Evelyn Olansky, Mxtress of Public Health

definitely here for the trad mockery, but the fact that women have been historically subjected to dependent financial situations beyond their own control isn't really a sporting thing to criticize.

I don't agree with it, but ppl still come from contexts where women are thoroughly taught dependency

Comic book panel showing Kira Nerys from Star Trek Deep Space Nine asking herself "But is he a hamburger helper...or a hamburger collaborator?”

And when we say:
Yee-ow! A-yip-i-o-ee-ay!
We’re only sayin’,
You’re doin’ fine, Oklahomos!
Oklahomos, O.K.!

i really enjoyed it, though it definitely helped to have some of the author's history to inform my reading

A Canticle for Leibowitz – Part 1 Podcast Episode · Shelved By Genre · 05/09/2025 · 2h 30m

Shelved By Genre just covered this book in their post-apocalypse unit, and they talk much about this as a source text for Fallout.

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If you're a podcast listener, strong recommend.

Hope they have something good in the coup-ler... cuz that's a dinner party thing but also they're doing a coup, ya get it?

I grew up on these streets

The wild thing about gender envy before I realized I was trans was that I could look at an image like this and think "I'd be so happy if I could just look like that"

"They can't do it, and when they do they fail" is internally contradictory.

If the first statement is true, how can you know the second statement is true? Do you really 'know' they can't win a primary, or are you projecting what you think is possible as if that decides the shape of all possibility?

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

US links $1.9 billion in state disaster funds to Israel boycott stance The Trump administration said states and cities will not receive funding to prepare for natural disasters if they choose to boycott Israeli companies, according to an agency statement.

NEW: US states and cities that do not support Israel will be denied federal disaster aid. [REUTERS]

Aid that will be halted includes federal money for search and rescue equipment and backup power systems.

I’m proud of you, whoever you are. All of this is bullshit and you’re still here

One of the most powerful things you can know about yourself is how to tell the difference between a challenge you'll benefit from, and an assault you would be right to avoid, as they can look the same from some perspectives.

Texas Republicans say 'hunt down' Democrats who are leaving state over redistricting Texas state House Democrats plan to leave to break quorum of a special session in which Republicans aim to pass a new congressional map that could net the GOP five seats.

Sometimes I can only read the news of the present day as though I'm a post-2nd Civil War historian sifting through a cloudy record of events that precipitated secession and war.

Here's one of those:

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Watering Hole World?

No, no... The Post-Tran?

if you care about harm reduction & people who use drugs, check on the funding sources for your local programs; our grassroots orgs have long been funded through grants & donations, which is how many of them have been doing this work when it was more underground

samhsa continues to crumble under the regime. this letter wasn’t a surprise, per se, but holy shit was it offensive & overall self-contradictory around what harm reduction is.

Hey man, while your turn was auto-playing I happened to notice your only two moves are called "Get laid" and "Heel turn". Cultural differences, amirite? Fascinating

best description i've read for why much of the social internet feels so full of invitations to fight

the worst thing about social media and other internet posts is everyones reflexive atomization of people into posts, with each post entirely devoid of the context of the body of work and person as a whole. you dont pack an entire beleif system into every post.

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

Since this is blowing up - this is my band Brass Queens playing at C’mon Everybody in BK last night (sharing a bill with fab Selena tribute band Cinco12)! We’re local to NYC but play all over the US/Canada and I can’t promise DB will be there but I CAN promise you’ll have a blast tr.ee/YwV9F6yjcl

2 hours later the cat understands recursion and your troubles truly begin

When the FDA Commissioner goes on TV to elevate an unverified anecdote about a "friend's parent" dying from a COVID vaccine—while ignoring safety data from 1M+ people published 48 hours earlier—we have an institutional problem. This misleading rhetoric is deeply irresponsible. 🧵

She/her Jeremiah is a story in itself

Highbender

Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!