@wokenojokewarrior
When someone tells you who they are or what they'll do (e.g., Poi-LIE-vre), believe them the first time. 😼 Me: 1st gen 🇳🇱 immigrant, feminist, She/Her, cis, trans ally, vegan, cat/book lover, anti-wealth, tax the billionaires and churches, + vote ABC!
Sticker in window reads, "If it's not fun, why do it?" with Ben & Jerry's logo underneath.
Closeup of the decal in the window:
"If It's Not Fun
Why Do It?"
(with the logo Ben & Jerry's in smaller letters underneath)
Bright orange VW van spotted in parking lot of grocery store last summer. Liked it so much I took a few pics. If you look at the bottom right of photo, you'll see my shadow hand taking the pic, and in the bottom left a bit of my knapsack.
So every time I see @nickwolfebrown1.bsky.social's gorgeous blue VW in his avatar, I'm reminded of the bright orange VW van I spotted and loved and took a couple of pics of last summer, and thought I'd share them with you here.
Happy night-time dream travels everyone! Good night. 🌖
You know what they say, typos are nothing more than written Freudian slips (I may have just made that up - I'll have to search, but it has a nice ring methinks), revealing all to all. 🧐
Both ways are likely good and may reach different folk depending on their preference (just as some, including me, highly prefer reading words rather than listening to them), so as long as the good stuff gets out there...
"It fed them a fantasy of God-like power and control: possession of a woman who literally couldn’t fight back."
Bingo.
Currently reading prize-winning Neige Sinno's "Sad Tiger": a blistering memoir of childhood rape beginning at age 7, but also a masterful literary critique of books like Lolita.
Because after Gisèle's ordeal in France became widely known, another case in Germany made headlines. Or maybe not enough. And as I was trying to figure out the appeal/thrill of raping an unconscious body (isn't it more arousing to have a partner getting off WITH you?) I remembered Carole's words:
So I have Gisèle Pelicot's memoir on hold at the library, but just finished her daughter's "I'll Never Call Him Dad Again" and have to admit that, I too, never realized marital rape by chemical submission is a thing. That husbands eagerly share photos/drug recipes online and give/receive tips. WTF?
never forever? 😉
a painting of a young Art Garfunkel in a black poloneck and the watermark "fine art america: in the bottom right. I grabbed this from https://pixels.com/featured/1-art-garfunkel-music-legend-john-springfield.html
I don't know Art, but I know what I like.
Simon says? 🙃
There is a *lot* of really interesting info and analysis here......
It's hard with that 300-character limit. And capturing the context is easier with the complete quote (& has NOTHING to do with my finding it easier/lazier to grab screenshots of the stuff that has grabbed ME the most.)😇
You have a bigger audience though, so in turn I'm happy YOU posted on this too.
🐽 no one would know...
What could possibly explain the intensity of Western interest, over the past century and more, in this region?
Turning the clocks forward to a time when he's finally dead
OMG, I should have checked your timeline first, as I just posted on this half an hour ago, using part of the same quote!
Shouldn't be surprised I guess... that 🌊length, eh?
For sure, Canada has its own 🍁Maga problem, and we definitely dodged (but only nearly) the #NeverPoilievre bullet, but I think while most of us hate the US administration many of us DO support American friends as shown by, for example, holding our own No Kings protests. We feel badly for you, truly.
Shame has to change sides, Pelicot says. And maybe that should apply not just to rape and sexual assault but to war crimes too. Shame on the men - the broligarchs and their accomplices - who’ve brought this war to pass and to every technology company, politician and media outlet that is dancing to their tune. We can’t stop them but we can expose them. We can name them. We can at least try and make shame change sides.
You don’t want to face this. None of us do. It’s too dark, too bleak. But to understand what is happening now, in Iran and Lebanon, and the forces behind it, we need to see that this is a continuum. Dominique Pelicot and Andrew Tate and Jeffrey Epstein are only symptoms. They are the doorway through which we can understand the forces behind not just another catastrophic Gulf War but a global power structure in which state violence, commercial profit and the control, domination and violation of women are inextricably entwined.
Just read @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's excellent newsletter, but when she says that she can't "help make sense of what’s happening in the world for anyone else" I have to disagree, as I find her laser-focus beam of insight on how all these disparate puzzle pieces fit together sense-making indeed. 💯
Came across a handy resource today filled with facts on just about everything you'd want to know (the what/why/how + pushback) about gender-affirming care. Good not only if you're not as familiar with the topic as you'd like, but also to counter malicious misinformation.
www.hrc.org/resources/ge...
Chipmunks are back now that the weather is warmer, and this little chippy found some sunflowers seeds left in one of the plates I leave out for the squirrels. Birds will be coming soon too, so will start leaving more food out. Photo is likely a bit blurry as I took it through the kitchen window (if you look close, you can see the reflected outline of a cushion on the fence) with my cell phone.
How sweet, but yeah, your tent is not a Chippybnb, thus, off limits it should be! Just took a photo a little while ago of a 🐿️ in one of my squirrel feeders. Hard to get a good pic as they're so quick and I'm behind a window with not enough time to get my actual camera, thus cell has to do the trick.
Ah, embarrassingly enough I learned how to take screenshots not THAT long ago, so will have to learn the next step as well. Thanks!
"The vitriol and menace came out of the blue for Canadians who had long been told by our political leaders not to take the bluster of Trump seriously. In America, cooler heads always prevail. Right?"
Wrong.
Canada is right to be cautious & aware. Donald may be a 🤡, but he & his admin are no joke.
Israel and the US appear to want to do to Tehran what they have done to Gaza: reduce a busy and complex society to a toxic wasteland.
Interesting though how puberty blockers (deemed safe for decades already) are apparently absolutely fine if taken by cis kids for precocious puberty, and other gender-affirming care procedures (boob jobs anyone?) also dandy as long as you're cis. 🙄
first - protect kids!
now - protect adults too!!
🥱 Morning everyone,
🎵 Getting Up Is Hard To Do... 🎵
...when your clock says 8 but your body knows it's 7... 😬
But then I saw this 👇 and laughing made it easier.
🤣
And if that isn't quite enough to lift any more-down-than-up spirits, here's an otter one!
Goodnight all. 😴