And you know - you absolutely KNOW - the little bitch was just jealous because all last night when he checked his phone, the only name he saw was Rob’s

And he could not stand that it wasn’t his name being lauded again and again like the call note of a nation

Showed up to use the restroom, stayed for the progesterone communion

I've had a couple of doctors now who meant well, who did not mean to aggravate my own imposter syndrome, but who were carrying some heteronormative ideas about a what a woman looks like. This is a veterans' hospital, don't tell me I'm the first dyke you've seen with a buzz cut and combat boots.

Finally claim your self-worth, become Mommy. The pipeline is real

The air of planes is just a scuba tank full of other people's fart gases now

The big bucks aren't for creators, they're reserved for owners

Two German sociologists just wrote a book on that joy of destruction: "Zerstörungslust". Their publisher writes:

"The authors conclude that Trump, Musk, Weidel and their followers are all about the destruction of the world as a last, desperate attempt to save themselves from being crushed by it."

Don't mistake incompetence for accident. The degradation of your social media feed, the collapse of your news, the defunding of your school—it is all functional.

They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.

Rent-seekers and management class types whose only input into the creative process is telling someone else to create something think we all want to be them when we grow up

at this point DMVs probably need to start doing yearly driving tests for everyone 😭

If I posted this on facebook actual people who love me will call me a traitor.
No. I am loyal to my homeless brothers & sisters who weren’t as fortunate as I was when I was homeless.
And every kid I know is all over the gender spectrum.

Same with TikTok. We were told it was a "national security" threat. But the forced divestiture wasn't about data privacy.

It was about transfer of ownership. Handing the algorithm to politically safe tech oligarchs ensures that the last algorithmic feed not under their thumb is brought to heel.

One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.