Laura Eppinger

Women’s rights don’t look good through Meta glasses

Uh, because either you voted for a felon or didn't show up to vote at all?

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

i cannot get over how incredibly insane it is to think you can pull the same move you did on maduro against the entire regime of iran. in time this will be recognized as caligula-level insane. totally bonkers. hard to even fathom how someone could think this.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

My kids have measles, there are no jobs, and the country is at war. But at least now I can buy raw milk with my HSA card.

Frame #6316 from 60sE19 treasure for henry

Goodbye and good riddance.

But don’t take the bait. Firing Noem alone won’t halt Trump’s campaign of terror.

The atrocities happening by ICE behind the walls of detention facilities and in broad daylight have proven that ICE cannot be reformed.

Abolish ICE NOW.

My lord, I would I might entreat your honor
To scan this thing no farther

Broad claims about gender and behavior fall apart when studies include ethnically diverse samples Behavioral economics relies heavily on studies of Western, educated people. A recent analysis provides evidence that ignoring racial diversity within the United States has led to flawed generalization...

"The research suggests that generalizations about human behavior are often flawed because they rely on samples composed largely of White individuals."

Yet, this well-documented pattern did not appear among Black participants. The data provides evidence that Black women do not shy away from competition, nor are they any less willing to take financial risks than Black men. This suggests that the broad behavioral generalizations scientists have made about men and women for years are heavily skewed by predominantly White study samples.

*looks at camera Black womanly*

Frog and Toad were sad for a while.

Yup. I was working in a school for this one and have never recovered from it.

Just read my current favorite Murderbot line: "Human words: there's too many of them and I don't care"

(From "Network Effect")

"artists peak at 30", and yet just yesterday I drew a kickass shrek

Opinion | RFK Jr.’s war on vaccines is coming for the elderly The miseries of aging are more linked to late-life infections than was previously understood.

Kennedy‘s anti-vaccine crusade will make the lives of the elderly shorter and more miserable, writes Donald G. McNeil.: “this new era of adult vaccines is teaching us something unexpected: The miseries of age are more linked to late-life infections than we’d realized.”

I had an input on my threat assessment module continuously now so I could get real-time updates instead of just checking it periodically, and yes, it was a constant source of irritation because it reacted to everything. No, it was not helping my anxiety.

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

"As his post goes on, his language gets older. 100 years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words" Fascinating. So how far back in time can YOU go?

You can collab with Lars Von Trier all you want, Shia LaBeouf. You can do as many street theatre gigs as you'd like, and argue with Francis Ford Coppola til the cows come home. But when I want a good actor who is legitimately insane, I will still be taking my business to Robert Pattinson.

At least the people who talked like this in A Clockwork Orange had the decency to kill you.

one reason we don’t need more data centers is we have a whole lot of data and most of it is just not good. increasing the available data will only make the situation worse

Read this in one sitting while I had a fever and I have never been the same

I do think it’s funny that the USA broke from England to get rid of the monarchy so that no one would be above the law and yet only one of these countries has arrested a senior political figure in relation to Epstein and it wasn’t the USA

The Federal immigration policy being enforced by ICE slave patrols is “fuck you I got mine”, and fuck them and fuck that!

I repeat:

I demand a Federal immigration policy of “None of our business!” because that was the policy in place when all my ancestors showed up.

All wHales Are Bastards

I mean everyone aboard the Pequod is sperming ecstatically every day and our narrator enjoys sharing a bed with Queequeg so much that they stay up all night talking like a loving married couple.

And frankly, same.

Very wide for me! Some might say too much at once:
- Murderbot Diaries #5
- Book about Jungian shadow work through tarot cards
- biography of Kathy Acker
- The Clerk's Tale chapter of the Canterbury Tales
- Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar
- Academic articles about queerness in late 19th Cen American West

But those children, the tiny number who because they are trans will only be happy being allowed to transition and grow up to be trans adults, have to be subjected to gatekeeping around FUCKING HAIRCUTS AND PREFERRED NAMES, in order to protect some cis queer kids from haircuts and preferred names.