cat abroad

my god

I stand with my trans sisters, who are women.

For all women, trans and cis alike, I think defining womanhood by increasingly specific biological factors reduces all of us as people.

I think the last GC definition of a woman I saw involved the phrase “large gametes”. This says nothing about anyone

the comment describing all the covers as 'children gawking at gay people' sksksks

Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books? Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

a (new to me, at least) lovely essay from katherine rundell on the importance of books for children: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

went out for a little treat to have during my afternoon meeting and then realised my preferred kombucha comes in a dark beer bottle, which is Not Quite The Vibe

season 9 has my favourite task of the show as well!

Well now we know where the @askamanager.org question writer worked.

ooooooh clapham junction!!! this looks amazing

great replies alert

Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform that exclusively supports local bookstores Indie bookstores miss out on millions of e-book sales to big companies like Amazon. Bookshop.org's new platform could help them turn a new page.

This. Is. Amazing. Finally, an ebook alternative for Amazon, but for independent bookstores. This is amazing for readers who want to be more intentional about where you're spending your money. 📖 #BookSky

ANALYSIS | Donald Trump has ruptured the Canada-U.S. relationship. To what end? And what comes next? | CBC News Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recalled a solid relationship with the U.S. built on history and necessity as he announced retaliatory tariffs in response to a trade war that surveys have found American...

New from me. On the start of the trade war and the line from JFK that Trudeau didn't say.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

this is beautiful!

Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.

This is such great news. For so long Amazon has had a chokehold on ebooks. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

Great reporting. The Israeli army said that most people killed in bombing a Beirut apartment block were Hezbollah. The BBC found that nearly all were in fact civilians, and a third were children. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

amazing

They say no man is an island, but I know what I saw out there. Islandman is real.

excellent replies at the very least

I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.

Better rhetoric than 99 percent of Democratic elected officials, run this man for something

haha

He's thinking of AO3. Common mistake

User the-frog-in-the-bog says "I want to decompose in a bog" well you clearly don't know the first thing about bogs. Clout chaser User thebigwolf says #in the bog is like the opposite of decomposition #get pickled idiot Huge fan of the phrase "get pickled, idiot"

Elite discourse

I don't have a lot of respect for Aaron Sorkin, but I gotta hand it to him for his choice to depict Mark Zuckerberg in THE SOCIAL NETWORK as a misanthropic incel type whose driving motivation is misogynist resentment

a jazz bar called hornpub

Tweet from furby Hancock: Waiter: so how is everything? Me: great! Waiter: (disgusted) even war?

being on bluesky

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

i gasped

good socks are worth their weight in gold

Le Sword: who's mightier now, bitch