Okay, there's a lot to unpack here, like who decided what affect a "strong father" would have, and what makes a father "strong" to begin with?

Then, there's the deformed foot...caused by a strong father?

I'm not interested in any of that, though. I just want to point out that she had to give up some darn fine whiskey, apparently.

Stupid "strong" father.

Several things came to check me out last night as I slept in my hammock. Bobcat, coyote, and (of course) some deer all passed within about fifty feet of me.

I am so ready for a wonderful sleep. You haven't truly slept until you've spent a wintery night in a hammock! 🥰

I can hear Metallica's 'Thing That Should Not Be' in my head.

I finally have a winter campout planned, and the forecast says it's supposed to be 60°F during the day, low of 20°F at night.

I certainly won't be able to brag about surviving this year.

Every other post I see on Bluesky:

"You know what's wrong with (category of human being)? They all (something a handful of them do)! Oh, and all you (opposite of aforementioned category), you don't get a pass either, because you (some random tangentially bad thing)."

If you have a problem with an action or belief, let me hear it. Just stop with the imperious posturing!

Giant ice crystals this morning. I'm afraid I couldn't catch the amazing sparkle!

What sounds reasonable today will probably not sound reasonable to your grandchildren.

As I'm subbing today, a 17yo girl needed help with her history. While answering a question on her sheet she suddenly stopped and looked at me.

Her: Hey, why does it seem like everything described as a "net good" for society is something that just makes life better for white men?

Me: ...

Her: OMG, that's something everyone else has already figured out, isn't it?

Me: ...

Her: I feel so stupid. That pisses me off!

Me: (leans in and whispers) Welcome to the resistance.

As I'm subbing today, a 17yo girl needed help with her history. While answering a question on her sheet she suddenly stopped and looked at me.

Her: Hey, why does it seem like everything described as a "net good" for society is something that just makes life better for white men?

Me: ...

Her: OMG, that's something everyone else has already figured out, isn't it?

Me: ...

Her: I feel so stupid. That pisses me off!

Me: (leans in and whispers) Welcome to the resistance.

To all trans people ... I am here for you ... Reach out I you need ... Hugz

Some people would describe me as a trans elder, with 30 plus years of official transition and dabbled is hormones since 14, now a young 51 ... Hugz

Hugz & xXx

Please boost so more trans people see this ... Thank you ... Hugz

@Monday I'm jealous. Anytime I've tried doing that my characters completely ignored me and wandered off. It's like watching a big dog drag around a small child clinging to its leash.

I was on WUNC earlier today to chat about The #Science of Kissing on NPR’s Embodied.

It was a treat to meet the other guest, Kadar Small, a photographer, director & filmmaker behind the acclaimed photo series “PDA.” Kadar photographs moments of kissing & intimacy between Black & brown queer folks in public & at home, exploring what this kind of connection looks like through his work.

Listen at https://www.wunc.org/show/embodied-radio-show/2023-05-26/our-lips-are-unsealed-exploring-the-science-culture-of-kissing-intimacy #lgbtq #art #books

Gosh, that is a mystery. If only one our nation’s most revered newspapers could ask literally any woman.

I've been gone for a while. Everyone doing okay?

@GeraldKutney
It's in the UK too. 😔
I am really angry about this as #lgbtqia 'I'm queer and here' I know what it is to be 'other', beaten and hide in plain sight. I did the marches, manned switchboards and campaigned 80-90's but the well funded RW will take us back to the bad old days of ignorance and hate.
I found a newspaper page from 1991 that I kept because I was a victim. What interested me more was how the RW continue to corrupt and nothing has changed, #climatechange, hate, etc..

If you thought those Super Bowl Jesus ads seemed innocuous enough, they are far from it.

The origins of the $20 million ad campaign to bring Jesus to the masses are quite insidious, including some of the most radical extremists on the religious right. Read more here: https://secondnexus.com/he-gets-us-ad-campaign?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=2N

As usual, she does not mince words...
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said in an op-ed published Monday that the world’s leaders are not even “moving in the right direction” on addressing the growing climate crisis.

Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Thunberg, 20, said that financial resources need to be aggressively poured into “solutions, adaptations, and restorations” to address climate change, but that the funds are currently “going elsewhere.”

“The often-used argument that ‘we don’t have enough money’ has been disproven so many times,” Thunberg wrote. “According to the International Monetary Fund, the production and burning of coal, oil and fossil gas was subsidized by $5.9 trillion in 2020 alone. That is $11 million every minute, earmarked for planetary destruction.”

“During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world launched unprecedented financial rescue packages. These recovery plans were seen as a huge opportunity to set humanity on a brand-new course for a more sustainable economic paradigm. They were called ‘our last chance to avert a climate disaster,’ as the enormous size of the investments would make it impossible for us to undo their consequences in the future if we got that funding even slightly wrong,” she said.

But, according to the International Energy Agency, only 2 percent of those massive financial aid packages went toward green energy, Thunberg said.

“Our leaders completely failed,” she wrote.

“And they continue to fail; despite all the beautiful words and pledges, they are not moving in the right direction. In fact, we are still expanding fossil fuel infrastructure all over the world. In many cases, we are even speeding up the process. China is planning to build 43 new coal power plants on top of the 1,000 plants already in operation. In the U.S., approvals for companies to drill for oil and fossil methane gas are on schedule to reach their highest level since the presidency of George W. Bush,” she wrote.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3856605-greta-thunberg-says-world-leaders-not-even-moving-in-the-right-direction-on-climate/

#GreenWashing #ClimateCrisis #KeepItInTheGround #GretaThunberg

Seeing the crazy right wing energy behind this story of a mom who has accused a school social worker of providing her trans son with a binder against her will I'm a bit concerned that the next avenue of attack on trans people may be banning chest binding for transmasc youth.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/maine-social-worker-maybe-provided-binder-to-teen

@kitoconnell @richard_merren @TexasObserver I agree, anything that draws attention to the fact that public schools, by design, have been choked of funding, and that this results is very real and tangible harms is good.

And also agree that most likely every other issue will be addressed prior to (if ever) firearms issues.