Erin Grievances

What the National Park Service Has Flagged Thus Far. It's Much Worse Than I Thought. Note: This is a long post.

I spent hours looking through hundreds of files of materials that have been flagged for review by National Park Service sites around the country. Here is just a small sample of what I found. #NationalParks 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

A big difference between Catholicism and Evangelicalism which JD Vance doesn't seem to understand is the rapture isn't a "thing" in the former.

I remember when the Left Behind books came out, I had no idea what they were talking about.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

I know it's not the anti-war song most people go to (even though their early 2000s albums actually have a lot in this vein) but this moment is reminding me of "Fun & Games" by BNL. Back then it was satirical but now it feels like something you'd hear from a cabinet secretary.

I suppose it barely matters that he's told each of them completely contradictory things.

The key to getting mainstream media on board with an illegal war is making them feel like an important part of it.

"My dear brother, will you be good enough to send me this week an order for $200, since I find it impossible to get money without yr name." JMSI to WMI, 3/2/1846, SMP 2:2

A Known and Unknown War Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.

"When the field of history is left uncrowded by historians with full-time employment, historical actors—with self-serving intentions—who wish to exculpate and justify their actions will fill the vacuum."

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

That's my mayor! Congrats!

The other weird thing about this is: the USCCB files amicus briefs all the time — and has for, like, decades.

Below is a whole list. Some spend most of their time on legal arguments, but a *lot* cite scripture, Catholic teaching, etc.

This isn't new. www.usccb.org/offices/gene...

roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

whoops

Fun to think about the decisions we’re locking in now

quite the opposite--anyone who raised the most recent podcast appearance and saying "this seems like another red flag" was getting downvoted to oblivion

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this:

all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral.

BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

The top portion of a wall calendar for February. It is a still image from the Empire strikes back of Luke Skywalker in a bacta tank in his skivvies.

Truly unfair to assign this photo to the shortest month of the year. Goodbye February 1981.

Sorry it was extra wild for a while on here, ao3 was down.

I love that we both found very niche reasons to hate this guy.

My high school had signs on the water fountains in the late 90s noting that you shouldn't drink the water if you were on a restricted sodium diet. No one had any idea why they were there but they made us wonder if we *should* be worried about our sodium levels. (No one worried too hard.)

This is some unexpected #NutmegSky content.

sorry that's the private school i grew up down the street from so this is a very niche reason i now have to hate him

As a townie, I now feel even more righteous in saying fuck that guy

HE WENT TO FUCKING HOTCHKISS ARE YOU KIDDING ME

Who was it who coined the term smol bean fascism? This seems like a different variety of smol bean, honestly.

I don't know that I'd ever seen something best described as "dickriding" before.

Either he doesn't know what's going on or he doesn't know what's going on (Mike Johnson version) and neither one is good.

It's reached the point where the excuses are making it seem like the antisemitism is a feature, not a bug, for some supporters.

I just popped into the Maine subreddit and, uh, yikes.