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“let me take a shot at the menswear guy, right after I get off the phone with isaac chotiner”
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested. Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away. House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests? Read more House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I find “polycule brunch” to be heavy-sigh inducing!!!!!!! The “my ex’s ex’s ex is my meta’s meta’s meta” isn’t super avoidable even in monogamy if queer.
So, first off, I don’t know, learn to code better??? But, like, there is a philosophical difference between trying to explain to a friend that it’s challenging to find a drama-free person to date and, like, hosting a brunch that centers exclusively on whose STD screening is important to you.
““There are probably over 80 of us in our polycule,” Malone says. One member — “a data nerd at Harvard” — tried to build a 3D map of all their romantic connections but it got so convoluted that it stopped being able to show information meaningfully.”
I still miss Frutopia Strawberry Passion Awareness.
Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.
maybe they learned it from TikTok (which has had that issue on and off for… years? maybe? And people keep using it)
Great read on food sovereignty in Puerto Rico and fighting back against legacies of colonialism.
Massachusetts will not be bullied.
happy #SapphicSeptember to all who celebrate. I have a polyam romcom about a jaded bartender becoming a hot married couple's third is that is something that appeals bookshop.org/p/books/trip...
Jfc, reading Katabasis, have gotten to the Peter backstory part, it has become perhaps a bit too real for me.
Today I did my part by buying an orange cake mix. It’s best by 3/24/26, if that matters 🤷♀️
Here in the United States, we have a government official who has deliberately tried to import birds infected with H5N1. Meanwhile, in New Zealand, they are vaccinating the kākāpō. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
That is extremely normal parenting, it’s just that the kids are typically assigned baseball, soccer, karate, gymnastics or ballet until they have Opinions.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
This is the guy who is doing the right thing. If your goal is to encourage other politicians who have been in federal office for decades and decades to follow his lead, excoriating *him* (instead of *them*) just seems like a bit of an odd choice.
(but don't get info from anyone who doesn't know that ambulances are a standard part of motorcades, that is DC 101, I fear)
it you are having fun hoping for things at home, I do not wish to yuck your yum, but there is truly a weird mix of people who do not know enough to know what's unusual, people whose hope is making them say silly things, and people straight up lying, it's not always easy to figure out what's what!
i have someone on retainer for details, but my recollection is that massachusetts really hates sex and kink
what.... what is it if NOT an orgy how do they plan on stopping it from being an orgy are they saying it's NOT an orgy simply for insurance purposes this is making me realize i don't know california law on sex parties/etc
it's wild seeing people on tiktok talking about "fiscal sponsors" and other tidbits of nonprofit law and realize that you have ended up learning just enough about it to know that they're missing stuff that's probably important.
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
Who knows? It's only just out of reach, Down the block, on a beach, Maybe tonight?
It’s not just Oxford, although some places have alternate names for at least some of them? But I typically end up reading books set at Oxford, the most recent one labeled chapters with the academic calendar, I just remembered to actually look it up.
I think I expected it to either be MORE meaningful, and be named after someone actually relevant to academia, or for the naming scheme to be far less official??????? I honestly don't know.
oh, it's basically just... this- oxfordvisit.com/articles/aca... I think i expected the names, particularly "Hilary" to be more.... meaningful????
i don't really know what i expected, i have read enough books set at oxford that *none* of it should be in any way surprising, and yet.
(i finally looked up what the origin of the term names were)
apologies everyone, i just was so mindboggled by oxford university that i muttered my confusion accidentally loudly enough that matthew was worried something was wrong with me while live streaming
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there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
I just cannot with arguments like “well he does have a point about artificial food dyes.” This isn’t “broken clock is right twice a day” territory, we are firmly in “lying clock is trying to hurt you and your loved ones 20 ways at once and shouldn’t have ever been anywhere near your house” territory
but i'm pretty sure that i mostly would have used it to catalog weird mostly petty LJ drama among a bunch of people whose names i no longer remember and that time a person who is now a whole doctor told me i could never understand Christ's love because I hadn't had Catholic communion
would it be interesting to still have both the audio and a transcript of the interview I did with my now ex brother in law in the 8th grade regarding the food in the Congo? sure, I guess.
recently came to the conclusion that i need to strategically offload *some* of the stuff in my brain, and I'm in the process of moving a bunch of into into Zotero, and frankly it's for the best I haven't had this functionality forever
Chris Kluwe on Gavin Newsom and his treatment of the trans community: www.thehandbasket.co/p/chris-kluw...
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
do you remember the time you had to explain to her that Matthew isn’t anti-masks and she had to delete some stuff that wasn’t accurate? Because I remember that.
even if dogs do have vision-based aesthetic preferences, they're not necessarily the same as ours?!?!?
is big dick energy a stable power source
Yes, back then, if our faves changed or left or needed a break, there were other interesting people doing interesting things for us to pivot to, and we were all sharing links and stuff!!!
Trump and RFK Jr. hand picked Susan Monarez to lead the CDC. Now, they are trying to force her out for refusing to rubber stamp their anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. This administration is so hellbent on killing people that even their own nominees are saying no. It must end.
i was tempted to bring drama here from a different site regarding a person i have blocked publishing an article of misinformation that harms black women, but you can go there yourself for that. this is almost certainly a better use of your time here:
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
i mean, there's a good chance trump is on spironolactone right now, based *just* on what the white house has *publicly released* about his health!
I'm going to write a self help book for autistic women who are getting diagnosed right around middle age called "I Don't Know If It Helps, But Parts Of Your Life Would Still Have Sucked If You'd Been Diagnosed Earlier."
one thing i'm fascinated by is how these "tested" messages do not actually have any relationship to how people encounter political messaging these days.
i became known in The Old Place for constantly linking people to this: www.seriouseats.com/salt-and-vin...
you simply do not need to take any of those people seriously, because they are not serious people.
Any argument that we are in a "vote blue no matter who" place with a man who is not currently running for anything is coming from either a silly person who does not know what they're talking about, a bot, and/or someone trying to fuck with you.
One of the ways the Harris Campaign got fucked over is that they did not have a traditional primary season to talk to voters, get feedback, and then make fixes and adjustments.
Interestingly, that is also the best thing we can do if we LOVE Newsom and want him to have the best possible shot at winning future elections.
If we hate Newsom's current beliefs and policies, the best thing we can do right now, when he is not even a candidate for anything, is to be clear about where he is falling short, so that he and other candidate can learn from that and do better.
and also, harm reduction also involves pressuring even candidates we like to be better at important issues, particularly before the general election.
before primary election filing deadlines, harm reduction is trying to encourage good candidates to enter the race. and before that, harm reduction is building up a DEEP BENCH of politicians and public servants who have good values who might later join a primary
the night before a general election, harm reduction is choosing which candidate will do the least harm the night before a primary election, harm reduction is choosing which candidate will do the least harm PERHAPS with an eye to which can win in the general election
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look, i get that leaked drafts are, well, drafts, but i wish that the drafts we got involved the bullets being done in a way that made sense and were.... correct.... before it got leaked, because the document I'm rereading right now is such a typographical mess it affects comprehension
the chapters can largely be read independently, too! so if some things appeal more than others, feel free to mix-and-match!
This is SO good for people who want an approachable and humane way to learn about conflicts that aren't as widely talked about. It is frustrating if you finish a chapter wanting THAT FOOD but it's hard to find near you. Fortunately, recipes are included.
The book spends more time covering conflicts that I don't see talked about as frequently- ie Rohingya and Uyghur refugees, conflict in Sri Lanka, the history of the Velvet Revolution.
As well as how people have attempted to keep their culinary traditions alive, with mixed strategies and results. About how even the struggle itself gets reflected in the food. About the spirit of hospitality. Fans of Anthony Bourdain at his most political will probably enjoy this.
My favorite book about food THIS year so far is The Last Sweet Bite: Stories and Recipes of Culinary Heritage Lost and Found by Michael Shaikh. It talks about significant (mostly recent) conflicts and food. How aggressors have used food to hurt targeted populations (ie pork against Muslims),
It's an amazing read for anyone who wants an overview about how inequality and food intersect. Most people (nonlawyers, people not married to lawyers) will skip the last chapter on the legal frameworks one can imagine to advocate for food justice; the book still makes sense without reading it.
For example, how the US government has screwed over Native people's access to food at every turn, which has very observable health differences. How school lunch policy, that centers the needs of producers rather than children, affects nonwhite children differently. Etc!
My favorite food-related book that I read in 2024 was Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Andrea Freeman. It's a book by an *actual* Critical Race Theorist, and it's a wide ranging book about a bunch of issues-
Dem politicians: you may as well go ahead and stand up for trans people, because your opponents will insist you are anyway, even if you (despicably) aren’t.
Anyway, I often forget that the vast majority of these conversations aren’t in good faith, but I think some people who only get the bullshit conversations can forget there are real good faith conversations too.
they're not usually people who didn't even bother to go to their kid's middle school games, and only watch women's sports during the Olympics :/
Anyway, yes, people do exist that have genuine questions about how this has worked, how it works now, how it ought to work. But they're usually people who are trying to figure out if Liz is going to be in their category next year, or are running meets, or worried they'll have to testify to congress.
