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Happy Pride Month! You know who doesn't change their brand image to rainbow just for June? Ctenophores. They make their gay little rainbows all year. It's a Pride parade in the ocean every day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 366 every four years. 🦑🐙

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One thing I think we really need to drill down on is that these cynical weaponizations of the rhetoric of combating antisemitism and sexual violence are themselves antisemitic and misogynist: they mock the suffering and desire for justice of people who have experienced these.

submitted 69 days ago • 8 comments

I have made CHEESE BOYS

submitted 76 days ago • 52 comments

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

submitted 78 days ago • 10838 comments

my husband just sent me this

submitted 81 days ago • 20 comments

btw for anyone interested, this is the sketch of the proto-whale basilosaurus from Whale Fact Number 9(?) at the very end of the episode:

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

My story "The V*mpire" was nominated for Nebula Award for Best Short Story. nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2...

submitted 98 days ago • 35 comments

We ARE Queen Esther. Most of us. Right now. And must take the risks to our own neck for the sake of the safety and wellbeing of those whose lives are most on the line right now.

submitted 100 days ago • 3 comments

I have unsubscribed from the Washington Post due to this blatant misuse of journalism to serve as propaganda for the billionaire oligarchs bent on destroying the world so long as they can profit off its corpse.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

This is happening because people like Trump, Musk, Thiel, etc literally cannot imagine someone dedicating themselves to a public good or service. These are genuinely deranged, damaged humans, and in a better age we would drive them from the village.

submitted 125 days ago • 9 comments

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 134 days ago • 1727 comments

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

submitted 135 days ago • 511 comments

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

submitted 136 days ago • 9 comments

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

submitted 138 days ago • 228 comments

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

submitted 182 days ago • 99 comments

This is class warfare. www.npr.org/2024/12/16/n...

submitted 184 days ago • 33 comments

If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery.

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I see authors sheepishly announcing books, or apologizing for good news. Friends: we’re enduring an onslaught of censorship and bigotry. I am PROUD that you wrote anything. Please yell about what you're doing. Art is a fuel to keeps many of us going.

submitted 147 days ago • 16 comments

MAXIMUM WALRUS

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Reminds me of the article by Ted Chiang I assign to my BA students, where he says: 'Teachers don’t ask students to write essays because the world needs more student essays...Using ChatGPT to complete assignments like bringing a forklift into the weight room..." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is kinda like "Don't Be Evil" as a slogan. It's a bit worrying when you choose it, but it's a lot more worrying when you take it down

submitted 153 days ago • 68 comments

Some think if they engage with cool art, it must come from a morally good person, and by engaging, they too are morally good. But the fact is, you can't read your way into being a good person. Good is something you do, and treating artists like gods you trade attention to for purity is a fallacy.

submitted 155 days ago • 2 comments

Everyone interacts with content notes differently but I just want to very explicitly say that I thought I had braced sufficiently for this & I am still regulating my very physical reactions to it. It's sickening; it's harrowing; it's excruciatingly well reported. But you don't have to read it.

submitted 156 days ago • 1 comment

I'm going to haul this one out again, about why it's not a great idea to idolize creative people, or indeed anyone, and certainly not me, because today really is the day to be reminded about that, isn't it: whatever.scalzi.com/2024/08/15/p...

submitted 157 days ago • 93 comments

Please admire my cat.

submitted 159 days ago • 1 comment

Birth control is also going to be on the chopping block soon, and they won’t be done there, either. We’re been saying it and saying it: All our freedoms are intertwined. All our struggles are one. Solidarity and collective liberation or bust, literally. We can do this:

submitted 161 days ago • 3 comments

No person shall [...] hold any office, civil or military, under the US [...] who, having previously taken an oath [...] as an officer of the US [...] to support the Constitution of the US, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof

submitted 164 days ago • 40 comments

I am very lucky to have read enough of Lee's unpublished work to identify many of these characters but this list of genders is excellent even without the context. also, congrats and well-deserved for the award for the v*mpire!

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

For various reasons this upsets me more than some other recent instances of official transphobia. We can't let book culture be taken over by the same people who are trying to ban books. We just can't.

submitted 169 days ago • 4 comments

Ann is, once again, entirely correct.

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

babe wake up new sorites paradox just dropped how many words can you drop from a manifesto before it is no longer a manifesto, it's just... a statement?

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

!!!!! please sign up, I love this series so much

submitted 191 days ago • 0 comments

When they talk about privatizing Veterans’ care and Medicare, they mean allowing companies to provide healthcare for a profit. But how do companies make those profits? By denying care to many who need it. Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.

submitted 193 days ago • 1103 comments

This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.) www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

submitted 196 days ago • 54 comments

FUN FACT: the $10,000 reward the NYPD is offering as a reward to find yesterday's assassin will pay for exactly one 15 minute ambulance ride declined by your health insurance because the ambulance is out of network.

submitted 196 days ago • 1 comment