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bisexual feminist corvid. hiker. haunted doll. chaotic good. relentless & unpleasant. waiting & dreaming at r’lyeh. my other ride is shai hulud. former sex worker. usc phil & lit alumna. exhausted anarchocommunist. mallet percussionist. go broncos. she/her
my life includes many things that other people’s lives don’t and i’m grateful for the good and weird and interesting ones
it's also pretty interesting that "expose yourself to more intellectual diversity from the right" rarely means "hire more experts credulously studying the intellectual basis for Hindu nationalism, the gender politics of the Black Hebrew Isrealites, or the righteous teachings of al-salaf al-ṣāliḥ"
Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 2d agoit's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
Yo lady baseball has cyborgs, this shit whips
Lucy 🫠 📷@ltotheucy.bsky.social · 3d agoThere is a player on the LA Queens, Brittany Apgar, who has a limb difference and traveled back to Illinois from receiving her first ever batting prosthetic *today* and is 3-for-3 in her first game playing with one. Incredibly cool.
my contribution to poop discourse is that americans on a societal scale need to discover bidets. in this house we wash our asses
i know who it is but only because my ex rents a house from him
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d agoThe CEO of Bluesky trying to make me know who the CEO of Bluesky is and my long standing opinion is that I demand to not know who it is
yes we are gatekeeping how people get dopamine. We have done this since society began. For instance, we arrested John Wayne Gacy for chasing dopamine his preferred way
“Olive Garden. When you’re here, you’ll need ID.”@schoolbus5.bsky.social · 6d agoSo now we are gatekeeping how one obtains dopamine? The big takeaway from posts like yours and the rest comes down to: Questioning his claim because it is not your experience, so therefore something is amiss.
I love the veneer of rational skepticism used to dismiss credentialed experts and endorse uncritical faith in the most obvious hucksters on Earth. The CDC was wrong about something once, so we have to be ride or die for vaccine truth dot wordpress.
i cooked for my abuser. i told my abuser i loved him. i had sex with my abuser. when i left him finally he stalked me, shot me through the door of the house i fled to & tried to murder me two weeks later. i woke up in the hospital with 18 broken bones & now he’s serving life in corcoran state prison
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 7d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
I don’t think the Colombo creators had read Ming detective fiction but I do think at least one of them had probably read Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee stories, which while not inverted mysteries themselves all have an explanation of how the originals worked in the introduction
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · last wk.A mystery format pioneered in Ming dynasty detective fiction!
The president took on a vanity project, gave no-bid contracts to contractors who screwed it up, made up a story about vandals to cover it up, and then fomented a felony prosecution against an innocent scapegoat. You could impeach for anything he's done but "This asshole is out of control" is a layup
Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · last wk.When you slow down and think about it you realize it's ten times worse than it seems. Sure it's farcical, but it's also a brutal legal attack on a man they knew to be innocent, done to distract from their own thievery and incompetence and as a flex to terrify anyone who might make them look bad.
It is “funny” that there are bums who wake up every morning and think to themselves, “i want nothing more than to simp for the pedo slaver aristocracy of the antebellum south”
if this ever happened on my plane flight i would Become A Problem so fast and so deeply lmao. i have no shame and a loud voice
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · 2w agoEvangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
the fact that there are so many people like this who have literal billions of dollars is an affront to me, personally, as well of an indictment of this country and society in general
Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · last wk.
whenever someone tells you that it's simply impossible for police to be charged with misconduct or criminal charges, you can tell they're wrong because some cops do get charged regularly — when they are whistleblowers or reformers prosecutors are actually extremely eager to help drum them out!
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last wk.Prosecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job
We've gotta make the Monorail Simpsons episode required viewing for every city councilor in the country. Every single thing he says here is a lie. A Potemkin Village Imaginarium.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
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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your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors
as someone who lost a life partner to conspiracy nonsense, the thing i always come back to is “what would you do differently if this was true?” like okay say it’s an engineered bioweapon. does that mean you should lick each other at bars & not get vaccinated? it’s almost all just irrelevant wanking
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · last wk.Good lord. The "conspiracy" was a bunch of emails among scientists saying "this is xenophobic bullshit and is confusing the public, we should rebut it" and they were right. The "lab leak" theory still requires far more leaps, inferences, and assumptions than the straightforward zoonotic theory.
the resurgence of tcm under mao zedong was pushed so heavily by the ccp in part because the government could not provide modern medicine to the whole population, especially in rural areas. turns out universal healthcare is very expensive & it’s cheaper to tell people to treat cancer with herbs
Wannabe Apparatchik@apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · last wk.the other part is that most americans think “socialist” means “universal healthcare” and “welfare state” so obviously communist china would have those, because americans mostly don’t consider it possible for other places to have different politics than the united states, the center of the universe
you know, saying nothing is always an option if what you want to say is gonna let everybody know you’re a shitheel
Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · last wk.They were like “Trans people are not a monolith” and “Like-minded allies may disagree on specific media boycotts” and stuff like that. It was a huge load off my mind!
there are times i wish i didn’t have a conscience because MAN i could make so much money on the right-wing grift train
Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · last wk.Colorado GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx says God has given him a "gift" to uncover people's demons and rid them of evil spirits through a specialized prayer. Marx says you, too, can learn how to do it. The eight-part course is $99. www.9news.com/article/news...
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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