The Padawan 🏳️‍⚧️

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

—bell hooks

Wake up! Do it!

Not good.

I was waiting at one of these lights that was red for me. The light turned green, and the teacher started yelling, "GO, GO, GO!" I hesitated...The law says I wait! I started to go, stopped, started, and messed everyone up.

HOW WAS THAT ETHICAL?? 😵‍💫

Prob no one will believe this, but I was learning in PGH. There's something called the "Pittsburgh Left" where, at a 4-way light with no left turn lane, if the person across from you has their turn signal on, we pause when the light turns green, so they can go first. This lets traffic keep moving.

YouTube video by Maya May Yes, It's Real: DHS Surveillance, Shutdown Chaos, and What You Missed Last Week

Aliens are real, and so is this post from the White House account. Here's what you missed last week in under 10 minutes (ok, 11...but close!) Thanks for watching!

Thank you for sharing Margret’s art!! I love her.

I think about this skit a lot. You'd think we'd learn.

Why Conservatives Want to Ban Trans Girls from Sports (Podcast) Here’s a hint: It’s about opening the door to keeping all women and girls out of public life.

Conservatives are using laws banning trans girls from playing sports as a vehicle to disappear women from public life entirely.

It's not about ✌🏾fairness✌🏾 or ✌🏾biological advantage✌🏾— because why are they advocating for sex segregated chess clubs.

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If only we'd been warned. 😜

On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself.

Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right

*every year

She scared the crap out of me. Why were people listening to her? I thought when McCain lost, we'd be shot of that strain of Idiocracy.

Every since then: "Take my beer....."

Just in case anyone has doubts about Trump's plans for the midterms, he now openly admits that he wishes he had order troops to seize all voting machines in 2020.

With no one in the White House, Pentagon, or DOJ to stop him, he'll do it this time--unless Congress stops him first.

“The Gestapo was Nazi Germany’s infamous political police force, responsible for protecting the regime from its supposed racial and political enemies. They used surveillance [and] house searches. There were no limits to these activities.” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website)

Say, I'm a recent sub to your YT channel, and I enjoy your takes and your sensibility. Thank you for being out there every day.

a dog is running in a grassy field with the words `` i 'm out '' written on it . ALT: a dog is running in a grassy field with the words `` i 'm out '' written on it .

I'm so glad to be out free!

Indeed! It's taken me a while, but I understand now. It's a mess of entitlement, arrogance, and an inability to understand that not everyone thinks like them. Some of us have empathy, & some are just guessing & stepping on rakes. I married "step on rakes and ignore the experience of others".

That first Thanksgiving after he kicked me out for demanding respect and I fled, he thought I would be envious of him having Thanksgiving with his family without me.

It's hard not to laugh in their faces sometimes.

Congresswoman Underwood is one of the most effective representatives in the House and not enough people talk about it.

First CES panel. Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese is proud of his company's integration with OpenAI, which involves giving AI read/write access to tax data. Since prompt injection attacks are unavoidable, I asked him who will be liable when customer data is exposed: Intuit, OpenAI, etc?

He had no idea.

Trump is pushing the narrative that soldiers on our streets will make us feel safer, so that his base will start to nod in unison, "yeah, we feel safer." It is about as dystopian as it gets.

Me, too! Wow! We're old. LOL. I slept out in line to get tickets to see them play at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh when I was 17 back in 1987. What a band.

Also, Epstein files avoidance behavior

Straight up hero! I swear it pays off when they are teens and they feel safe coming to you with their joys and challenges.

But I remember those days (kind of). Lack of sleep destroyed my brain. Lol.

Great. /s

Portland OR just waking up. SMDH

welp

bsky.app/profile/jame...

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.