RFK Jr. is an existential threat to the life and health of millions of Americans. He needs to be fired immediately.
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RFK Jr. is an existential threat to the life and health of millions of Americans. He needs to be fired immediately.
I'm pretty sure this is prima facie heresy
tfw someone dms you and asks "was THIS the song?" and posts an old filk song you were beginning to believe had disappeared entirely from collective memory
My theory which is mine is that if they don't want us to shame and shun fascists, the only other option is to shoot them
My first library jobs were at DUL. My years there taught me respect for library professionals and to understand the work as a serious academic enterprise. I would never have gone on to get my MLIS without their support and encouragement. This is terrible.
Trans rights are human rights. Either rights apply to all people or they apply to none.
Doomscrolling has always been dangerous. đ
the thumb
Timeline cleanse
Florida has declared itself officially Not Safe.
My first thought was Ethan of Athos, but as I scrolled the thread I kept saying "Oh, THAT" "No, no THAT" "Good gosh how did I forget THAT" so now Im gonna toss in Letter from Birmingham Jail but everybody else's picks too
The Goblin Emperor has long been a favourite, because I am undone by characters who are fundamentally *kind*. Of those I haven't read yet ... they all look good, but MOB PSYCHO 100 is on top of the list, because it looks so different from anything I'm used to.
Annalee Newitz, THE FUTURE OF ANOTHER TIMELINE Nnedi Okorafor, BINTI etc ONE, MOB PSYCHO 100 [GN] Kim Stanley Robinson, NEW YORK 2140 Alexander Rowland, A CONSPIRACY OF TRUTHS etc Ferrett Steinmetz, THE SOL MAJESTIC Martha Wells, ALL SYSTEMS RED etc Thanks to everyone who suggested!
T J Klune, THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA Mary Robinett Kowal, THE CALCULATING STARS etc Ferdia Lennon, GLORIOUS EXPLOITS Karen Lord, THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS Emily St. John Mandel, STATION ELEVEN Sam J Miller, BLACKFISH CITY
Louise Erdrich, THE SENTENCE Sarah Gailey, UPRIGHT WOMEN WANTED Victoria Goddard, IN THE HANDS OF THE EMPEROR HIEROGLYPH: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, ed. By Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer Meg Howrey, THE WANDERERS T Kingfisher, NETTLE & BONE etc
Ryka Aoki, LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS Lois McMaster Bujold, BARRAYAR Ernest Callenbach, ECOTOPIA Becky Chambers, A PSALM FOR THE WILD-BUILT, etc Sarah Beth Durst, THE SPELLSHOP Amal El-Mohtar, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR Ruthanna Emrys, A HALF-BUILT GARDEN
Hey, remember when I asked for recommendations for hopepunk? Here's the reading list of what I rec'd. I've read about half, and they were all my jam. Hope the rest are what I need right now as well. 𧔠Katherine Addison, THE GOBLIN EMPEROR Charlie Jane Anders, THE CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
Can you imagine what we could do in this country if we actually started caring about each other?
Current feelings about waiting for my graphic novel đ©
MOOD
I agree. Now explain all the people here who re-posted that video without spoiling or at least warning about it.
It would be nice if all the soi-disant progressives on this site could spoiler their snuff films.
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
FYI folks, the Big Holidays coming up are: Rosh Hashanah is Mon 22 Sep-24 Sep Yom Kippur is Wed 1 Oct - 2 Oct And also? You don't have to KNOW who's Jewish to not schedule meetings these days. Just do it. (AND DON'T BE ALL "WE HAVE TO MOVE IT BECAUSE [PERSON] IS JEWISH" THAT'S TACKY & GROSS)
MOOD
This is what a broken society looks like.
WELP. Just got our first message that a Canadian library can't lend due to tariffs.
I can't decide if I would rather watch the big announcement at 2:00 or rewatch the Star Trek TOS episode "Patterns of Force" for no reason whatsoever
I ran out of meds and couldn't renew them because holiday and I am sitting here making dinner and thinking "Oh wow I am actually hungry how weird is that"
I love that somebody must've snarked, "gawd, you'd find poetry in dryer lint" and you were all CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
Coincidentally enough, I was chatting with someone about the Nemi ships just yesterday. I don't think I've ever seen many of these pictures, though. Thank you for this fascinating and informative thread.
Working theory: Trump is alive, but everyone else in the White House is dead. He ghosts along the corridors like a pumpkin-coloured ghoul, trapped within the machinery of government he can no longer manipulate or even comprehend.
AI artifact. Look what it did to his ear and the flag on his cap.
to realize that value would have meant a lot of time on my part - grading, advertising, selling, packaging, etc - that I'd rather spend on other things. More important, I truly believe that the purpose of stories is to be read. Stories packed away in mylar in someones collection are dead stories.
I just gave away several thousand comics from the 70s-early aughts for the cost of shipping to a guy setting up a comic book library. Some of them I know were pretty valuable. Not like a million dollars, but easily 10x - 100x cover price. BUT
You're a MONSTER. (said with love. sobbing, but with love)
Crowley 100% thanked the car, and not the driver
holy crow I'm gobsmacked
Iâm going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.
"The Library is a growing organism." Way to meet the moment. I'm so proud.
Actually, my first thought was a guy who makes his living going on talk shows to say things just like "Albert was an ALLIGATOR, not a crocodile, you numbskulls!" I'd pay good money to see someone slap DeSantis across the face and say "That's a CAIMAN!"
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpracticeâwhen you pray for something you have the power to change.
