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Corit walked toward it, but scent again captured their attention. There was lunch to eat. Corit sat down, looked at the food. They didn’t exactly remember making it, though they could smell every ingredient. They picked up a fork and made to lift some from the plate, but that tight thing, the uncomfortable thing had returned. It sat below their stomach like a spider gathering in the strands of its web, pulling the whole creation just a little more taut, bending leaves and green twigs in toward itself. Closing their eyes, they could feel the spider pushed by a breath of wind, the web stretching even tighter, then relaxing again with a short-lived vibration as the breath passed.
An exchange between myself and HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social First HR: Listen, hon, I've been around a lot longer than you have and I know how things work. Answer my questions now. Then me: You say you know how things work, and yet you are demanding that someone you don't know on the other side of the internet answer your questions. If I wanted to prove that you do not, in fact, know how things work, I could not do better than forge a demand that someone on the net do what you want.
HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social OMG. That thread of yours is so wild. You know jackshit about politics. We're ruled by fascists now because of numbskulls like you. Democrats are NEVER the problem. People like you are.
Michael Feinberg @Michael-feinberg.bsky.social I'm sorry, but that's fucking idiotic: You haven't the slightest idea what is has cost many of us -- personally and professionally -- to turn away from the conservative movement to fight MAGA. I wouldn't wish my past year, alone, on my worst enemy. 4:31am pacific time Jul 20, 2026
The danger, to me, is a political movement that opposed our equality long before most Americans had ever heard the word “queer.” It is also a movement that keeps finding new groups to target: immigrants, religious minorities, transgender people, people of color and anyone else who does not fit its vision of America.
"In his essay, Mr. Vines presents queer confrontation and mainstream acceptance as opposing forces. My life tells a different story. The welcome I found among queer radicals gave me the courage to fight for a place in the most wholesome institution in America" PS. He means the Boy Scouts. He's saying the Boy Scouts is the most wholesome institution in America.
The profile page of a user named "Jason" It reads as follows: @iavswn.bsky.social 1K followers 118 following 10.3K posts Muslim, Cyclist, Deaf, Retired, Seahawks fan, Independent (politically), Washingtonian, and university of Washington graduate. Note: I block all Trolls, Liars, Islamophobes, Zionists, Racists, Maga cultists, and Right-wing extremists.
Top left is the bill name, S. 10642. Centered is the page number 5. Then on the left is a number for each line (1 for the first line of the text, 2 for the 2nd line, etc.). This image goes down to line 17. The first three lines are all green text, indicating that this language would be new to the law. Lines 4-15 are black, indicating previously existing text that will remain unchanged, with brief exceptions I will note. Lines 16-17 are again green. On line 6 the paragraph that was formerly titled 5 is now titled 5 (a) since green sub paragraphs will be added to this section later. The 5 is still black, but the "(a)" is green because it is an addition. On the next line, line 7, the word "electrical" is rendered in red strikethrough indicating it should be removed from the law. Immediately following that strikethrough is the single word "electric" in green, indicating the word is being added. Effectively this means they're replacing the word "electrical" with the word "electric" in the law. This is not done for policy purposes, but is almost certainly just language housekeeping so that this law uses the same language as other New York statutes. That allows the court to be more efficient since they don't have to wonder why the lege used "electrical" in one place but "electric" in another and then argue about whether they should be given different meanings. It's pretty standard when passing a bill that amends existing law to also have a few bits of this kind of housecleaning here or there. It's not about policy changes at all.
4. Interconnection, Reliability, and Cost Allocation "DPS is directed within sixty days to form a Data Center Interconnection Working Group to identify and resolve issues related to the interconnection of data centers, and other large loads, in order to support efficient interconnection of large new customers and the faithful compliance of “beneficiary pays” principles as related to network upgrade and resource adequacy costs."
