It’s not headline-making the way stars and celebrities and famous folks are, but the #MeToo Moment is giving non-famous women more and more license to stop putting up with condescending banter, casual harassment, or simple failure to even consider the value of their interests, desires, or priorities.
Victoria and I were in line at Starbucks and witnessed a break up that was amazing.
🌈Mary🌈 (@sapphicgeek) January 8, 2018
Guy: I don’t understand why people are mad Wonder Woman wasn’t nominated. It was just some model fighting in a swimsuit.
Girl: I’m done with you.
Guy: What?
Girl: Fuck off, Dan. *leaves*
Inspiring
There’s some good news out of North Carolina.
Dutch journalists know how to do their jobs in the face of political obstruction. American journalists seem to be unable to coordinate this kind of action, but maybe they’ll be inspired to do so now.
The Lifetime Fitness gym has removed all cable news from its gym TVs. Nobody should watch cable news. (Just look at the recent charade of Jake Tapper inviting faux human Stephen Miller onto his show so he’d have a chance to look like a Very Serious Person by throwing him out.)
Ominous
Department of Justice has successfully revoked naturalization from at least one immigrant citizen. It’s not clear if the application anomalies cited as the reason for revocation were lies or simple errors.
A hint may be in the immigration proposals recently withdrawn by the administration, which would curtail and revoke skilled H1-B visa issuance. Because as much as immigration “reformists” claim to want skilled immigration and legal immigration, they are lying. They want reduced immigration and a whiter America. (See also this September story about flat-out rejecting expert studies on the benefits of immigration… and of course this week’s shithole story about our shitbird president.
This is the way the world ends.
Celia (@_celia_marie_) July 2, 2017
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang but with a gif.
In other bad news, most addiction-treatment clinics do not provide the evidence-based treatments that are most effective.
And it snowed in the Sahara.
Correction
Last week I sent a link to an article about a voter registration drive among Puerto Ricans living in Florida. It was an old article about a different voter registration drive. I should have sent this article or this one or this one.
Cultivating curiousity
A new paper argues that the Sicilian Mafia arose primarily as a result of market shocks related to rising demand for lemons after the discovery that they could cure or prevent scurvy.
TIL: Earliest known use of #shithole, according to OED, is this amazing line from the 1629 ‘Liber Lilliati’: “Six shitten shotes did I shoote in thy mowth that I shot from my shithole.” — Kristina Killgrove ☠ (@DrKillgrove) January 11, 2018
Cultivating joy
Soccer hilarity: 3 Japanese national soccer team players vs 100 school kids.
Mlem 13/10
Secretly Ironic 