OUR VOICE IS OUR POWER: The people of Tarrant County — which includes Fort Worth — forced the commissioners court to table their proposal that would have closed more than 100 polling places during the November elections. ⬇️
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Life is too short to drink bad beer. Born Texas; currently Dallas. Rice grad. MA History. Gen X. She/her. Fannish, political, music, books. Mefite. TTRPG & PBEM gamer. Work in progress.
By 1990 100k+ people died from HIV/AIDS in the US.
Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 5h agoI was there (as a kid) during Reagan. Boy howdy was there culture war. And it had a hell of a body count.
The entirety of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge soundtrack.
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 22h agoName your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.
This image is useful in placing the late 14th century Mount Grace Priory, the best preserved of the nine medieval Carthusian houses (charterhouses) into the landscape and into a timeline . In the 17th century, part of the priory was remodelled as a mansion which in the early
Glowing Embers. Photo taken before sunrise this morning on Glastonbury Tor.
Genre stalwart John Saxon would have been 90 today. A *very* busy actor who bounced between films & TV, he's in such classics as BLACK CHRISTMAS and NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, and he does a wonderful job in the chilling NIGHT GALLERY episode "I'll Never Leave You - Ever." He died at age 83.
I thought I would stay with Mount Grace Priory. This shows the standing walls along the cloister range, including the individual monks' cells (22 and 23) and the adjacent refectory wall, with the church tower in the background. Unlike communal monastic orders, Carthusian
In 1927, Science and Invention magazine offered a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Metropolis
Steely Dan's Aja, which I have bought in four formats now, IIRC. It was the first LP I got with my stereo when I was a wee Ginger (thanks Dad!).
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w agoName physical media you purchased more than once.
I miss when I could have lettuce on my sandwich and not worry about shitting myself to death.
Reaping the rewards of being published by submitting to the mortifying ordeal of being edited
People should also know that the concentration camps have decreed the fee you have to spend to appeal your removal was raised this year by 836%, likely specifically because they know most people can’t pay that.
New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras https://theonion.com/new-evidence-suggests-dinosaurs-had-quinceaneras/
BIG PLOT TWIST in TX: Tarrant County's GOP officials, faced with intense public outrage about huge cuts to the battleground county's polling locations in November, have decided to delay their final vote on the plan so more polling places can be added
Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 2d agoThey're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...
Megan is right. History is sorting facts. Every historical period has a list of innate truths that exist independent of human deduction. Each fact is an absolute, unchanging, abstract essence. I have so much free time now that my computer can sort the facts for me.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
One of the professors in this lawsuit, Leonard Bright, had a class cancelled three days after the semester began because he couldn't give Texas A&M a clear answer about how much gender and sexuality would come up in class discussions. It was a graduate seminar in ethics.
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · yesterdayNew: Four Texas A&M professors are suing in Houston federal court over its policy prohibiting discussions of race, sexuality and gender in the classroom ~ www.chron.com/texas/articl...
“Underlying health issues” is the new “pre-existing condition,” the excuse health insurance companies would use to refuse cancer treatment to people who had acne once.
Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈@chimeracoder.bsky.social · 2d agoEvery person who has ever died of AIDS died of an "underlying health issue"
Not going to quote-dunk on the USA Today anti-cheap-grocery op-ed, but the writer also writes for The Federalist and the Washington Examiner (and the Atlantic 🙄) and she lives in Fort Worth. So take what she says about Democratic policies in NYC with a full shaker's worth of salt.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Brownie McGhee during the Blues and Gospel tour of England, 1964.
World's meanest kitty mommy had Mr Sid 🐱 on her lap for combing out undercoat for about 5 minutes. Mr Sid hated it and we got about one excess kitten of fur.
The MAHA position is that if some illness they let run rampant kills you but you have any other disability or health condition you had it coming and it’s not their fault.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d agoWonder will Alex Berenson now change his health reporting? Or will start pushing a "died with" rather than "died from" framing?
Rice University will soon grant free tuition to undergraduates whose families earn up to $200,000 a year, increasing the cap and easing access to the Houston institution for students beyond the middle-income range. bit.ly/4hKkP0O
