This is a significantly better version of the meme that often floats around. We can’t know everything based on bones, but we can know quite a lot. Paleontologists and paleoartists aren’t just guessing!
Yeah, the general conference made it official last year. All the ultraconservative congregations that left 2019-2023 finally gave them the needed majority.
I saw this sign at a local (Seattle) United Methodist Church today and it took my breath away.
This whole thread 🧵🪡 is important and goes into detail.
That strange sound you heard yesterday was 100s of historians of 19th-c North America reading their NY Times and choking as they came across a top Facebook exec's blithe claim that abortion wasn't "politicized" until Roe v. Wade in the early 1970s. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...
Me, this week to myself.
NEW: Meta changed its Community Guidelines today to permit "allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality" @knibbs.bsky.social
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Boeing Machinists, East Coast dockworkers, Amazon workers and Starbucks baristas ran consequential strikes while tens of thousands of school workers, nurses and auto workers scored major organizing wins. Read our editor Jenny Brown's recap and bookmark this 🧵1/10 labornotes.org/2024/12/2024...
These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️
I am greatly amused today by my sweatshirt. There was a sizing mix-up, so I didn't get the right size until after Christmas. It's still a holiday week though, so f it.
It's from lucyjaynes.com
PotPie, at your service!
This is important. Two of my early posts are missing alt-text and I apologize. I am going to work to do better.
“I know politics bore you, but I feel like a hypocrite talking to you, and your racist friend.”
I will now have this song in my head on repeat for days.
It's literally my favorite thing in the world to do. Luckily, I live in Western Washington, so those long drives are only necessary for very special hikes.
And when Trump and his regime start executing this plan you are going to see some Nazi shit happening and if you've ever wondered what you would do in Nazi Germany, you're about to find out. You don't have to do a thought experiment. If you're not helping now, you wouldn't have then.
