@Teri_Kanefield Whatever you choose will be right. I’ve appreciated your posts, but I understand that getting all that vitriol in replies can be draining. Navigating social media as a public intellectual is tough! Do what’s best for you.
@ someone in the comments who has made your Mastodon experience better, a little explanation as to why would be awesome too! You are welcome to do more than one.
I’m pretty sure last time I complained about this, @luis_in_brief sent a really useful website that allowed you to sort books by page count, but I can’t find it now 😔
While I’m pleased that some news editors and headline writers are correctly characterizing Trump as a dangerous fascist and would-be authoritarian, I’m also aware that these same publications will again minimize his dangerousness. The pressures to normalize him will grow as he comes closer to being, and then almost certainly becomes, the Republican Party nominee.
Remedying a chronic lack of chocolate chip cookies through the highly effective bake-some-cookies initiative. These are the kind of no nonsense NGO-based programs that we all need. There should be grants available.
@design_law@NoelFrench Yay! Enjoy! Also if you’re interested in a book with a similar setting that is tonally completely different, I highly recommend Vita Nostra.
@design_law I’ve been watching Gilded Age on HBO Max. It’s pure costume fluff, incredibly low stakes, amazing hats. (The only trick is trying to ignore the fact that the Gilded Age was actually a time of terrible inequality, and we’re arguably in another Gilded Age now, and…)
Don’t forget that abortion isn’t just healthcare. The right to decide what you do with your own body is a core privacy right as well. Supporting the right to abortion also supports the right to privacy for all.
Before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the right to abortion had been part of a legal tradition extending back decades. Legal precedent said that the government should not be able to intrude upon your ability to decide how to plan your own family, how to teach your own children, what you do in the privacy of your bedroom, or whom you decide to marry. These were fundamental liberties so important we believed they deserved constitutional protection.
Abortion fit right into that legal tradition, as the right to control your own body is a core decisional privacy right. For decades, abortion was legal in America, but anti-choice advocates had been chipping away at the right consistently over time.
SCOTUS upset all of that in last year’s Dobbs decision. In Dobbs, the Court essentially decided that rights should only be protected if they existed at the time the Constitution was written. Guess who didn’t have rights at that time? Women, minorities, LGBT people… Dobbs didn’t just overturn Roe. It put into danger all those other privacy rights that came out of that line of cases, including the right to same-sex marriage.
But now the people are speaking up. Ohio will not be the last state to pass laws protecting abortion. Beshear will not be the last candidate who wins due to support for reproductive justice. And this is just the United States. So many nations are ahead of us, and others are on track to catch up soon.
Abortion is healthcare, but it is also a privacy right and a civil right. Use your voice. Support candidates that will fight for your rights—and the rights of all of us. Vote like your life depends on it. Because it does.
Just got asked (politely) to tag my "technical" posts about photography because they make the person's eyes glaze over.
I definitely don't want to harm anyone's vision, but I really can't granularly predict what topics will bother people this way. I talk about nerdy stuff. I'm a nerd. That's not for everyone, I get it.
I suggest using the unfollow button if your eyes are strained by technical discussions. But also, see a qualified ophthalmologist. It may be a sign of something more serious.