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History Professor in Central Illinois, Dungeon Master
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Skeletons are so wonderful. Living, mineralized tissue, responding and changing every moment. Bones are ancient armor that sunk inside, the scaffold for everything soft and squishy and slippery about us, the limits of motion that still articulate so much possibility.

If you don't know my story, war destroyed my dreams of being a mother, I miscarried at 9 months of pregnancy due to malnutrition and fear of explosions. I am trying to settle in a safe environment and live in peace. Please support me to achieve this goal 💔 gofund.me/019a83f3

This is not anarchism, this is selfishness. Mutual aid is about those who have in the community giving to those who do not have. It's not that the giver must benefit. That's capitalism. Mutual aid as laid out by our ideology is about supporting all. @tichatnwa.bsky.social @161bklyn.bsky.social

I want you all to care about trans people enough to complain about our tragedies just like when a game isn’t getting a physical release or when planes stop landing safely or when eggs are ridiculously expensive I want you to get the same level of upset when trans lives are targeted

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE WHO IS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE???????

Aleister Crowley would have had an IT job and spent every day as a notorious forums mod in 2004

just had a sudden thought about the not insignificant number of unsecured printers I've run into >.>

It's like we all live at Four Seasons Total Landscaping now.

OMFG MUSHROOMS MAKE SICK TUNES the sensors measure the mushrooms' electrical fluctuations?? those electrical fluctuations get converted into signals that control the little bionic arms attached to them 😭💀💖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmlF...

Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment Laptop Kindle Dice Narcan Stop the Bleed Kit (Those are really the only things in my backpack most of the time. I don’t know how well they describe me.)

i got an announcement from our local NPS sites today too i thought i might throw up. this one is getting me.

It's been a bit since I did a 1 like thing so let's do it.

Here's a list of DOGE staff, assembled and annotated by my colleagues at BI. Whatever you do, please don't share it. www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-l...

in america giant bodies of water can change their names, but trans people can’t

What’s the matter with Gen X?

To all the companies abandoning DEI or deleting cultural heritage awareness months: we will remember this should we survive whatever hellscape this administration is dragging us into. I for one will not forgive you.

"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

Just imagining if the Weimar Republic had Democrats. The Reichstag burns down, and Hitler takes dictatorial control and they'd be like: write your representative!!! (Us) Tell them you say NO to Mr Hitler's divisive rhetoric.

Congratulations! You just graduated Atropos University as a Necromancer and are now ready for your year of residency. Settle in one of six villages, face various challenges, and make your home and necromantic practice. smalltowncreepy.itch.io/village-necr...

1. NEW: In an exclusive interview with MadyCast News, ACT UP activists told us that scores of former AIDS activists have called for trans people to start a new trans liberation movement in the mold of ACT UP. PLUS: Photos from the CHLA protest, taken by yours truly. www.madycast.com/p/reagan-era...

in this house we stand for inconvenient queers, trans people who don't give a shit about passing, angry Black women, undocumented immigrants who are tired of being polite to racists; mentally ill people on public transit; and everyone else you're too proper to stand on solidarity with.

Now more than ever.

The International Flipper Pinball Association, which governs ranked pinball play, just sent this email about trans inclusion and my friends this is how you do it. I'm proud to play IFPA. The end wouldn't fit in the pic. I put the full text in alt text. The message ends: "Pinball is for everyone."

I remember when Charles Manson opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits, often with no clear public explanation for how his actions could be consistent with the rule of law.

Tired: NYT: Young Musk Fans Learn American Civics, Hands-On Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

The world is on fire and I am sure people are sick of hearing about it, but I worked hard on this and I am proud 🪧 . _Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire_’s publication day is today! 30% off @yalebooks.bsky.social discount code: Y25SEBST. yalebooks.yale.edu/978030027314...

Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.

An excellent piece by @timothysnyder.bsky.social and recommended strongly by @hcrichardson.bsky.social - Please read and spread the word!

I’m done dating humans. I’ve got a better idea—