The global wellness industry, at $6.2 trillion a year, is 4 times larger than the global pharmaceutical industry.

"Just make independent art," yes but speaking as an independent artist, this doesn’t scale up. You can't feed the world with home gardens, you can't end global warming with your electric car. At some point you need to realize they're going to keep taking more and more from us until we end them.

this trans panic legislation is so enraging because it’s transparently the feeble rattle of a dying political class and will still manage to kill people

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

kind of weird that the epstein list fallout is mostly resignations rather than, like, public stonings

happy 14th anniversary to all who observe

Allister Heath headline generator reading "Starmer's war on women with giant tits will trigger a revolt of Middle England"

Oh, discovering this while I've got a cough was painful, but worth it.

Percy Shelley’s journal: last night I awoke to a creature watching me through my bedroom window with a face white as chalk

Mary Shelley’s journal: read four books today. Learning three languages while discussing astronomy and mathematics. Also Percy tried to chase his creature again.

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

I don't give a shit if you think porn is yucky, or if transness confuses you, or if seeing/hearing a foreigner makes you uneasy, GET THE FUCK OVER IT. If you lst the government take rights from those people, ANY PEOPLE, then NOBODY has rights. They'll find a way to criminalize you too, promise.

"protecting children" here means protecting our control over everyone's children. once you see that, it all makes sense

@Sian_Hewitt89 I’m probably really late to this.... But have they all put each other’s coats on by accident?

sm980 on Tumblr: Ancient catboys Or, nyanderthals if you will, aidler-chan I most certainl will not.

the-unflappablewolf Who would you trust more? total stranger in a star trek shirt? 94.5% total stranger in a star wars shirt? 5.5% 99.421 Stimmen • Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden thebaconsandwichofregret No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.

No but this is entirely correct

Why the fuck does a driver's license need a sex marker on it in the first place

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

Strap on Time watch billboard

Kansas has, overnight, invalidated the drivers’ licenses of trans people, a pointless cruelty that upends their lives

If Brits think “it won’t happen here” think again! Groups in the U.K. who want the same thing are routinely invited to consult with Labour and normalised in our press!

it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

every trans girl is fighting a secret fight that you can solve by giving her 20 thousand dollars

Photo of my secondhand copy of Sherwood Schwartz’s book INSIDE GILLIGAN’S ISLAND: FROM CREATION TO SYNDICATION

Photo of a bookplate pasted inside the front cover of my secondhand copy of INSIDE GILLIGAN’S ISLAND… “FROM THE LIBRARY OF ROSS A. BURMAN ROSS DIED OF AIDS ON JANUARY 15, 1999 AT THE AGE OF 41. ROSS WAS A GREAT GUY WITH AN AVID INTEREST IN THE ARTS, HOLLYWOOD, FASHION AND COSTUME, AS WELL AS THE KOOKY, STRANGE, DARK AND CAMP NATURE OF PEOPLE. HE REGALED HIS FRIENDS WITH FASCINATING FACTS AND IT IS THE HOPE THAT THROUGH THE DONATION OF THESE BOOKS, THIS KNOWLEDGE CAN BE PASSED ON FOR MANY OTHERS TO ENJOY.

All secondhand books have histories. Sometimes you find out their stories, and those stories can bring even the most innocuous book an incredible emotional weight.

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I'm seriously impressed by writers. And artists. Also musicians. Ooh, and chefs.

Designer intent versus player experience.

I personally think we should ban boys/men from playing sports until we figure out what's wrong with them.

Vintage photo of Walt Disney sitting at an animation table, pencil in hand which is resting on artwork of Mickey Mouse as Steamboat Willy, posed looking at the artwork as if he just drew it

“Walt, the drawing is ready for you to sit down at...”

All right I’ve not read any SOTU coverage but let me know if any news outlets described Trump as “combative” or “defiant” without saying he “lied constantly” or “has recently had tons of people murdered” or “sounded like his brain was left sitting on a radiator”

I already detested Newsom, but I’d love any “vote blue no matter who” Democrat to explain why I should vote for a man who publicly calls gay marriage abnormal.