Ook
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Still figuring out how active I want to be here. I make no apologies for liking both current events discourse and weird fandom stuff, as well as gardening and cute animals.
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Over on tumblr someone posted this in response to the same observation.
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Over on tumblr someone posted this in response to the same observation.
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Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here
October 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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TOMORROW IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. It is time for the women (defined broadly) to hunt the Year King through the woods and tear him apart with their bare hands!
December 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
TOMORROW IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. It is time for the women (defined broadly) to hunt the Year King through the woods and tear him apart with their bare hands!
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Lol, she thinks I can't see her. 🪶
December 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Lol, she thinks I can't see her. 🪶
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I was wondering if they were just using any photo of women before the Second Wave ("pre-feminism" in the way Weiss means it) and this seems a wild misreading of Beatlemania. It was novel at the time to have women publicly express (implicitly sexual) desire at all
Okay, apart from everything else... the photo choice? The image seemed familiar, so I checked and... it's a photo of Beatles fans waiting for the band's arrival at San Francisco International Airport in August 1964. Strange.
December 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I was wondering if they were just using any photo of women before the Second Wave ("pre-feminism" in the way Weiss means it) and this seems a wild misreading of Beatlemania. It was novel at the time to have women publicly express (implicitly sexual) desire at all
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Tonight in The December Comfort Watches: A Fish Called Wanda, the first and to date the only film that made me laugh so hard I almost peed myself right there in the movie theater:
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Twenty: A Fish Called Wanda
I have thought a number of films have been riotously funny, but only A Fish Called Wanda made me laugh so hard that I was in very real danger of pissing myself right there in the movie theater. It …
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December 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Tonight in The December Comfort Watches: A Fish Called Wanda, the first and to date the only film that made me laugh so hard I almost peed myself right there in the movie theater:
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A local animal shelter has a really important resident looking for a home
December 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A local animal shelter has a really important resident looking for a home
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"In retrospect, the Court’s willingness a quarter-century later in Palmer v. Thompson to allow cities to shut down public swimming pools rather than allow Black people to use them makes a lot more sense." whew Lord
“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of
The Alarmingly Racist History of the Supreme Court’s Canceled 1947 Christmas Party
The Court held its first-ever office Christmas party in 1946. The following year, the clerks suggested inviting Black employees. It did not go over well.
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December 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"In retrospect, the Court’s willingness a quarter-century later in Palmer v. Thompson to allow cities to shut down public swimming pools rather than allow Black people to use them makes a lot more sense." whew Lord
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I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems.
And it’s already pretty fucking bad!
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And it’s already pretty fucking bad!
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"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems.
And it’s already pretty fucking bad!
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And it’s already pretty fucking bad!
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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I love this, a perfect little illustration of how “electable” has become, to centrists and the pundit-brained, this quality somehow wholly divorced from the ability to convince people to vote for you.
December 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I love this, a perfect little illustration of how “electable” has become, to centrists and the pundit-brained, this quality somehow wholly divorced from the ability to convince people to vote for you.
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“It turned out, at the end of the day, that nobody actually wanted to spend time with a bunch of bullies. The problem with being an edgelord is that it’s a schtick with only one joke-and the joke gets old”
At Xtra: This was supposed to be the year of "post-woke" pop culture. It fell apart because -- shockingly -- no-one wanted to spend time with a bunch of assholes: xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
The year ‘post-woke’ broke | Xtra Magazine
In 2025, bigotry was trendy, and we found out who our friends really are
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December 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“It turned out, at the end of the day, that nobody actually wanted to spend time with a bunch of bullies. The problem with being an edgelord is that it’s a schtick with only one joke-and the joke gets old”
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment fury at a rigged economic system.
To counter Trump’s fake populism and his culture wars, progressives should mount a real battle against economic elites who have shafted America’s middle and working classes.
To counter Trump’s fake populism and his culture wars, progressives should mount a real battle against economic elites who have shafted America’s middle and working classes.
December 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment fury at a rigged economic system.
To counter Trump’s fake populism and his culture wars, progressives should mount a real battle against economic elites who have shafted America’s middle and working classes.
To counter Trump’s fake populism and his culture wars, progressives should mount a real battle against economic elites who have shafted America’s middle and working classes.
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Anyway. This might be you. Or your mom. Or your kid. Or your grandpa. Because mobility comes and goes, because our bodies are adventures that keep moving forward.
Imagine a world that is beyond your experience, just once in a while. It's pretty great out here. When you aren't carding cripples.
Imagine a world that is beyond your experience, just once in a while. It's pretty great out here. When you aren't carding cripples.
December 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Anyway. This might be you. Or your mom. Or your kid. Or your grandpa. Because mobility comes and goes, because our bodies are adventures that keep moving forward.
Imagine a world that is beyond your experience, just once in a while. It's pretty great out here. When you aren't carding cripples.
Imagine a world that is beyond your experience, just once in a while. It's pretty great out here. When you aren't carding cripples.
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I’ve got to think blaming DEI is a huge boon to people trying to brush off crazy, creepy, and mediocre people. ”Gosh, sorry, Dr. Chip Moistpalms, but we can’t hire you because you’re white, good luck on your age of consent research.”
You’ll never guess who else experienced ‘racism’ on the job market despite their unimpeachable academic credentials.
December 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I’ve got to think blaming DEI is a huge boon to people trying to brush off crazy, creepy, and mediocre people. ”Gosh, sorry, Dr. Chip Moistpalms, but we can’t hire you because you’re white, good luck on your age of consent research.”
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Lie #1: Libraries indoctrinate. Truth: Censoring library books by removing them from libraries or prohibiting them from the shelves in the first place is indoctrination. https://www.oif.ala.org/lies-about-libraries-part-one/
Lies About Libraries (Part One)
Welcome to the first in a series of posts dedicated to debunking false claims used to undermine trust in libraries and attack those who work in them.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Lie #1: Libraries indoctrinate. Truth: Censoring library books by removing them from libraries or prohibiting them from the shelves in the first place is indoctrination. https://www.oif.ala.org/lies-about-libraries-part-one/
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Crazy how Trump is flailing, Epstein files are coming out, the economy is going to shit, and Republicans are defecting and the first thing his admin does is pivot to attacking trans people. It's all they know. Just distract everyone from what's important by attacking a vulnerable minority group.
December 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Crazy how Trump is flailing, Epstein files are coming out, the economy is going to shit, and Republicans are defecting and the first thing his admin does is pivot to attacking trans people. It's all they know. Just distract everyone from what's important by attacking a vulnerable minority group.
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It's astonishing that somehow we have whole swathes of the political class that have not managed to connect "everything seems like a scam now" to a useful political platform.
Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It's astonishing that somehow we have whole swathes of the political class that have not managed to connect "everything seems like a scam now" to a useful political platform.
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A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
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I assure you, it is quite easy to find conservative-leaning lawyers who aren't absolute freaks with deeply-held views so creepy most people don't even know such views exist. But this is who they nominate instead.
Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I assure you, it is quite easy to find conservative-leaning lawyers who aren't absolute freaks with deeply-held views so creepy most people don't even know such views exist. But this is who they nominate instead.
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The fact that it at least anecdotally seems to be a semi-regular practice to tell white people a minority got the job in order to soften the blow of rejection really should put the elite woke panic into perspective.
December 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The fact that it at least anecdotally seems to be a semi-regular practice to tell white people a minority got the job in order to soften the blow of rejection really should put the elite woke panic into perspective.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM