Zoey is the best character in Anna Pigeon. Paulina Alexis is great.

One day, one of these cop procedural shows with a female lead is going to solve the "she has two guys interested" problem with healthy, sensible polyamory instead of all this vacillating and hangups and the writers killing off one so she doesn't have to pick and be "unlikeable"

I want to make a few things clear: Trans rights are human rights. Cis gays must stand up for our trans siblings because the bigots are coming for us next. Prominent Democrats’ recent squishiness on trans rights is unacceptable.

I guess I just kinda thought people were capable of learning from experience. But I’m increasingly convinced if you let them touch the stove, they’ll conclude the Jews burned their hand and framed the stove.

Opinionated Terran@opinionated-terran.bsky.social · 13h ago

One of the mental habits Christians usually never break is the inherent assumption that suffering brings out the best in humanity, even if the sentiment is dressed up in fancy language Suffering does not make people or society better, full stop. We seek silver linings as an evolutionary trait

One of the mental habits Christians usually never break is the inherent assumption that suffering brings out the best in humanity, even if the sentiment is dressed up in fancy language Suffering does not make people or society better, full stop. We seek silver linings as an evolutionary trait

I don't usually talk about my work on WTT because I think it speaks for itself most of the time, but this episode feels particularly important.

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️@whatthetrans.com · yesterday

EPISODE 166: BASH BACK: The Interview This week... - Turkey, has begun a crackdown on LGBTQ+ organisations and people - Update on the goings-on from the Welsh Gender Service - The Meat this week is, we spoke to BASH BACK + more whatthetrans.com/ep166/

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight “There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.”

Micah@rincewind.run · 3d ago

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

We’re in Westminster 📢 calling for evidence-led, inclusive & responsible species restoration with the Missing Lynx Project 🐾 Restoring species like Eurasian lynx must involve rigorous scientific research, working with communities & land managers & putting robust ecological frameworks in place.

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

Was Banned Books Week censored at your library? Were events canceled, changed, or not allowed to happen at all? Please tell me about it in this anonymous survey for a future piece. You'll find linked in the survey the story from last year. Deadline: Oct 24. tinyurl.com/BannedBooksW...

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Historian: We don't have primary sources from that period, as is often the case, but the candidate's performance (Nome et. al, 1-2) in the surrounding years (Ibid., 2-3) builds sufficient pattern (Ibid., 1) to move forward.

👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻@oldenoughtosay.com · 5d ago

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Building conservator: air flow beneath the joists is critically important to prevent a build up of humidity, which can lead to rising damp, rot, and mould

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Building conservator: air flow beneath the joists is critically important to prevent a build up of humidity, which can lead to rising damp, rot, and mould

frank n furter@mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 5d ago

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Graphic designer: clear space on a document is important to rest the eye

Winter Wonderland Did I mention how beautiful the art direction of the game is?

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Pope Leo this week called universal health coverage a "moral imperative." He also said: “Health cannot be a luxury for the few,” it is “an essential condition for social peace.”

Pope Leo this week called universal health coverage a "moral imperative." He also said: “Health cannot be a luxury for the few,” it is “an essential condition for social peace.”

At the table next to me in Panda Express, this guy was talking about how he was taking out the trash and found Plan B boxes in it. And he's been like agonizing about this all week.

Today on Weird Purchases That Don't Go Together, I bought a glass nail file and an electrical outlet.

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

You'd get in more trouble if your dog bit someone ffs. It is exhausting to live in a world where they get to do whatever they want and never have any consequences and then people call us irrational for LOATHING EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THEM.

Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’

Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’

Nicolas Cage says he 'probably won't be working' with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for 'Spider-Noir.'

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When WOTC unionizes, we do it with style. One of our own members helped design these metal pins of our logo, and our supporters are proud to wear them at work! unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

Behold! A summer beauty. Photo from my collection no date/info.

“add a negligence component for criminal liability with regards to hacking” seems like a pretty straightforward and necessary fix here

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 6d ago

I agree, the issue is that current laws like the CFAA require intent and there's no negligence component for criminal liability. So as long as the hacking was not intentionally done by someone directing their agents to to do it, there's no criminal liability. There's still civil liability though.

“oh well, nothing we can do here” is not a legal approach we take to any other tools that are used to commit crimes and I don’t see why we should with these ones, even if they aren’t being specifically directed to do so

"You really think we could be sending cruise missiles into Tehran?" Bess, you have no idea....

Watching Madam Secretary at this point in history is WILD. The plot lines just are too sane for the real world.

It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them. >>

Weren't we all universally horrified when ISIS was live streaming public executions*? It's probably not quite right to refer to those as executions because we generally disagree with the ISIS's asserted authority to act as a government.

Vaguely shocked Anne Carson did not have the Nobel already

I feel like it has been raining for three weeks straight. I'm tired of the rain