And lastly, a thank you to the VA. My father is a disabled veteran and I’m grateful that he’s able to receive care, and I’m grateful to the many folks there, lots of veterans, for all that they do to make sure vets receive good care.
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And lastly, a thank you to the VA. My father is a disabled veteran and I’m grateful that he’s able to receive care, and I’m grateful to the many folks there, lots of veterans, for all that they do to make sure vets receive good care.
and I go back to work tomorrow but I am anything but rested. Classes start Wednesday and it’s go-time and I’m canceling my own appointments so I can get my father to his appointments. I wish this country was different - I wish we were more supportive of all caregivers.
I do not want/need any kind of recognition, but we there is so little acknowledgement of how challenging, time consuming, heart breaking, etc., elder care is for folks who are working full time. I’ve been on vacation I’ve spent hours and hours dealing w/an emergency situation with my dad (he is ok),
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
JD Vance Asks National Guard Member If He Can Touch Gun https://theonion.com/jd-vance-asks-national-guard-member-if-he-can-touch-gun/
There were Nazi salutes given at the republican national convention. What more is there to be said?
Your ‘team’ fired the Librarian of Congress, and we all know why. This person knows why. Our museums are being pillaged, our history rewritten, and they are complicit.
Black and brown folks, immigrants, trans people — honestly, how dare you. I would say this is disappointing, but it’s more galling than it is disappointing. You can no longer be causally republican; you know what this party stands for because they’re stating it quite plainly.
There is nothing consistent, nor honorable about this statement. There is nothing humble about aligning yourself with a group that has made it clear that policy doesn’t matter, unless you’re hurting the most marginalized people in our country. Elections are being won on the basis of denigrating,
Lord… I’ve been on vacation and I missed this. I am, confused.
Spent some time in Provincetown yesterday. I haven’t been in predominantly queer spaces in some time, and it felt really special.
Did Susan Collins write this?
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
This is the drug that is a 100% effective treatment for HIV. this is the one you've been seeing in the news. I would LOVE to see an in-depth discussion of exactly what "clinical, financial, and regulatory factors" are keeping them from essentially carrying a cure to a deadly disease.
“Bluesky is bad because the people here can be annoying” boy do I have some terrible news for you about people generally
On the way to the beach, can’t you tell (I don’t wear shorts, and am usually very covered up no matter the temps)? In other news: we’re on vacation for a week 😭 It’s been years since that’s happened.
It is going to be interesting to see UK Labour explain why they can't fund schools, or womens' refuges, or homeless hostels, or the NHS, but they are giving FREE CHATGPT TO EVERY MAN WOMAN AND CHILD IN THE COUNTRY YAAAAAAAY
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
The Onion will be available in almost every Barnes & Noble in the country starting this month! “RFK Jr. Fires Piss Czar” will be a visible headline sitting directly next to Bon Appetit and Guns & Ammo.
Focus Friend is currently the #4 top productivity app on the App Store 😯
Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now. www.weherepress.org
Seven months into Trump II and state police are threatening an elected representative with a felony for communicating with the press.
That’s so cool!
they just left the entire bag. is this how they choose a new delivery person??
Ooh, glad you found something!
Didn’t ever go away to college, but have worked in higher ed for 25 years: Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Feeling panicked? Feeling overwhelmed? Aren’t sure if you’re the only one? Ask for help, please.
RELISH IN THE SCREAMS OF YOUR ENEMIES! DO YOU NEED TO ASK FOR HELP?
Oh no.
I feel like men may not grasp the merits of: dying an old (single/without them) hag
“That girl ain’t right” — spoken by a person who understands that the girl isn’t alright.
Wide leg pants severely underestimate what an ungraceful fuckup I am. Or, perhaps, they're counting on it. Murder pants.
Whoa! That’s so neat!
Totally changed my view on Gaza when I learned that the starving kids were… also really sick
Thank you!
Hi, are you doomscrolling? How about some ice cream or cheese instead?
How is posting about a bra fitting immodest? Make it make sense.
Rather than defend faculty against the new law's intrusions on academic freedom, IU is telling faculty that they have to be ready to defend their own pedagogical choices. Including choices about what content to cover or not cover in class. vpfaa.indiana.edu/doc/SEA-202-...
It’s been so hot and (ask poor cone-headed Zoe, who has a hot spot) for the last week and half or so, but today the cool weather came, all the windows are open, and these ding dongs are please.
“How to Report ICE” zines now available for these areas: NYC Philly Durham, NC All of Massachusetts I will add more as I get them done. Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
I love the premise! I’m also really drawn to the cover.
Really looking forward to reading this — shared with my butch/femme reading group bc I love to support nonbinary authors 🙌 I have a habit of saying specific phrases over and over for no reason, — ‘automatic noodle’ has become one I repeat constantly! It has good mouth feels! Also, love the cover!
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
regular reminder that the whirling death machine is not invincible and it falls apart if enough people just refuse to do what they’re told
To me, this is Digital Humanities
Stone Butch Blues for the first time, and I’m curious how they’ll respond to it. I read it every year, and every single year I am struck by how relevant it is to my present. I thought it might be a book that felt like my past at some point, but the feelings are just as visceral as the first time.
to my presentation. I have so many more books about sexuality and gender, and I’m really looking forward to talking with other folks who have similar experiences. Or heck, maybe they have very different experiences, but still felt drawn to these books. There are a few folks in the group reading,
entire life and never understood why it caused such a reaction. I was always different. That difference never bothered me, and I thought nothing of it, so reading about female masculinity wasn’t ever to help me figure things out, at least not then, but it was to help me figure out people’s response,
All of the books, aside from the nonbinary book, were probably bought around 2007, 2008, and though I knew nothing about being queer, or so I thought, it’s clear that I knew enough to know that, at least for me, coming out was about a lot more than my sexuality. I’d been subverting gender for my,
I met some folks through a forum & we’ve formed a butch/femme book club. I don’t think I realized how many books I acquired when I was coming out. I tend to try to make sense of things by reading or finding some kind of source to help me process.I have so much good stuff, some of it hard to come by.
