Colette Washington

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

An edited version of the running skeleton meme. A spheal is mid-roll. "Just roll out You can leave!!! Work Social thing Games without spheal Pokemon battles Movies Home Zubats if your quick If it sucks... hit da bricks!! Real winners quit"

I made a gingerbread panopticon

DC Circuit finding the TikTok ban satisfies strict scrutiny is very grim and will lead to a flood of national-security-based censorship.

More and more people are saying this

Sworn enemies joined in a common cause for this one battle.

Pick your fighter

Karen Smith being sworn into her new position. She has her right hand in the air and left hand on a stack of books that have been banned in her area. Two men stand to her left, one holding the stack of banned books.

Karen Smith being sworn in to the Central Bucks school board, a district near Philadelphia. For her oath she chose to place her hand on a stack of frequently challenged & banned books. 📚
www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/l...

i should call him

France or Japan-like extremely heavy state subsidies and tariff protections but instead of agriculture it's for wargaming stores, indie movie theaters, libraries with comfy seating areas, learn to paint miniatures seminars, pickleball venues, etc.

A federal judge has enjoined the TikTok ban in Montana (meaning the ban won't go into effect).

The court called the ban a "fundamental constitutional violation" based on the First Amendment, and noted how anti-Chinese sentiments permeated the state's case (& legislation itself).

me: hi, i use “they/them” pronouns.

cis guy: isn’t they/them plural this is so confusing i can’t possibly be expected to remember this wokeness.

me: oh. uhh okay. i also use “she/her”, please just use that instead.

cis: i suddenly fully understand “they/them” pronouns & will now only use those.

Nearly every librarian and library worker I spoke with in the last twelve months was clear that the book banners never had the numbers or popular support on their side—and I’m relieved they were absolutely correct!

socrates: they condemned me for corrupting the youth with my philosophy

me: omg you were condemned for the idea of a soul?

socrates: lol no…not that

me: your method for finding truths through dialogues??

socrates: no, not those either

me: which beliefs, exactly?

socrates: oh, you know the ones

Asking a Californian about homeless people is like asking a European about romani people

Type of guy who is an effective altruist but doesn't donate because he considers the American government an effective charity and already gives more than 10% of his income in taxes

"they're not crisps!! they're not crisps!! I'm not crazy, you're crazy!!!" i scream as two beautiful trans women attempt to brainwash me. i will never stop fighting for America

are you KIDDING me
there's a safe lyme vaccine that got SUED OFF THE MARKET BY ANTI-VAXXERS

WHAT
https://time.com/6073576/lyme-disease-vaccine/

I hope that some day some asshole lawyer takes the “wokeness is a religion” stuff seriously and starts demanding the kind of exemptions from the law the Supreme Court gives to right wing Christians. It won’t work I just want to see the loopy legal rationales it produces

The thing about the relationship between Twitter and journalists is that the biggest impact was felt by the highest-profile and most pampered national writers, who were driven insane by people talking back to them for the first time but too addicted to ever put down the phone. I liked that a lot

Girl who calls cis woman pussy "paleovagina"