Shouting into the void, obviously, but: October 7th was beyond horrific, that’s understood, but how the fuck does any democratic country remotely justify blocking food from reaching a million starving people. It would be genocide on a massive scale. Israelis must stand up to these madmen in charge.

Daughter tells me she heard today that if you wear a band T-shirt (especially as a young woman) and a man says to you “name five of their songs”, the correct response is “name five women who trust you”, so I pass this on in case any of you need it

“We’ve got children with bowed legs because they’re so deficient in vitamins. We’ve had children so malnourished they’ve had heart murmurs,” said Hunter, a headteacher at West Earlham infant and nursery school in Norwich.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

Look at her cheeky little face, she'd do it all again

You will be shocked, shocked to hear that "The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong"! 🙄 Duh! OF COURSE IT'S WRONG. But now there's a cool article listing the biological and evidentiary reasons, along with nifty diagrams.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Did you know economic growth figures eventually get seen in children’s heights? Austerity was a bad policy choice.

Disturbing thread about twitter:

Has anyone watched Killers of the Flower Moon? Really odd, cartoonish performance from Di Caprio. And why didn’t they make more of the possibility Mollie was a brilliant strategist, playing the long game? (Obvious plot hole: that a woman of her calibre was ever fooled by that dickhead. No chance.)

Hello, where are all the poets please? This site won’t be a thing until you get here.