@lauramac95
Cataloger Beer-league ballerina, hockey fan, mathy person Dog person Trans-inclusive normie feminist Team shiitake Profile pic = me after ballet class (selfie of a redheaded white woman in a gray sweatshirt & pink mask). Banner = my 3 dogs on the couch.
Posted this yesterday abt misogyny in academia and ofc the men on the left came running to tell me that these are “just words.”
If you don’t understand the difference btw a woman using these words w/her friends vs powerful men using them to denigrate women, I don’t have a time to explain it to you
Stop doing this. Stop asking Generative AI for its opinion on current events. It cannot have opinions on anything. bsky.app/profile/chro...
Oh my God they're wearing ill fitting shoes because Trump bought them. That's amazing. He probably does a shoe check with everyone he bought shoes for to make sure they wear them every day
"... These are the trans rights I'm talking about. I know you want to ask me about sports, and we can have a nice big discussion about fairness after we put a stop to the persecution of this tiny minority."
That's what I'd say if I were one of these politicians.
"... The administration is stripping employment protections that have been in place for years. Healthcare providers in multiple states are being threatened with criminal prosecution for treating trans patients, taking decisions away from parents/teens/doctors and handing them to the government. ..."
"... In some countries, that's not just embarrassing, it's dangerous. In Kansas, the state retroactively invalidated gender markers on existing driver's licenses. Not going forward. Retroactively. Trans people who already had accurate IDs suddenly don't. ..."
"... inclusion. But if you want to know where I stand on trans rights? Here's what I'm thinking about. The State Department stopped issuing passports to trans people that reflect who they are. That means trans people traveling internationally are being outed by their own government documents ..."
Just off the top of my head, here's how I think a "pro-trans everything except sports" politician could answer a question about trans rights (or trans people in sports, specifically):
"I obviously think it's important to find a way forward on this issue, to find a balance between fairness and ...
It's really frustrating that when the topic of trans rights comes up, a lot of ostensibly pro-trans politicians start talking about sports and "pronouns" (w/o elaborating on what they mean), instead of talking about efforts to criminalize healthcare, to legalize discrimination, to revoke IDs, etc.
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
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"Scam culture makes everyone a mark. The moral economy of a scam culture says that everyone deserves to be a mark."
–@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Highlights of Olympic gold medalist and Gopher hockey forward Abbey Murphy on TNT between periods
To reiterate
idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet
DON’T FUCKING WARN THEM JUST DO IT
These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
That clip of Timothee Chalamet being like “no one watches the opera or ballet” is wild and I am dying over every ballet and opera acct (correctly) being like “we’ve been here for hundreds of years before you and we’ll be here for hundreds of years after you” lmao
oh, this is great. "Le Spite" 🤣
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Pictured is "After hours Geordi La Forge." He's wearing a velvety cushy soft looking future space guy sweater and he's ready to chillax to the max. Also and always wearing his banana clip looking eye visor. Closed caption reads, "Maybe a little soft jazz."
Here are my slides from my presentation earlier today at the ALA Core Linked Data Interest Group session on the BF Vibe plugin: hdl.handle.net/2142/132951
Reading this thread is like watching a tiny little bird puff itself up in a threat display every time the judge asks a question (only to fold when the judge insist he actually answer it). The only principle here, as with so much of this administration, is "we should never be held accountable".
Every war time slop account on social media right now:
🚨BREAKING: US MILITARY RELEASES COCKPIT FOOTAGE OF AMERICAN FORCES DOWNING MULTIPLE IRANIAN FIGHTER JETS🚨
Never a day that I don't think of a workshop critique of an SF story that had the country wrecked by one horrible (fictional!) president, and they said I was too pessimistic because Trump hadn't even taken office yet... anyway there was a character who made and lost a fortune betting on war. *sigh*
@plastastica.bsky.social haaahahaha! Be sure & check the alt text 😂
PPS The affinity group is men. The shared ideology is male supremacism. The shared activity is using the bodies of girls & women as objects with which to convey messages of power.
THE
AFFINITY GROUP
IS
MEN.
This is an iteration in a long history of no one thinking anyone else's work is as valuable or complicated as theirs, and is especially pernicious in the managerial class making layoff decisions. That managerial class, imo, has a lot of unearned confidence that they're too valuable for that fate.
FUCK YEAH hey @yersiniapestis.bsky.social check this out 🤌🏻
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
a screenshot of the "author contributions" section of a scientific paper. A highlighted sentence reads, "The co-first authorship order was determined via the best of three rounds in Super Smash Bros".
outstanding