Oddly enough, it sounds EXACTLY like what you think it should
Autism is as natural as the breeze and the rain It's fascism, actually, that's artificially induced into our children
I don't often forward stuff from George Conway but I couldn't help myself with this one. đŻ
Most important are St Germain (thank you for teaching me about that), at least one cognac, Licor 43, Grand Marnier, and vintage port.
tfw bluesky has me checking the liquor cabinet just in case
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The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
YOUR BRAIN! How do you come up with all these amazingly perfect designs?
Real time creation of a human centipede
Absolutely
I have a couple of musicologist pals who absolutely adore WHAT'S UP DOC (also my favourite librarian movie is DESK SET)
Brief đ§”, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years: -gender does not cause them -SSRIs, no -mental illness, no -internet/gaming, no Above can be compounding factorsâbut motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo: suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
I hope you are seeing the spread already They will be coming for YOU soon #nokings #nopedophiles #nonazis
I had a grand epiphany sometime last night while I was sleeping, but it's raining and I'm out of coffee and I don't remember what it was.
You don't debate people who want to question a group's right to live. You punch them.
This isn't tax rates or a budget allocation. We are talking about people. Humanity should never be up for debate.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or canât afford. Itâs about priorities.
Meet the New Dems Same as the old Dems
Hmm, not at my library. Time to ILL..
They're on the list now, thank you!
The Murderbot books are an unqualified delight!
They were there for the grift. But they were really just arms dealers.
(scribbling down notes)
Oooh, I've only read the first one ...
Love Becky Chambers!
Thank you for the recs! I actually have Mob Psycho 100 on my tbr - I shall bump it up. Babylon 5 is a good call. I will check out the others!
I do not wish to read any dystopian or postapocalyptic fiction right now, thank you. I can fill that need by scrolling my news feed. Right now would be a good time for hopepunk recs.
Everyone can contribute something to the fight, but because certain actions tend to get all the coverage, it can be easy to feel shut out. So here's a thread of ways to help that do NOT include: Going anywhere Calling anyone Writing anything If you want to help, we want your help. Let's go....
In general âbimodal but not binaryâ is something that seems to break brains a lot. Like a specific type of personality really dislikes the idea that something is neither a neat continuous distribution nor a on/off. Itâs a type of complexity that just drives some people nuts, not just on gender stuff
the fuck
Since it seems like we do this every 4 to 6 months on this website, I guess Iâm gonna have to post this again.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape peopleâs reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
I knew a lot of hardcore pacifist and anti-nuclear clergy when I was a kid, and the British police should learn that nobody is more determined than a 70-something who wears socks with sandals and believes with all their heart in a higher law.
Y'know what we're talking about at my kitchen table? Whether soldiers are likely to show up in my city
the horrors persist and are multitudinous but amen for this. there are so many queer people (myself included!!) that really canât imagine the sheer size of the toll AIDS took on us and this feels like magic.
The fact that they even have to ask is why I don't send money to PP any more. There are are lot of good, independent, community-based women's health centers out there that deserve our support.
Acting Archivist Marco Rubio and Jim Byronâthe unqualified, sycophantic MAGA toady The Donald installed to run NARA day to dayâhave *compulsory* duties under 44 USC § 3106(b) to request the AG take action, and notify Congress of the request. Both are utter disgraces, and neither will do their duty.
If Garcia's guilty of something then the Trump admin should be salivating at the opportunity to prove Democrats were worried about the rights of a criminal. Instead, they're on attempt 9,820 to gin up a reason to avoid any public court presentation on his "crimes" and instead just disappear him.
lots of people admiring Alexander and I can guarantee you everyone at the time was really tired of the bitch
What a truly stupid question. If eating a pile a feces meant that there would definitely be a just peace in the Middle East for a thousand years, would you eat it? If poking yourself in the eye with a fiery poker meant that no one would ever get cancer, would you blind yourself? Who cares? It won't.
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This is great: a National Guardsman standing up to say every member of the National Guard and military "is legally obliged to disobey an illegal order."
Martha Wells Humblebundle in support of World Central Kitchen. Highly recommend. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
There's not a lot of upside to living in the South right now, but by God, I can still get the best fried chicken at a gas station.
youtu.be/kSQ8tZ35t4U...
I have never seen something so explicitly political in my (Roman Catholic!) church bulletin
The Catholic Church in Rome has been insisting on calling attention to the suffering in Gaza, even if you don't hear much about it stateside. Seven hours of names: 16 Israeli children and 12,211 Palestinian children.
This week in court a white cis woman landlord started *literally crying* when I was doing my opening argument for my client and started saying to her lawyer "how is this allowed? How are these people just allowed to have a lawyer?" through tears, because evidently oppression is when due process
The 80s were the decade of Reagan, of rampant consumerism, of designer drugs and glorifying cruelty. It was the decade of teal and burgundy, and of faux gold accents. Everything you need to know about the 80s is that's the decade in which Trump's brain (such as it is) is permanently stuck.
Besides everything else, are we supposed to think that Ghislaine Maxwell is a good judge of which situations are appropriate and which are not?
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
The more I think about this observation about framing, the more it rings true.
this country makes a lot more sense when you realize the ultimate goal for the democratic party is to stop the left from gaining power and ultimate goal for the republican party is to bring back slavery
Just read the whole, etc. "Saving even a single starving child from a sniper is infinitely more important than this issue, now and forevermore. And yet, if your first reaction was to scoff, consider this: is your name conventional?" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...
Orlando wasnât having what DeSantis did. They recolored the Pulse Memorial crosswalk.