if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately
They used to feature these kinds of things on Top Gear. Shame about Jezza.
People tend to think of functional illiteracy as just being unable to read words aloud or such.
What it *really* means is such as not being able to perceive subtext, context, understand who the audience of something may be, etc.
Media illiteracy is fundamentally part of functional illiteracy.
Goodnight, David, peaceful night to you! Lucky eclipse watching!
A fully beaded sign that reads “FUCK ICE” on a utility pole. Headline below reads “This Artist Peyote-Stitched 30,000 Beads on Utility Poles to Say ‘FUCK ICE’”
L.A. artist Kimberly Dawn Robertson created “bead bombs,” fastening Native feminist resistance to the city.
The full story: lataco.com/native-bead-...
By Susana Canales Barrón
*Part of being fluent* in a language, is being able to perceive and laugh at jokes in it.
This happens not on the level of "reading things quickly" but being able to understand subtext, context, and points of view.
Now think about Bluesky's famous population of joke understanders.
a WREN, I hadn't thought of that. I have a Birds of Michigan book so I can identify things, I will consult it. No chance of a recording though
A woman posing in front of a nine-pointed star, art by Anna Chiara Stagi, with the following quotes: "Glorious and visceral" - Chuck Wendig, author of The Book of Accidents "a confident and compelling tale that is as fun as it is thought-provoking" - Library Journal
This one's for every horror fan hungry for an epic,
For every noir fan who's up for something strange,
And for every fantasy fan who's known some guy who still thinks fantasy is limited to elves and castles rather than anything we can imagine 🖤
NO GODS FOR DROWNING, out tomorrow! 🔪🌊
As a reminder, minors can’t consent - especially in detention. #deconstruction #exvangelical #news #currentevents
Jed parrot alerted me to spring songbirds making sounds outside! Three different songs, but I am not great at identifying the sounds. Robin, finch, some other dude
RESPECT.
It's your body play with it. 😑
I swear I forgot they were even alive.
Those are happy colors!
You MADE cream cheese?
I'm so sorry for you and the missus! 🫂
That is a fantastic dog!
But it's my own stuff. Yet another downside to self employment
“No stupid rules of engagement”
They are literally rounding up immigrants right now. The police state that makes this possible was built on abusing and incarcerating Black, Indigenous and Mexican people. All of us are on the list, all of us are in danger, just different places on the white supremacy hitlist
“Wars do not usually result from just causes but from pretexts. There probably never was a just cause why men should slaughter each other by wholesale, but there are . . . ambition, selfishness, folly, madness . . . not to be appeased save by . . . the killing of somebody else than themselves.”
You have made me laugh, thank you!
Hope it's a good one!
Still Life with Pink Tulips
Met Gala quality bird.
Our problem is that the people with the integrity it takes to be elected officials in this country don't have the $ to run for office.
And when one does pull themselves out the mud and start fundraising, the public is too raw from all the corruption and greed to trust them.
This article should have made the basic point that other countries are governed by the rule of law. It’s not about “eagerness” to prosecute and it’s not a puzzle. It’s a marker of a deep US problem.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/w...
My short story collection RIVER OF BONES is out Tuesday, March 3. In honor of that, I sat down to chat with Arley Song for Clarkesworld. clarkesworldmagazine.com/roanhorse_in...
A map showing that most of the US West is having the warmest winter on record, while most of New England hasn’t had one this cold in over 20 years. Caption: “Wild chart from the WaPo - for a lot of younger people across America, this is either the coldest winter of their lives, or the warmest winter of their lives”
I just came across this map illustrating how dramatic the weather has been this year. I knew it’s been unusually cold and snowy in the Northeast this winter, but I didn’t realize it was this extreme!
My first novel published by a Big 5 Publishing House is coming out in exactly 24 days!!!! I refuse to be normal about this I’m so sorry 😅
