Lori Beth

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it.

Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

"Why can't I decide the things that I remember?" 😂 Michael Hobbes

A gray and white cat lays on a wooden headboard with crossed paws

A gray cat with a white belly is flopped across a white bedspread with pink flamingos on it. You can see a couple of cat's perfect black toe beans.

This is also a Theo!

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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Tumblr post by: weaselle Jun 18, 2024 i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: what we want is for these things to be run like a HOUSEHOLD… a home. A household still has a budget and an income and resources to manage; all the moving parts are the same but the focus is different. a business will let every person in it die a terrible death if it makes the business profit. A household will spend it’s last dollar to keep the people in it safe and healthy. A household will use money as a resource to add value to the lives of the people in the household. A business will use people as a resource to add monetary value to the business We don’t want a government run like a business, we want a country run like a household. Because we live here.

The kids on Tumblr know what's what

Reskeet originally from @sirlongbelt photo of Kash Patel with very wide eyes. @thegatesofmel says "Imagine going to work for your photo with your pupils looking like this."

Skeet by @bodegacats if a brown tabby with a white chest sitting in front of a shelf of Milano cookies on top of cases of La Croix. Eyes wide similar to Kash Patel's. Should be on Cats With Jobs.

These photo skeets back-to-back are too perfect.

Brittney Spears saying “Just so typically May”

yes, whatever social media platform i am currently active on (except linkedin, lol), i am going to post this meme (and *not* the other meme associated with today. i can’t stand him) on the first day of the fifth month every year. this is…

The regret rate for gender transition is less than 0.3% (as compared with an average of 14% for surgery in general and 7% for having kids!) but the media loves to find and platform a regretter.

man in dramatic light, sitting in blue denim shirt at a sewing machine sewing a belt.

silhouetted figure seen from behind, dramatically lit, as he walks in an old brick sewer tunnel. his flashlight is the main source of light.

inside you there are two sewers.

Noting Rowling’s vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowling’s newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, “It really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know.” “I feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. “And certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world – Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.”

Clive Barker gets it.

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I really can’t get over this lmao. Treating her adoptive child like she bought a new car. And if she discusses it with strangers this way, what is she saying to her child!

Two things can be true at once.
You can post a really bad take (which includes a photo of a person doing something perfectly legal taken without their consent) AND someone can truly unbelievably overreact to it.

A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

Tired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they're racist

Wired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they feel attacked by his anti-pedophile stance

He boasts about being a sexual predator, he's been accused by 25 women of rape, harassment or assault, a jury found he "forcibly and non consensually penetrated Carroll's vagina with his fingers," he supports banning abortion.

But he hates trans people and so the Times calls him "a feminist hero."

Truly, truly. Why are we so bad at this?!

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Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts The Constitution, federal law and court decisions make it clear: President Donald Trump's order to pause federal funding is against the law, legal experts tell ABC News.

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

Also a horrible way to parent!

Looking at you, John Fetterman

Hey I don’t know what Democratic Senator of mine named Tim Kaine needs to hear this, but none of you need to be voting for a single one of these cabinet picks to be confirmed! There is no benefit to be gained!

St Giles-in-the-Fields From ‘The Vanishing Song' By Jay Hulme Beneath her foundations: Cowslip. Foxglove. The fields burrow under her. Among this earth there’s something that’s never been London. How can it be that a church precedes the city? A dirt lane. Sheep track. Apple tree. Earth coiling into something else. Here we prayed it better - prayed it different. Capture the meaning of things inside prayer books. Stained glass. Balustrades. The old font buried beneath the bell tower ringing to remember the times we forgot. She grows like a flower. Like wheat. Tall and unfurling - spire uncurling from the ruins and the death. Gild the woodwork. Tune the organ. Dust off the portraits of people long gone. The city will claim this as centre, claim this as heartland; but she remembers the fields that flourish under her - roots too deep for digging. You cannot erase a thing that never forgets.

"[...] she remembers the fields that
flourish under her - roots too deep for digging.
You cannot erase a thing that never forgets."

BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers:

Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users.

That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

Michael Hobbes giving 'the thing that gives your life meaning' / religion four Pinocchios in the If Books Could Kill "The End of Faith" episode just about broke me.

Stop putting the onus on women to change how men react.

National parks haven't exactly been environmentally managed but it's probably still not a good take.

Mask up! Covid is no joke, I'm seeing more than a few people I follow have caught it (...again...).

Violet Blue has one of the best newsletters for knowing what's going on with Covid.

(This is last weeks roundup)

GitHub - alt-text-org/in-need-of-adoption: I am dying and unable to continue work on any projects here. I am seeking folks to take them over. I am dying and unable to continue work on any projects here. I am seeking folks to take them over. - alt-text-org/in-need-of-adoption

Please boost: Hannah Kolbeck wrote "The alt-text.org alt text library project needs a new leader... I am dying, and have #accessibility projects that need leadership if anyone is able."

Link: github.com/alt-text-org...

Obesity has gotten so bad that there are now 14.2 fat people per person on the planet.