I extremely do not want to live in a Years of Lead country, it’s bad on many levels, murder is wrong. and yet few have done more to make that happen than this guy bsky.app/profile/pete...

The thing is, protecting women from imaginary rapists lets you control women. If you were protecting them from real rapists you might also have to alter the behavior of men

Been thinking a lot about one of my favorite quotes from Lois McMaster Bujold. "about cynicism...the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace."

One of the most important things I’m taking away from my weekend at #PPP25 is the reminder that big victories are built out of and on top of an accumulation of small victories.

"Healthy food" discourse only makes sense through a lens of class and social status. Being healthy is high status, so it's for the rich.

Cheap, accessible, filling food is popular with the poors, which means it can't be healthy. No program to make "healthy" food cheaper can fix that.

Standing room only for Pramila Jayapal’s town hall

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works.

Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

Taking wins where I can today

for decades the federal govt has bent over backwards to limit spending even on totally sensible things like office coffee, all so they can say your tax dollars aren't going to pay for coffee. and it was all for nothing bc elon is tweeting out conspiracy theories about non-existent fraud.

To save folks digging the link to the National Archives out of the USA Today article: www.archives.gov/citizen-arch...

UBI saves a ton of public money, but its lack of cruelty sends certain people into a rage, so it’s hard to put into practice.

From the Guardian piece circulating today, very much worth reading, link below

We keep ignoring the plight of children who exist in favor of children who are hypotheticals, in abortion policy, in conversations around trans kids, in ongoing violence that disproportionately affects children. Why? And how can we stop?

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Trans Am

I have acquired the bisexual space oreos

To the extent there's anything interesting here it's that universities have policies that were written before anti-plagiarism software made it trivially easy to check assignments against millions of others. *Most* students would fail this test!

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I'm not a "one song on repeat" kind of person usually, but in the middle of December a switch flips in my brain, some track hits me just right and then all I want is the comfort of repetition. This year it's Song for a Winter's Night www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRIl...

When you're on your way home and need just one more thing

Hello, have a Mary Oliver poem this lovely Saturday!