THE LEFT CANNOT DEFINE A WOMAN
Uh, I can.
Are you a woman?
Y/N/MaybeSo
There you go.
@lizzzs.bsky.social
Feminist/white/Jewish/parent/writer. Solidarity is action (Mia McKenzie). Courage then action then hope. Interested in trauma. I write songs and stuff sometimes. (Like ptsdthemusical.net) I mostly curate and comment. Bike riding is the best fun. she/her
THE LEFT CANNOT DEFINE A WOMAN
Uh, I can.
Are you a woman?
Y/N/MaybeSo
There you go.
its been genuinely so funny that the two massive βscandalsβ for james talarico so far is that he follows a few onlyfans girls on socials, and that he respects trans people. sounds like a normal guy to me
10.03.2026 17:33 β π 1780 π 172 π¬ 35 π 15CARS ARE VERY MANLY while bicycles are for cucks and females
10.03.2026 18:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since
09.03.2026 18:05 β π 2023 π 333 π¬ 264 π 327βModernity, for all its thrilling innovations, brought us not just the bloody French Revolution but also individually tailored goods [β¦] in loud disdain for the importance of cultural unityβ so true bestie nothing good or politically unifying ever came out of the French Revolution
09.03.2026 21:30 β π 39 π 11 π¬ 2 π 0plenty of trump cabinet officials and high level aides are thieves and grifters and con artists and worse, but i think witkoff may be an actual no-shit traitor
10.03.2026 16:39 β π 602 π 107 π¬ 14 π 4"make hay while the sun shines" implies the existence of night hay, obviously to be used as fodder for night mares.
10.03.2026 17:53 β π 15 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0sharon take: gender is part of the reason decarbonization is so hard
10.03.2026 17:41 β π 374 π 49 π¬ 15 π 5
Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz
billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...
Graphic which reads 'Price of sunlight +0%, Price of oil +50%'
Reminder: The cost of the sun and wind will never increase because of conflict. While oil prices rise by almost 50% in the U.S. - sunlight remains free and abundant, forever. βοΈ
09.03.2026 16:20 β π 99 π 44 π¬ 1 π 4
America and Israel are in essence waging chemical war in Iran, filling the air above its metropolis with toxic smoke after lighting its oil storage depots on fire.
How is anyone supposed to "rise up" when they can't breathe?
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
From the always on-point Sue Halpern, a good catalogue of GOP efforts to disenfranchise voters. It's what they've got left.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
This is what ecocide looks like.
08.03.2026 17:41 β π 5027 π 1838 π¬ 91 π 43A street in the car-free development of Culdesac, in Tempe, Arizona. White stucco buildings surround a quiet courtyard lined with desert vegetation.
Do people really like being trapped in an autocentric system? We talked with the authors of a new study showing that on the contrary, nearly 1 in 5 American car owners is βstrongly interestedβ in living car-free, and another 40 percent are open to the idea. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
10.03.2026 12:56 β π 95 π 16 π¬ 3 π 3Yes. "They're not scared that Mamdani will be a bad major, they're scared he's gonna be a good mayor"
10.03.2026 14:02 β π 1035 π 156 π¬ 7 π 2thereβs a structural reason here. mamdaniβs response was to take an opportunity to make content - and therefore give the rest of the media some easy meta-content - and turn it down. he put governing ahead of content. our political media hates nothing more than someone who denies them easy content.
10.03.2026 13:16 β π 383 π 63 π¬ 3 π 1These articles almost always include some line that's like "To be fair, Mamdani's predecessors did exactly the same thing in similar moments" before quoting some Manhattan Institute ghoul who says why it's actually different.
10.03.2026 14:53 β π 43 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence π₯
01.12.2025 11:09 β π 27736 π 10809 π¬ 549 π 931The "e-bikes are cheating" trope is just "protected bike lanes are unnecessary because I rode all over the place without them" for a new era: A mix of gatekeeping and survivorship bias that allows the person invoking it to defend their perceived status.
10.03.2026 16:05 β π 325 π 54 π¬ 15 π 7
Gift link for the NY Times piece.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...
When the US govt terminated the National Nature Asst, @phillevin.bsky.social + the author team were determined not to let that stop them.
They re-organized, set up an advisory committee, found fundingβ¦and now the brand new Nature Record is open for public comment. ππ³ππ²
Check it out (link below)!
Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine!
History and Medicine β Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure β McMaster University
Apply by March 31st
niche-canada.org/2026/03/05/h...
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Growing up with the petrochemical industry in her community, Tish Taylor shares how how members of her family and community have developed cancer, diabetes, kidney disease, and other diseases. #MomsPlasticsSummit
10.03.2026 16:06 β π 18 π 10 π¬ 1 π 1
βHeyβ came before βhi,β and βhi' came before βhello.β
βHiβ is most likely a variant of βhey.β
βHelloβ is not related to either.
Goodbye.
I promise I will read the article, but I am convinced already there is a problem here already based on the photo of the guy in the preview image.
10.03.2026 16:23 β π 341 π 32 π¬ 18 π 1this is great but it would be even better with #AltText
10.03.2026 17:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0(throwing separate bluesky discourses together and accidentally reinventing the countryside movement) literary critics would benefit from a few years of hard agrarian labor
10.03.2026 16:31 β π 361 π 37 π¬ 12 π 6NYT: Rashida Tlaibβs Expletive-Laden Cry to Impeach Trump Upends Democratsβ Talking Points
NYT search result showing no results for Andy Ogles
NYT when a Muslim congresswoman says βmotherfuckerβ: This is a problem for Democrats
NYT when a Christian Republican congressman says βMuslims don't belong in American societyβ: 0 results