They are literally canceling culture

I was delighted to learn, long ago (but was just reminded of it), that the transition of "nimrod" from the biblical mighty warrior to our modern-day maroon meaning derives from Looney Tunes.

james dobson is dead and cannot wish anything but eternal pain on that mother fucker. that guy destroyed so many lives

Lads the HONK I just honked

A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

Police arrest scores of Chinese women writing 'boy love' fiction for money Police in China are arresting female authors of homosexual romance novels, in a widespread crackdown on the "boys love" fiction genre.

This news about the arrest of Chinese women writers of “boys love” fiction is chilling. To me it feels like this is what so many right wing book banners want to do here in the US — to books about LGBTQ+ people and to the writers who write them.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

US white evangelicalism is a death cult

They are withholding this student's diploma.

Whether or not you agree with him, you cannot say you're trying to educate students to stand up and speak out when they feel they need to, and then threaten to withhold the diploma they have *earned* when they do this.

New Indiana Law Requires All Porn Viewers To Register As Sex Offenders NDIANAPOLIS—In an effort to curb unauthorized traffic to adult websites within the state, Indiana lawmakers passed new legislation Thursday requiring all potential viewers of online pornography to reg...

New Indiana Law Requires All Porn Viewers To Register As Sex Offenders

Kennedy: “These are kids who will never pay taxes,” Kennedy declared. “They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. We have to recognize we are doing this to our children.”

This statement by Kennedy is disgusting, and demonstrates his complete lack of understanding.

I am going to tap the sign again: the number of autistic people is not suddenly increasing - the awareness and understanding of it is. Please understand that difference. A long thread...🧵

Quote from an Atlantic interview. The pertinent section quotes the author of an upcoming book. “Sophie Gilbert: One of the specific things I’m noticing now is the mainstreaming of really ugly, regressive treatment in politics and mainstream culture—not just of women but of immigrants, gay people, trans people. There’s a resurgence of the kind of offensive and dehumanizing behavior that we saw in popular culture during the 2000s, and this time it’s not being doled out by gossip bloggers and celebrity commentators, but by politicians and people with massive media platforms. And my theory for why it’s happening is that certain kinds of porn have inured so many people to cruelty.”

I’ve been seeing a lot going around about @sophiegilbert.bsky.social’s new book. As an historian of sex work, I’m really interested! But she also fully BLAMED PORN for MRAs, anti-trans rhetoric, and the persecution of immigrants. (I would love to see @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social read this…)

A middle aged man helplessly holds an alligator’s tail as it steals his hat

In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

Can you imagine ahem Chuck Schumer leading senate democrats to scale a barricade to get into the senate to hold a unanimous vote against trump declaring martial law?

Cuz that’s what they did in Korea. We need leaders with spines.

Opinion | Enough To suggest we should yield even a little to Trump’s odious politics is unacceptable. Even if we did, it would never be enough.

I used to post links on The Other Site. I had the impulse to do so now, even though it won’t make a damn lick of difference. But I love @roxanegay.bsky.social so I wanted to do…something. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

Reminder that the National Center On Sexual Exploitation is NOT an unbiased think tank; it is the rebrand of Morality in Media, a far-right group founded by Catholic clergy in the 60’s to combat the “degeneracy” of the sexual revolution, opposed LGBT rights, abortion rights, women’s rights, sex ed.

Everyone needs to share this 3Xs a day every day until Election Day

This website would really go a lot better if all of you would stop trying to explain things to Jamelle Bouie and Roxane Gay.

There’s No Such Thing as a Good Trump Voter Donald Trump ran a campaign of racist demagoguery against Muslim Americans, Hispanic immigrants, and black protesters. He indulged the worst instincts...

i wrote this after trump won in 2016 and if he wins again i might try to publish it again unaltered. that’s especially since in the intervening years quite a few formerly right-leaning commentators have come to agree with its basic message. slate.com/news-and-pol...

it's a toddler playhouse on wooden chicken feet and a beware of baba yaga sign

Someone named Spud Klingbeil did this and I have so much respect and envy

Hi @michaelhobbes.bsky.social, I am a huge fan and one of the few(?) people who loved the Worm Wars episode of MP. I have a student who is interested in effective altruism and I’d like to give her some reading to complicate the narrative. Do you have any articles or books you would recommend?

Breaking News Consumer’s Handbook 1. In the immediate aftermath, news outlets will get it wrong. 2. Don’t trust anonymous sources. 3. Don’t trust stories that cite other news outlet as the source of the information. 4. There’s almost never a second shooter. 5. Pay attention to the language media uses. “We are getting reports…” could mean anything. “We are seeking confirmation…” means they don’t have it. “[News outlet] has learned…” means it has a scoop or is going out on a limb. 6. Look for news outlets close to the incident. 7. Compare multiple sources. 8. Big news brings out the fakers. And photoshoppers. 9. Beware reflexive retweeting (reposting), some of this is on you. On The Media: onthemedia.org

The timeline right now looks like an Ewok party after the Death Star exploded

Jail for ex-president. Jail for 1000 years.

"Are Jews Indigenous?" A Quechua Jew Weighs In Guest Post from Daniel Delgado

I am thrilled to share that the incredible @ddelgadovive.bsky.social has written an extraordinary guest post over at Life is a Sacred Text on the claim we hear sometimes about Jews being Indigenous.

It’s one of the most thoughtful things I’ve read in a while—and so worth your time.