But in 2025—as US democracy is being warped at speed— democratization claims should ring hollow. Just as the internet provided widespread access to *dis*information, chatbots can replace habits democracy needs: questioning, reflecting, researching, interrogating sources & their validity & accuracy.
that moment when gender is definitely an unchangable biological truth so you have to enforce it via fascistic law
New Year’s resolution is to become one of those risk taking adhd people and not an inactive anxiety one
every one i know with magic powers is saying something really good or really bad is going to happen within the next 500 years
"Stop asking why schools don't have bulletproof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That's the question that needs to be asked,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes
My grandfather died of Polio, when my mom was 3 years old, leaving behind a wife and 3 children. I’m certain he would have welcomed the vaccine and the opportunity to see his children grow. Shame on these folks for trying to take away the option and for sowing doubt in lifesaving medicine.
College freshman today were 6 years old in the 2012 election.
A student of mine (age 20) told me after class that he appreciates when I explain how US politics and media were different before, because the Trump era is all he’s seen.
This is what young Americans think politics is. It’s normal now.
My view is that extrajudicial vigilante killings are not good, but the incuriosity of well-compensated columnists about why millions of people’s horrific, life-changing experiences with a sprawling, cruel, bankruptcy-inducing health care system might lead them to feel differently makes me really sad
please don’t let your fervent unspoken dreams for your child(ren) destroy your literal relationships with them. thanks!
I am a librarian in Chicago and the ways people conflate comfort and safety are not only toxic to them and the people around them, but actually dangerous. Discomfort is healthy, necessary and ultimately unavoidable in a country that has abandoned so many of its citizens to despair and deprivation.
that feeling when you release stuff you made and then other people can see it
Opening my empty wallet and a moth flies out. It disappears around a corner. A few minutes pass before it returns, carrying a 20 dollar bill that it drops in. I love the money moth
people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.
you may think i’m an idiot, but i’m a surprisingly intelligent person. who says and does idiotic things
there are three taxonomic kingdoms of humor: gags, bits, and japes. each dominates the zeitgeist in their own time. for the past few years we've been in a bits era, but with the global drift towards fascism and the re-election of donald trump, i expect to see a strong resurgence of japes
Photo of a hand-drawn, 4 panel comic, writer in front of computer gradually sinking down beneath desk. Handwritten title: "I love social media but if I'm not careful, here's how it can make me feel sometimes..." The drawing is on a piece of paper with torn edges, and we can see a colored pencil on each side of the piece of paper.
It can be so hard NOT to compare yourself to others sometimes, esp when browsing social media. To avoid getting sucked into a black hole of envy/resentment, try VERY hard to focus on enjoying your own journey at your own pace. Find your own joy.
The disrespect for education will ruin the United States
I thought turkeys could fly.. @zennwolf.bsky.social #IYKYK 🤣 🦃
Use the term “touch grass” to indicate that someone needs to seek out reality, use the term “touch moss” to indicate that they need to seek out ancient forest magic beyond their mortal comprehension.
Why don't you take a long walk down a never-ending pier and find along this beautiful pier all the things you hoped for in life
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, reading Orlando by Virginia Wolfe.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, holding The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, reading A Room Of Ones Own by Virginia Wolfe.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, reading The Bell Jar.
Did you know The Bell Jar, The Handmaid's Tale, The Feminine Mystique, and more all appeared on Sesame Street in the 90s?
The @muppetwiki.bsky.social team finally created a page for my favorite little-known running gag: Prairie Dawn's Feminist Literature collection muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Prairie...
Yes, libraries are invaluable for their collections and public services they offer, but also social contact without the expectation to interact with anyone or spend any money is so important to so many people
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