Lllly

For all we know, Iran could’ve been HOURS away from making real life puppygirls. Thank you Israel for protecting the entire world from evil!

i have plenty of thoughts on why it matters that this is an illegal order but here i’ll just comment that i think liberals who throw their hands up and say “it doesn’t matter” have self lobotomized themselves into thinking that trump is god king of america

YouTube video by J. Draper Which Type of Homosexual Are You?

Love this short video by J. Draper about a book from 1962 with extensive interviews of queer men at a time it was illegal in the UK.

Interesting perspective on how trans people were viewed at the time near the end, too!
youtu.be/_y9OOe9AIEw?...

"Cis people are afraid that trans people will laugh at them. Trans people are afraid that cis people will kill them"

…honestly? maybe

Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike.

I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it.

Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia

The push to fire Government workers is actually a scam designed to funnel even more money to government contractors and management consulting. The dirty secret of "smaller government" is that it benefits management consulting firms. The works still has to get done, but with 40% overhead.

"debate me"

A comic page of pit pit the vat spawn talking to rat pit the vat spawn about respect vs authority around a bonfire. The text reads “respect can mean lots and lots of stuff. Liiiiiike treating someone like a person, or like an authority or with deference. Issue is the folks who think respect means authority get really mad if you don’t treat them like one. And since they don’t think respect means treating someone like a person they will treat you as an enemy. They won’t respond to deference. What you need is numbers.”

Respect can mean lots and lots of things.

D&D Combinatorics xkcd.com/3015

screen cap of a skeet saying: I'm a classic liberal, not leftist. I've met openly trans people and I want to give them all due respect as individuals. That said, I don't like "Trans" as a Social Movement, targeting impressionable young people who'd be better off without.

I just need you all to understand that when people say this what they really are saying is "being a woman is a sex thing"

My Aunt Rachel 1945–2023

With trans panic everywhere these days, resurfacing my tribute to my Aunt Rachel Pollack, who I only learned later in life was trans and a hero to many other people theracket.news/p/my-aunt-ra...

White guy from a 90% white town steps into a restaurant bathroom with one other person, a black man, in it and thinks to himself "my god I never realized 50% of all people in America are black until just now"

Tuxedo cat curled up asleep on carpet by windows of an apartment, directly in a suntan

Time for sunbeams

Well gosh if you can’t trust a person with every incentive in the world to lie, who can you trust?

I’ve been doing this even with my coworkers. I work at a tech company in the weed industry so you’d think not a lot of people would have voted for him, but with some people i wonder 😅

Software engineering absolutely can be creative, but a lot of large companies try and turn it into an assembly line rather than a creative endeavor and that’s a shame

that’s the right. when they say “meritocracy” what you should hear is “people with a natural right to rule”

Yep. This also explains the bizarre focus on linguistic changes.

A wealthy, middle-aged political pundit cannot imagine being forced to move states to access HRT but he can imagine someone scolding him about misusing they/them pronouns. It's anxiety and animosity all the way down.

We were so preoccupied with whether we CAN has cheeseburger, we didn’t stop to think if we SHOULD

What Gaetz really had that they want is the clear understanding that without trump’s active protection his life is effectively over

That he would undermine the rule of law freely, given the chance, is just a bonus

I really don't get how Democrats can be handed the easy layup of "Republicans are uniting to suppress the underage sex trafficking report about an unliked and unqualified nominee" and decide the best thing to do is minimize its importance.

lol i totally sympathize, but that won’t stop me from making fun of you about it 😜

Text messages: Her: “I guess I’ll do it 😫” Me: “Your courage and dedication will be remembered” Her: “I hope so. It's a lot” Me: “You will be given a prominent place on the Flavortown Memorial”

Talking with @scopicengineer.bsky.social about the dinner she’s making

As a footnote to the previous thread, being a good player of an ttrpg is primarily not one’s skill with a game but *how good you are to play with*.

Censoring “shit” but adding the hard “r” is certainly a choice

The Future of Orion xkcd.com/3012

“you mustn’t call them skeets anymore!” said the fool to the site full of people with pathological demand avoidance