It’s a bit personal but from “fight for someone you do not know” to this is actually the reason I became a progressive in the first place and I am so, so happy that the electoral left is promoting explicit philosophical universalism as a moral tenet

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 1h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

KLM pre-flight banter is *already* like this ("now you will not hear from me again unless something goes wrong with the plane") so you really may as well go ahead and have a drag queen do the safety demo. Especially the bit about removing heels before jumping on the escape slide.

Serving looks, laughs, and a little pre-boarding wisdom. 💙🌈 Fly as you are, honey! ✈️💙

YouTube video by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

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Bouba's Delivery Service@fernmonkey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I understand exactly what people didn't like about corporate Pride. I just don't understand why they thought the end of rainbow capitalism would mean losing the capitalism and keeping the rainbow, rather than the other way round.

Hard mode: do this but "medical technology" only counts as ONE better thing and you have to come up with 19 non-medical ones

IDtheMIKE is probably running@idthemike.xyz · 13h ago

If you can't instantly recognize 20 consequential things that are better today than 40 years ago you are a fucking child.

You have enough people there that a villain called "Bonehill-Paine" and the guy dressed like the Grim Reaper for the view of hospital patients are in the news and they're not the same person?

Map app options I'd like to see: ✅ X minutes of walking is fine ✅ Fast walker ✅ Really really slow walker ✅ Normal person riding Dutch single-speed bike, not Tour de France rider with creative pharmacist on call ✅ Entrance to the station where the bike lockup is, not the other one

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4h ago

genuinely why doesn't Google Maps have a setting you can tick that says "I will not in fact die on the spot if I have to walk for over 20 minutes and would prefer a walk and a tube to somehow seventeen buses"

i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten

Boxer!! Hi buddy, haven’t seen you in a couple days. If that’s not a “Sir, can I have a few mealworms?” face, I don’t know what is!! Snacks coming right up! Long time inhabitant of our side yard, 10+ years #herps box turtle

Another lifer for me! This massive Regal Horned Lizard happened to be on the road right at sunset. This was definitely one of my top lizard species to find in Arizona after failing to do so last year, and what an unexpected way to come across one. #herps 🦎

Squeee! Tiniest lizard I’ve seen in a long time. This little Western fence lizard is barely an inch and a half long including tail. That sheet of plastic it is on is 1/4 inch thick for scale. #herps 🦎

the funny thing about people in the western world being angry at sikhs for taking all the trucking jobs is that people in India are also angry with them for taking all the trucking jobs. It's not you. It's what we do. We are the Truck Guys.

When you support artists, you're supporting real people who put their heart and soul into their work. When you use genAI images, you're contributing to excessive energy and water usage, plus the theft from human artists who have had their work fed into AI without consent.

If anyone is specifically going to Istanbul to look at East Roman bits, I highly recommend Sergei Ivanov's In Search of Constantinople: A Guidebook through Byzantine Istanbul and Its Surroundings. It covers almost every monument, all the relevant context, and how to find it.

After his funeral the kids he taught to operate his Victorian letterpress helped each of the mourners ink up and print a tribute to him.

Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card 📚

For what it's worth, if you think Vance et al have lost weight due to this guy's diet, I've got a delightful Dutch swingbridge to sell you. They're all on GLP-1s but they want you to think it's a combination of willpower and Man Food. (I'm sure he IS shitting better than ever now. Kraut has fibre.)

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 19h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Nods.

I don't know about favourite, but this one was very good.

Derry Girls | The Emotional Final Scene At The Talent Show

YouTube video by Hat Trick Comedy

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 17h ago

Name your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.

Worth remembering how mind-bogglingly recent the Magdalene Laundries were. The last one closed down on 25th September 1996, which means the Magdalene system outlived Tupac by two weeks.

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin@miseryvulture.bsky.social · 9h ago

The last Magdalene laundry closed in my lifetime. Homosexuality was decriminalised in Ireland in my lifetime. Access to condoms without a prescription in Ireland only came in 1985. We repealed the 8th. There's a lot of ways in which Ireland is still bad, but it is an entirely different country.

Anyone feel like booping a wombat on #WombatWednesday ? Who could resist friends? @miezebiene.bsky.social @madridnantes.bsky.social @kirstym53.bsky.social @scruffkit.bsky.social @smudgerandpixie.bsky.social @eliot-big-brofur.bsky.social

requiem for vanished birdsong

he wasn't a good writer by any measure, you just got used to reading his name in a newspaper, you got used to him like you got used to that rash that you convinced yourself is just allergies

András Forgács W@andraswf.bsky.social · 2d ago

this country has produced some amazing writers, rod liddle wasn't one of them, don't be fucking daft

“As Aydin jumps a scooter over ramps set up in the middle of the road, children around him are drawing with chalk, blowing bubbles and kicking a football in a spot where cars are usually driving through.” Good job Leeds. More children should have the chance to play in their neighbourhood like this.

Leeds: The city closing down streets so children can play

In Leeds, streets are being temporarily closed to traffic so kids have more space to safely play - an initiative proving beneficial to both children and adults.

bbc.co.uk

"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

theguardian.com

Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

My People Want Little Treats omni-theory stays winning: A new material good? A treat. A simple theory? A treat. A thing to complain about? A treat. A sense of superiority? A treat. The goods and the discourse are the same.

yes Patricia Highsmith was a racist who was toxic to almost everyone in her life, but have you considered how many snails not only lived a long and happy life thanks to her but got to go to society parties for the first time?

Oh sure, why not. But I'm not doing them in numerical order. I'm doing them in the order I want to.

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

As co-curator of an inclusive art account.. you didn’t think I would miss the Berthe Morisot. Nice Harbour. 1881-1882.