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Lucy Smith and Pauline Ranken climbing Salisbury Crags. ca. 1908.
Image: Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club.
Lucy Smith, Jane Clark and her daughter Mabel founded The Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club in 1908. Pauline Ranken was also an early member of the club.
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 130. 5/13/25
Today in Politics, Bulletin 130. 5/13/25 Ron Filipkowski May 13 ∙ … One day after Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa offered to build a Trump Tower Damascus as a sweetener to persuade Trump to meet with him during his Middle East trip to discuss the US lifting sanctions on his country, Trump announced he was lifting sanctions. He said it will “give them a chance at greatness” and claimed he was only doing it as a favor to Saudi Arabia’s MBS: "Oh, the things I do for the Crown Prince."
… While we don’t know whether Trump’s motives involved bribery and self-interest (it usually does), many still believe it was the right decision. Former CIA agent Marc Polymeropoulos: “There must be a hell of a backstory on this, as I assumed his national security team, particularly those in the NSC, was against such moves. Also - the Israelis are not gonna be very happy. My take as someone who worked on Syria for many years, this the right move.”
… Noah Rothman of conservative National Review says that Trump’s decision here probably goes against the wishes of his Assad-fan DNI Tulsi Gabbard: “In case you need a primer on the dispute within the admin over how to approach post-Assad Syria - looks like the Tulsi faction is on the outs.”
… Oz Katerji, Director of The Battle for Kyiv: “If a proscribed paramilitary organization wins a civil war, disarms, renounces terrorism, and bans terrorist activity on the territory it now governs, it becomes perfectly possible to become deproscribed.”
… In his speech, Trump praised MBS: “I want to thank his royal highness the Crown Prince. He's an incredible man. I've known him a long time now. There's nobody like him. Appreciate it very much, my friend. We have great partners in the world, but we have none stronger and nobody like the gentleman right before me. He's your greatest representative. And if I didn't like him, I'd get out of here so fast. He knows me well. I like him a lot. I like him too much."
… He then praised himself to his mostly-Saudi audience, claiming that he just saved the American health care system with his executive order on prescription drugs: "You saw what we did yesterday in healthcare. We've cut our healthcare by 50-90%."
… Then he saluted Saudi Arabian generals.
… WH Correspondent’s Assn: “For the first time since the WH press corps started traveling with American presidents abroad, no wire service reporter is aboard Air Force One today. As the president travels across the ocean for high-stakes meetings in the Middle East, the White House has decided not in include any wire reporter. The WHCA is disturbed by this new restriction on who can cover this WH and continued retaliation for independent editorial decisions.”
… WH Communications Director Steve Cheung responded: “Oh no! Not a strongly worded email!”
… Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) was critical of Trump’s executive order on pharmaceuticals in a committee hearing today: “The ‘most favored nation’ approach coming out of the admin - all of these other things, are short-sighted, unsustainable measures that are not going to produce the result I believe all of us want to achieve.”
… Sen. Maj. Leader John Thune to HuffPost: “My guess is that it'll be the subject of probably multiple lawsuits, and I think the courts will probably have something to say about it.”
… Lots of Republicans were asked about Trump’s ‘Palace in the Sky’ Qatari plane grift today with very different takes. Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) on CNN: “This is just an offer of friendship, but I’m sure this has to be legal if we are going to accept it. If it’s unethical, that will be up to the president to decide.”
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) on CNN: “This is just an offer of friendship, but I’m sure this has to be legal if we are going to accept it. If it’s unethical, that will be up to the president to decide.”
… Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) to CNN: “I have zero issue with it.”
… Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT): “You can’t beat free!”
… Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL): “I worry about the president of the United States flying on any plane owned by a foreign government, especially a foreign government that supports Hamas."
… Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT): "It must be one heck of a jet. I understand it went through AG Pam Bondi. So it's legal. It's ethical."
… Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK): “How many of us have actually been offered the promise of a jet? When you get something of that value from a country, one typically thinks that there's something in it for the country that is offering it.”
… Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Fox: “The constitution in Article 2 says the president cannot take gifts from foreign leaders. There is a provision in the Constitution that says you cannot do this. I think it’s not worth the appearance of impropriety.”
… Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on CNBC: "I think the plane poses significant espionage and surveillance problems. I certainly have concerns."
…. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) on CNBC: "We don't want to be straight up accepting any type of gift from any foreign government, certainly not one that can be viewed in a way that obviously has been presented here."
… Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) on CNN: "I don't like it. There's a reason that people can't even buy me a steak dinner. It's not necessarily that you can prove I have an ethical problem, it's that the appearance of it doesn't look great."
… Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) on Fox: “Would we let another country decorate the Oval Office? Would we let another country build the Situation Room? Would we let another country wire the press office? Oh, wait. Air Force One is all three. Air Force One is the Oval Office. It's the press room. It's the situation room all in the air. Why on Earth is it a good idea from a national security perspective to let another country, let alone the Emir of another country, give President Trump his next Air Force One?”
… Nikki Haley: “Accepting gifts from foreign nations is never a good practice. It threatens intelligence and national security. Especially when that nation supports a terrorist organization and allows those terrorist regimes to live on its soil. Regardless of how beautiful the plane may be, it opens a door and implies the President and US can be bought. If this were Biden, we would be furious.”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT): “This isn’t a good idea even if the plane was being donated to the US govt. But Trump GETS TO KEEP THE PLANE??? It’s simply a cash payment to Trump in exchange for favors. Just wildly illegal.”
… Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX): “While ordinary Americans’ flights are grounded because of problems at the FAA, Trump is taking a $400 million bribe in the form of a ‘palace in the sky’ from a foreign government. Over and over: He gets paid. Everyone else gets screwed.”
… Even Laura Loomer: “I love President Trump. I would take a bullet for him. But, I have to call a spade a spade. We cannot accept a $400 million “gift” from jihadists in suits. The Qataris fund the same Iranian proxies in Hamas and Hezbollah who have murdered US Service Members. The same proxies that have worked with the Mexican cartels to get jihadists across our border. This is really going to be such a stain on the admin if this is true. And I say that as someone who would take a bullet for Trump. I’m so disappointed.”
… Reuters reported that the Trump admin ordered the FBI to devote a third of it’s time to help ICE with immigration enforcement, and to deprioritize white collar crime investigations to free up the time.
… RFK Jr. posted of video of his family swimming in DC’s Rock Creek. The National Park Service bans swimming and wading in the creek because there is “high levels of bacteria and other infectious pathogens, including fecal coliform, Giardia, and other potential waterborne illnesses. Chemicals flow into streams and into the creek from surrounding communities through storm drains and rainfall. These contaminants, among others, can make your family members, your furry four-legged friends, and you sick.”
… Indy journalist Jim Stewartson: “I lived outside DC for 20 years. Swimming in Rock Creek is like swimming in a toilet bowl. It’s fucking insane and everyone knows it. RFK JR TOOK HIS GRANDKIDS TO SWIM IN SEWER WATER. That’s why he’s so dangerous. He’s homicidally ignorant. He really believes his bullshit.”
… Mr. Brainworms is in charge of public health for the United States.
… Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) says govt spending needs big cuts: “People that are sitting around at home, watching ‘The View’ on television, getting SNAP cards, food stamps, and on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid—that’s got to be over with. Our country is not gonna make it. We cannot afford for that to happen, and President Trump is all about that. That’s what the House is pushing very hard.”
… Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) was asked how he can assure the American people that Medicaid won’t be cut. Burchett: “How can you assure your nana that you still support her after she told you that chocolate milk doesn’t come from brown cows?”
