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happy sigh

It's Christian dominionism; the place where patriarchy, religious fundamentalism, racism, transphobia, pedophilia, greed, hatred of whatever science may not be suborned, homophobia, eugenics, monolingualism, propertarian childrearing and land theft all bind with capitalism to take over politics.

Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.

my favorite Mardi Gras memory came near the end of Fat Tuesday, at a dance party near the Slab. I turned around and saw a man holding a framed portrait of David Lynch. He rested his cheek against the glass and danced with it for like an hour

Trump family says U.S. dollar needs an upgrade and they are the ones to do it Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. told CNBC on the sidelines of the World Liberty Forum why they think the U.S. needs an alternative to the dollar.

and in a move sure to impoverish millions...

ew gross

as a cis elderwoman I find it entirely scandalous that my bluesky feed is full of transfolk getting their backs blown out at quite a lively rate but the freep seems to think that none but whiny cis dudes count

s c a n d a l o u s

no surprise

Scimitar-crested Spinosaurus species from the Sahara caps stepwise spinosaurid radiation We describe a close relative of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, the sail-backed, fish-eating giant from nearshore deposits of northern Africa. Spinosaurus mirabilis sp. nov., discovered in the central Sahara alongside long-necked dinosaurs in a riparian habitat,...

Spinasaurus mirabilis! Now I want to hear "Graviportal Polka" #filk (h/t Seanan McGuire for the link)

So I'm an abolitionist & think we should work for a world without jails. When we point out elite impunity, the question is why ARE there jails if you don't have to go to them if you're rich & powerful, & they're just filled with people without resources.

UPDATE: I’ve been at the Northwest Detention Facility for over 3 hours and am still being denied my congressional duty to conduct oversight.

What are they so afraid of that they won't let me meet with detainees?

I will not give up.

"you should open a gfm" is code for "go beg other poors instead of bothering us" and "this upward mobility space is segregated for the rich, go back over there with your gfm"

ermagerd

shudder

Less than two years ago, Texas Tech University suspended me for speaking out against genocide. Today I found out I was denied tenure.

Scientists discover “bacterial constipation,” a new disease caused by gut-drying bacteria | News & Events | Nagoya University Stay informed about research breakthroughs, university announcements, and opportunities to engage with Nagoya University's dynamic global community.

new one on me

some people can't stand at a stove, and don't have the grip strength to deal with a microwave, but still want it on hand. Almost everything that looks like only a fool would use it has its roots in disabled people wanting to have a life.

239 (I: 252). the Council of Elrond - In J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century Tom Shippey comments that the present chapter is a largely unappreciated tour de force, whose success may be gauged by the fact that few pause to recognize its complexity. It breaks, further-more, most of the rules which might be given to an apprentice writer. For one thing, though it is fifteen thousand words long, in it nothing happens: it consists entirely of people talking. For another, it has an unusual number of speakers present (twelve), the majority of them (seven) unknown to the reader and appearing for the first time. Just to make things more difficult, the longest speech, by Gandalf, which takes up half the total, contains direct quotation from seven more speakers, or writers, all of them apart from Butterbur and Gaffer Gamgee new to the story, and some of them (Saruman, Denethor) to be extremely important to it later on. Other speakers, like Glóin, give quotations from yet more speakers, Dáin and Sauron's messenger. Like so many committee meetings, this chapter could very easily have disintegrated, Lost its way, or simply become too boring to follow. The fact that it does not is brought about by two things, Tolkien's extremely firm grasp of the history ... of Middle-earth; and his unusual ability to suggest cultural variation by differences in mode of speech. [pp. 68-9; see also more generally, pp. 68-82]

The Council of Elrond: very clearly should not work as a piece of writing yet does.

if you're religious, then children are a gift from God

You're supposed to take care of gifts from God.

Anything else is poor stewardship

she's telling on herself

publicly promising to subscribe once you're on Ghost

Easy way to recognize if an account is a bot or real based on their username:

"username12345" — bot
"Anna 💋 🌹" — bot
"Blue RESISTER" — bot
"John Smith" — bot
"i cant believe its not butlerian jihad" — real

A sunny day outside a theatre that’s painted white with light blue trim and red “Theatre” sign horizontally across the marquee and a vertical “Yukon” sign with red letters on the right. There’s movie posters across the front. It’s ‘an early modernist façade with an Art Deco influence’

A red building with the red and white CBC logo above the doors. It’s a sunny day, there’s snow on the ground, and there’s mountains in the background. Cars are parked in a lot to the right of the building

A snowy sidewalk in downtown Whitehorse with trees wrapped up in burlap to protect them from the elements, lampposts on the left, sandwich boards for the shops on the right. A person in red coat holds hands with another down the sidewalk a bit. Cars are parked on the left. There’s a sign for a shop “Murdock’s Gifts Diamonds Jewelry” on the right. Snowy mountains in the background

A walk around Whitehorse yesterday (in -28C)
#canada #yukon #travel

Digital illustration of the same silly pugs from the parent post, but the pugs are wearing pikachu onesies.

ok, yes, I couldn’t wait to share. I also did them as pugachu

pfffffttsssssss! (crackling)

Black-and-white studio portrait of Abraham Beverley Walker shown in left profile. He wears round eyeglasses, has a mustache and a small goatee, and short, curly hair. He is dressed in a dark suit jacket over a vest with a white shirt and patterned tie. The background is plain and light, and the image is framed as a rectangular print with a thin border.

Abraham Beverly Walker broke barriers in late 19th-century Canada as a lawyer, journalist, and civil rights advocate. He challenged segregation in courts and in print, arguing Black Canadians deserved full equality under the law.
This is his story.

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Poilievre says Conservatives want national unity in face of separation threats | CBC News Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he hasn't had a single member of Parliament from within his party express they're in favour of Alberta separatism.

after stoking AB separatist coal fires for a decade or more suddenly PP is a federalist. call out the bs lol

v proud of myself for turning to my brO in plenty of time to predict the plot twist for e5 s1 Upload

Actual Olympic GOAT:

you made me so gleeful there

show me your squishy pink handbeans
i mean "Hi"

May I respectfully ask you to ask yourself if you're not being ableist about folks who can't stand at a stove and have no grip strength. Also you're being mean to non stop party people