Jacquelyn Gill

Huh. I don't remember the federal government asking me what flavor of "white" I am before. This list of what are I think meant to be ethnicities also seems really arbitrary, and doesn't map out onto ethnicities per se. (This is for an NSF annual personnel report for a graduate training program.)

The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals. The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.

When you devote your life to the message that empathy is evil and gun deaths are an acceptable price to pay for gun rights, you shape the world with your words. Maybe Charlie Kirk didn’t expect to be a victim of his own worldbuilding, but his death is consistent with the world he helped create.

This. Not to dunk on the OP, but our mountains also don’t have switchbacks. The trails go straight up. Mt. Washington/Agiocochook has the worst recorded weather in the world. They are to be respected, no dismissed.

There is perhaps no better poster child for enshittification than FedEx. But sure, yes, let’s privatize the US Postal Service! The final destination of this package is Maine. It has taken eight days to go two hours, after a weeklong detour to…North Carolina?

I had a whole thread on this recently as an example of “shifting baselines.” Meanwhile, corporations are raking in record-breaking profits.

This sure seems to be going exactly as planned.

Women read Crime and Punishment and Dune. We grew up reading books about men, by men, in school and for pleasure. Sounds like a skill issue to me. Also, Brandon Sanderson is still alive and publishing? He's had something like ten books out in the last year. 😂

I know people love it (I did as a kid) but I blame Shark Week for these kinds of rumors. Recent Shark sightings in Maine have spurred social media posts that scientists are chumming the waters near beaches to attract sharks and catch them for “research?”

All I’m saying is, some of you haven’t played Cyberpunk 2077 and it really shows.

"The watchword of patriarchy is women’s service with a smile. Every woman alive is hence in the service industry to some extent or other, in being subject to the constant expectation of our emotional and intellectual, as well as sexual and domestic, labor." Brilliant piece by @katemanne.bsky.social.

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"Because of your weight, it would be unethical for me to treat your infertility, but if you lost ten pounds and I could see you were putting in the effort, then I'd reconsider." Cool, so that's a moral judgement, not a medical assessment, cool, cool.