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Will they, though? They definitely should, but somehow the messaging doesn't seem to go that way.

@tinakotek.bsky.social Oregon should do this!!

This was my downfall with Minesweeper decades ago. At least here we don't explode!

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

Looove a good fig

We Have to Move "There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

Image of a woman's upper torso with sleeves tolled up and Band-Aids on each shoulder

Vaxxed up, bitches!! Flu and covid. Science is real. Fuck MAHA.

It's nice to be able to support one of my elected representatives!!

Let the girls run the world

Protesters on the sidewalk at a No Kings Rally seen from behind, on a beautiful clear fall day. The person in the foreground is wearing a green jacket, a frog hat, and holding a sign that says "This shit is bonkers - Abraham Lincoln (probably)".

Southern Oregon showed up #NoKings

New workout goal

Always on point and beautiful and full of heart and funny as hell

Let's gooooo

I used to use a "red feed blue feed" site in my middle school social studies classes that would compare what the algorithms would show side-by-side for whatever topic you chose. It was a great tool, very eye-opening for the kids. So scary that so many don't know this is their "news".

I like this very much!

Also if you ever happen to be in Italy you can try Chinotto, it hits some of the same notes

This is correct, imagine my dismay upon moving west and then my delight upon discovering that gas station on the edge of town which specialized in wacky beverages and then dismay once more when they closed.

Post-truthiness is too real

"...people sharing AI slop and misinformation do not actually care that it’s wrong. They care that it matches their feelings. "

Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations “In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

"I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not."

I wish this were true, I agree with the sentiment. But *Charlie Kirk* was inexcusable, and absolutely does not deserve to be honored by lowering the flag. Dying doesn't erase the awful things he promoted (including the idea that a few deaths were worth it to keep all the guns, ffs.).

Even if you don't read sf and don't know or care what the Hugos are, this is a beautiful and humane and important essay.

Reykjavik, 2025. Street art rocks.

Time for the pelvis chickens to quit, let's gooooo

“That Was the E-Mail Exchange That Was”: Tom Lehrer Weighs In on the Greatest American Musicals - Library of America American humor lost one of its great voices this summer with the death of genius singer-satirist Tom Lehrer at the age of ninety-seven. The mind behind such madcap classics as “We Will All Go Together...

In memory of genius satiric songwriter (and mathematics professor) Tom Lehrer, American Musicals editor Laurence Maslon recalls his memorable e-mail exchanges with livinglegend@ucsc.edu about which stage musicals were CLASSICS, GROUNDBREAKERS, HISTORIC, LANDMARK, or simply GREAT.

🧵Today is Friday, July 4.
Good morning ❤️

We hold these truths to be
self-evident:
that all [people] are created equal
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
that among these are
Life
Liberty
and
the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights,

If you're reading this, whoever you are & whatever you're doing to try to make this world better, whether it's calling, protesting, providing mutual aid, making art, raising awareness, training & teaching people new concepts & skills, journalism, surviving through it all, or whatever else: thank you

Why Flavor Flav says the US must ban firearms now | Opinion The lack of U.S. gun laws has created a violence epidemic unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is domestic errorism

Really proud of this piece,,, it’s something I’ve never done before and out some really TIME and thought into something real important.

www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...

This is why we keep voting for you!

You keep fighting the good fight and I'll keep voting for you - thank you!!