Tbf a lot of people also don’t know that Labubu is technically Dutch too, invented in Utrecht by a Dutch-HK artist. I only just learned about that one haha. The Dutch love to export cute characters!

Nijntje is unstoppable tbh and it seems unfair that other countries get cuter Nijntje merch when those of us living in her country of origin (Netherlands) only can find cheap stuff at Hema (unless we find a specific Nijntje shop) 😭

Until 1964, an employer could refuse to hire someone just for being a woman. Until 1965, it was legal for a doctor to refuse to prescribe birth control for married women. Until 1972, it was legal for a bank to refuse to let a married woman get her own account. Until 1972, it was legal for a doctor to refuse to prescribe birth control for single women. Until 1974, it was legal to refuse to sell a house to a woman. Until 1988, it was legal for landlords to refuse to rent a unit to a woman with children. Your granny didn't stay married because her generation had a stronger moral compass than people today. She stayed because society LITERALLY stole away all her independence. Think about that the next time someone wants to go back to "the good old days". It was only good for men ..... and only for men of a certain demographic, if you catch my meaning. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Too many today don't realize how recent women's rights and liberation really are. And we're on the cusp of losing it all.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

WHAT THE FUCK

"If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
-Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol"

Have a great Thursday! And I hope your blood doesn't run as cold as mine just did!

Kristi Noam looks like the POS step-mother in a made for TV movie where she sends her step-kids to an awful boarding school and intercepts every call they try to make to their father.

I am BEGGING Begging folks to actually listen to exvangelicals about the actual structures of abuse and who facilitates it

Because a lot of these « I’m a good person and I hang with the horrible are just manipulative gaslighters »

L o a f

The world is terrible but sourdough challah is not. Before and after the final proof. Will share final baked loaf once it’s done.

I like to put it in a loaf pan so I can toast it more easily. My braid is terrible but whatever I did my best.

Dorian

TACO is NOT building a ballroom.

He is building a bunker.

Booze Allen is not an architecture firm.

It’s a defense contractor.

American synagogues are closing at a record rate. This retired judge is rescuing their stained glass windows. Jerry Orbach is rescuing stained glass from closed synagogues — giving the windows, and the communities they once illuminated, a second life.

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Love this, love my City.

#HighParkStreet #Liverpool

From "Baptistland" by
@christabrown.bsky.social

Undocumented people don't qualify for SNAP, but I bet if you showed up at their door, they would feed you.

Just this

Imagine hating me and I'm just over here wishing you had free food, shelter and medical care

Happy #SocialistTuesday to those who celebrate

Scrolling around on different platforms, I can’t get over the sheer number of mediocre middle aged white “christian”folks who seem to be absolutely thrilled that some folks might starve to death next month.

Really losing faith in humanity.

a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands and looking at the camera . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands and looking at the camera .

The Record of Lodoss War omg

British icon, hilarious comic & bird-kind ⁦‪Bill Bailey‬⁩ thinks securing homes for birds reliant on cavity nesting habitat is an ace idea. The swift brick debate is tomorrow. Help the birds. Email SWIFT BRICKS to steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk

What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com

"There's noise, so much noise, but there's also signal and the signal was that they were here that they were everywhere. Smash and grab jobs happening across the city nearly simultaneously. But the things being stolen aren't jewels, they're lives." - @dansinker.com

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Morgan Housley, 29, describes the disappointment after looking for a man in Washington, D.C. and how she hoped to find someone who "loved the Lord," enjoyed going to church on Sunday and could go running with her — but no one meeting those qualifications has materialized. She wanted to find someone who can “provide and protect, emotionally, physically, spiritually, all of those things.”

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I find it particularly hilarious that MAGA women have been looking for the model of man MAGA sells and claims they're made of and keep NOT finding them. #hypocrites

No sympathy. They want daddies and the men want "fun".

"I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped."

If you think Trump can’t misuse the nuclear codes because "people would stop him" well those same people just watched him bulldoze a wing of the White House.

Gee, I can’t imagine why…

Politicians who lean into racism for votes are beneath contempt

SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high.

SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.

Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.

People need & deserve assistance

Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich

Be mad about that

Support your local bookstore.

I love that so much of the history of medieval Christianity imvolves Christian monks/intellectuals attempting to recenter the poverty of Christ in their teachings while the strong arm of the church and state declare them heresiarchs for insisting on the immorality of hoarded wealth.

The question of "why do people vote against their self-interest" is pretty self-explanatory when you look up the literacy rate in local schools.

We have high schools with a literacy rate of 32%.

Thirty-two percent...