I believe the issue lies not with The Verge itself, but the parent company Vox Media.

She definitely felt relatable and more realistic than other sci-fi characters. Would I have made all the same decisions she did? No. Would I have died many times over in the same situations? Absolutely. She was resilient and the ending was satisfying.

Oh I still live here, I just had seen it recently and thought it was a funny observation. BTW I am almost finished with Death of the Author and love it.

As a Phoenix native, I can attest that Peggy from King of the Hill was right when she said, "This city should not exist. It is a monument to man's arrogance."

I have only read "I Who Have Never Known Men," but it was really interesting and worth your time.

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.

I'm just a girl standing here in front of Tori, begging you to release this on f-droid

Release it on f-droid!

CNN convened a panel of transgender youth to get their thoughts on the Supreme Court and the 2024 election.

10-year-old Violet: "My self is not an opinion. It is a fact."

But why substack? You don't have an established presence there and don't have to start in the same place where the owner supports N@zi/openness to platforming hate speech.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you want to distribute this openly, f-droid would be an ideal choice.

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Topics cdc, government, united states, dataset, archive Language English Item Size 98.5G An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive.

Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

I'm going to keep pointing out that f-droid exists

I want to like @openvibe.social but find I am unable to access other bluesky features on individual profiles like lists/starter packs.

just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important.

Indiana Jones punching a Nazi

anyway

The Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide featured this preview of the Trump inauguration.

It’s fucking brilliant.

Finland gave every homeless person a house and within 6 months 85% had a job and were financially independent.

Less crime, less hospital visits, less suffering and even including the cost of the house, LESS COST than the UK/USA method of abandoning them on the streets.

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I did an image search and this appears to be the source, but I couldn't confirm that they are the original creators:

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The audiobook is pretty easy to listen to while doing other activities when sped up a little.

The answer really is fuck no.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin