Editor, occasional writer, and general spiffer-upper; second-cup-of-coffee-zoomie-thinker. Lyle Lovett fan. “Wait—don’t turn the page. I’m not finished.”
“In most countries…” why are most of the people who sea lion that maybe the US should fall in line with “most countries” on a life-or-death question of access to healthcare, are totes fine with unrestricted access to guns. US is an outlier on guns—why not abortion access?
1. You are correct, a man is not a woman. Trans women are not men.
2. Yes, a child at 14 weeks is equal to a born person. A fetus, however, is not a child.
Trump has now reaffirmed his plan to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. For the record that department funds, among other things, all the special education and special needs program in public schools and public colleges in all 50 states.
One of my own photos: wind turbines on a blustery day in the Texas Panhandle. I liked the way the bent-down grasses suggested the motion of the wind, the way the turbines lead the eye into the photo, and that great Panhandle sky.
finally had time to get informed about @xiranjayzhao@kuangrf and neil gaiman being removed from hugo ballot without explanation and hugos claiming they were 'disqualified' but not being able to say why. there is something about this that i think only i can say so here goes:
He's right
Being able to eat basically whatever you want whenever you want it is basically God tier levels of environment control and it's so normal to us that we're not even impressed by the concept anymore
We’ve learned as journalists not to always take U.S. police statements at face value (see: George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, etc).
It's frustrating to see us not applying similar scrutiny to govt and military claims during a war.
Every single time I tweet about what we’re dealing with in Texas right now, I get this kind of blowback from a few sanctimonious folks in blue states. Please educate yourself about gerrymandering and voter suppression before ever entertaining an idea as dumb as this.
Essential oils mixed for making soap tomorrow. But also, I want to bake bread. Bad idea to do both at the same time.
Maybe I just want to get my hands into something.
@SpiritedSparr0w And yet, why are you entitled to connect with *her* at that moment in time, for that purpose, asking those particular questions?
The dude on the sidewalk asking me what I like to do for fun is trying to “connect” also. No one is entitled to anyone’s time. Life is too short.