The event was not about mask mandates nor did Violet advocate for them, it was about clean indoor air. Her comment “We can create clean air infrastructure that is so ubiquitous and so obviously necessary, tomorrow’s children don’t even know why we need it” is the main aim. Treat air as we do water.

Reminder that the cotton stretchy decorative spider web stuff is terrible for local wildlife (yes, even in the city).

The behavior of our caretakers toward us growing up was overwhelmingly about them, not us. We couldn't "make" our caretakers love or nurture or abuse or neglect us. We did not "attract" or "trigger" their behavior. We did not "fail" to "earn" their love.

Aseel is only 20 years old and has been keeping her four younger brothers alive under genocide. Their precious cat, Lisa, who kept Aseel's will to live alive, has died, despite Aseel doing everything in her power to save her. Their PayPal: tiny.cc/hbcuzz Their gofundme: gofund.me/54db81e4

Me: (sniffling) I love hearing how generous people are to each other. So giving! Brain: Sure, sure but if someone tries to offer *us* something we— Me: We react as though they’re trying to hand us a fistfull of fire. Brain: Very good. Just checking that you remembered. lol Me: lol

Shoutout to my fellow maskers!

1. "Love Languages" were originally conceived of by a Evangelical pastor to get women to accept less than in their relationships. 2. I can find/make an infographic that says a man giving me all the money in his bank account is an act of service. 3. Get a fucking maid. 😒

hi everyone, can you help me raise immediately needed funds to keep wynn sheltered? she's in dire straits links are in first post of this thread most important is to repost for best reach please

Horseshoe crabs are older than trees, land animals, and continents. Horseshoe crabs are a living wonder and we should all feel grateful to exist at the same time as something so incredibly ancient.

You are not "just like" your parents or other abusers. Even if you share some of the same struggles or vulnerabilities. Even if you share their name or DNA. Even if you were told you're "just like" them (maybe even told this BY them)-- you're not. You're choosing differently.

wish there was a better way to have the convo about the fact a lot of fans force queer subtext into big corporate IP that is comically devoid of it, champion it for being "so gay", and then turn around and go "mm idk, it isn't PERFECT rep" about indie stuff actually trying to include those themes

i like to say that, as the reader, you have the ultimate safe word: you can put the book down

Whoever came up with leather daddy Creature from the Black Lagoon knew exactly what they were doing

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.

I keep thinking about how Microsoft, who famously introduced AI into Excel, was strongarmed by its legal department to make a statement that you should not use the AI, introduced into Excel, for calculations

All my best to this FEMA employee, and may they succeed in their mission:

Someone said Santos from The Pitt is a person who was socialized young in sports (gymnastics) and never learned that most people don’t try to bond immediately with strangers using harsh teasing and forced familiarity and ahhh! Okay, now it makes sense. 💡

now that the dust has settled on the kirk shooting and with the benefit of hindsight and the kimmel thing playing out i sure hope bluesky's leadership is asking itself why their mod team so instinctively behaved exactly the way this fascist administration wanted them to before even having been asked

"Can you imagine Americans doing THIS?" (link to an act of solidarity or resistance I've personally seen Americans do, in person, numerous times across a decade and a half of struggle)

The ability to go private. Top of my list.

i will write forever because that’s what i do but im not so attached to Having a Writing Career that i would ever let the invisible hand of the market strangle to death the things i love about it just to keep my job lol

well meaning people love to be like ‘aren’t you scared of being left behind if you don’t start using AI in your work’ and from the bottom of my heart: no, im not scared of that. i would rather go back to restaurants for the rest of my life than publish AI ‘books’

You're telling me that when the majority of books under attack are books by and about BIPOC and queer identities, and that this present wave of bans is an attempt to erase marginalized representation entirely, that ALA chose to theme Banned Books Week around George Orwell's 1984?

Absolutely spot on - and also completely in line with their essential purity/taboo ideas of sex. Tale as old as time: this kind of sex is dirty, but I want it, therefore the dirt 'belongs' to the object of desire, who can be sectioned off and disposed of as contaminated, while I remain clean.

covid is spreading like wildfire rn btw. if you’re not wearing a mask rn you’re likely spreading it asymptomatically before you even realize you have it.

For people considering using AI for brainstorming. Give your mind permission to wander and daydream. You'd be surprised how well it works.

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right. Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

This movie is so fun. It’s like someone said “what if CHOPPING MALL was a ‘90s-style action movie with no nudity (boo) and lots of hammy Ben Kingsley (yay).”

Long Covid has now overtaken Asthma in the US, as a cause of chronic health disease in children. There is currently no cure. Yet no action is being taken and Violet Affleck is very much on point.

“When I wrote my book on glueing and clamping” hell yeah, brother

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 🧵)

Shout out to the titmouse and chickadee who sat on the branch directly above my head and screamed at me the whole time I was deep cleaning and refilling their bird feeder. Apex predator, my ass.

Our body & brain don't take their time processing trauma just for the hell of it. If our body & brain are telling us we need time to metabolize a feeling or a memory, or that we're not quite ready to do it yet, respect what they're communicating-- they need our trust & support.

Psst. You can do this trauma recovery thing, and you deserve this trauma recovery thing. Pass it on.

a general strike shut down italy on monday in support of palestine & now this is happening. international worker solidarity still has power!!

The engineered famine is harder to get through than ever and Israel opens fire on the international community when someone tries to help so your money is incredibly helpful for people trying to survive this.

I want to talk more about this, and how it makes me feel. Later. But maybe, the simplest answer, is that comics will break your heart.

as a person who reads these emails, i can confirm that is the email to write to! and mark your letters “okay to print” if you’re okay with them (potentially) (one day) appearing in print

Uh, everyone should dash off an e-mail to Marvel to let them know how beloved this series was and why we need it back.

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement. YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

ooookay this is a nightmare???

GORE! GORE! GORE! GORE!

The answer to "there's too much sex in tv and movies" is "please list examples so I may review them"

My friend who was arrested for being queer in public in WV had his consultation with a lawyer and now has an idea of court and legal costs and needs to raise a bit more money. He's facing a year in prison for essentially "cop didn't like the look of him." www.gofundme.com/f/5d3hr-help...

I am so not ready to read this book but I will do it. 🫩

Everything is terrible but listening to this absolutely transcendent performance always cheers me up. What a genius Morricone was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7w-...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

If my writing about autism does anything, whether it be in my books, my columns or my reported stories, I hope it advances the idea that autistic people are whole human beings as they are with legitimate needs and inner lives that deserve to be told the same as other stories.

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Absolutely INCREDIBLE news after last night'a horrific Israeli attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla. Italy is sending lne of its Navy ships to protect them!!!! www.usnews.com/news/world/a...