rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️

ha, probably not!

i've still never had an uncrustable, though...it's weird, i love peanut butter and jelly but they make me think of the...jarred packaged mix of peanut butter and jelly, which was never as good as just putting together the sandwich myself.

i will say this, the Fleet have a 🐐-tier team logo. that's some amazing design.

honestly until i figure out who my team is, anyone but Frost sounds pretty great 😂

friday: @learnedleague.com asks about Raising Cane's

right now: i am nomming on some chicken fingers and texas toast

these things are related #LL108

it was glorious!

and that's amazing!

i wish there were a Chicago team...i am trying to decide who to cheer for since there's not. but the Victoire made a damn good case today.

and will hopefully continue to do so unless and until she fixes her heart.

Like lefties were of course against bombing Iraq but mainstream Dems were not and the vibe this time is… not that

As someone who remembers the early days of the Iraq War I will say it is interesting how *significantly* more negative the vibe is around the attacks on Iran

things that warm my heart: the arena full of Montreal Victoire fans booing the fuck out of that one player on the Minnesota Frost who has aligned herself with anti-trans group whenever she had the puck.

Some conservatives here think that secular young Iranians would be happy if America would come and liberate them. What would you say to them? Democracy, contrary to what they try to tell us, it’s not a paper that you hang on the wall and then you have a democracy. Democracy is a social evolution. It is something cultural. Iranians, they have become much more secular, and they are ready for democracy, but they have to fight themselves for democracy, and the only thing that other countries can do is to understand their fight and help them in their fight. They [America] talk about the human rights in Iran … how is it that the United States makes the biggest deals with China, and China is far from respecting human rights? What about Saudi Arabia? If you want to talk about an inquisition, the Iranian regime is far from being an inquisition. We have almost a free press, people leave, women have the right to study, they drive, they work. Saudi Arabia, they don’t have anything like that! Talk about human rights in Saudi Arabia! Why doesn’t anyone go and put a bomb in Saudi Arabia and kill the king?

Do you think it’s ironic that, in the face of American threats, you almost find yourself defending the Iranian regime? Absolutely, but if we want a democracy, the Iranian people have to do it themselves. The Americans say they want a democracy in Iran, and at the same time, when the Iranians wanted to become democratic in 1953 with [Mohammad] Mosaddeq and to nationalize our oil, the CIA came and made a coup d’état in my country. Why do you want me to believe that they want to come and make a democracy? We have to make our democracy! There are many things that I wish for in my country — I want my country to be free, I want my country to be democratic, I don’t want any journalists to go to jail because of an article they wrote in my country. But if the United States of America attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the United States.

Do you see similarities between the Christian fundamentalists in our government and the mullahs in Iran? They’re the same! George Bush and the mullahs of Iran, they use the same words! The mullahs of Iran say we have God on our side; he has God on his side, too. Both of them are convinced that they are going to eradicate evil in the world. But when these words come out of the mouth of a mullah, it’s normal. It’s a shame that the president of the biggest secular democracy in the world talks with the same words as the mullahs. It’s extremely scary.

Do you have any advice for secular Americans who are faced with living in a country that’s increasingly governed by religious fundamentalists? If I have any advice, it’s that every day that you wake up, don’t say, “This is normal.” Every day, wake up with this idea that you have to defend your freedom. Nobody has the right to take from women the right to abortion, nobody has the right to take from homosexuals the right to be homosexual, nobody has the right to stop people laughing, to stop people thinking, to stop people talking. If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.

The full 2005 interview it's from is well worth a read btw. Sadly just as relevant today as it was 20+ years ago—moreso, in fact. www.salon.com/2005/04/24/s...

"There are many things I wish for my country . . . But if the USA attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the US."

being on the bus home, a bus full of people headed to Chamber, is making me feel some type of way.

being able to look myself in the mirror tomorrow morning is worth more than a night of fun would be tonight. and i am telling myself that. but i'm way more bummed than i expected to be.

i hate that it makes me sad that i'm not at Elimination Chamber. it was a choice to stop watching WWE after they brought Lesnar back at SummerSlam — that was my personal breaking point.

but it also makes me sad and mad to be missing it, since it's not just in my city, but in my neighbourhood.

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

"the Red Sea parts for Commandment!

well played, Pete Aiello. well played.

you're okay. i am just speaking horse again.

Tiz Dashing in the Sackatoga Stables silks for trainer Barclay Tagg in the Canadian Turf (G3). a Tiz the Law baby, even. you love to see it.

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

So did the kids in the school we bombed greet us as liberators? Just wondering.

We’ve also violated the Olympic Truce, not that the IOC is going to do anything about it given the amount of money the US pays in

all that to say we shouldn’t be hosting in 2028 and in a just world should be facing the same consequences Russia did for invading Ukraine

Sending love to my Iranian and Persian friends today.

May we live to see the end of US imperialism.

that would rule, tbh

researching for the goal of healthy horsies: GOOD

that acronym: JARRING

not gonna lie, i wish the Thoroughbred Education and Research Foundation had ALMOST ANY OTHER ACRONYM

ughhhhhh when i lived in St. Louis my apartment was less than half a mile from a Kingdom Hall and i got JW proselytizers so often. sometimes i'd get back from class to have Watchtowers rubber-banded to my doorknob. just...do not want.

'I'm heartbroken': Trans Kansans struggle with reality as driver’s licenses are invalidated The Kansas Department of Revenue this week sent a letter to Kansans affected by a new law that requires the gender marker on a driver’s license to match a person’s sex at birth.

Trans Kansans received a letter this week stating that if they hadn't complied with a law requiring the gender marker on their driver’s license to match their sex at birth that their licenses are “invalid immediately."

From @kansasreflector.com:

as always, Flavor Flav knows what time it is.

SO FREAKING DOPE

AND Y'ALL, YOU CAN ACTUALLY WATCH THE FILM AT THE LINKED ARTICLE!!!

WE CAN WATCH A CINEMATIC DISCOVERY DATING BACK TO ALMOST 130 YEARS AGO

***I CANNOT OVERSTATE HOW FREAKING DOPE THIS IS, GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH***

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"

HELL. YES.