The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈

We're so dedicated to the norm of "even handed" coverage of the parties that media outlets have to create a version of Trump that doesn't exist in reality to uphold the norm, because directly quoting him makes him look like a lunatic.

Vaccines save lives.

That’s it. That’s the post.

A female Vietnamese Bronze Age warrior riding on a pegasus horse with large white wings. There's a jungle with lots of vines in the background. The fore ground has graphic pillar elements with in front of it a large tree trunk containing a skeleton covered with vines

Against All Odds ⚔

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

True intelligence is knowing that you'll never know EVERYTHING, and it's a gift when someone can enlighten you.

These rich idiots really think profs just walk into a lecture hall with a slidedeck labeled "evils of capitalism" and students are like,

"And so, from the bottom of my underpaid, deeply creative heart: Fuck you." @moryan.bsky.social

SECONDED.

Bleak House serial numbers

hard cover volume of Bleak House

These are the same "book"

screenshot of ao3 user anteros' ao3 account

screenshot of ao3 user l0stcauses' ao3 account

these are two separate ao3 accounts, it's an impersonation

Hey, remember that proverb about the mote in your neighbour's eye? When you've cleaned up your own house enough to make up for centuries of Christian history, THEN you can criticize others. Until then, you've got a lot of work to do.

I'll mute you so you can better focus on getting started.

No True Scotsman.

Remember, Trump has asserted the authority to impose, raise, lower, and collect taxes; to spend or not spend money; to declare war; and to amend the Constitution without consent of Congress. This is broader dictatorial authority than George III claimed in 1776.

Sticking this here, 'cause I think it's also relevant: bsky.app/profile/char...

Post your favorite "The Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

Show your range!

(work vs. silly OC stuff)

Close up on a tree branch covered in felt lichens and liverworts. The lichens are kinda fan-shaped with frilly edges, smooth and grey on top, with a fuzzy blue underside that seems like felt. The liverworts are like thin branching strands of string, burgundy red brown.

Restarting an old tradition.

Good morning/aft/evening wherever you are.

May we take care of ourselves & each other as much as we're able to today.

May we vex fascist wankspangled dicklimpets as much as we can, with our very existence even.

& Please enjoy this lichen.

This is a really good piece about a perennially thorny issue (and one of its least difficult manifestations: if you can’t bin the work that is actively funding the hate campaign…).

GIVE IT TO ME BI: Rejecting Labels Is Valid, But What If It’s Costing You? - Star Observer The Bi+ community has so many ways of describing attraction, but no one should be squeezed into labels that don't honour their complexity.

Okay this is fascinating, apparently Australia's census is going to start asking about sexuality and this piece is a push to get people to actively ID as bi even if it doesn't quite describe them www.starobserver.com.au/give-it-to-m...

I didn't even include the lawyer's best burn!

Lawyer: You say you have an understanding of what DEI means and when I ask you, you say you need to reference the Executive Order [EO].

Do you need to reference EOs to define every word you use in your everyday life?

Opposing Lawyer: Objection.

I read that the cordial working together of Republicans and Democrats "back in America's golden age" was largely because they both agreed on white supremacy.

The NHS has now stopped all medication - puberty blockers and hormones - for trans minors. For most, unless they get drugs from other sources, this means a lifetime, in an increasingly violent and transphobic society, unable to pass. Under Wes Streeting NHS policy is harm and death for trans people.

@shintonephilim.bsky.social

The List of Shame People frequently ask us about whether their specific US state is trying to enact a social media age verification law so they can call their state representatives and yell at them about it! I have had...

hey wanna see what I've been working on on-and-off all week that's been making me more and more depressed? dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/1493.html

e v e r y o n e i was around as a young teen in evangelical circles was exposed to this type of material by the same ppl that would rape a number of us. it's literally priming for victim blaming. he couldn't help himself (to anything but you), you see. because you looked like a whore.

The susceptibility of little white boys to being called very special geniuses is a definite part of it.

I don't blame them!

To be fair to the Pevensie children, they were going through wartime sugar rationing, and also did not have modern palates.

You're Wrong About made that exact point! The French queen's job was the period equivalent of being a social media influencer, getting other rich folks to buy stuff.

But like lifestyle influencers, people enjoy seeing them during good times, and hate them during bad ones.