People say Bari Weiss has never been a journalist, but those folks clearly haven't read her work at The New York Sun, where she published such gems as... this Zionist hatchet job about a Columbia U department that she'd been attacking as an undergraduate activist just a year earlier

they would eat you in a heartbeat tho

how I feel eating octopus

that's literally how they think trans kids come to exist so

yeppp

I often tell people that HAMAS and Netanyahu's IDF are two parts of a single machine that kills people.

K-Pax, starring Kevin Spacey

"losing out on"? You mean "Trump is withholding from"?

babe reread my post I'm not supporting him I'm opposing him

Happy birthday!

Hm.
"Caldwell .. argues that the civil rights movement spawned a whole constellation of other liberation struggles [creating] a “rival Constitution” that is incompatible with the original one and the source of a great deal of social unrest."

I agree with this, I just think it's a good thing

that's quite an argument he makes too. Hope he didn't throw his back out

@dbernstein.bsky.social do you really share a birthday with Kadzis?

Josie and I just realized we needed to rewrite FRIDAY the 13TH as a sequel to TWELFTH NIGHT where Freddy Kruger is Malvolio back to seek his revenge

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while I'm posting, does anyone know how to look up how often anti-trans legislation and lawsuits cited particular publications

oh no

In this country canes and crutches, even temporary ones, are inevitably what they call "canadians" which are the kind with the forearm loop and lower hand grip that Americans associate with more serious chronic disabilities

gotta take care of those knees; they're carrying some epigenetic burdens

I wish walking sticks hadn't gone out of fashion

Feels a bit like stolen valor, but it made me look so formidable.

I moved briskly with it, but it also showed drivers that they had to not assume I'd be able to get out of their way.

I still have that crutch. I'm a bit older now and I'm in a city with a lot of difficult sidewalks. I wonder if it's worth it to bring it out.

When I saw someone being harassed, it made it easy to intervene; the harassee was less scared of me, the harasser hesitant to get into it with a disabled/armed person

Some years ago I broke my leg a little bit in NYC and I had an aluminum crutch. I miss it all the time.
It was a signifier; it made people a little bit sympathetic and a little bit scared. It gave me a weapon of self-defense any time I needed it.

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I think the point that's more interesting is in the skeet below this one: that lots of people wearing hate-speech clothing are very polite, kind and cheerful.

I remember when McCain did a debate wearing a tie with stripes that caused a scintillating effect on TV. Now, every A/V tech can recognize this costuming problem, so I knew there had been a moment when someone said "sir you should change your tie" and he said GODDAMMIT I'M WEARING THIS ONE

hate to say we called it. Why couldn't I have been right about Harris sweeping the election instead

Jake Blount's dystopian folk music is an omen for the present The Providence musician released his first album of Black mountain music during America’s racial reckoning. Amid Trump’s DEI purge and environmental collapse, his Afrofuturist folk hits different.

In 2020, the folk musician Jake Blount launched into national awareness with the release of his debut album, “Spider Tales.” His reclamation of Black and Indigenous mountain music spoke to the nation’s racial reckoning, and led him to invent a new genre: Afrofuturist folk.

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