A femme earth girl in a green knit top with a high-set ponytail and a purple skirt stands silently flustered. The Alien woman next to her with white hair, thin antenna, and a somewhat super-hero looking bustier and bicep-long red gloves stands fuming. The alien turns away and walks down the hall, calling back, "Fine! Be fully clothed! See if I care!"
The Nyx character from Fire Emblem. She's very spiky looking, including her long hair that splits off into individual spikes along its length instead of more traditional curls. Overall she's also very purple and black, with gold accents and, other than the flowy cape, quite scantily clad. She's attractive if you like your women extremely skinny and floating magically in the air. Some speculate that Nyx was the character that first made Edelgard gay.
The night is black Without a moon The air is thick and still The vigilantes gather on The lonely torchlit hill Features distorted in the flickering light The faces are twisted and grotesque Silent and stern in the sweltering night The mob moves like demons possessed Quiet in conscience, calm in their right Confident their ways are best
The statement reads: “FIFA bases its decision on Article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code. This provision states that the FIFA Disciplinary Committee may decide to suspend the enforcement of a previously imposed disciplinary sanction. However, Article 66.4 of the same FIFA Disciplinary Code clearly provides that a red card (sending-off) automatically results in a suspension for the team’s next match, as has been the case for all previous red cards issued during this FIFA World Cup. Furthermore, and irrespective of the above, the decision is in direct contradiction with the provisions of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Competition Regulations, as set out in Article 10.5: If a player or team official is sent off as a result of a direct or indirect red card (second caution), they will automatically be suspended from their team’s subsequent match. In addition, further sanctions may be imposed. The automatic nature of such a suspension was also explicitly reaffirmed in FIFA World Cup 2026 Circular No. 16, which was distributed to all participating member associations on 12 May 2026. The same rule is reiterated at every FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Coordination Meeting prior to each match and is included in all FIFA World Cup 2026 workshop presentations. In order to safeguard the legitimate rights of all participating teams and to protect the fundamental principles of fair play in our sport, both at this FIFA World Cup and at future editions of the tournament, the RBFA is investigating all potential options.”
A raging, naked feminist hovers in the air like a superhero (or perhaps villain?) without a costume and fires destructive bolts of lightning from her vagina. The targets of her rage are, presumably, both deeply, reprehensibly misogynist and also offscreen down and to the left. Like most anti-heroes/villains, she provides no due process to her otherwise deserving victims.
The results of my Anthropeum game. Final score = 54,198 Current streak, 1 day Games played all time: 1 Today's players 9,992 I placed: top 79%
Anna Holmes posts: "Librarians, I love you, and I will hold your hand while I say this: Your Disability Pride Month booklists should not include books by nondisabled people about disabled people. We have a saying—it’s been around for a long time now: Nothing about us without us."
What’s in a word? It’s more than just a shift in linguistic fashion. “Queer” carries an adversarial charge that “gay” does not, and that charge has a specific intellectual lineage. In 1990 an activist group called Queer Nation published a manifesto exhorting gay people to call themselves “queer.” Its rationale was that “gay” was “a much brighter word” and that “queer” better conveyed the anger and disgust they felt at how society treated gay people: as marginal others whose deaths barely mattered. That sentiment had an understandable resonance at the height of the AIDS epidemic, but the us-versus-them posture it represented has outlived that crisis.
An excerpt from Vines article, transcribing only the highlighted portion (the rest is irrelevant to this post) "Support for same-sex marriage has dropped by 18 percentage points among Republicans since 2022, and conservative activists and lawmakers are mounting an increasingly aggressive campaign to overturn Obergefell."
Ed Meese: "Through painstaking research I have determined that there are [absurdly large number] pornographic periodicals in the US and as a result I come before my fellow Americans outraged. I am as outraged as I have ever been in my life to hear that our society is burdened with the publication of [Absurdly Large Number] pornographic periodicals when I myself have only managed to subscribe to [Absurdly Large Number - 1]."
