KC

Book #11: Pyramid by Terry Pratchett (my favorite of these in a while)

This is the way.

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online.

Full stop.

"Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name

We have to stop this.

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It's funny to me that not only is Markwayne a ridiculous first name, but it's also a combining of the names of some of the worst men I've ever personally known. Just add a Matt in there...

Will approximate theism for sea pulpit

If only pursued by bear

The people of Oklahoma have the opportunity to do the funniest thing here.

i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

What's amazing is that in the 80+ years since WW2, simply opposing every war, knowing nothing else about it, has shown it will become the correct, accepted position over time. It's the political stance equivalent of investing in the S&P 500: safe, a little boring maybe, but outlasts all others.

Illegal wars abroad and ICE concentration camps at home are MAGA’s version of scorched earth.

They are not merely a “distraction” – they are, for this regime, the real thing: A way for people obsessed with the destructive power they can unleash to assert dominance and feel “manly.”

And after he and my grandma had their first 4 kids, moved them all from the holler in WVa to nowhere Ohio so he could work at Ford and Grandma at Stouffer's. He refused a promotion to floor manager at Ford because he didn't want to be disconnected from other working people

The one who worked at Ford was born in 1928, his father died of "pneumonia" at 29 after working in the coal mines for years. Grandpa was raised by his grandparents on an Appalachian farm. He falsified his birth certificate to join the army at 16, drove coal and gravel trucks between WWII & Korea...

One worked at Ford, the other did a variety of door-to-door sales things

Not for nothing but “simply revels in bringing the high low” is a dispassionate summary of the Magnificat

The times I've seen trans people protect and defend gender non-conforming cis gays from queerphobic assholes actually manages to outnumber the times I've seen this exact tired-ass argument trotted out, and that's genuinely saying something.

Book #10: Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (lovely, but if I'm honest I wanted to like it more than I did)

That's right. You got no leg to stand on, Newsom supporters. Shut your hole. We don't need anti trans anti homeless greaseball shit. North Carolina is purple, it's not some blue stronghold.

There is never enough money for medicine or homes or education or infrastructure or wildlife or art or anything that makes life here better. Only the bombs and the planes and the guns and the drones. We are the greatest.

these laws are a political project by which the state attempts to assume the power to decide sex and gender, power it does not have—and power it will express “incorrectly” because that’s power, too

the HPV vaccine is fucking incredible, period end of that's it

Rich people are actually allowed to do good things with their money.

Crazy, I know!

As it happens, the state shouldn't firebomb people (perhaps particularly in its own cities) at all!

It was also kind of funny, because he tried to lecture me about it ("they supported violence!") in front of the whole congregation, but nobody but me had any idea what he was talking about and everyone was like "weird" and then he stopped coming to services. Fine by me

I brought this up in a newsletter for work once and got the Weirdest attempt at a public lecture from an old yt dude. It was...concerning

Like… Empire is bad, but the processes of soft power for empire building were regarded as good because they made less likely the kind of international resentment & outright war— symmetrical or otherwise— which result from the trumpist/hegsethian view of active warfighting as a thing manly men do.

100%

Funny enough … 🤔

(There are, of course, men too. But I never liked and was then disappointed by them 😂)