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Truly despairing. The lack of empathy. The self-interest of patriarchy.

Boys should not need girls to make themselves smaller.

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And this is how women betray each other. We betray our sisters, mothers, and daughters—we betray ourselves.

If a woman actually believes a woman can’t be president, then she’s holding herself down along with all other women. What careers, hopes, dreams, and goals will she herself never even try to achieve because she thinks they’re out of reach for women?

That glass ceiling is looking pretty opaque now, isn’t it?

Women are the only marginalized group that includes millions of members who actively and voluntarily participate in their own oppression.

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- Timothy Snyder. The first and perhaps most important lesson from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century (2017)

Snyder's new book, On Freedom, was published in 2024.

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FUCK THIS COUNTRY

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this country truly just hates women so much it would rather vote on a literal piece of shit with googly eyes than any woman even the most qualified. at this point I'm just disappointed not surprised

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Dear God please help us all.

I’m begging you. I’m begging you.

I can’t live here anymore with these stupid people in this country they’re slowly destroying, where human rights are unimportant and the almighty dollar wins.

Dear God, please, there is still time to save us.

How can you let EVIL win?!

It’s the end of the United States of America that I grew up in. It’s the end of democracy. It’s the end of our Constitution. 250 years of hope for a better future, for an ideal of freedom, for the rule of the people—how can it end like this? To some smug idiot-narcissist rapist criminal who will never face consequences for his crimes. Emperor Trump.

This is not my country. This is despair for the whole world.

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Run, Pine, run!

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Farticles.

straight men are on something else

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stop making fun of bad people for being fat or having small dicks or being socially awkward or whatever else you seem to think is a fair target. none of that shit has anything to do with why theyre bad. i don’t care if a nazi has a stutter or a terf has thinning hair or whatever. at best youre missing the point, at worst your comments are gonna hurt vulnerable people more than they will ever affect the shitty person you’re mocking. why are you so attached to these bullshit standards anyway?

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Things cats were right about all along:

Fuck staying hydrated by drinking enough water - eat! more! wet! food! (watermelon, cucumbers, SOUP!)

Feels great to be really high up in your house where you can see the whole place (loft bed loft bed loft bed loft bed!)

Express yourself as clearly as possible when people are touching you and you don't want them to.

Optional, but you can also express yourself clearly when your people are not touching you and you want them to.

Sometimes it's important to just go "hmm. actually, I don't care" and wander off.

You don't have to be the strongest or toughest to defend yourself, it's enough to just be difficult enough to not be worth the trouble.

Ghosts will eventually leave if you stare at them for long enough.

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As an educator, lemme tell you, the struggle is real. Faculty are going insane about AI rn. It’s so easy for students to plagiarize—and sometimes they don’t even realize it’s cheating.

But on the flipside, we’ve got instructors taking AI detector results for gospel and accusing innocent students of plagiarism. That’s no fun.

AI detectors are in nascent form right now. They are not always right. So, we’re really back to relying on instinct in an environment that is increasingly hostile.

This is every. day.

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My friends and I used to do this thing where we'd dress up on a theme and go do something totally normal.

We dressed up as pirates and went bowling.

We dressed as vikings and went to the grocery store. The security guard told us we had to move our longship because it was illegally parked.

We dressed as Romans and went to Blockbuster. The staff chanted, "toga! Toga! Toga!" at us.

We dressed up all steampunk and went to the museum. Tourists kept taking our picture.

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Rest in Peace, Dame Maggie Smith (1934 - 2024)