Highlighted: As a 19-year-old, I found freedom by coming to understand that there is nothing inherently radical or subversive about being gay. Non-highlighted text continues immediately after highlighted portion: Watching committed same-sex couples be welcomed into the institution of marriage transformed my self-worth, allowing me to envision for the first time a dignified future as an openly gay person. It showed me that something never before possible for gay people now was for me: I could fall in love and build a life with someone without being confined to the closet or shunted to the margins of society.
Full text of image: That elasticity has helped fuel a sharp rise in young people identifying as something other than straight, even if they are unlikely to ever pursue a same-sex relationship. Some of this increase represents people who were previously closeted but are now free to be honest about their sexual orientation, which is a welcome development. But the broader trend of casting the queer net ever wider has muddled a once-clear public message about who gay people are. Being gay begins to look less like an inborn trait and more like a chosen ideology or aesthetic. The highlighted text is only the last two sentences about broad trends obscuring gayness and creating the appearance of choice.
Hillary Clinton in 2016 at the Democratic National Convention. She's wearing a slightly-darker-than-hot-pink suit as she gestures for emphasis. Meme-text laid over the image reads: "Gay more. Gay harder. Gay that motherfucker to the nines."
A recent staff report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York says the expansion has produced more than half a trillion dollars in wagers. The study finds that states legalizing mobile sports betting see higher credit delinquency rates, particularly among borrowers under 40, while another academic study says the probability of a personal bankruptcy filing rises by roughly 25% when states shift from in-person-only betting to online wagering.
If you have a large audiobook collection, the extra storage of the Signature Edition may be worth it; otherwise, the Colorsoft is the color Kindle to get. That said, for those who don't rely on Amazon's ecosystem, the $249.99 Onyx Boox Go Color 7 (Gen II) is a better option overall thanks to its note-taking capabilities and support for third-party apps, making it our Editors' Choice for color ereaders.
Robbie’s Barbie is hyperfeminine but—or, more accurately, and therefore—without any discernable sexual orientation. Men either respectfully worship her or ogle her, or they pretend not to like her because they actually love her. She views men first with disdain and, eventually chaste affection, like a sea of bratty little brothers. Every night in Barbie World is girls’ night not because the Barbies are lesbians but because they live in blissful non-sexuality. They, with their smooth Barbie-doll crotches, never get distracted by boys. Whose fantasy is this?
THE BARBIE MOVIE ostensibly offered up a feminist message. After all, it got conservatives hot and bothered, with its girl-power messaging and talk of “patriarchy.” And it did embody what has come of feminism but not in a way I’d celebrate.
But it does not make a woman frivolous or conventional to like men. To land on that idea via progressive ideology is to sort of horseshoe-theory yourself into a regressive misogyny wherein you’re only a full human being if you’re male and if you’re attracted to women. It is commonplace to be a straight woman, this I’ll grant, but it’s no more basic than any of the other ways a person can be.
There is now a plethora of ways to identify into queerness that don’t require such drastic measures as having sex with women or transitioning to become a man. A woman doesn’t even need to claim bi-curiosity to find her way under the LGBTQIA umbrella, when the “q” is right there. The amorphous, all-encompassing term “queer,”
STRAIGHT WOMEN TODAY are at a crossroads. Not obsolete, exactly, but on the decline. Straight women are, going by survey data, a smaller percentage of the population than ever before. A 2022 Gallup polling of more than 10,000 adult Americans shows that 19.7 percent of Gen Z identifies as “something other than heterosexual,” compared with 7.2 percent of the overall population, and women are more likely than men to identify as bisexual.
Story excerpt, just black text on a white background. It reads: “Excellent. Really, she sounds awesome, bro. Grab onto that one with both hands. Don’t pussyfoot around with commitment like you did with Anya.” What’s excellent? Now I don’t know what to do. Like, how do I act around her at work? For a couple hours there I thought I wanted to have an actual relationship with her. So now what do I do that she only fucked me because she’s straight? Am I just like an experiment to her to prove that she’s not closed minded or something? “It’s not complicated. She’s a straight woman. They fuck men. That’s what they do.”