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I was forwarding these to a friend and figured it’d be worth sharing them all here too so enjoy some free books and essays and things in no particular order:
Jeanette Winterson - Art Objects
Does Your Daughter Know It’s Okay To Be Angry? - Soraya Chemaly
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong - Audre Lorde
Garments Against Women - Anne Boyer
Laziness Does Not Exist - Devon Price
Learn Socialism Resources
Do Economists Actually Know What Wealth Is? - Nathan J. Robinson
Love Dialogue: CÉLINE SCIAMMA on Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Carlos Augilar
Teaching To Transgress - Bell Hooks
Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
Sinister Wisdom Archives
Why Pop Culture Links Women and Killer Plants - Amandas Ong
How To Suppress Women’s Writing - Joanna Russ
Women’s Voices Now
The Life of Tove Jansson
Unbearable Weight; Feminism, Western Culture and the Body - Susan Bordo
‘A Simple Favour’ and That Whole Lesbian Psycho Thing - Ciara Wardlow
OUTWEEK Archives
AirPods Are a Tragedy - Caroline Haskins
Devotions - Mary Oliver
Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin
Nevertheless, She Feasted: Why Girls Get Hungry in Horror Movies - Francesca Fau
Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
Sula - Toni Morrison
Not Vanishing - Chrystos
The Fever - Wallace Shawn
Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma: ‘Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze’ - Alexandra Pollard
Minimalism Is Just Another Boring Product Wealthy People Can Buy - Chelsea Fagan
AIDS, Art and Activism: Remembering Gran Fury - John d’Addario
In the Day of the Postman - Rebecca Solnit
Blood and Guts in Highschool - Kathy Acker
Mark My Words: The Subversive History of Women Using Thread as Ink - Rosalind Jana
Exploring Frida Kahlo’s Relationship With Her Body - Rebecca Fulleylove
Ravens have paranoid, abstract thoughts about other minds - Emily Reynolds
The Lady in the Looking Glass - Virginia Woolf
Angela Carter talks beauties and beasts with Terry Jones
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride
Why Female Cannibals Frighten and Fascinate - Kate Robertson
Lesbian Herstory Archives
Bartleby
Guggenheim Books
We Are Lisa Simpson: 30 Years with the Smartest and Saddest Kid in Grade Two - Sara David
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation - Anne Helen Petersen
Why the Popular Phrase ‘Women and Femmes’ Makes No Sense - Kesiena Boom
Ask No Man Pardon: The Philosophical Significance of Being Lesbian - Elsa Gidlow
Taking Care - Callista Buchen
Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977) - Mariposa Films
Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people - Matt Broomfield
Yo Soy Así (2010) - Jodi Savitz
Liuzhou “Luosifen”: Slurpy, Spicy, and Absolutely Satisfying | Liziqi Channel
Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn - Anil Ananthaswamy
East Bloc Love (2011) - Logan Mucha
Why Do Rich Kids Do Better Than Poor Kids in School? It’s Not the “Word Gap.” - Molly McManus
They Shut Me Up In Prose - Emily Dickinson
The Importance of Friends with Similar Disabilities - Elizabeth Mazur, Ph.D.
The Lesbian Archives at the Glasgow Women’s Library
A Poetry Handbook - Mary Oliver
Teaching Community. A pedagogy of Hope - Bell Hooks
Working Class History
Why don’t doctors trust women? Because they don’t know much about us - Gabrielle Jackson
In Our Brutal Modern World, Science Shows Our Brains Need Craft More Than Ever - Susan Luckman
Why were the lives of ordinary 16th and 17th century women largely undocumented? | Suzannah Lipscomb
Caliban And The Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation - Silvia Federici
Mother’s Touch (엄마의 손길) - Jane Yeon and Audris Park
Gene Wilder Was Right: Gilda Radner Didn’t Have To Die, And We Need To Talk About Why She Did - Abby Norman
Why 1984 Was a Vital Year for British Gay Culture: An interview with Paul Flynn - Hanna Hanra
R&B Legend Jackie Shane On Growing Up Trans in the South - Zackery Drucker
The Journey - Mary Oliver
The Fictional Spinster Classification Index - Daniel Mallory Ortberg
What kind of country have we become? Try asking a disabled person - Frances Ryan
The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014)
Magda Romanska, “Necr-Ophelia: Death, Femininity, and the Making of Modern Aesthetics”
Nobody talks about it, but too many rich kids are at university who shouldn’t be there - Julia Shervington
Barbara Hammer - The 90’s (experimental shorts)
Remembering Stormé - The Lesbian Woman Of Color Who Incited The Stonewall Revolution
Ozamu Tezuka Documentary
Sheroes: The Lesbian Stonewall
38 Lesbian Magazines That Burned Brightly, Died Hard, Left A Mark
‘It has made me want to live’: public support for lesbian novelist Radclyffe Hall over banned book revealed
This is what Britain’s Gay Liberation Front movement looked like in the 1970s
Pawn shop bars and poverty chic: how working-class life was colonised - Dale Lately
Prolife IS the extremist viewpoint. - Taryn De Vere
There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)
1984. The trials of Gay’s the Word. - Colin Clews
Cambridge’s appropriation of the working class makes for bitter social division
Why we fell for clean eating - Bee Wilson
Glass Labyrinth - Shuji Terayama (1979)
“Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It” Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks. - Jessica Pressier
Top 10 books about women and the sea - Charlotte Runchie
JK Rowling’s Harry Potter? A thank you would be nice, says Worst Witch author - Anita Singh and Helen Brown
Heather Widdows: The Ugly Side of Beauty - Regan Penaluna
Why Women Are Shamed for Having Body Hair: On #everydaylookism and the normalization of the hairless body. - Heather Widdows and Jessica Sutherland
Dante’s Inferno: The Private Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poet and Painter - Ken Russell (1967) Part 1 | Part 2
Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - Virginia L. Blum
The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne Scafe Foreword by Lola Okolosie (ebook free to download this month 06/2020)
Are Prisons Obsolete? - Dr. Angela Davis / also available as a free audiobook on YouTube
The Cancer Journals - Audre Lorde
Anti-Racism Resources for White People: Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.
