me in 2020: wow there is really a shortage of books and memoirs and reported experiences about the 1918 spanish flu pandemic. i wonder why??
me in 2023: so we all just memory holed covid and are never gonna talk about That Whole Thing again huh
Exclusive: Officers working for Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push children into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to migrants, according to an email from a DPS trooper who described the actions as “inhumane.” houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…
i find new atheist "all religion is sky daddy fairy tales" types really annoying, mostly bc they render any discussion of a huge swathe of human endeavor impossible, and also totally ignore the nuances of the histories/cultures/hegemonies of different faiths
I am watching the Hannibal TV show and its melting my brain into beautiful glue. nothing makes sense, everyone speaks in riddles, baroque serial murder is the national hobby, our protagonist has an empathy disease. everyone's cheekbones could cut glass. j'adore
honestly she's on point here. i would also just say that as someone who knows *a lot* about mainlining traumatic content:
it fucks you up. it changes you.
you are not under moral obligation to seek out and watch videos of war crimes. you can oppose genocide without that.
they had abortion 150 years ago. 250 years ago. 1000 years ago. soranus of ephesus recommended silphium as an abortifacient nearly 2000 years ago. they knew
I just read a whole book about the history of Prohibition and learned some interesting things like
1) the temperance movement started bc women didn't have any legal protections against domestic violence, and the organizing directly led to (white) women's suffrage
the weather used to be like famously the only noncontroversial topic even deadly enemies could chat about, now the weather is a political live wire with insane conspiracy theories, good job america