A mark rothko painting. the background of this rectangular painting is a medium to light-medium blue. Entirely abstract and formed of very basic shapes, there is a square of green in mottled but generally bright shades covering the top half. Then a horizontal gap of the background blue, then a horizontal bar of deep but mottled blue maybe 2 times the hight of the gap, possibly 3 times, then a final rectangle of the original greens from the top half of the painting. This composition -- simple forms of unified but uneven colours, to give the shapes depth and complexity -- is highly characteristic of Rothko's work.
An anime clip featuring a nude woman (gauzily sketched so as not to include any pornographic detail) with waist-length green hair, floating like a superhero in the air. She balls up tight, then spreads her arms and legs out as far as she can, at which point some lightning bolt or laser or power beam of some kind shoots forth from her vagina. Do not ask me where this came from, I do not know. But I do know that the gif has been captioned, "FEMINISM!"
An anime clip featuring a nude woman (gauzily sketched so as not to include any pornographic detail) with waist-length green hair, floating like a superhero in the air. She balls up tight, then spreads her arms and legs out as far as she can, at which point some lightning bolt or laser or power beam of some kind shoots forth from her vagina. Do not ask me where this came from, I do not know. But I do know that the gif has been captioned, "FEMINISM!"
A tiny snippet of the Wikipedia article on Václav Havel. it reads: Václav Havel (Czech: [ˈvaːt͡slav ˈɦavɛl]; 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident.
A small portion of the Wiki article on Solzhenitsyn. The cropped portion includes (on the right) a headshot of the man with unkempt hair & beard against the backdrop of a garden wall. Above there are standard links associated with such articles. The quoted text reads: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system.
A naked woman, hovering in the air like a superhero, curls her arms and legs inward before stretching them all out wide. At which point, the woman's vagina emits a powerful bolt of energy aimed downward and to the left. The caption says, "FEMINISM!"
A screen shot from Sky News showing Kemi Badenoch standing in front of a blue background, framed by portions of 2 Union Jacks (the way that they drape down from their indoor flag poles, the image of the jack is mostly obscured, but looking at what can be seen, people familiar with the UK flag can put together what it must be. Also, she's a Tory and the first Black leader of the Conservative Party in a time of racism -- there's no way she can get away with not humping the flag if she wants to keep her position) The Easter for the Sky News article being illustrated by this picture reads: Tories would repeal public sector equality duty in 'in its entirety' In her speech, Kemi Badenoch confirms her plans to "repeal the public sector equality duty in its entirety". She says these guidelines have led to public bodies chasing "equality of outcome", which ends up moving them further from "equal treatment and equality under the law".
A streaming site advertises the move "Forgiveness Girl" with the description "A little girl with cerebral palsy is relentlessly bullied throughout her life, yet finds it in her heart to forgive by seeking strength from a higher source above." The IMDb rating is 9.6 out of 10.
A screenshot of the bottom of the first post in today's serious thread. It reads: "58 reposts 10 quotes 139 likes 15 saves"
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
An early morning picture of Mount Hood in the distance taken from Portland or perhaps the eastern edge of the Portland Metro area. Behind the mountain it is golden-brown. The foreground is a series of ridges covered in pine trees, shadowed into indistinct green-browns by the uneven light in the moments after sunrise. Across the bottom is the headline of a news article. It reads, "Oregon makes final round of viral 'delete a state' Reddit tournament."
A block of text, drawn from the Formatter letter to the UK's EHRC. [In case it is needed later, "ultra vires" means "beyond one's powers" or "outside one's authority".] The text excerpt reads as follows: In summary: The section on "asking about sex" is both unnecessary and unlawful. It is likely to result in mass indirect sex discrimination and to undermine safeguarding. It is outside the mandate of the EHRC. It neither explains a specific section of the Equality Act nor refers to any case law to support its assertions. It appears not to have been formulated in consultation with the ICO. It undermines the EHRC's independence. It is ultra vires and irrational for the EHRC and the minister to issue this section of the guidance, and the ICO has allowed the wrong body to take decisions for which it is exclusively responsible. This section of the guidance should be withdrawn.
