be tried for war crimes when his term ends.

Just updating my health workforce slides to discuss the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997, and its provisions that capped allopathic and osteopathic residency counts for teaching hospitals at 1996 levels based on an (incorrect) projection of physician "oversupply." Grrrrr. Such short-sightedness.

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literally further away from earth than any human being ever and still can’t get away from him, brutal stuff