Hey I'm not actually done talking about Dolly Parton. 🧵 Specifically I want to talk about her album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs, released in 1980 (not the soundtrack to the film 9 to 5, that's a different thing). The whole album is about work, with most of the songs focused on a different type of worker.

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excellent essay about an excellent film "What I like about Camp Miasma, what I respect about it, is that it's less interested in telling us what queerness has to look like than it is in pushing queer people to work out desire and intimacy on their own terms."

CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #2 out now@judedoyle.bsky.social · 3d ago

Four! Thousand! Words! About! CAMP MIASMA!!! And none of them are paywalled, which I will regret: jude-doyle.ghost.io/notes-teenag...

great read! "We can get used to anything, but that doesn’t mean we should. I see hope in this generation’s growing disgust with the narrowing of public life—the lull of their devices and the pervasiveness of the eyes all around them."

Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · 5d ago

TODAY: @felipedlh.bsky.social on what NYU was and has become. “For these undergraduates, the idea that not so long ago the university allowed people (anyone?!) to move freely about its private spaces seems ludicrous, impossible.” flaminghydra.com/r/ca8224b3?m...

somewhat motivated by everyone’s response to Dolly and Tim Curry passing to remark: if you were moved by them be what moves you. Be kind, generous, make weird fucking art, help people, sing bawdy songs and do drag

let's do UBI for her, she'd want us to

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 4w ago

Like the time fires raged through Gatlinburg and she just gave the families impacted $1k/month for 5 months and $5k the 6th month. no means testing, no complicated hoops, just "your life is destroyed here's some cash" resulting in another UBI experiment gone right. www.bpr.org/news/2018-12...

RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 6d ago

NOT DOLLY PARTON

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

We deserve better.

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Starting Sunday, TriMet will enact a historic wave of cuts and consolidation to its services, potentially impacting thousands of riders across its system.

Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room

I wrote about how PCOS became PMOS, and what it means to globally reclassify a disorder from the umbrella of gynecology to endocrinology. flaminghydra.com/on-womens-he...

On “Women’s health”

Until The Lancet published the link to a new paper on social media a few weeks ago (“Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, the new name for polycystic ovary syndrome: a multistep global consensus ...

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Happy Thursday. Make some magic and take no shit.

While the majority of the media ecosystem focused on decorum during the budget they ignored the real story: 6 Councilors voted against an amendment that allowed Council to exercise our oversight powers to investigate what’s happening to these people. www.portlandmercury.com/news/records...

It's true that those takes are really bad but the good news is you are at the very least making sure people who are avoiding them see them anyway and get mad about them. Here's why that's praxis: 🧵(1/????)

What a fantastic essay, ending with the unsettling “huh” realization that Marvel’s post-infinity war sequence are some of the only media dealing even obliquely with the grief and disruption or COVID

Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · 3w ago

TODAY: @samthielman.com and his son go to see A SPIDERMAN. “Marvel began making new films about how to live in a world that had changed in a gigantic cataclysm that not even its superheroes knew how to navigate.” flaminghydra.com/r/3475a7e8?m...

"To use a sports analogy: Dundon is not on our team." so grateful to have city councilors like @councilortkl.bsky.social doing the hard work to push for transparency and accountability on this deal!!

Opinion: Portland’s New Government Is Being Stress‑Tested By the $600 Million Moda Center Deal - Portland Mercury

We are in the midst of one of the largest public‑private negotiations in Portland’s history: a $600 million package of public funding is being proposed to renovate the Moda Center, a city-owned asset ...

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Just want to remind everyone that the Mayor cut 200 critical jobs which will result in significant service cuts at a time when Portlanders need govt the most, meanwhile he kept 70 vacancies in the police bureau even though per PPB's own staffing report they will NOT fill most of those positions. 🙃

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It’s Disability Pride Month. Fascists are enacting a blatant eugenicist project worldwide. You can disrupt it. You can defy fascists, do community care, keep resistance efforts healthy, & shield marginalized groups from disproportionate harm. How? Wear an n95 in public. Give/get mutual aid:

Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc

MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.

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It was never about sports. We’ve been telling you guys for years. Sports were a means to an end. And here we are.

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.

If the Supreme Court can reverse a 95 year-old ruling for a country that is only 250 years old, I need you to UNDERSTAND this country still has no idea what it is or what it stands for other than it’s constant push-and-pull to oppress Black people and eliminate Native people.

hey when we say that liberals and democrats are worse than useless on trans rights this is the kind of shit we are talking about :) by the way :) what is the fucking point of conceding on title IX like this. what is the fucking point.

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The libs concur that trans people can't win under Title IX, but say they CAN win under the Equal Protection Clause. Kav and the Republicans say they lose on both.

Sometimes people ask why DSA councilors in Portland can’t do what Mamdani is doing and part of that is that he has executive power as the Mayor. You need a progressive Mayor with a progressive legislative body (the city council) to make big change. Let’s use the rent freeze as an example ⬇️

Mycelial organizing is not very visible most of the time. It's not hierarchical, it is leaderful rather than centralized under a single leader. There's no central tree trunk to target, no branches to follow to trace the organization. You can't watch the fruit develop and predict its ripeness.

Almost a decade ago, I was very Special Interested in mushrooms and developed an organizing training framework based on mycelium. The core teaching was, people think the above-ground part (the mushroom) is the body of the organism, but that isn't the case. So too with movement. (cont)