Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.
I am absolutely convinced that one of the reasons our imperialism continues unchecked year after year is because white suburbs never see the consequences. They're not occupied by soldiers or bombed by munitions. Even school shootings are just a fact of life, so dead people abroad barely register.
the bluesky experience:
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correct as you might be this is laughably hypocritical given you participated in exactly that not three days ago lmao
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couldn’t even name the presidential train car Rail Force One smh
the cool thing about motonormativity is that if you ask any driver if it's good to have a car running in a closed garage they'll say "of course not because of the exhaust fumes", but "where do the exhaust fumes go when the car is Outside?" is not usually pondered
Cis people get annoyed by a trans woman once and get an opinion column in the Times. I get annoyed by trans women everyday and have zero opinion columns. This is transmisogyny.
always
Anyone up thinking about how it’s socialism or barbarism
“average monkey asks 3 questions a day" factoid actualy just statistical error. average monkey asks 0 questions per year. Curious georg, who lives in cave & asks over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
one of the reasons I like this passage a lot is think it captures a kind of small c conservative sense of duty/heroism that's really different from the kind of contemporary understanding of those concepts where it's journey of self-discovery/self-actualization. not, it fucking sucks, but here we are
I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children.
From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.
starting a war on the last day of the month is polymarket shit, yeah?
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
yeah :,[ <\3
A screenshot of a mobile Google search results page in dark mode for the query "Kansas trans". Under the heading "News about Kansas," there is a list of four news articles: An article from the Kansas City Star, published 13 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday". The thumbnail shows a sample Kansas driver's license. An article from The Independent, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas sends letters to trans drivers demanding the immediate surrender of their licenses over birthright law". The thumbnail shows small pride flags on desks inside a legislative chamber. An article from The Topeka Capital-Journal, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas invalidates IDs and birth certificates of transgender people". The thumbnail features a close-up of colorful pride flag stickers. An article from Erin In The Morning, published 16 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses". The thumbnail is a nighttime photo of a state capitol building illuminated in pink and red lights.
A day later and no major national news org has covered what they're doing in Kansas.
This is the flip side of the hyper focus on trans issues by the right. The national media ignores what's actually being done to trans people.
This erasure is what contributes to the persecution.
it's not the issue of this story, but it is a transparent example of how the "cars are freedom" narrative is a complete farce. when the state controls your movement and can immobilize you on a whim, you are not free. car dependency is an arm of fascism for the car *IS* fascism and must be abolished.
I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.
Every now and then, I remember that JD Vance smashed the "like" button after reading this tweet, then went back and unliked it five years later when he ran for the Senate.
like telephone line starts off as this boring sadsack little dirge but then the doo wahs come in and i see the curvature of the earth
ELO forever undefeated in the field of songs i nearly wanna give up on before they wallop me in the noggin with a hook like ive never heard before in my deprived little life
the wealthiest americans love creating a walkable community to go shopping in and eat in on vacation and surround it with like soviet style housing blocks to sleep in on vacation but absolutely nobody is allowed to live there
We make fun of elon but this is a clean win for him. Even after rebranding twitter as a goebbels computer with A.I. revenge porn journalists stayed on it frying their brains for retweets from jd vance and faulty sean spicer clones. Now they’re writing “Does AOC’s Brain Smell Different?”
cigna said we have personal champions to advocate for you but not give you anything beyond what we already say you can get
bro why are tits medically necessary but my face is not
I'm gonna say it: Esther Ghey is overjoyed her daughter died. She hated her for being an independent being, she hated her for transitioning, and now she gets to use her corpse as a dancefloor for the rest of her life.
it felt like a very quiet click, one i’ve doubted given having had multiple names post transition gives me a baseline doubt just above cartesian that i might not like my current one Because I Must Be Wrong Again, but the name fit enough and had meaning enough that I’ve stuck with it :]
It took me two, the first was from a famous woman that was more of try out given that it sounded similar to my deadname. the second one is more meaningful to me in that it’s tied to a family members name like my deadname was, and it’s ultimately the one i prefer, even if not the one that’s used more