Human Being/Insan (Ibrahim Shaddad, 1993)
Black Leaders Discussion feat. Angela Davis, Kwame Ture & Fannie Lou Hamer (1973)
CEREALS | Mayram Yusupova | 1982
Prairie House (1991) dir. Julie Dash
Julie Enszer: “We Couldn’t Get Them Printed,” So We Learned to Print Them Ourselves - Catherine Halley
A Burst of Light and Other Essays - Audre Lorde
Palestine Film Institute (one free film weekly)
Black British Women You Aren’t Taught in School (compiled by inamahair) Part 1 | Part 2
Intersections: Crafting a Voice for Black Culture - Alice Walker on Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Spiritual Food’
Part 1: Why we’ll succeed in saving the planet from climate change - Emma Marris
Part 2: Why we won’t avoid a climate catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert
‘They Set Us Up to Fail’: Black Directors of the ’90s Speak Out. Julie Dash, Matty Rich, Darnell Martin, Ernest Dickerson, Leslie Harris and Theodore Witcher on a boom that went bust, and what’s different now. - Reggie Ugwu
You can now search and browse every edition of Spare Rib online!
(Important information for researchers: Some material from the Spare Rib magazines on the Journal Archives site has been redacted until the Library is able to secure further copyright permissions.)
How to Repair a Hole in a Sock with Darning
Weight stigma in maternity care: women’s experiences and care providers’ attitudes - Kate Mulherin et al.
What the Caves are Trying to Tell Us - Sam Kriss
Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine
If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? - James Baldwin
“Scenes of an Indelicate Character”: The Medical “Treatment” of Victorian Women - Mary Poovey
The Curse of Quon Gwon (1917) dir. Marion E. Wong
Black Panthers White Lies | Curtis Austin | TEDxOhioStateUniversity
Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don’t See Past the Fat - Gina Kolata
How to Sew a Button - for Absolute BEGINNERS
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Solidarity Cinema
Where to watch classic films directed by women online and for free - Rafaella Britto
Revolution At Point Zero by Silvia Federici (Audiobook by Lil Guillotine)
Colonising the Body: State Medicine And Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century India (Chapter 5) - David Arnold
“Racism, Birth Control And Reproductive Rights” (From Woman, Race and Class) - Dr. Angela Davis
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear - Toni Morrison
My Withered Legs - Sandra Gail Lambert
Jessie Knight, Britain’s first female tattoo artist, at work in 1952 (video)
You’re Not Listening. Here’s Why. - Kate Murphy
The History and Troubling Present of the “Pansexual” Label - Kravitz M.
A Man and his Hoe
For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big - Jane Healey on secret corridors and impossible floorplans
May 23rd, 1988. Section 28. Lesbians invade BBC. - Colin Clews
Complete issues of The Gay Left 1975-80
A Decade of World-Class Masterclasses Online - Scottish Documentary Institute
5 Steps to Illustrating a Repeat Pattern by Hand - Julia Rothman
“Feminism was not invented by American women.” Nawal El Saadawi in conversation with Krishnan Guru-Murthy
How Academics, Egyptologists, and Even Melania Trump Benefit From Colonialist Cosplay - Katherine Blouin, Monica Hanna, Sarah E. Bond
Glass, Irony and God (The Gender of Sound) - Anne Carson
The Archivettes: A Sinister Wisdom Conversation with Megan Rossman (video)
‘I am not a pretty woman. And that’s never felt like more of a crime than in 2020.’ - Katie Scoble
Girls are cruelest to themselves: The Glass Essay - Anne Carson
Social media can be bad for our self-image. Could marking photos as edited help? - Paulina Jayne Isaac
Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson
Joan Nestle in Conversation with Cheryl Clarke @ Sinister Wisdom (video)
Decreation - Anne Carson
New World Order: The scream’s a good weapon. - Sarah Nicole Prickett
GAY LIBERATION FRONT: Looking Back At The Revolutionary LGBTQ Group 50 Years On - Cliff Joannou with Dan Glass
Ceramic Review Masterclasses videos)
Gay Pride 1979- Inside Story (Documentary)
15 Songs About AIDS - Sal Cinquemani
“I Call It Blaxidermy”: Pamela Council on Their Art and Aesthetic - Clarity Haynes
Revenant Journal Archives: Revenant is a peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated to academic and creative explorations of the Supernatural, the Uncanny and the Weird.