Gluesenkap-Perez explains her vote to force teachers to out trans kids to their parents, per this post by Jen Bendery: UPDATE: Gluesenkamp Perez responds: "My heart breaks for children who don’t feel safe letting their parents into their world. But divorcing a young child’s school life from their home life doesn’t resolve the underlying problem of an unsupportive family."
An excerpt from US. v Skrmetti reading as so: "Because women fell into both groups, the Court reasoned, the program did not discriminate against women as a class. See id., at 496, and n. 20. The Court concluded that, even though only biological women can become pregnant, not every legislative classification concerning pregnancy is a sex-based classification. Id., at 496, n. 20. As such, “[a]bsent a showing that distinctions involving pregnancy are mere pretexts designed to effect an invidious discrimination against the members of one sex or the other, lawmakers are constitutionally free to include or exclude pregnancy from the coverage of legislation . . . on any reasonable basis, just as with respect to any other physical condition.” Id., at 496–497, n. 20. By the same token, SB1 does not exclude any individual from medical treatments on the basis of transgender status. Rather, it removes one set of diagnoses—gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, and gender incongruence—from the range of treatable conditions."
A screen shot of the beginning of a Star Trek (original series) episode, but the original title is erased and in its place is: "THE ONE THAT'S A GREEK MYTH IN SPACE"
A picture of a random paragraph of text from Assigned media. What the text says is not the point, but rather just the fine lines of the font chosen are making the text less readable.
Queer Hand Luke says: "It is fundamentally nihilistic to claim that nothing has changed since the 1980s, especially when it comes to queers and the Democratic Party."
Queer Hand Luke says, "I see we are once again trying to enumerate the number of hoes Charlie Brown has."
Mattie Lubchansky writes: "Saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. The more things change" and concludes with a smiley emoticon made from a colon and a close-parenthesis. Below that is her own picture of just the very bottom of an ACT-UP poster that reads: "The Republicans Want Us Dead. The Democrats Don't Care." Again, this was a perfectly accurate take at the time, and is a perfectly accurate take today.
A screengrab of a red, rectangular button (with rounded off corners) against a white background and sporting some very sporty white text is an eminently sportable sans-serif font. Oh, you wanted to know what the text says? It's this: "We're saying 'fuck these fuckers' a lot." Wonkette don't hold back, and I love them for it.
A picture of Excalibur comics in Portland. The building itself is two-stories with faux-neoclassical details, especially around the front door, where the alcove to protect from the rain recesses that front door a couple feet, but around the edge of the alcove is bas-relief pseudo-Ionian columns, one on each side. Those details are black, setting them off nicely from the orange-red building facade. That facade also goes well with the orange neon sign reading "COMICS!" in a white neon speech bubble that points down to a very comic-bookesque duck pulling a sword (presumably Excalibur) from a stone. Perpendicular to the building facade is a nice two-sided sign reading "Excalibur Comics" in bold orange-and-yellow text on black -- furthering the cohesive color scheme. Debbie - the co-owner with her father, and a multi-decade fixture of the comics scene in PDX - still runs the place with a personal touch, and I wouldn't be surprised to learn she's responsible for the beautiful and cohesive art scheme. While you will find wonderful people at just about any comic shop around the world, and those strip-mall stores still have their very human value, there's just nothing like walking up Hawthorne towards Excalibur. It feels like coming home to a warm hearth.