This is such an amazing flex! 💪
From masks & wider public health to virtual meeting options, sure is hard to get square with how fully & fundamentally this society has toddler-screamed "NO!" at everything that made things even marginally more accessible in the early days of this pandemic because thinking about it makes them scared
Night, friend 💚
The thing about charging him with assault for throwing a sandwich is that it exposes the historic lie of “assaulting an officer.”
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Right? Put me to work! 🚊
I mean, who wouldn’t want to be part of this club?
We have really great regional adult education programs in my area, and this morning I was very excited to sign up for the model train group that will meet this winter, but it’s a club, and not a class, so I couldn’t sign up online. Please know that I’ve sent all the appropriate emails 🚂
Okay, I take it back. I do have advice and it is this. Be a sweet potato.
Does it?! I don’t mean that in the a-hole combative kind of way it’s just that everything about this photo is deeply unsettling (to me, for some reason, what could it be)
I love it! I’m married to a Leo and I hate the spotlight — a match made in heaven.
The are stunning! Happy birthday and happy Leo season! ✨
And again: it’s almost like it was never about trans people. Yet so many folks were willing to take that bet because they couldn’t possible envision themselves on the losing end.
Nothing makes me angrier than a butch terf. Read a book. Non-conformity is our history.
It’s almost like it was never about trans folks 🤔
If they’re posting the feds along the U Street corridor they’re going to get yelled at by the most evil gay people in the city, hope you guys like discovering body insecurities you never knew you had
be as NT as possible because that’s what’s comfortable and expected. Existing is hard for everyone, and certainly not the exclusive territory of ND folks. In my experience it’s just been exhausting to try and figure out who I am, or how I might like to exist, bc that’s uncomfortable for others.
and am continually expected to keep up with, so that others have relative comfort. I’ve been practicing, or attempting, to give myself a little more space to behave in ways that feel more comfortable to me, and it’s clear that in most cases, I can’t. The expectation is that I continue to pretend to,
In many instances, and especially this one, it’s totally okay to be a both-sides-er because there are lots of sides. For my part, and maybe I should have been more specific, (though there’s always more than one side, explicit or not), I’m primarily referring to all the masking I’ve done to exist,
And that means that the burden of being a neurodivergent person gets heavier and heavier. I’ve noticed that as I age, the toll that simply existing takes becomes more and more costly. Nothing to be done about it really. It’s just a reminder that I am the only person who can take care of me.
Something I’ve noticed about existing in the world as a neurodivergent person is that I often find I end up having to be the bigger person.The expectation that the other person/people needs to adjust to meet me even remotely near the middle is out of the question. I’m expected to adjust. Period.
Yes. I’m expected to go to a HP birthday party and suspend disbelief. It’s never even crossed their minds that this is… offensive.
Maine is here with you at like 91 or 92, and ridiculous humidity. Make it staaaaahhhhhp.
Information literacy is, as I have taught for years, a very anemic analytical tool for understanding much less responding to platform capture of knowledge production. So it’s not just about information literacy. In fact, info literacy is part of how we got here.
The absurdity of their argument is basically: "It's too hard to figure out how to pay everyone we stole from." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Happpppy birthday!
Oh, OH, our city! This is easy: steaming hot Texas Tavern chili, hurts so good!
I could do a heck of a lot of damage with a whole Virginia ham. Bone in, obv.
This man that looks like a tycoon in the game of Monopoly is definitely not lying to you 😉
lol Cecily
Somebody write this picture book.
An amazingly good list of recommendations
Oooooh! So teeny!
What I always find fascinating is that they always say we can’t take the Ls — meanwhile, they’ll burn everything to the ground, kill children, the elderly, the disabled, etc., all because someone dared to say: actually, you’re wrong.
Listen, I’m just glad it’s her so queer people can once again delight in how terrible her outfits are. She’s dressed like those calico critters and quite frankly, I wouldn’t expect anything less from our enemies.
This is one of those moments where I would prefer to not win this ‘I told you so’ thought experiment. Time and again I’ve said to folks: this will be overturned. Them: No, acceptance is everywhere, there’s no going back.
Upping this again — this has been on my mind every day. The library world is small, and Fobazi has had a big impact on so many of us.
The wife She destroyed Arthur's Seat Yes YES The wife is out
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I use both of those options.
That sounds like a good night!
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Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.
Oh! This looks exciting! I listen to the stand as an audio book almost everyday and I have no idea. I am so drawn to it 🤷♂️
one of the hardest parts of growing up, for me, was realizing the overwhelming majority of people just have zero morals or values
It’s such an awful experience. I’m so sorry that’s something you’re dealing with. It’s so hard to not have answers, and even worse when your body becomes unfamiliar. I’m so sorry, Meredith.
Staying off social media is so hard! I miss stuff that’s really important.
Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena gofund.me/c8485b58