The Tale of the Fox - Wladyslaw Starewicz (1937)
How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger - Michaeleen Doucleff and Jane Greenhalgh
Paper Books Can’t Be Shut Off from Afar - Maria Bustillos
‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is the latest to include the iconic first period scene. Why don’t we ever see normal menstruation on TV? - Caroline Kitchener
HoneyHands Magazine
Some Women’s Work: Domestic Work, Class, Race, Heteropatriarchy, and the Limits of [U.S.] Legal Reform - Terri Nilliasca
Abolish the Police. Instead, Let’s Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality. - Mychel Denzel Smith
Possession (1981)
Have You Seen This Bird: The Emotional and Ecological Ramifications of an Obsessive Kinship with Frank, a Neighbourhood Scrub-Jay. - Elisabeth Nicula
Painting Ghosts: Running into the cold, restorative waves with artist Nicole Eisenman. - Andrew Durbin
Nevada - Imogen Binne
Child Pageants and the Performance of Gender. - Lisa Wade, PhD
The extraordinary body of Evatima Tardo - Bess Lovejoy
Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles
The beautiful language of bookplates - Alexandra Hills
Why a Disabled Artist Collective Was What I Needed All Along - Riva Lehrer
The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins - Roberta Smith
The unbearable daintiness of women who eat with men. - Kate Handley
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction - Ursula K. Le Guin
‘A fair chance for girls’: The law of periodicity and the Viavi system - Lalita Kaplish
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection - Julia Kristeva
The sickness in the wellness industry - Gwendolyn Smith
‘Unsettling the men’: the representation of transgressive female desire in Daughter of Darkness (Lance Comfort, 1948) - Paul Mazey
Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses - Christine Ro
How The New Yorker Fell Into the “Weird Japan” Trap - Ryu Spaeth
A Symbol of a Lost Homeland - Yasmeen Abdel Majeed
Forbidden love: The WW2 letters between two men - Bethan Bell
Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies. - Rachel Bennett, Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland
Tonight House Republicans voted 217 to 215 for a budget that'll take $1 TRILLION dollars from Medicaid, attack food benefits for kids, hurt seniors and vets.
but I don't want to talk about that, I want to talk about these two Democratic members of Congress you've never ever heard of.
Democrats, Congressman Kevin Mullin of California and Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen of Colorado.
Congressman Mullin had knee surgery that didn't go well, two surgeries, a life threatening blood clot and a week long stay in the hospital, and the moment he was discharged from the hospital he got on a five hour flight to DC to vote against the Republicans evil budget, using a walker to get to the floor of the House
Congresswoman Pettersen gave birth to her son Sam, in the picture, exactly one month ago on January 25th. They flew from Colorado to DC after Republicans refused to allow her to vote by proxy after having a baby. Congresswoman Pettersen took Sam onto the floor of the House to vote to protect the Health care of 400,000 Colorado kids.
why talk about this? because so much of the conversion is about telling people there's no one good, no one worthy, no one fighting. I promise you there are people undergoing personal hardship to do the right thing.
25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025
Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality
Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway
Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups
Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay
Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward
Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient
Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative
Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!
Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community
DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!
Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?
Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.
Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability
Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough
Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing
Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work
Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market
Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question
Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them
Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area
Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...
Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable
Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact
Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive
Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people
I mostly talk about transit and local politics but seriously do as much of this as you can, it really does help
Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.
If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.
Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.
Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.
I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.
Writers: It's asking to read your Google Docs and be able to 'summarize' things from them and such things. I just turned all mine off.
