JCO, speaking like a true chaos gremlin shit-poster. Joyce, honey, there are no machine made clothes. They’re all made by humans. Closest we’ve gotten is an underwear that’s laser cut and has the seams welded, but they don’t stay on anyone’s ass, and they’re plastic panties, so they suck.

Tara O’Connor@taraocomics.bsky.social · 2w ago

What the fuck, Joyce. I don’t even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as “lesser” which is bullshit! All books count!

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 3w ago

Oh. That's a heck of a subsidy.

“That's become an essential benefit for the new moms and a source of delight for their teammates. (Some jokingly refer to "emotional support babies.") "You're so happy for yourself, and then you're so happy for each other," … "Then you multiply that over and over and over again throughout the team."

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 4w ago

I've been curious about the balancing act that professional female athletes have to deal with when they become moms, and @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social does a great job explaining how four Washington Spirit players have managed it — with help from their teammates: www.washingtonsun.com/sports/spiri...

I'm surprised yacht rock took this long!

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 4w ago

New words just dropped. www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/new...

Global warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns.   Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.

Just a reminder that empathy makes us better humans. Caring about the collective rather than just yourself shouldn't be radical.

Don't do any of this.

multi celled morganism@meltedmistress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

basically it was like this

I'm so thankful to Becky and her mom for their trust, generosity, and strength in front of the Supreme Court. No matter what the Court says, Becky is a hero for standing up for herself and trans girls like her. Doing what's right, even when the odds are against you, is the definition of courage.

L to R: Chris Richards: biracial kid from Alabama who speaks about black history and has tattoos of MLK, Ali, and Obama Sergiño Dest: Dutch-Surinamese, emigrated to Brooklyn as a kid, naturalized Fola Balogun: born in Brooklyn to vacationing parents, raised in UK but CHOOSES to play for USA

Zito@zeets.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hard for this team to be good vibes when this keeps happening

Yup. I know a broad range of autistic people. Their abilities do not define their worth. Full stop.

Megan Goodwin@mpgphd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

if they're coming for any of us, they're coming for all of us religiondispatches.org/2025/08/08/n...

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social No Warren Zevon shaming from me, because in the spirit of that one XKCD comic, omg you’re going to love this. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fZok...

Excitable Boy

YouTube video by Warren Zevon - Topic

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My first time in Europe in 1997 I took so many of these photos...if I can find them, I'll upload them!

Rosemary Mosco@rosemarymosco.com · 5mo ago

Well this is delightful: a woman getting her Masters in Archives and Preservation reached out to me because she's creating a digital collection of pictures of birds on statue heads taken from around the world. You can submit yours here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Like, come on. Yes, she’s gorgeous and exceptional and OH NO MORE RANDOM TRAGEDY.

allison@jurymgmt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

wait great idea. real haters only: what was everyone’s LEAST favorite book you read for school. mine was fuck ass great expectations. F YOU PIP I HATE YOU

how is this literally happening in real life

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 6mo ago

>European cruise lines are the only ones willing to run the Hormuz blockade Someone help me I think I’m having a stroke

We do not have to live like this.

I assume this is a large part of why this is all happening, and I'm out of words beyond the obvious: get him out. Now.

Kelcie Moseley-Morris@kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We are terrorizing an entire country. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

imagining the funniest possible scenario: someone gave trump fake nuclear codes. someone with incredible foresight took a gamble & he has a toy nuclear football. it’s just a foam football painted red with NUKES written on it in sharpie and some american flag stickers.

Amazing. No notes. Just perfect.

Dave Jorgenson@davejorgenson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A FEMA official has repeatedly claimed that he can teleport.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

This whole thing left me speechless, so posting this:

Rahawa Haile@rahawahaile.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The first epigraph in my forthcoming book about Appalachia is from hooks’s Appalachian Elegy, which I insisted on dating so that readers could see it published years before Vance’s book and hopefully look it up. For more on the long-term project of Appalachian erasure by racists read Catte:

Happy 94 Meetings Day to all who observe.

a woman is talking to a man and says because i didn 't think march 31st existed .

ALT: a woman is talking to a man and says because i didn 't think march 31st existed .

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These have been my favorite ever since I saw one in a Ranger Rick magazine in the late '80s. Have a replica on my desk 💙

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Happy weekend! 🦛 ❤️ Ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

Maya Angelou was completely right “People will forget what you said but never how you made them feel” Problem is entitlement, privilege and trauma means folks lose the understanding of discomfort as part of growth as opposed to “feeling bad” And blame the safest person not the source

It's been a true silver lining of this entire story, and it was this way from jump. Also very glad to see it

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It’s pretty striking to see the mature response to the Cesar Chavez sexual assault allegations from his longtime supporters, especially after so many years of absolute temper tantrums when other cultural or political leaders face allegations of historic wrongdoing.

...please? I feel like after the first 2.5 months of the year we all deserve this.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I know I am biased. I’m a huge consumer of this genre. But I think this is the exact right lane for that character. He’s basically Jessica Fletcher.

There are many things in this world that are terrible, but one I personally react to is when professors treat students as objects. And we see the costs in her post, abandoning a math career.

I can't compete with this.