Do not go to tanning beds. Do not get a sunburn. If you're going to the beach do not roast yourself like a turkey. But also, unless you're actually allergic to the sun you don't have to protect yourself from the sun in your home.
keep hearing from peer non-profits around the world about drastically scaling back/closing b/c of USAID cuts (& smaller slower funding cuts from other governments). That loss of organizational capacity, institutional memory, & a lot of experienced committed people can't be quickly brought back
Don MoynihanThe idea that deep institutional damage can be easily rolled back seems like a very odd take for a conservative. The damage to the civil service system is huge, and legislation is needed to reassure future hires they won’t be fired on a whim.
Belle fell in love. When Beast realised, he raged, which made him realise he, too, had fallen. He could not, and would not, compete. He respected her choice. As the last petal fell from the Rose he sighed. His servant would not become human again, but would forever remain Library.
The TikTok girlies are referring to Amanda Palmer as “steampunk Ghislaine Maxwell” and damn
The hill I will die on: Women are under no obligation to listen to all of the men who will approach them and try to chat them up if they’re not wearing those headphones. It’s not white noise—it’s deterrence. It’s self-defense.
The GuardianThe hill I will die on: Remove those earphones – you’re blocking out the music of humanity | Stefan Stern
Holding WorldPride in a country with a trans bathroom ban is a bad idea
Mayor of London, Sadiq KhanWorldPride would bring visitors, celebration and opportunity to London. But that's not why I'm backing our bid. For me, it's about the message it sends: that everyone deserves the freedom to be themselves, and that our diversity remains one of London's greatest strengths.
stop assuming all fantasy written by women is romantasy or YA. stop assuming all women are writing romance. stop assuming any books with sex scenes (or "spice" god make it stop) are romance. WHAT ARE WE DOING.
Transphobes will embrace and ally themselves with every pedophile, rapist, and domestic abuser because they fundamentally agree completely with them about bodily autonomy and consent Transphobes are unable to *not* see a huge obviously abusive piece of shit and immediately support them.
anniempetersonA note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes.
A note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes.
I’ve reported on war crimes tribunals, I spend most of my time documenting war crimes, and I think you’re the naive one if you believe we can break the will of these depraved beasts without extremely public and entirely legal consequences for their genocidal crimes.
imagine a future where *we* appropriate the vicious symbolism of ICE in a merciless crack-down billionaires and the MAGA class: fancy production value videos of bashing down their fancy doors, slapping bags over their spray-tanned heads, black helicopters, shattered ugly gold homewares, etc etc
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Incidentally, the assholes who did 9/11 were Saudi, not Indian American, but you don't see @cnn.com wringing its hands over Saudi investors being buddy-buddy with the Trumps and buying up all the US media and tech firms
Aram SinnreichReminds me of an old antiracist joke whose punchline was "iceberg, Goldberg, what's the difference?" The malevolent idiocy of guilt by religious association *should* be far beneath the standards of a serious news organization.
World Central Kitchen is on the ground in Spokane feeding folks displaced by the fires, so if you're looking for ways to help, here's a good option: donate.wck.org/campaign/829...
Donate to World Central KitchenYour donation will help to provide fresh meals for those in need after disasters, and build long-term resilience in affected communities.donate.wck.org
assigning and writing a story like this validating an invented and bigoted narrative propogated by mamdani's enemies about him is a choice — one they repeatedly make for progressive politicians and never make for republicans
James FallowsThis by CNN is genuinely reprehensible. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. -The 'new pain' case vs Mamdani is *solely* his religion. -He was in NYC on 9/11, at grade school -Soon after attack GWB himself gave famous speech warning against blaming all Muslims for terrorism -25 yrs later, this.
These things do not BELONG to men. My seat in the Commander pod was not STOLEN from a man. My publishing contract was not an incredible heist. Those things existed, I wanted them, I showed that I could use them well, I got them. We all needed to pay more attention in kindergarten, I swear.
Which sucks if you're a male author trying to break out today, and isn't fair, any more than the constant exclusion of female authors for decades was fair. Or the way women who DON'T write romance-adjacent genres get filed there anyway, because we must be lying when we say that's not our path.
...titles that you could genuinely read at the pace of a hyperlexic autistic middle schooler for the next fifty years and not finish all the currently extant "classics" of male-written science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
I promise you, the current success of romantasy and its many fun tropes is not hurting male authors, who are continuing to male author right along, often being incredibly awesome in the process (HMU if you need recommendations). Even if it were, male authors have such a MOUNTAIN of backlist...