america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

Both the author and her husband are bi.

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

When Adoption Promises Are Broken Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

To save its unique and rare birds, New Zealand is turning to AI and genetic research New Zealand is planning to eradicate millions of invasive animals that prey on the country's rare birds. The goal may not be possible, unless new technology can be developed to do it.

New Zealand is planning to eradicate millions of invasive animals that prey on the country's rare birds. The goal may not be possible, unless new technology can be developed to do it.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

lmao didn't realize this WASN'T about bill burr until i read your comment. i was INCREDIBLY confused.

Thank you! Just called.

My favorite description of the term “privilege” is who gets the benefit of the doubt and who doesn’t.

We see it every day in who gets the rules rigorously enforced against them and who gets a slap on the wrist or warning when the rules say there are heavy consequences for their actions.

PowerPoint slide that says: “does America do it, if yes, then no”

Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social

I know, norms and all that, but the default Dem position should be:

We think this is illegal but if the courts say you can do this then we are going to rip the guts out of the entire conservative movement. No more Heritage, FedSoc, etc. All of them lose their tax exempt status.

Lmao that's amazing, I'm gonna have to remember that if it happens again.

I recently had someone park in my driveway AND LEAVE IT RUNNING. Turned out they were picking something up from my neighbor (who had space in front of their house and in their driveway for parking)?! I was gobsmacked.

Why Women Pay the Price for Caring for and Understanding Men On the emotional and hermeneutic labour in romantic relationships and what it can cost us

Why Women Pay the Price for Caring for and Understanding Men
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Move Closer to Your World by Al Ham & The Hillside Singers on Apple Music

Unbelievably, the iconic Philadelphia anthem and Action News theme song "Move Closer to Your World" has never been officially released commercially. UNTIL TODAY.

Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/mov...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/6CrWtZ...

One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months.

I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

These aren't the actions of a mastermind and there's no real plan here. It's just morons smashing up everything because they liked the last century much more than this one and they overestimate how much Americans are willing to suffer in order to say the N word again

What fun America is right now. We've a bunch of insipid lunatics running around the building knocking down load-bearing walls because it'll "open up the space" and now we're all just sitting here waiting for the fucking building to collapse on us.

Yes. I do not want to ever 'move on' again. Every time we turn the cheek, overlook the criminality, absolve the sins, they come back worse.

I want punishment. Deterrence. Retribution. Err on the side of excess, not lenity.

Anything less is asking them to come back worse yet again.

I did the same after reading Roxane's posts about it!

Supporting bathroom, sports and healthcare bans for trans people means signing on to a moral panic about problems that DON'T EXIST.

When people say Democrats should "moderate" on these issues, they are suggesting that we legislate a group out of public life based on lies.

Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

slava ukraini you horrible freaks

They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

With “This is America” playing in the background 🫠

Don Draper proposing Seal the Seal in a Mountain Dew ad.

Every day we stray further from the light of god

🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪 Tomorrow, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will permanently disconnect from Russia’s energy system, says EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas.

"Russia can no longer use energy as a tool of blackmail," she added.