Hellianne

Ah, yes, I’d forgotten they were ever so careful not to malign the poor little t*rfs. (To be clear about my view on t*rfs: They are fascistic bootlickers, Not feminists of any stripe.)

In addition to what @logatex.bsky.social said, an article was recently published that initially had the title “Did women ruin the workplace?” When that got deserved criticism, the paper changed “women” to “feminism.”

I’ve been stalled on that second one. It is *so* hard, and I admire you for doing it.

At least, like potatoes, the worst consequence of sticking what amounts to maxi pads to the soles of your feet is just a raging case of athletes foot.

I remember ads for “detox” pads you’d stick to your feet at night. When you woke up in the morning, you could “see” all the toxins it drew out by the black marks on the pads. It got debunked easily: The pads changed color even when dipped in distilled water. Sweat worked, too, of course.

I read that article, among many others of hers over the years. Your “spoiler” isn’t justified by the text. You’re projecting things onto her writing that aren’t in it.

Author is Mary Doria Russell.

A very well executed novel on the theme of “Jesuits meet the aliens” is The Sparrow. Note that it has distressing content (graphic violence, body horror, and sexual assault).

Trump stands behind the desk in the Oval Office with an open binder in front of him. Stacks of gaudy gold disks that might be coasters are lined up next to two landline telephones. In the background, four people attend to a fifth person who has passed out on the floor. Trump’s expression is entirely free of even the slightest trace of compassion, empathy, or concern for the person who had a possibly serious medical incident right next to him just moments before.

A social media post from Find Out Now reads as follows: Find Out Now voting intention: Reform UK: 33% (+1) Greens: 18% (+1) Conservatives: 16% (-) Labour: 15% (-1) Lib Dems: 11% (-1) Changes from 29th October Find Out Now, 5-6th November, N=2,717

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Screenshot of a website. The last paragraph is marked with a red-line rectangle to call attention to it. The text reads: Did the EU prevent the creation of freeports? No. The UK could have created freeports as a member of the EU. Indeed, the UK hosted seven freeports as an EU member state between 1984 and 2012, when it decided not to renew the legislation governing them. These were located at ports including Liverpool, Southampton, Tilbury and Glasgow Prestwick Airport. Across the EU, there are currently 72 free zones in 20 member states. The UK will, however, have more freedom over the flexibilities and tax concessions it can offer in free zones. This is because EU freeports are governed by the Union Customs Code as well as by EU rules on state aid, which stop member states using selective tax exemptions and financial incentives to distort competition.

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A photo of a light-skinned man in a business suit is superimposed over a painting depicting the Trail of Tears. Below, a headline reads “Markwayne Mullin describes Trail of Tears as ‘Volunteer Walk’”.

Screenshot of part of a webpage pulled from the Internet Archive, dated September 18, 2019. Text reads, “As one of two Native Americans currently serving in Congress, Congressman Mullin is a strong advocate for tribes and Native Americans. Mullin has sponsored a number of bills to advance Native American priorities including improving rural broadband access, allowing tribes access to federal opioid grants, protecting ancestral burial grounds, and reforming the Indian Health Services. He is a proud member of the Cherokee Nation. He and his wife are raising their five kids on the same family farm where Mullin's ancestors ended their walk on the Trail of Tears.”

A closer look at the same webpage from the previous image. Text reads, “As one of two Native Americans currently serving in Congress, Congressman Mullin is a strong advocate for tribes and Native Americans. Mullin has sponsored a number of bills to advance Native American priorities including improving rural broadband access, allowing tribes access to federal opioid grants, protecting ancestral burial grounds, and reforming the Indian Health Services. He is a proud member of the Cherokee Nation. He and his wife are raising their five kids on the same family farm where Mullin was raised.”

A social media post dated November 1, 2018 by Mullin that reads, “It has come to my attention that a group of political activists have twisted my words. Let me set the record straight. I know the story of my family and the history of the Trail of Tears. The Cherokee Nation states that there were Cherokees who voluntarily relocated before the forced removal. My family did exactly that-and that is what I was referring to in my comments. They moved west before the forced removal and settled near the Arkansas/Oklahoma border where my family and I still live today. I never said the Trail of Tears was voluntary.” Under it is what appears to be a linked source titled A Brief History of the Trail of Tears that is on the domain webtest2.cherokee.org.

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Illustration of seven women dressed in full Wonder Woman regalia. They are a range of different heights, sizes, shapes, and skin tones. Most are standing, and one is seated in a wheelchair. All of them are posing with strength and confidence. Below is the caption “E we are all wonder women!” with a red star.

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I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

Terds

Not sure it’s horrible, really: NaNo 2.0

nano2.org

Because really when you don't even have that standard, all you've done is tell a group of predators/abusers, "we won't hold you accountable EITHER" when they slide into the tent.

How is THAT gonna fix the problem?

Didn’t gamers literally invent the concept of rage quitting?

I feel that some of you need regular reminders of how unpopular this man is. And frankly I see him getting even more so as the economy worsens. Again, this doesn't mean that he will give up any power but it does mean that WE HAVE POWER TOO.

It’s not just that for-profit corps have filled that space. It’s the specific corp whose sponsorship drove the non-profit to support genAI, turning away a large slice of regular supporters. Read about the NaNo AI scandal and you’ll see how the successor helped kill its predecessor.

And here’s a specfic feed that uses a different approach:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

BookSky has a feed specific to ssf and specfic.

bsky.app/profile/book...

An obscure one: Lane Navachi by Lunascape has a line that *might* be “Someone shot her in the rainbow” but I think their lyrics are in a conlang, so that might be listeners’ incorrect interpretation.

* SING about the rainbow, I meant

Oh, and I think some kinds of Christians doing about the rainbow as a sign of the covenant.

Adding to @discovereuse.bsky.social’s contributions:

Look to the Rainbow from the musical Finnian’s Rainbow

A kids’ song I learned ages ago that listed colors and had the refrain “I can sing a rainbow”

The “double rainbow across the sky” guy’s video turned into a song with autotune

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Photograph of Arlington National Cemetary. Orderly rows of thousands of matching grey headstones, bright green grass, trees in full leaf. In the distance, a line of soldiers stand in solemnity. A caption above the image reads: Did you know ANTIFA has its own cemetery?! There are more than 400,000 ANTIFA buried there, including my grandfather. It's called Arlington.

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A BlueSky post by user Viara VT, dated August 30th, 2025, that reads: How tf are y'all gonna go from ACAB to 'elect this transphobic cop, she's the best we got' and expect to win, then blame those of us who demanded better? I just don't see the logic...

A BlueSky post from Mindy Michell that reads: Shut up, you got what you wanted and what you wanted was white with a rat on it's head. Another Berniebro throwback muted for later. Viara VT replies: Way to assume and attack without knowing anything about me. All I did was ask for an explanation. Still waiting for one btw.

Very late, but here's #AltForYou