I can't feel that left wins in Britain and France are overstated. Labor campaigned on anti-migrant and anti-trans platform and gained feeble mandate on vote share front. Far right surge benefited them while sinking conservatives.
In France, RN made clear gains despite the dramatic turn.
'Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the mid twentieth century, and remains stable for decades. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.'
Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell
Since I guess folks are doing wild apologia and doubt-spreading about the accusations against Gaiman, I'll mention that my partner closely knew one of the survivors decades ago and for all that time has been telling everyone they trust her story whenever Gaiman comes up.
"history will vindicate me" is not a good thing to say. nothing good has ever happened to anyone vindicated by history. getting vindicated by history is a bad thing, really
Something real bad is happening over on Twitter holy shit. I just saw some real bad tweets about immigrants from folks I had previously thought were anti-racist progressives
My latest cursed idea is that split between official vs unofficial acts in the SCOTUS decision is to solely prevent president from transitioning in office.
einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
Exactly. Online censorship and IP law works mainly on people who still think the Internet is a series of tubes -- not for people who have Library Genesis, BFlix and archive dot ph in their bookmarks toolbar.
the most consistent phenomenon on this site is that the user named ‘SEMEN_HITLER_JOI’ volunteers at Food Not Bombs and the user named ‘Ashley Says Trans Joy Is Magic✨’ once kicked a dog so hard its eyes popped out
I know smut may seem like a frivolous thing to be upset about, but crushing it is part of fascism. Controlling all forms of sexual expression is fascism. Only allowing certain kinds is fascism. Smut peddlers are always canaries in the coal mines.
That's try hard. Chic in 2024 is to reach your goals through creative waste: crossfit, not bodybuilding; drugs through personal connections, not pharmacies; form fitting clothes through too tight suits, not stretchy fabrics; dating to write personal essays, not love.