Next up is the beef expanding because someone favorites a sub-skeet related to it without realizing that it's a sub-skeet because the text is vague enough to be read multiple ways

I do not expect this fascist colonizer government to care, but it's pathetic that I had to find out about this via a skeet at 1 AM because no one ELSE is covering it, either.

If anyone has Indigenous GFMs & relief efforts to link, I'll promote them.

Interview with Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan on Nearly Roadkill: Queer Love on the Run

It feels straight Malthusian eugenics to me, but of the rhetorical coercion sort rather than the physical force version

portland continues to serve up a protest that confuses the feds and totally disrupts the false narrative they're pushing via propaganda channels...

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

You can also reduce mental effort and increase engagement by having students color in worksheets with crayons

This is how a $45 shirt becomes $90 and then $180. This 2x multiplying through the chain is called keystone pricing.

So why can't the brand just sell it to a consumer for $90, cutting out the retail markup? Because if they become a retailer, they will need to raise prices to cover their new costs.

Minneapolis

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@sparklebeam.bsky.social I couldn't find many short quotes to post because she's more prone to 2-pagers than 1-liners, but here's one!

I tried to get a Mandarin pronunciation of a fairly common (romanized) name and it was the most white midwestern wrongness

(My Chinese skills are almost nil but I know enough to know you don't pronounce C like /ka/)

Remember when you could go online and fairly easily find accurate pronunciations for so many words? Alas, those days are gone.

(AI slop ruining things once again.)

(not just you!)

The transitition from peds to 18+ care remains one of the worst part of adulthood to me. I absolutely believe your theory about this!

me: maybe I should learn more about my heritage

news: paleolithic German death pit: captives and cannibals!

me: or you know I could do other things instead

I really recommend browsing a reddit called "Is this AI?" for this purpose. people post questionable images and commenters weigh in on their validity, but are required to provide specifics as to their reasoning. once you start seeing the signs, it gets easier and easier over time

I went to diabetes camp as a kid and one year we staged at the rich kids' camp before a canoe trip and they had a strong no-soap culture that remains wild to me to this day

(The next year the state mandated that they had to stop telling children not to bathe)

skinny green Gritty?

I wish there was a meaningful way to report an add for off-putting gAI art. If you want to use Anne Hathaway fan-art to sell your scammy investment whatever, commission it.

(Also ngl it gives "too broke to pay an artist" which seems like an odd choice for investment folks to lean into 🤷)

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

so has anyone created a "things that RFK thinks cause autism" bingo card yet?

Durian

That's how I read it too. Sipping lets you really experience the beauty, I don't think this is a flavor that does well when gulped.

And that maybe they'll get to the point where they know enough about a topic to be able to tell accurate from weird at a glance but since they're still learning, they're not there yet

(I tried to lean really hard against the shaming and Thou Shall Not approach, which is I think all they're getting)