I kind of assumed the American century of humiliation had killed the popularity of the Work & Travel visa program but man these Eastern European college students are still the backbone of the Ocean City economy
Leslie Root
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reproductive justice for all, solidarity forever. demographer, asst prof of research at CU Boulder, inveterate and not particularly professional poster. на носу очки, а в душе осень
I'm sorry that every time I see the abbreviation OCMD in Ocean City I mutter "Old Crow Medicine Dough"
I was looking up what kinds of seagulls are at Ocean City and one of the first things I found was like "Seagulls! If you are a human at the beach, we bet you hate those motherfuckers. They're so dirty and they steal your fries. Anyway, here's some of the species you may currently be loathing:"
WNBA (the org) courted this. They could have nipped this in the bud, but instead they placated anti-trans activists, so now bigots have glomed onto them. If you don't tell them their opinions are vile and are unwelcome, they will destroy you or leech on you forever. just ask amnesty international
taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d agoriley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos
When fertility was higher airports and planes must have been crazy. Even now it feels like everyone at the airport has kids
I subscribe to the trans news substack bc there aren't really alternative sources of national trans news, but posting "there's a massive fire sweeping through Spokane" based on flying past in a commercial aircraft does make me feel like the people who criticize her for scaremongering are correct
Guy who won’t return your texts because he’s busy becoming 3x more racist every day
Every couple in Taos
Rich Raho@richraho.bsky.social · 5d agoPope Leo received singer and songwriter Patti Smith in private audience this morning. The Pope and Smith are both Chicago natives. She was accompanied by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social, undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education.
When you want the popcorn so bad but you can't have it because you just got half your teeth pulled
I need to make a Stop 109/110 shirt with sparkly iron-on letters. What do we think? "Let Trans Kids Play"?
The only thing I remember doing in the ~month after finishing my PhD is taking all our knives to a guy's garage in Oakland to get sharpened and sitting on the curb reading Piranesi while I waited. What was I doing the rest of the time? Who can say?
Katie Aki ✶@katieaki.bsky.social · 6d agoWhat’s my darling little butch husband doing now that they’ve got free time since finishing their PhD? Cleaning a single dirty penny with barkeeper’s friend at 12:40 am, of course
Alliance Defending Freedom was integral in overturning Roe v. Wade, and it wants to overturn the Obergefell decision protecting marriage equality, and ban abortion nationwide as well as some forms of birth control. This is who is praising Sophie Cunningham
ADF’s Kristen Waggoner Praises Sophie Cunningham’s Defense of Women’s Sports: “Tremendous Courage”
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I saw this with my parents as a baby feminist 20+ years ago, and what I remember most is my annoyance that they were all explicitly gendered as men (with titles like "Mr. Weightlifter" or whatever) except one pregnant woman and one lady posed to look like she was dancing
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7d agoGunther von Hagens, the scientist behind the popular and polarizing traveling exhibitions of human corpses, has died at 81.
People who dye things, how much should I dislike the color of 4 yards of linen before it's worth it to try to overdye it?
I learned this very recently and was like what do you mean it often begins in the fallopian tubes? Why don't they call it fallopian tube cancer? Seems like an easy way to raise awareness of prevention strategies???
Morgan Thompson@morgankthomp.bsky.social · last wk.Woah, this is huge news: most ovarian cancer begins in the fallopian tubes, which can be removed (if patient desires) during other abdominal surgeries. Ovarian cancer has vague symptoms and often isn’t diagnosed until late stage with low survival rates. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...
Aside from all that, my man got a 6-foot-long arm
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last wk.So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?
What if when you shared a screenshot it captured all the smudges and crumbs on your screen
I started my LinkedIn when I was in DC working in international education and exchanges and then didn't look at it for, like, all of grad school, with the result that I truly have no idea what's going on in there or who any of my connections are.
"Being on a bicycle is one of the few ways that cishet white dudes will ever have anything approaching the visceral experience of existing while female."
I really think you can't get good answers to % questions without giving people a pie and asking them to divide it up. (And maybe even then...) This kind of guessing is simply beyond most people's level of numeracy.
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last wk.This actually explains something about how people talk about the Jewish community.
Four CO DSA chapters (Denver, Boulder, NoCo, and Colorado Springs) are also working together on an issue committee to fight these ballot measures 🏳️⚧️🌹
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last wk.6. Another fight drawing national attention is in Colorado, a blue state with some of the strongest transgender protections in the country. Two initiatives will appear on the November ballot... a youth surgery ban and trans sports ban through college. It is opposed by Families Not Politics.
Bluey is confusing and ultimately harming a generation of children with its depiction of a prosperous archaeologist
"it's a bad look for Emily Wilson to criticize Nolan after he helped her book sales so much" OK that's enough Bluesky for today