Remember: we still can’t call him a fascist, because he hasn’t promised to make the trains run on time in perfect Italian.

QJqjurecic.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 8:32pm

sovereign is he who decides on the exception

This drove me nuts when I was pregnant. Yes, women have been doing this for eons but also pregnancy was a leading cause of death among women for those same eons.

DKchronicleflask.katday.comSep 28, 2024 6:34pm

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." —Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun, vol. 1

TRtasharobinson.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 5:53pm

Today in "Wait, WHAT?" I learned that Gene Wolfe — recondite, abstruse SF/F author Gene Wolfe — invented the machine that makes Pringles potato chips. It's on the company's own FAQ, which also implies his signature mustache may have inspired their ad mascot. www.pringles.com/en-us/faq.html

This is a thing of beauty.

So, this.. Pretty clear here who isnt paying their way ion NZ #nzpol

Cc @sarahebond.bsky.social Someone tried to appeal to Latinos but hit Latin instead

#NZpolwww.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Verrall says Reti's false chart makes PM Luxon 'look like an idiot' over Health NZ claims

Shane Reti's office has admitted a chart referred to in press conference does not exist.

My mom nearly died from Covid months ago because she got it at a doctor’s appointment she’s required to go to. Please start giving a fuck about the immunocompromised - we’re all about to be.

there is enormous money in being a shithead, and pennies for people with a conscience

US political leaders, stop calling the endless predictable grim parade of school shootings ‘senseless’, and start calling the misogynist men and boys who shoot unarmed civilians and kids ‘cowards’.