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packet-wrangler. she/her pronouns.
We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇
If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...
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I am now having fear that the guy actually tried secretly shitting behind a sheet at some poor slob's dinner party.
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
One step at a time! We‘ll get there if we keep reminding ourselves that it doesn’t have to suck, it just incidentally currently sucks
Hey Camberville/Boston area folks - what are your favorite restaurants to recommend to folks who are vegetarian? I know Veggie Galaxy is good, I think Sarma usually has some good veggie options. (Vegetarian, not vegan)
Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
This seems like some level of progrock I was unaware of. Rick Wakeman's "King Arthur on Ice" www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjX2...
Rick Wakeman - Live at the Empire Pool King Arthur on Ice 1975
YouTube video by Udal Nikolaev
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Okay, I have been a Regis of Very Little Brain and so fired up Cookie Clicker yesterday and, uh, I don't recall seeing this message before:
On Monday, 3 August 2026, around 2:30pm ET, my #poem "Paring Down" will be discussed by the editors of Space & Time in anticipation of the publication of issue No. 153 (August 2026). The theme is "Sharpen Your Tools." I'm so excited and nervous, I might explode. open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE SOON: Sharpen Your Tools · 153
Starting Aug 3 at 2:33 PM EDT
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If I weren’t sick, I’d consider going down and playing “Yakety Sax” really loud.
Some anti-abortion frother men who don't think the "pro-life movement" is extreme enough were at Faneuil Hall today trying to take their battle against "child sacrifice" to us heathens. They marched and screeched, um, preached, and will be back downtown tomorrow. www.reddit.com/r/boston/com...
MLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury
Doing things is hard. Shoutout to anyone who does anything.
Huh. Been seeing “QRP” for “Quote RePost” which is sort of the opposite of what I expect with “QRP” based on its radio nerd meaning. (Transmitting at lower power)
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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This sounds like fun.
"Downton Abbey meets John le Carré in slow-burn cat-and-mouse thriller TRADECRAFT MANOR." A graphic novel by me and Leandro Fernández—coming March 23, 2027 from BOOM! Studios…I'm extremely proud of this one! www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-bo...
Stalked jellyfish are a super rare group of jellies that don't float, but instead anchor themselves to the seafloor using a special 'foot.' To move, they do cartwheels, holding onto the seafloor using sticky pads between their pompom tentacles. 🧪🌿🌊
friends, I'm *pretty* sure that's not what "oral sex" means
The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.
Alex Cox on THE PRISONER and the Genius of Patrick McGoohan 📺 Watch all 17 episodes of the landmark 1960s television series! This is the first in Criterion’s new YouTube series of 5 introductions to THE PRISONER by Cox, writer, director and author of I AM (NOT) A NUMBER: DECODING THE PRISONER (2018)
attn @kathryntewson.bsky.social @erikheino.bsky.social and other LoTR nerds: sexy LoTR character cosplay. www.instagram.com/p/DbT1XUzytRQ/ (might be login-walled)
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While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen
The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones
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