I get so many hot flashes throughout the day, and it was really nice to just step outside in the winter until they passed. I could literally see steam rolling off my body. But it's been in the 60s/70s for weeks? Excuse me???

Due to recent discussions: when I worked at a library, I was trained on how to politely but directly respond to unwanted sexual comments. Unfortunately commonly-marketed fantasies about librarians mean it happens a lot. Rehearse these. Be comfortable saying them forcefully, but politely.

i think it's important for us dudes to realize that it sucks that women and femmes in the industry have to use these phrases because saying, or doing, what these creeps deserve would cause them to lose their livelihoods. this means that if you're a dude in a position of power, you need to instead

I don't know a single healthcare worker who was upset when the UHC CEO got plugged. These "people" are fucking leeches who profit off of your suffering while cosplaying as carers.

Bad Bunny at 31 vs Charlie Kirk at 31

X is absolutely cooking the brains of the entire political class that remains on there. The ones who think they're immune are probably the most affected.

Hey guys, fyi, every time you post selfie/group pics of all men, esp all white men, at conferences, panels, events, etc, we are all talking about it. We are DMing the pictures back and forth, dragging you. Both confused how you ever broke into the industry in the first place, and wondering

“Stop looking at her like that.” “Why’d you assume she was a student?” “Why’d you say that, dude?” Little comments like that send a strong message and take no effort. A better game industry culture starts with you!

Women in the games industry already have to put up with a lot, but we shouldn’t have to do it alone. Men in the industry: if you see one of your fellow men doing behaving this way towards a woman at a professional conference, please speak up and tell them to CUT IT OUT.

me reading through this thread

There have been so many times when I would have appreciated a "What the fuck, man" infinitely more than a whispered, "If you need me to talk to HR, I'd be happy to" Don't get me wrong, being willing to stick up for me in an HR case is good, but a "WTF, Man" might stop it from escalating to that.

Don't underestimate the power of a "what the fuck, man". The status quo depends on the silence of bystanders.

Publicists who represented Johnny Depp during his 2022 trial against Amber Heard charged Jeffrey Epstein five figures a month for representation during 2017, according to invoices in the Epstein Files. Their PR strategies for Epstein reflect the later MeToo backlash. spitfirenews.com/p/epstein-jo...

favorite episode of the year so far. the Austin / Caleb bits are so fucking funny, but specifically this (timestamped) IMMEDIATE betrayal: youtu.be/CkgdCtshRos?...

telling a famously devout Roman Catholic he cannot air an interview (with rep. James Talarico) about the rise of Christian Nationalism is... so funny. THIS man?? HE GOT THIS AWARD TWO (2) WEEKS AGO. You clowns. You buffoons. You entire circus. www.christianpost.com/news/stephen...

I met my closest friends after age 30. Make new friends.

This is a good time to point out that there remains a significant ICE presence in Minnesota, despite the reduction of media coverage, the reduction of journalistic scrutiny.

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

Ron Coleman, you will begin coughing in seven days.

stand up for your right to be a ditz

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

your honor I would like to enter into evidence this two and a half hour video of me re-enacting Pride and Prejudice (2005) from memory, but between each scene change I read four of my requested DMs.

this is the english one, we have a bilingual and spanish one too and some others we are working on in other langs beyond spanish (Swahili, etc). I painted over number bc only relevant in kc unless you want that too lol.

everyone who donated has helped fund the organizing of a popular front in the American heartland. everyday I am working out here, I meet a new mom, lawyer, retiree, some kid still in HS, etc who is ready to fight back and I get to help them find their place in that. That was tonight in Leavenworth.

misspoke: For 3,000 KYR cards (3 varieties, multilingual etc) we paid $320. By this math, and a slightly better discount for volume, we need ~$1000 to print another 10,000. Comment “KCIF” for the funds to go to our KC ICE FREE campaign. We have demand from over 30 different schools in the KC metro

the cool thing about trying to shame people into “vote blue no matter who” is that it doesn’t work hasn’t worked and will continue to not work. You’re doing something that doesn’t work. Over and over again. You’re not going to convince any significant amount of people from your blue sky pulpit

no yeah yeah yeah, i think your new bf is really cool he just sorta looks like he'll inherit the earth iykwim

me: so, you know I can be a bit of a mouthy bitch him: right ... him: sorry- no you're not. me: right. so (...)

I'm sitting in the driver's seat of my car like I'm revisiting my hometown for the first time in a decade familiar, comfortable, but somehow utterly foreign I need to put this in... drive? and turn my headlights on somehow...? my seatbelt comes from the LEFT? no sorry. this is none of my business.

You're all insane for not liking this more. a Polaroid of this woman in my helmet would have gotten me through WWII.

would be a great day to have a screaming closet

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I can't have a reasonable debate about AI because I'm the only person who understands nuance. Brilliance is a prison ChatGPT: You're completely right! By the way—are you still planning to pick up two tons of fertilizer as we discussed? Remember to spread the purchases out across multiple states.

why don't you vibe code yourself a life, dweeb

oh HELL YEA--oh wait nvm

Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid has introduced HB2723 to put an end to this law undermining free speech and shielding Israel from accountability. Follow this link to act: www.ilchr.org/slips

IL is one of 38 states that criminalize free speech on Israel. IL’s anti-BDS policy prohibits state pension funds from investing in foreign companies that boycott Israel - enabling its ongoing genocide in Gaza. But you can do something about it.

and the automotive lobby should be regarded the same as the NRA

this whole article goes into lots of issue-specific polling without acknowledging it's all very low salience and that the republican approach on trans rights isn't exactly a huge winner with voters.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

The untrustworthiness of 'The Argument' on trans rights was evident right out of the box, as @tomscocca.bsky.social noted in our talk about it last August flaminghydra.com/yakkin-about...

The anti-trans side made bomb threats to children's hospitals. They spent a billion dollars messaging this over the last 7 years while the Dems mostly stayed silent or ducked away. But somehow, they always seem to blame trans people for their own persecution. archive.ph/E2pfS

how do companies have all this data on me and still push sports betting ads?

Lakshya Jain and the Argument fled this website because they couldn't take the criticism and now he's advocating for Dems to abandon trans issues with polling about 'gender surgery for minors' a thing that is not real

this reporting is so important as AI boosters claim cosplaying sexual abuse with chatbots will lead to no more sexual abuse than violent video games have violence. it’s not just conditioning abusers, it’s psyching them up and encouraging them. video games are not comparable

"this publication that I've never read before sure doesn't SEEM transphobic. why would you suggest that?" - average substack poster

He was somehow putting all 80lbs directly onto my kneecap. I felt like the fallen knight in the Dunc flashback. no complaints. happy to be dog furniture.