A comment from the database of FCC public comment on Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show: Ticket #: 8434302 - Super Bowl lyrics Date: 2/12/2026 City/State/Zip: Erie, Pennsylvania 16502 Name of TV Program: Super Bowl Description I learned about eating a woman's ass at the Super Bowl. This was a first time for me. I was raised with God and religion. I had to go to counselling and therapy after the Super Bowl..I can't get the lyrics out of my head. I have PTSD from the Super Bowl. ========================================= Please note that autocorrect eliminated most of the typos in that comment, and I'm not going to go back and fight autocorrect to make sure they stay in. But I did want y'all to know that this person can't seem to capitalize Super Bowl to save his own ass.
If you're expecting a Star Wars joke from me on May the 4th then you're looking in Alderaan places.
An except from Mark Twain's satirical essay, 'My Watch'. (There is also a picture of Mark Twain in the top/right corner, though it is ironically anachronistic.) The excerpt is as follows: An Instructive Little Tale My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping. I had come to believe it infallible in its judgments about the time of day, and to consider its constitution and its anatomy imperishable. But at last, one night, I let it run down. I grieved about it as if it were a recognized messenger and forerunner of calamity. But by and by I cheered up, set the watch by guess, and commanded my bodings and superstitions to depart. Next day I stepped into the chief jeweler's to set it by the exact time, and the head of the establishment took it out of my hand and proceeded to set it for me. Then he said, "She is four minutes slow-regulator wants pushing up." I tried to stop him--tried to make him understand that the watch kept perfect time. But no; all this human cabbage could see was that the watch was four minutes slow, and the regulator must be pushed up a little; and so, while I danced around him in anguish, and implored him to let the watch alone, he calmly and cruelly did the shameful deed. My watch began to gain. It gained faster and faster day by day. Within the week it sickened to a raging fever, and its pulse went up to a hundred and fifty in the shade. At the end of two months it had left all the timepieces of the town far in the rear, Thus concludeth the excerpt. However I strongly recommend you read the essay entire. It is available here: https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/my-watch
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a federal anti-bribery law does not make it a crime for state and local officials to accept a gratuity for acts that they have already taken. Writing for a six-justice majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh explained that state and local governments already regulate gifts to officials, and so the federal law “does not supplement those state and local rules by subjecting 19 million state and local officials to up to 10 years in federal prison for accepting even commonplace gratuities.”
Then I go for the extra point by mentioning that John Wilkes and I have the same birthday: May 10, 131 years apart. By the time I mention I get edgy handling pennies and five dollar bills, people begin to wend their way to the nearest door.
This isn’t about retribution; it’s about bearing witness, putting the facts in the open so everyone knows what these people did. Letting them slip back into private life, back to cushy university appointments and far-right think tanks, without an accounting of what has happened is an affront to decency, dishonors the dead from this administration’s policies, whitewashes history, and makes it all the easier to let it happen again. Truth? Yes. Reconciliation. Maybe.
The central image is a woman who has explosively, almost instantly, become gian -- far taller than the trees in the background. Her sudden growth knocks over a character in the foreground whose back is to the viewer. The woman's superhero (or in this case supervillain) outfit is skin tight and dusky purple with a gold, double-wrapped wide belt. She has similarly gold-coloured wraps around her wrists and forearms. In the upper left is an inset showing a bit of dialog concluding with her pressing the button that allows her to grow so huge. The dialog, first in the upper left by the main character ManKiller and then by the foregrounded man as he topples reads like so: Man-Killer: "Wrong by whose standards, Josten? A loser like you? Speaking of choices, how about the one where Fixer gave me the means to dose myself with size changing [CLICK!] Pym Particles?" Josten: "Okay, that was a smooth move. Give you that."
"Failed to parse response body" Okay, in fairness there's other text in that red error code box as well, but that's the funny part. The "Syntax Error JSON Parse error Unexpected EOF" doesn't really add much.
Against a backdrop of a beautifully detailed picture of a star-flecked nebula, a science educator with a grey-brown beard and a dark grey, 3/4 sleeve t-shirt begins to explain something important: "We should also consider this a victory for the philosophy at the heart of all of ..."