*whispers* if you were campaigning for raising autism awareness with puzzle pieces in the 90's, and are complaining about over-diagnosis now, go fly a rock and kick a kite you absolute buffoon
Discworld QOTD, from Jingo
“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”
@letsgomathias.bsky.social can you help? I already returned your book to the library and I want to tell my counseling ethics professor about the case of the psych doctoral student who got kicked out over not meeting the code of ethics- was hoping to supply name and article
My 3yo pronounces Cheezits cheezus, rhyming with Jesus. She's heard us swearing "Jesus" a lot lately when we look at the news and has started copying us by saying Cheezus. She thinks we're taking the snack's name in vain because she has no context for who Jesus is. (5th gen atheist)
The original motto of Bsky
My question is, will they use this law to deny social security survivors benefits? I hope not. I like the law. Since the benefits start one year after release, this creates an incentive for judges to give lighter sentences if they want to help the kids. Which is good.
This was my fear. Those kids should be getting survivors benefits too.
Did you read the article? The payments start one year after release and go until the child is 18 or 21, depending on how old they were at the time of the crash.
You won! You got what you wanted! Nobody has to mask anywhere, even in medical facilities around the most vulnerable patients. Moreover, nobody even feels obligated to, because we don’t owe anything to each other. You got everything you wanted, so just leave us alone and let us mask in peace.
It's only "reflexive both-sidesing" if you live in the alternate reality where the Democratic Party actively and forcefully fights for the things you think they should and wish they did.
i opened my tub of gardening stuff to get a pair of gloves. there were three in there. ok no problem, i must’ve lost one. no, i lost three. i lost three right gloves and i have three left gloves.
This is so relatable
yeah anyone who thinks this is a great idea wants a five year old victim to have to choose if they want their relative to die
Gabapentin was the worst, it was like living in a dull foggy dissociative haze. And at Kaiser they love to prescribe it for all kinds of pain, not just nerve pain.
Uhhhh
I was hoping this was the case, but unfortunately it was a cold and now I have it too
I qualify for citizenship if I learn Hungarian but considering how hard the language is and how shit things are, I haven't gotten serious about it. If they kick Orban out, I'd love to have EU citizenship. Maybe they'll even get rid of the Hungarian language requirement...that was an Orban addition.
hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
I followed your blog closely back in the day, like 2010ish? I think we may have been Facebook friends back in the day, was in the pharyngula group. Was so happy to see how you resurfaced and followed your dreams.
Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism
skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...
God, this is horrifying. I hope he heals enough to remember his daughter
Previous career: "you can say "I need space" instead of hitting"
Career I'm in school for: "can you tell me more about what you mean when you say..."
Rich people really just don't think they're rich
I don't know why this news surprised me, this is so obvious in retrospect
Willing to bet an image of George Washington or like mount Rushmore wouldn't have the same restrictions. (And yeah I know, don't get me started on mount Rushmore)
I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/
I was there for elevatorgate and landed on the right side of that, and by 2011 I had lost respect for the atheists revealed in the Epstein files on feminist grounds. But I don't think my 2011 self would believe what's happening because it all sounds so conspiratorial and cartoonishly evil.
going to start posting this as a reaction image every time pronatalism comes up instead of saying anything substantive
The fact that Gavin Newsom is even talking to the likes of Shapiro is a sign that he’s a non-starter. I’ve never forgotten how Shapiro said that Trayvon Martin deserved to die. Not fucking ever.
look he's seen the polling, this is not a statement about what's effective, it's a statement about what they want to be committed to doing with power should they win. if they run on opposing ICE then they'll have to actually oppose ICE. this is ideology masquerading as electoral strategy