Because this isn't mentioned above, also go to google.com/drive/settings and turn off all the annoying bits that interface directly with docs there.
This is all in the "privacy" tab of your settings. How fun that everything is hidden two layers deep. 🙄 This DOESN'T get rid of the stupid little star constantly asking you to use it, unfortunately, but that's what the picker in ublock is for. 😉
More detail instructions for OP's post for those who are confused. This is done from the browser on my laptop, I don't know what they look like on phones.
When you click the first link gemini.google.com/extensions, you need to click on the setting icon at the bottom, then choose "Extension", like this:
Scroll down a bit, you will see the options, turn them all off.
Then, you click on the second link myactivity.google.com/product/gemini, you'll see it tells you that it's already "turn off". NO! IT'S NOT! You have to click on that "Turn off" option, it'll drop down a menu like this:
Turn that thing off. Until that button shows you have to click to turn it back on like this:
And then, click on the delete button down there too, even if it says there's nothing to delete, just do it as a caution.
After you's done with those two. You go to your Drive, find the Setting button.
Click on the "Privacy" tab, choose the button "Manage Workspace smart feature setting"
Tick both of those off, then click Save. Or if you still want to use Google AI assistant for some reasons, please read the fine lines very very carefully.
Only then, you can feel safe enough with this force AI assistant bullshit. FOR NOW 🤡 All these steps still can't get rid of that Gemini blinkblink icon though >:(((((
Repeat for every one of your google accounts 💀
Not like that film was a one-off either.
I would like to add The Birdcage (1996) to this list of drag queen movies (mind you, it's based on a French stage play from 1973).
Which starred Nathan Lane as a drag queen just two years after he had voice Pumba in "The Lion King":
And we ESPECIALLY need to remember Victor Victoria from 1982 (during the REAGAN administration) which is SET IN THE 1930S and stars everyone's favorite curtain-sewing nanny as a struggling soprano who decides to pretend to be a boy doing drag (DOUBLE THE DRAG FOR YOUR MONEY). I mean look at this photo:
Count Victor Grazinski isn't putting up with your transphobia (or you being a dick to Robert Preston).
Unfortunately, the representation of drag and female impersonation (as it was often called pre-Stonewall) is scant in mainstream American cinema due to the Hayes Code. There are definitely more, but these are biggest, "family-friendly" names I can think who have starred in major motion pictures as drag performers.
can I add another?
Some Like It Hot (1959), it got in trouble with censors and still went ahead, but it featured a lot of Gender and a character getting really into this whole “being a girl for real” thing, as well as the implication of a a gay engagement being on the table
but like? It has Marilyn Monroe in it and banger music and it’s a classic! I only know from my mother bringing it up and also a tiny bit of exposure to russian tv channels, but I think it was also popular in the Soviet Union? So she’d seen it as a child and loved it so much she watched it with me when I was also just a child.
(not to mention big traditions of children’s theatre with drag performance)
When President Donald Trump announced his intention to end birthright citizenship, right-wing media figures immediately began spreading misi
Torri Lonergan at MMFA:
When President Donald Trump announced his intention to end birthright citizenship, right-wing media figures immediately began spreading misinformation to make the move appear more palatable. Right-wing media amplified Trump’s false claim that the U.S. is the only country with birthright citizenship, inaccurately suggested that birthright citizenship makes it easy for undocumented parents to become citizens, and obscured the fact that Trump’s executive order applies to the children of some who are in the country legally.
Trump signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship
Since 1898, the 14th Amendment has been interpreted as guaranteeing birthright citizenship, meaning that all children born in the U.S. are American citizens — regardless of their parents’ immigration status. The amendment reads: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” [NPR, 1/23/25; BBC, 2/5/25]
On the first day of Trump’s return to the presidency, he signed an executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. If the order is implemented, children born in the U.S. would only automatically become citizens if their parents are citizens or lawful permanent residents. The children of undocumented immigrants and the children of people here legally on temporary work, student, or tourism visas would no longer be granted birthright citizenship. [White House, 1/20/25; NPR, 1/20/25; NBC News, 1/22/25]
Trump’s executive order is already facing at least five lawsuits from 22 states and has been temporarily blocked by multiple federal judges. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour called the order “blatantly unconstitutional” and issued a temporary restraining order to stop it from taking effect. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman later issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against Trump's executive order, saying it “conflicts with the plain language of the 14th Amendment." [NPR, 1/21/25; AP News, 1/23/25; ABC News, 2/5/25]
MYTH: No other countries have birthright citizenship
Right-wing media figures seized on Trump’s false claim that the U.S. is the only country that recognizes birthright citizenship, repeatedly amplifying it without fact-checking.
