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It'll brighten MY month, anyway, and probably my SIL's and cousin's. Not sure about my little brother's, but he made me read the fucking Prince of Tides on his turn, so he owes me.

SOBBING that my next turn to pick for book club isn't until spooky season is over. Oh well, January in the Midwest is still plenty fucking gloomy enough for a good Gothic I reckon.

If we're post Constitution the rotten orange has no power over our Guard, our army or claim on our tax dollars. You ready for that, Secesh Russ?

Miller does all the war crimes, and Vought does all the property crimes.

A lot of them are burnouts and hacks that didn't want to practice medicine any more once they realized patients were people and not just scenarios in a textbook.

This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress.

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What (white liberal) people don't understand about civility is - they see it as a validation of shared humanity, that even though I don't like you, you're still a human deserving basic respect. Authoritarians see it as deference they are owed for being stronger but giving it is signaling weakness.

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Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

a 19th century embroidery sampler showing the solar system, the distance of the planets from the sun, and the length of time it takes each planet to circle the sun

Imagine the complicated and precious genius of the girl who made this embroidery sampler in 1811

The Solar System, sampler, unknown maker, 1811, England. Museum no. T.92-1939. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

"Honey, don't make eye contact with creepy old men staring at you in the airport, then they feel entitled to your attention and make scenes when you don't want to talk to them." - mothers "damaging mitochondria" probably

lol, let me guess, he either wanted to sell you his Surefire Spiritual Degreaser or he was mad none of his rancid vibes were sticking.

I am not disagreeing with you but people have called it "child pornography" for a very long time now including in the relevant legal statutes for prosecuting it. I appreciate you are standing up for people doing consensual sex work as adults, but that is very much the term that is used.

Uh, photos of CSAM certainly are illegal. I think he's implying they're looking at Epstein pictures, not commercially available publications.

I've only known this world existed since March of this year but I'm still absolutely wild for the next installment...

Like student loans were supposed to be forgiven for public service, only any microscopic technicality resulted in failure? The only good thing about this is anybody who believes it will get the defaults they deserve when the Rs screw them like Trump and Felon have all their previous employees.

It's possible the hospital has changed its internal policies, but right now, there is no law/EO requiring that patient religion be reported anywhere, if that helps. If they gave you a post care survey, I would tell them it made you feel unsafe that they ask that question.

The religion one way predates Trump, it's for the hospital chaplain service in case you get admitted. It does feel sketchy though, when I was doing intake I always made a point of telling patients "this is why we're asking, you don't have to say if you're not comfortable."

Ouch, coming down from KJ is a high bar. Have you tried Harper Fox (if WWI/WWII is historical enough), Joanna Chambers (the Enlightenment series is Regency but as I recall no dukes), Tess Bowery (Rite of Summer) or AJ Demas (an alternate ancient Greece/early Roman pastiche, but not like, magic.)

What vegetables? ICE is coming for brown farm workers of all kinds, produce is rotting in the fields.

"Big pharma" does not want this, this means more money has to come out of their pockets for development. The "wellness" industry -supplements, "coaching," "complementary and alternative" shit like chiropractic and reiki, and the fad diet/gimmick weight loss wants this.

That's what I thought! I mean, her friend with the cheating AI?? The joke about her virtual therapist? Wouldn't shock me to see some kind of not-disclaimer non-apology about how she had ChatGPT write it "just to see if anyone could tell."

Takes a special kind of person to sacrifice his own kids' happiness and sense of safety to put more kids in actual shackles. Claude Frollo ass bitch.

You're not wrong and it's not just the men it's the white women too. There is so much fanon about how Stark Industries somehow manages to make billions but is also solving world hunger, clean energy and mental health WHILE still funding his suits/shit for the Avengers and the odd robot army...

<<make stuff that is real, and real stuff is often messy>>

Shout out to the cats for tipping over my glass so many times that I caved and went to a bedside water bottle, didn't realize you were saving me from worse, little buddies.

But perhaps what is most telling about the Democratic party’s embrace of Cuomo is not just their disregard for principle or policy, but their willingness to squander other talent. The mayoral race in New York City is crowded, but Cuomo’s two nearest contenders – Mamdani and Brad Lander, the city comptroller – have run remarkable campaigns. Lander has touted a considerable record of accomplishments for the city, underscoring his ability to deliver on promises to New Yorkers and his willingness to persist against formidable interests in long fights for things like bike lanes and affordable housing. Mamdani, meanwhile, has an infectious charisma, and has launched a campaign that has excited young voters, energized a small army of volunteers, and deployed innovative messaging tactics, achieving impressive numbers with relatively little money. You would think that the Democratic party would be more eager to make use of these men’s talents – the policy achievements of one, the preternatural campaign skills of the other. Instead, mainstream Democrats seem fearful, and almost hostile, towards these candidates. Then again, that’s much the way they feel about their voting base itself.

Another thing I can’t get over about the Democratic establishment’s backing of Andrew Cuomo in the New York mayoral race is how much hostility they’ve shown to Zohran Mamdani, an extremely gifted young campaigner whose energy and charisma the party sorely needs. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fair, and thank you for the call-in!

Hey, let's not repeat slurs against developmentally disabled people when you could just as easily say 'Drumpf is an absolute dipshit," gotten the same message across in the same tone, and not punched down at disabled people, many of whom are already suffering from this admin's policy choices.

More seriously, I would ask him to explain why the parents of the children who died from measles in Texas could choose death for their kids without punishment, but parents who pursue gender affirming care for their trans children are wrong even though their children are very much still alive.