trying to guess at how bad things might get keeps making me extra-sad about how bad things already are. we were already living under a lizard-person; we just gave him a pass on it because he was such a gosh-darn nice guy ( Read more... )

at this exact age-- they're about a week and a half old-- it's possible to juggle baby quails. their wings have developed enough that they're pretty excited about being in the air, and they flap their wings happily; but they can't yet significantly change their trajectory as they gently fall ( Read more... )

this was fun! saw it with kids, who i think enjoyed it very much. of course it is way better on the sexism front than the original, with its romantic subplot about how if a woman isn't interested in you the thing to do is keep pursuing her and be a complete ass to her and she will eventually come around, because chicks dig that (sigourney weaver ( Read more... )

an article about yet another database on police killings, this one trying to capture more details about what happened in each and why the police were involved in the first place ( Read more... )

… was this written before polyamory was invented? the characters seem otherwise very liberal in their sexuality, but…

it has that same embarrassment-humor-about-watching-people-do-a-jigsaw-puzzle-blindfolded feeling that a lot of pop media romances give me because obviously the way to create dramatic tension is to have a character attracted to ( Read more... )

yeah, this is simplistic and underdeveloped. it's not like anybody knows an easy button to push to make institutional racial bias go away. but i feel like there's a lot of… whatever the economic equivalent of potential energy is… there somehow, and we seem to need that right now.

(the link that spurred this thoughtat least in the simplistic view ( Read more... )

… when you're practicing throwing knives and the bunny rabbit whose hutch is a few feet away from your target comes out to ask for head scritches.

fear me! fear meeeee! oh, nevermind, sigh. *scritchscritchscritch*

there's a weird ambiguity or paradox in the law-- or maybe the law's clear and i just don't know the answer-- that i keep running into in news stories like this one about journalists breaking into a tesla battery factory.

note first of all that the journalists have their own version of the story in which the security guards (or someone) also did ( Read more... )

moominmolly and n and i got memberships at brooklyn boulders, a nearby indoor climbing gym, for the winter, as a way to get some exercise despite the world being cold and, ultimately, snow-bound. since memberships at climbing gyms are pretty expensive, we proceeded to climb a lot. i've been most days this year so far ( Read more... )

apparently the most pernicious pervasive myth propagated by action movies and tv is not that cars explode when they crash or that shootouts are glamorous and bloodless; it's the myth that torture works to extract informationthis shows up all over the place. it's taken for granted; it's always assumed that the debate around torture is about whether ( Read more... )