Wait I Saw A Leaf

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs. 

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

We don't, there will be a new (and hopefully better) normal after this, that said, for the rest of our lives we'll have to be aware a non-trivial number of neighbors and fellows voted for actual fascism, and that's always going to be a bummer

Epstein survivors join with lawmakers in calling for full release of government files Standing in front of the U.S. Capitol, a group of eight survivors shared emotional stories of abuse and demanded more transparency from Congress on the government's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein survivors support effort to release records in full, w/ redactions only to protect victims
"The only motive for opposing this bill would be to conceal wrongdoing.You have a choice. Stand with the truth or with the lies that have protected predators for decades."
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

I want to be hopeful. It’s often very difficult.

Talking about healthcare while people are getting snatched up off the streets and bloodthirsty soldiers are invading their own country because people have blue hair is actually so unserious.

Everybody with a brain knows that until that shit stops healthcare or any other social good is off the table

Whenever you feel that everything sucks, smash that search button and look for Raptorized Ira's Thread of Threads, which begins here. Everything may still suck but at least you can pass your time scrolling through many posts with pictures that you might like.

First, my poster thread:

I’m sure enough new things will be made illegal for the prison industry to survive and prosper

IKR? Shocking, really.

The experience you get from making mistakes is usually worth it, especially when the mistakes are low cost like “wrong running group” 😄

Men’s deodorant is made for hair, and women’s for smooth skin, I would think. I do know that women’s products didn’t work well for me when I stopped shaving for a few years. A lot of “men’s” products seem to be more lifestyle than biology.

the thing about incarcerated trans people is that virtually no one will stand up for them & that’s fucking horrific because i literally cannot think of a worse place to be a trans person in america than prison.

if you’re cis you should read this.

trans people, keep on scrolling; you already know.

There's a reason authoritarian regimes crack down on artists first. Because ART speaks to people more than anything else in this world. ART informs our hearts and our minds. Art forms bridges between our souls. Art heals what the world breaks.

So yes. Promote the art. Keep making the art. Please.

I cannot emphasize this enough:

The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent.

They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so.

Doomers are not realists.

True, sometimes a near miss just makes the itch for a nonexistent story worse

Not *exactly* what you described (not a puppy) but close enough I hope:

archiveofourown.org/works/14078862

archiveofourown.org/works/14078862

Workspaces don’t assign cubes anymore you just go to the first available and hope a friend is nearby to talk to

Hillary Clinton: "Good lord -- the things that have been said about me, the lies that have been propagated. If I had only known I could call up the FCC chair and say, 'Take this person off the air! Off with his head!' You have to laugh about it so you don't cry."

I might have to resort to reading my TBR pile of actual paper books

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

'opening officers up to prosecution would hurt recruitment' these ppl are not bashful about demanding that the law should not restrain them or their violence

and these agencies know this about the pool of people they recruit from!

Trump Says He Will Get Drug Prices Down By 500% To 1500% ByBruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor. Bruce Y. Lee,

Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead.

We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.

Forward facing #raptors #kestrels #naturephotography #photography #southerncalifornia #birds 📷 🪶

Three peach color roses in different stages of bloom in a singular stem

#orangesun #flowers #roses #flowerfeed #bloomscrolling #flowerreport #coloraday #gardening #photography

Past, present and future on one stem.

This is what the surface of a comet looks like.

Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, photographed by ESA's Rosetta mission from an altitude of 16 km.

We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel.

The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040.

The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.

Another banger, Socrates