The purpose of journalism is to tell me what I already believe

SysOps from big bbs were like rock stars in the community. Users curried favor with them at meetups to get access to protected files like warez.

Covid 19 is literally giving kids type-1 diabetes and other chronic inflammatory disorders. But yeah send them back to school

Italians were also not white, while at the same time, Syrians were legally white based on a Supreme Court case from the 19th century where Syrians sued to be able to answer that they were white on the census. But erasing self identified POCs cuz you hate them is wack

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I thought WASP meant “white Anglo-Saxon Protestant”, a term which explicitly excludes Sinema and Gabbard. Isn’t Sinemas ancestry Russian? And she was raised Mormon no? They both suck shit from satans asshole but…

Whiteness is so elastic a term even non white people are white when you don’t like them I guess

Isn’t Gabbard Samoan?

The northern Irish government splits power equally between deputy first minister and first minister, so Irish nationalists have held the same power since 1998. This isn’t news really.

@aptshadow.bsky.social it’s my birthday today, and in my birthday I like to thank people who made my year enjoyable. Who would have guessed that some books about spiders and octopuses and little tiny geniuses would rock my world