Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
10.03.2026 21:30
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Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
A note on footing. While we may disagree often with what others are saying, we don't always elaborate on our disagreement. Most often we signal disagreement briefly and indirectly. Including through changes in footing. 1/
I've been comfort watching 90s ER on Netflix. A 30 year-old show: Trans character with sympathetic backstory. Multiple gay characters. HIV discussed every episode. Main characters who are black and brown talking about systemic racism
Years before we all came anti 'woke' babies.
Dawn Kurtagich: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the madness
Kurtagich: it's about a fantasy that turned to madness (Has turned to madness)
Kurtagich: And all my goodness (And all my goodness)
Kurtagich: has turned to badness (Has turned to badness)
Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
This is exactly right, but the push "to protect children" by a technology sector that is actively harming children—and everyone else in the process—is happening worldwide.
"Her office said local law enforcement agencies haven’t sought charges against any on-duty immigration officials."
Oh, did every law enforcement agency working in Cook County ignore 6 months of your guidance memos on what kind of cases/evidence they should be sure to send to you
Or was it just 🦗🦗🦗
"...all these attempts at Windows of Safety can’t be done alone, ... Autistics need not only to protect one another, which we do as fiercely as possible, but we need our allies, too, to help us create sanctuary"
Let's practice niche construction & build Cavendish Space
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A recent Atlantic column claimed society is allegedly "transing" effeminate boys. For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote a rebuttal using my own experience as a young, closeted trans girl. xtramagazine.com/power/identi...
My photo shows a Roman floor mosaic depicting an octopus. The octopus is composed of small black tesserae (tiles) and has eight writhing arms with suckers and narrow curling tips. It is set against a white tesserae background. Octopus detail from a monochrome marine mosaic featuring Triton with a cherub and various sea creatures, including the octopus, dolphins and a cuttlefish, at the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in Herculaneum.
Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum.
📷 by me
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.
Just another Monday…
A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.
📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap
🏺 #MosaicMonday
The first week of US's war with Iran cost $6 billion, almost the same as the entire annual budget funding all scientific research via NSF
It's not just that Australia is joining another American war, it's that we're defending the fucking UAE — one of the most evil countries on earth. All that carnage you've been seeing in Sudan? That was backed by the UAE. Those emaciated kids you were seeing in Yemen a few years ago? +
Here in a nutshell is all the failures of the "serious" media (here The Economist) regarding Trump. They have commissioned a serious grown-up commentator to write this. And look at the result. Look in particular at that "strangely lacking interest"... /1
One in four minority ethnic school students who took part in a survey on racism said they experienced racism at least once a month, and most experienced it once a week or more. The ISSU has called for clear and accessible reporting mechanisms in schools for racist incidents when they occur
a slate gravestone dated 1692 with lush gourds in the border
another slate gravestone dated 1710 with big old boobs under head finials
another gravestone 1709 heads on finials big round gourds/boobs in border
In the words of poet Rev. Edward Taylor (1642-1729),
Lord put these nibbles then my mouth into
And suckle me therewith I humbly pray
Then with this milk thy spiritual babe I'st grow
And these two milke pails shall themselves display
Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.
The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.
Many pundits, journalists, and some professors helped legitimate the basic canard here—that DEI is reverse leftist discrimination. Arbitrary, purely ideological censorship was the inevitable result. In my view, they should engage in serious reflection on professional ethics and accountability.
Another story mentions that his staff is terrified of not wearing the shoes and incurring his wrath, which leads to the suggestion that the entire oval office is now staffed by people whose shoes don't fit.
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When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
These people are casually demanding that Battlefield 6 become the fourth bestselling game in history, after Tetris, Minecraft, and GTA V.
And right wing creeps are now recycling the satanic panic via the slop engine.
Has a journalist ever tracked down this guy (in Korea is memory serves) to find out if he knows he's become an Irish icon?
This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
It's this kind of bullshit that makes me keen to share In The Valley of the Wind with everyone. It has gay characters, disabled characters, trans characters, non-binary characters, all just going about their lives being people, part of the world and no threat to anyone.
Demand to be buried with a stone tablet saying “Detailed descriptions of our political, phonological, and economic systems in Tomb Two”
A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found …
“The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.”
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