If the rules change about how we classify people or what medications people can take, the makeup of who medals at national events (particularly veterans) will change, it can change whether certain college club teams can field a full lineup or not, whether a club can afford insurance.
I also QUIT being active in the sport long enough ago that I no longer interact with the most annoying people, so the conversations I have are overwhelmingly in good faith. But the community is SO SMALL that most of these conversations aren't academic.
but they know i'm familiar with the issues but not as directly affected, they feel safe asking me questions, I'm familiar with the sport, I'm familiar with all the OTHER issues of fairness in the sport, I started before there was gender parity at the Olympics in sabre, etc etc
and mostly what I've always heard is that they never want the policy to be such that the person checking you in at a competition has to decide if someone is a woman or not, because that's wildly unfair and unsafe for everyone.
I'm unusual! I have genuinely had a lot of conversations with people who are NOT transphobic, in good faith, but have actual questions about fairness in sports...... because I spent a bunch of my time at smith college participating in a niche sport and befriending people who still run various things
“Your time started when you peered in the bag” “But where do I deliver it to???” “All the information is on the pizza”
potentially the funniest thing he’s said yet
I also love all of these cats and you
I especially love the alt text
“Excuse me, the plating on your lunch (that you made yourself at home) is sloppy” “Have you considered speaking with a better accent?” “Has anyone ever told you that your baby is ugly?” -other things this dude would tell people, probably
I really hope this anon who is *obsessed* with you gets a hobby and some happiness, because I can’t imagine how boring their life is to provide unsolicited critique on a CAT PHOTO
Research like this demonstrates how much specific phrasing can influence opinion. If you have a huge platform, it's vitally important that you understand this stuff. It *sucks* that you have to, but you can see the results: a 31 point difference in opposition to a heinous policy.
Anyway, I don't have any big conclusion, other than don't assume that everyone's talking about it just because you can't escape. Sometimes that means it's just your personal hell, and sometimes it means that an otherwise clued-in person may miss something that's genuinely out there broadly.
That used to be easier! But on TikTok and Threads especially, it's much harder to tell.
Post-Twitter, my audiences are intentionally small, but I'm mutuals with people with much larger audiences, so I'm still careful about interacting with people who truly did not anticipate much attention at all, and very well may not be GETTING much attention.
If I react to it, am I actually doing more harm by spreading that content far wider than it would have? Or am I mostly harming myself, by further teaching the algorithms that I engage with that content? Or am I doing good by putting better information into the world?
But if it's being fed to me, I'm not the only one. So someone who thinks they're just figuring something out with their small group of friends may actually be an unknowing tool of social media companies in doing actual harm to larger groups of people.
This makes it genuinely challenging to figure out a responsible and ethical way to respond. Because there are a lot of people on a lot of platforms who think their stuff is being fed to their five friends, and they should have the opportunity to quietly be wrong, and figure it out.
I get fed a lot of weird biphobic takes (and a lot of people replying to them). But I asked a few friends, they're getting NONE of that stuff. Similarly, it's clear some of you are getting fed stuff you find deeply frustrating (at best), but I'm honestly not seeing it.
I've recently been thinking a lot about how elsewhere on the internet, where our algorithms are primarily of someone else's creation, it's really hard to tell what WE see a lot of, vs what lots of people are seeing.
We still haven’t thrown a party (….. someday?!), but, well:
I will never take marriage for granted. It is not the ONLY important right, but it is one important right.
I can’t tell you how much time and energy and strategizing was spent to get as many of the parts of marriage we needed to protect each other without the parts that would make it impossible to survive as disabled people, it was awful and near impossible.
Which was a thing I knew based on the number of times I handed off copies to scan!!!!
Because I knew the digital copy COULD work in a pinch, but I also knew the nurses liked the convenience of handing them a copy they could scan.
I still, btw, find copies of Matt’s health care proxy form squirreled away. I used to have one in every bag, the back of every planner/journal, anywhere I *might* think to look in a panic, so I would have it when I needed it.
Anyone telling you that marriage is unimportant has almost certainly never needed to get to their unconscious, disabled partner in an out-of-state emergency department to demand that ED do everything possible to keep them alive (i.e. full-code status).
Autism is a disability. To be disabled does not mean one is lesser, inferior, defective, or disordered. The claim that autism is not a disability because it is "a healthy neurotype" reinforces the ableist belief that "health" and "disability" are mutually exclusive; this is not true.