Dave Nelson

chasing "balance" in news can sound like it's noble but it's not. treating all possible sources as comparably expert, rational, experienced, insightful, relevant, disadvantaged or empowered does not result in objective, accurate reporting. it results in false equivalency.

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

Great cover, I recognized Amos immediately!

I needed to hear this today… every day really

I will not be told how to feel about anything.

I will not be told how to express myself on any matter.

But I'm not going to tell anyone else how to do their thing either.

I am the boss of me (and me alone).

I'm unlikely to get along with anybody who doesn't respect this.

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

Released 48 years ago today

Lust for Life, the second album by Iggi Pop featuring the selftiteld titeltrack.

Iggy Pop - Lust for Life - Live at the Manchester Apollo, 1977

#punk #punks #punkrock #punklegend #iggypop #lustforlife #history #punkrockhistory #otd

I’m in the middle of a book right now and have been for a month or two because it is the last in a trilogy and I don’t want it to end

See you there!

U.S. Customs and Bor... @ • Follow •• 1d • Good morning and happy Monday. Here's your reminder to start your week with coffee, not cuffs.

The messaging from this administration has the same vibe as a cross set ablaze in someone’s front yard. It’s about communicating menace and instilling terror, the opposite of what the government of a free and democratic society should be doing.

Welp

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Take my money!!!

And I give you “cat enjoying cement”

I am a big to-do list maker and get very little done without them. My current process is to have many separate lists, each one with less than 10 things, and I tend to concentrate on only one of those lists each day.

I have a simple litmus test for human beings now. I simply ask them if they believe the Epstein files should be made public.

If they say anything but "yes," I know they're not someone I want relational proximity with.

People seem more reluctant to repost lately but I hope this gets out to as many people as possible.

2026's midterms is really our chance to stop fascism in the USA. Maybe our only chance before a full dictatorial takeover. The theocratic kleptocracy is coming unless we get REAL about elections.

my dream for when a child first gets AAC As we approach the end of AAC Awareness Month, I think about what I’m sad I didn’t see this month, and what I’m sad about all year. There are opportunities I want kids to have, ideas that I w…

There are many reasons why parents of children with communication disabilities may be hesitant about or even opposed to AAC (augmentative and alternative communication), but the research is wildly conclusive: Using AAC does NOT interfere with oral speech development:

efc.home.blog/2020/10/23/m...

Make no mistake:

Alligator Alcatraz IS a concentration camp, and they absolutely ARE planning genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing.’

As a white person, i don’t know what I can do to help, but if all I have is my voice, I will make sure it’s heard.

That much string would cause my kitty’s mind to explode. It is bad enough with all the sewing my wife is doing.

It was great!

I rewatched it just to really focus on the music. Stack’s reaction to Preacher Boy singing for him in the car for first time is worth rewatching.

Another thing to learn is, when you do fall, always fall forward. The font of your head can withstand a lot more than the back.

QOTD: If vaccines caused autism, America would have way, way more trains

Nothing triggers MAGA like a Pope who follows the teachings of Christ.

If you're going to lift someone's graphic/meme/Onion headline/whatever, at least copy the alt text that went with it. Not only are you a lazy meme spreader, you're disrespecting the work the OP did to make their image accessible

Do better.

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

Black and white photo from the early 20th century of two little girls in roller skates on a city street, wearing sashes that read DON’T BE A SCAB. A handwritten annotation in white ink at the top of the photo says “Strike Sympathizers.”

Happy May Day, don’t be a scab.

For someone who is autistic, losing passion for a interest can spark intense feelings of loss and actual grief. For many of us, our interests are so much more than what others would call hobbies; they are driving forces that give us a real sense of purpose, soothe us and get us through tough times.