worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
Like, I give up. I can't assign papers for grades anymore until all this shit goes way.
well, it is The New One
You simply cannot resist a Bee’s Knees when it is 73 degrees in March. You simply cannot resist.
BREAKING NEWS: An otter is a bit sleepy.
It’s sad that this 5 year old video is still relevant today.
honestly, i'm still not sure that i've lost "faith in god," or that i'm "areligious," though i am certainly not adherent or proselytizing
i just absolutely abhor any man telling me what such a relationship should be
eventually i realized there wasn't a meaningful distinction in my life between "duplicitous adults" and "duplicitous religious institutions"
but that admittedly took longer than it should have; for my teen years my religious antipathy was of the trendy variety
i read a ton of the books as a very small kid.
when the school bullying got really, really bad, nobody at church and nobody in the scriptures of any given religion could give me an understanding of "why people [were] like that [to me]"
i lost faith in adults long before god
i was maybe nine
It's 2026.
Puberty blockers have been banned on the basis of a fake study conducted by a generalist paeditrician.
Hormones for under 18s have been banned on the basis of a fake review conducted by a head injury specialist.
Both remain available for cis kids because that's 'different' somehow
Not saying anything revolutionary here, or maybe I am, but if you're in a position of being able to determine whether or not people work in the office or remote, during this obscene and unnecessary cost of living crisis, right now would be a time to cut in-office requirements. Gas is too much.
more and more I'm finding that my opinion on the united states is quite simply that we need to be stopped
orange cat with his paw in the air to catch a string
Adonis and his string: a love story
A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.
Happy International Women's Day. 🏴
spent the night playing CS 1.6 at a LAN party for a friend's birthday and its crazy we solved the multiplayer FPS in 2000, and then decided to spend the next 26 years making them worse in every way imaginable
Here’s the thing: those parents forced that conversation on themselves, by having a different one first that said only “boys like girls and girls like boys”.
They’re saying nobody has ever done a national suicide as beautiful as mine. They say to me, eyes full of tears, “Mr President I’ve never seen a country kill itself as bigly.” And I smiled to myself. Think of that. Killing yourself. I’d do it. Maybe I will do it right now, who’d stop me? I wouldn’t.
i'm positive he's at his limit
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
"what's your gender?"
"i'm descended from a man and a woman, so i'm mixed heritage"
As an unwilling connoisseur of agitprop, Iran really hit it out of the park with "we're fighting the Epstein Class that either rapes children or kills them"
an image of a website where you pretend to be an ai; i asked for an image of: "a guy who'll flip ya for real" they drew an image of a sleazy looking spatula in a wide collared shirt and sport coat
i'm not sure this game can get better than this
digital art. a crying cat on a sea cliff. the cliff is before the sea. there are more sea cliffs in the background
cat
is this anything
for the briefest moment of scrolling past, i thought that this was the cast of clue dressed as the cast of flash gordon
Asking the Pluribus to tell me all of George Lucas’ thoughts about Yaddle.
A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”
Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
There is a reason despite working in tech for 20+ years I’ve never made work friends with my tech coworkers but I did with people in other departments.
grizzled tech gardener shares one weird trick for making things work; managers HATE them
(the one weird trick is talking outside the silo)