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FACT: The U.S. is not the only country with birthright citizenship
Dozens of countries, including Canada and many Central and South American countries, recognize unrestricted birthright citizenship. Many other countries grant birthright citizenship with restrictions — for example, by granting birthright citizenship only to the children of legal residents. [Library of Congress, 11/2018; NPR, 1/23/25; Time, 1/23/25]
Right-wing media are launching a war on birthright citizenship with baseless lies, such as falsely claiming that only the US offers birthright citizenship.
reading progressive sex ed caricatures with accurate and detailed and realistic diagrams of sexual organs + shows their variation, but all i can think about is how there is no discussion of what srs is besides the fact that it exists
how may people know the before and afters of vaginoplasty? phalloplasty? meta? how it works at all?
this one has been passed around recently from the mayo clinic and that actually makes me so happy because how many of transfeminine people are aware of what their options even look like?
there’s a diagram for phallo and meta from springer link(i believe) and. honestly i’d never seen these before and i dont think i’ve ever seen any diagrams. i know vaguely because of reading papers or listening to people talk about their experience but i’ve never seen it, yk? it makes me more confident in my choice to get meta when i’m older
There’s a website called Transbucket that has a whole archive of before and after photos, surgery costs, surgeon names and locations, and general feedback on complications, sensation, everything. It’s been around for at least a decade, and there are photos of some folks five or eight years down the line. It’s organized by procedure, and it’s very comprehensive. It’s NSFW of course but it’s an amazing resource!!!
Are you considering or have had transition care? | Transbucket.com
Demystify transition! Break irrational medical fear!
I've actually really wondered the specifics of phallo and meta so seeing diagrams is fucking awesome
Good kitties
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In a monumental discovery for paleontology and the first of its kind "Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia"
Abstract The frozen mummy of the large felid cub was found in the Upper Pleistocene permafrost on the Badyarikha River (Indigirka River basin) in the northeast of Yakutia, Russia. The study of the specimen appearance showed its significant differences from a modern lion cub of similar age (three weeks) in the unusual shape of the muzzle with a large mouth opening and small ears, the very massive neck region, the elongated forelimbs, and the dark coat color. Tomographic analysis of the mummy skull revealed the features characteristic of Machairodontinae and of the genus Homotherium. For the first time in the history of paleontology, the appearance of an extinct mammal that has no analogues in the modern fauna has been studied. For more read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79546-1
I always knew it was possible, but I never dared to hope.
OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH LOOK AT THIS WE HAVE A SABERCAT MUMMY AAAAAAA
We now have concrete evidence for what saber-toothed kittens (well, at least one species) looked like in real life, and that can in turn help inform what the adults looked like!
To summarize the main points from the paper:
Seems like they were dark brown, with longer fur on the neck and back than on the legs; some of the photos make the mummy look almost shaggy. I don't see any obvious spots or other patterning, but the muzzle and paws look to be a little lighter in colour.
They had what seems to be a "moustache" of longer fur at the corners of their mouth (Or maybe "sideburns", more like a lynx; it's hard to tell from the photos, and the paper just says "In the region of the mouth corner, the hair is significantly elongated". It also looks to me like there's a bit of a beard going on in the chin region, but I can't say for sure).
The ears were small and round, as would be expected from an animal from a cold climate. The nose was typically feline, but the upper lips were more than twice as long as a lion's, proportionally; maybe there's something to the "bulldog" hypothesis after all.
The paws are short and rounded, with no carpal pad (wrist bean). The paper doesn't bring it up (and it might just be an artifact of preservation) but in the figure the toe beans look like they're covered in fur, like a lynx? I could be wrong, though. In any case, the shape and structure of the foot look like adaptations to walking on snow.
Everything else about its proportions and muscle distribution was about what you'd expect based on the skeletons of the adults; powerfully built neck and arms,
In conclusion, this is the most exciting thing I've seen all year and I NEED to find the time to draw a mama Homotherium caring for her babies in the middle of winter
This floating into your bedroom at 3 AM
hey bro