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a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

i used to understand how to do lutzes and now i just pretend they're not real

by the way, if you don't normally watch skating but you're enjoying the olympics, consider watching the world championships from mar 24-29! you will see a lot of your faves again! i feel like most of us skating fans get into it by continuing on to post-olympics worlds

Alas

Figure skating fans at the end of every competition:

#MilanoCortina2026 #figureskating

that better be Tate & Lyle's kthnx. though recently I've been making the tahini version instead, which is EXCELLENT

flapjacks are fucking DELICIOUS though

Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.

Healey's OpenAI state contract and why it matters to you — Erika Uyterhoeven for Somerville

Last Friday, Gov Healey committed MA to a 3 year, multimillion-dollar contract with OpenAI, to deploy its AI tool for all 40,000 executive branch employees. She did this based on the recommendation of a task force dominated by execs w financial ties to OpenAI.

Read more at: bit.ly/3OdOC5B

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Just got caught up. Kind of in love with Sofia Samodelkina after that short. Am definitely going to try the Petrosian backwards drag with the heel kick, i love a backwards drag. #FigureSkating #MilanoCortina2026

i didn't realise Isabeau was going to be in the last group too 👀

People should bear this in mind the next time someone goes off on one about how there’s limited evidence on safety for affirmative care. They are exactly the same people actively working to stop that evidence being collected

I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.

Basically how I've been internalizing it lol

An oil painting of Isabeau Levito

A close up of an oil painting of Iseabeau Levito

ZooBeZooBeZoo

I remain of the view that for someone to argue something is capitalism's fault, they need to 1) have a coherent definition of capitalism that does not include all societies and 2) be able to show a non-capitalist society that does not demonstrate the problem in question to a similar degree.

'the company that maintains my boyfriend's AI persona has jacked up the price ten-fold' is pretty classic cyberpunk; that the persona or the relationship never meaningfully existed in the first place is a level of bitter irony that might be too much even for an often ironic genre.

oh big mood. Often I can feel whether someone is exploring with genuine curiosity or just repeating stuff that's been fed to them. Other times, one needs to look harder.

I think the "Spartans were pedophile slavers" line has gotten through to mainstream lib-left consciousness.

But I wish more people knew "virtually all Spartan elites killed at least one uppity slave, at night, as a rite of passage into the Gestapo upper class".

True evil.

From Bret Devereux:

As a formerly professional and currently recreational Shakespearean scholar, I can affirm that there are exactly two evenly matched couples across 37 plays: Beatrice & Benedick, and the Macbeths.

Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing.

66 years old going 66 mph.

When You Meet A Member Of The Ku Klux Klan Robert L. Poston (1921) When you meet a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Walk right up and hit him like a natural man; Take no thought of babies he may have at home, Sympathy’s defamed when used upon his dome. Hit him in the mouth and push his face right in, Knock him down a flight of steps and pick him up again. Get your distance from him and then take a running start, Hit him, brother, hit him, and please hit the scoundrel hard. Pour some water on him, bring him back to life once more Think of how he did your folks in the days of long ago; Make a prayer to heaven for the strength to do the job, Kick him in the stomach, he, a low, unworthy snob. Call your wife and baby out to see you have some fun, Sic your bulldog on him for to see the rascal run. Head him off before he gets ten paces from your door, Take a bat of sturdy oak and knock him down once more. This time you may leave him where he wallows in the sand, A spent and humble member of the Ku Klux Klan.

i post this for no reason, don't read too much into it

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop

And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)

RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Lots of sports have competitive divisions for 40+, 50+, 60+ etc. It's not on TV but it's out there

There's one ice dancer from Michigan who represents Lithuania, whose siblings used to skate for Japan. This stuff is really common in skating, where nationality can be kinda a flag of convenience to get international competition spots or funding.

What Epstein reveals is the ubiquitous sexual abuse of women & girls as a way for men to cement their friendships and demonstrate their status. It happens among billionaires, it happens among frat boys, it happens among preachers and tech workers and union contractors, because it happens among men.

thinking once again about how dem electeds don't idolize their own past presidents the way they do republican ones

Linda Davis was killed by ICE today. A Black woman, a beloved teacher, killed by ICE in Savannah, Georgia.

Her name is Linda Davis and she was killed by our government.

roller skating