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Clearly, things had not worked out the way that Ronald had hoped.

submitted 5 hours ago • 12 comments

Every Friday, I write a debrief about what’s happening in science & higher ed. It goes out late, and is written for all the friends & colleagues I wish I could sit down and talk it through with over drinks. buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Reading pope power rankings. Absolutely losing it that the word for eligible popes is "popeable."

submitted 5 hours ago • 175 comments

chat is it good for a dictionary to be mad at you

submitted 2 hours ago • 232 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 21 hours ago • 1400 comments

The party of (theoretically) individualism and self-determination and steely-eyed frontier bootstrap bullshit sure seems happy to let a New York reality tv real estate bankruptcy magnet walk all over them and steal what power they had scraped together. Sad.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Exactly. The root here isn't that bigots have some philosophical concern which compels them to care about what appears on someone else's government ID. Rather, the purpose is practical and malicious: to force trans people to disclose it—and, often, to explain it—every time they show ID.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Strong little brother coming downstairs while his older sister’s friends are over vibes.

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Incredible return on investment on all the money the crypto industry spent on the election.

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BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 1 day ago • 157 comments

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

submitted 1 day ago • 1180 comments

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐱 #embroidery #handembroidery

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

I just want to live long enough to hear the refrain from Killing in the Name on a Pampers commercial.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I fucked up someone’s pronouns yesterday (no excuse, I fucked up) and a poster kindly reminded me of the correct ones. Listen. You can correct me on that anytime. Correct me on my birthday. Correct me on my deathbed. Because despite what terrible people say, your identity MATTERS.

submitted 1 day ago • 100 comments

Coinbase says that the SEC has agreed to drop the enforcement case against the company. It only cost them $75 million in political contributions.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

submitted 1 day ago • 562 comments

This is insane. I am literally required to use my travel card for all expenses involved in any travel that is part of my job. I am literally forbidden from using my private funds except via extremely stringent exceptions. This will literally cripple all routine government travel- and for nothing.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

permission to amend what already was an iconic lede?

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Vance Day — who once made headlines for refusing to wed gay couples, and for hanging a picture of Hitler in the courthouse — has been hired by the Trump administration. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

incredible exchange, @marisakabas.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 334 comments

Come ON

submitted 3 days ago • 173 comments

Trumpists will continue to be furious at any dissent no matter how much power they steal. That’s because the administration is premised on pathological insecurity. They’re shitty people, they know it, and they will never stop resenting being seen as shitty people.

submitted 4 days ago • 538 comments

"He keeps showing up." theonion.com/trump-u...

submitted 5 days ago • 67 comments

Anyone seriously believing one of the most notorious antivaxxers was not going to mess with the vaccine schedule is a rube who is clearly unqualified for any job, let alone one in politics

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The other website is pretty much done

submitted 3 days ago • 713 comments

For those of us who are increasingly in positions where we cannot count on the rule of law to protect our digital privacy or security, here are some thoughts on how to threat model for your community: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

submitted 4 days ago • 152 comments

Hey #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I’m a children’s book author/illustrator trying to get my act together, working on updating my site with recent work—like this illustration inspired by my son learning to growl. Say hi if you think I might be a good fit for one of your projects. Thanks! #kidlitart #kidlit

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

The short, medium, and long term consequences of what Trump and Musk have done will be devastating. Families will be ripped apart, careers destroyed, and the US will be totally unable to respond to whatever political or financial crisis inevitably results from Trump's cruelty and incompetence.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Elon Musk is involved in government because he is bad at business. He is removing these consumer safeguards because otherwise his terrible businesses will never have a shot at bringing products to market.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

it’s so cool that we are at the whims of this reactionary force of groypers that don’t understand anything, lead by the dumbest guy ever seen in history

submitted 4 days ago • 401 comments

This is fucking incredible.

submitted 4 days ago • 135 comments

I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

submitted 5 days ago • 360 comments

Another way this feels similar to COVID — the disaster is already unfolding but the people in charge seem to think it’ll only impact “blue” areas.

submitted 4 days ago • 217 comments

Egg prices are up 53% compared to last year and the spread of bird flu is a major reason why. How has Trump responded? By letting DOGE fire thousands of federal employees across the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA who could respond to this outbreak.

submitted 4 days ago • 204 comments

Thinking about those hot summer days. 🌞 #KidLitArt #Cats #POV

submitted 12 days ago • 27 comments

Bring on the state court indictments

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The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

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Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

submitted 5 days ago • 819 comments

We need to stop treating Elon Musk as a human being and start acknowledging what he really is: the anthropomorphisation of Divorce

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People who refuse to sanitize what’s going on, who’s in charge on the Right, how extreme their goals are, tend to be discarded as “alarmists” or “hysterics.” Those who sanitize it all are upheld as “reasonable” voices. As a result, the broader public perception constantly underestimates the threat.

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

Paul Atreides doth go to a Frensshe bakerye to picke up breade. Upon arriving at the Frensshe bakerye, Paul Atreides doth fynde that the Frensshe bakeres have lefte a box for hym. Paul Atreides asketh: "What ys yn the box?" And the Frensshe bakeres responde: "Pain."

submitted 8 days ago • 35 comments

I had to draw him.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments