I thought I could figure out the referent, but no. I can’t. Which murdered British boys? Someone go back and ask that elderly neighbor or I’ll never be able to sleep again.
King Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York! They were murdered by their uncle!
a texan professor just lost their job because a student was filmed saying “you cant be teaching this, the president said theres only 2 genders, and it also goes against my religious beliefs”, to which the professor responded with “you are free to leave the classroom if you are uncomfortable with what is being taught”, which was apparently out of line
can you fucking imagine
being a college professor
and getting fired after not humoring some fucking stupid kid
for saying
“excuse me what youre teaching is wrong, the president said so”
I’m really obsessed with bees and wasps, and last year I met a new friend in uni who not only was scared of them to death, but also hated them. Like really hated, she was the “I wish wasps just went extinct” type of person.
And this recently I was talking to her and mentioned her fear of bees and wasps. And she said: “you know, I really hated them my whole life. But then I met you and you talk about bees and wasps so much, they bring you so much joy. And it changed my view of them completely”
Turns out she just couldn’t look at these insects in the same hateful way since meeting me. Not only because they bring happiness to someone important to her (me), but also because I showed her how cool, smart and important wasps and bees are.
Sometimes it takes just one happy nerd to change someone’s views from hatred to respect.
Hi I want to let you kids know how effective these walk outs are: public schools are payed by attendance. Meaning if you’re not going to class the whole school isn’t getting payed their share. Now if it’s just like the normal kid has a sick day that’s normal.
But a class of 200? And you know who’s getting the blame? Administration. So kids continue to plan your walk outs in DROVES. Convince the kid with perfect attendance to join you, get your teacher involved by having them accept your homework at a later time.
You kids deserve a proper education and school experience. Don’t let these adults take that away from you.
My high school was 2 THOUSAND. Back in 2018, we had a beloved teacher put on leave for talking about the Parkland shooting. Nearly 300 students + staff did an impromptu walkout. We were threatened with loss of prom and graduation… until a certain magazine caught wind of us. It was TIME. Our random high school was now national news. One of my classmates went on primetime news. We had helicopters for days. The next time we walked out, over half the school participated. We were blocked in on all sides by cops.
Walkouts make them scared. Walkouts get attention. Walkouts work.
dear public school students planning a walkout: for most USian schools, there are specific days of the year that are the most important funding days for your school district, because it is the day they do a count of “butts in seats” to calculate how much money your school will get. charter schools will bribe and coax students to attend school that day, receive their funding, and then kick out all their “problem” students (disabled, need and IEP, etc) for other schools to deal with the following Friday. anyway, if you want to make your protest exceptionally successful, plan it for THAT DAY. you, with your attendance, dictate the amount of money your school gets. use your power. ask your most burnt-out teacher what day that is, they will tell you and may even walk out with you.
this only applies to public, charter and similar schools that receive public funding. private school students, use your power to walk out and shame those who have failed you very publicly. if you can hurt their enrollment numbers, you too can hit them where it will be most effective.
The reason you hate when someone tells you to do something you were already going to do is because you had an opportunity to display responsibility but they needed it to be obedience. So now you feel you’re being perceived as lazy and deferential instead of considerate and independent. Btw
Nobody else tell me what this is called in the DSM, stop pathologizing every possible experience, stop treating yourself like a fascinating case study in brain diseases instead of a person healing from mistreatment. We’re talking about “wanting to be taken seriously” today, not psychiatry-approved “stubborn and petulant for no reason disorder”
Thank you for putting it into words!
Now I just need to find a way to express this to the other person without sounding angry and isn’t just “I was already doing that” or “I was about to start doing it”, which most of the times I feel like isn’t treated seriously or just as an excuse by the other person.
Men, boys, and eggs of my acquaintance, I cannot stress this enough:
Nobody worth being with will ever judge you based on your deli sandwich choices.
Sincerely, a dude who had to watch like two dozen men pretend to find vegetarian sandwiches unthinkable in order to maintain a sense of masculinity today.
The sando gender spectrum I osmoted this weekend according to a specific type of dude:
1. Roast beef is the most masculine of sandwiches. The only sandwich it is permissible to ask for by name (we did not have roast beef as an option).
2. Ham is an acceptable substitute for roast beef. There appears to be some controversy, however, over the bread options; we only had two, croissant or ancient grains roll (gluten free). Croissant is considered slightly more manly than ancient grains UNLESS you are under 20 in which case “ancient grain” sounds badass.
3. Turkey is okay, obviously not ham but if you don’t like ham it’s an option as long as you don’t show enthusiasm for it. Definitely has to have mayo however. Mustard is a bit much. (Initial field research indicates mayo is the manliest of condiments but we have not introduced barbecue sauce into the study yet.)
4. Chicken salad is woman food. Absolutely not acceptable unless you announce loudly that it’s for your wife or that she’s making you for your health.
5. Vegetarian wraps require a recoil reaction or a sheepish “oh, no, no, what meats do you have?” protest. We had the veggie wraps off to one side so vegetarians could get to them more easily, and guys would come up to the wrap boxes because there was no crowd/line, then I’d say “that’s veggie wraps” and they’d stagger back.
To be clear, most of the people of all genders at the event were totally fine, this was a small and specific set of guys – mostly older dudes and (unsurprisingly) their young sons or grandsons. Maybe 20-30 people out of the 400+ attendees. But it really was both sad and a little funny to watch them unnecessarily assert their manhood using deli meat to me, a guy in a floral shirt with neon blue hair handing out box lunches at a charity event. My indifference to your masculinity is so vast it has its own international calling code, fellas.
Friends, I have volunteered in the lunch tent once more and I have new scientific findings to share regarding the Sandwich Gender Spectrum.
We still do not serve roast beef, the most toxically manly of all sandwiches, but it turns out that there is a sandwich option almost as masculine, the mention of which will preclude a certain type of dude from even asking for roast beef:
The Italian.
For those unfamiliar, an Italian sandwich in most American sandwich shops is composed of ham, capicola, salami, and sometimes pepperoni, with provolone, the usual sandwich veggies, and a drizzle of Italian dressing.
The hierarchy from ham-downwards remains undisturbed by this revelation currently rocking sandwich discourse, but new data has indicated that the Italian sandwich occupies a special place above ham and technically below roast beef but so acceptable a substitute for roast beef that I only had one guy ask me for it this time around. I would say, “We have ham, Italian, turkey, or veggie,” and the Certain Kind Of Man would look skeptically at the ham and then ask for an Italian.
I am now working on my doctoral thesis in Sandwich Gender, where I will be examining whether there is a direct correlation between how masculine a sandwich is and how weirdly homoerotic the name is. I’m going to call it “I’d Like An Italian: Gender And Sexuality Between The Buns.”
Ahead of the Sandwich Gender Spectrum Studies Department’s annual report on the September 2025 new data release, I wanted to share some recent findings by a research colleague at a prestigious academic institution on the east coast:
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My sample size is growing all the time and my research is replicable.
Field work in sandwich gender studies, sandothropology if you will, can be challenging at times. While my thesis has been supported by both independent researchers such as above and grant-holding professionals (aka “people who work in food service”), the window of time in which I perform my yearly field survey is brief.
This year a new variable was introduced. The selection of sandwiches we were given to hand out was reduced to three: ham, turkey, or vegetarian. For the first time, the vegetarian option was a sandwich and not a wrap, as well.
There seems to be something about the idea of a wrap that makes it particularly unpalatable to a Certain Kind Of Person; we didn’t have anyone getting hissy about being offered vegetables this year, and also got far fewer remarks about getting a turkey sandwich “for the wife” or “because she’s making me”. Perhaps when your options are realistically ham or turkey, rather than an array of choices that you have to navigate correctly, the social pressure eases off. Plus, ham and turkey both fall in the middle of the spectrum, so they’re a little more ambiguous than say, roast beef and chicken salad. Why bother performing gender for two almost equivalent options? (There’s a bisexuality joke in here somewhere.)
I did have one guy furiously lecture me for about two minutes because we didn’t have any sandwiches on wholegrain bread, but if we’d had more sandwich options he’d have been mad we were spending the organization’s money unwisely on sandwich fripperies (I know him of old) so that barely registered.
I’m at a diner for breakfast. There’s a post-club girl here in yesterday’s makeup and sweats. Her friend says “Oh my God it’s the 31st.” This girl lifts her head off the table and says ’….. of what?’
The friend orders her breakfast. Recovery girl just kind of stares at the menu.
Friend: “…. She’ll have breakfast potatoes and wheat toast.”
The waitress looks so sympathetic and brings them more water.
I get the feeling that this is a first week of college, freshly 21 thing. They are discussing going to the Dollar Tree for painkillers and Gatorade like it’s a long walk to Mordor.
I need y'all to know that the Dollar Tree is across the street.
Recovery girl is eating potatoes with a spoon and her cheek still on the table. It is a Process. All of a sudden she sits up and declares that “Kermit needs new water.”
It’s unclear who that is, but her friend is very patiently convincing her that Kermit can get new water after Recovery Girl finishes *her* water.
While I was typing this it became somewhat clear that Kermit is a fish? Or some other aquatic pet.
As I’m heading out, Recovery Girl is convincing her friend that she can “definitely handle a cheeseburger.”
May we all have a friend like hers, steadfastly reminding us “you’re a vegetarian, babe” in our darkest hours.
[ID: headline reading: “Pregnant Mother in Tennessee Denied Care for Being Unmarried. The 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act allows physicians to deny care to patients whose lifestyles they disagree with.” End ID]
“Last Thursday, at a town hall in Jonesborough, Tennessee, a 35-year-old woman shared her story: she was denied prenatal care by her physician because they objected to the fact that she wasn’t married, nor did she plan to be. She’d been with her partner for 15 years and they have a 13-year-old child.
While going through her medical history, the physician told her that because she was unwed, they didn’t feel comfortable treating her, because it went against their values and she should seek care elsewhere. At the time of the appointment, the woman believed she was about four weeks into her pregnancy.
Now, she’s traveling out of state to Virginia to receive prenatal care.
This is the first reported case of a woman being denied prenatal care for being unmarried in the state of Tennessee.
On April 24th, Tennessee’s 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act went into effect. It gives physicians, hospital systems and insurers, among others, the legal right to deny healthcare to patients based on religious, moral or ethical beliefs. There are no protections for people in rural areas with limited options. There’s no requirement to refer patients elsewhere. And there’s no legal recourse. The woman at the town hall explained that her representatives are not responsive to her questions, even as she repeatedly calls Sen. Marsha Blackburn. When she reached staff at Sen. Bill Hagerty’s office, they told her, “he’s not obligated to listen to his constituents.””
The mentality of “Because I don’t fuck with your personal lifestyle choices, I will not give you necessary care and fulfill my duties as a healthcare provider” is how people die of a lack of care.
u know that thing where an animals grow in a far off place and some idiot introduces him to a new habitat and it turns out its characteristics that help them in their own sometimes are too helpful in the new one and they become like an invasive species yeah thats the word i was missing anyway back to my point i think i saw a human version of that just now i was driving in tonights snow storm and i saw a man wearing a big ass cowboy hat to keep the snow off him and a bandit red bandana to keep it off his face and a big ass pancho to keep him warm and nice ass cowboy boots to keep his calves dry and he was prancing along while everyone on the road looked miserable and frozen solid and idk i guess the point im trying to make here is i feel like cowboys would have taken over russia if given the chance or something
As an Evolutionary Biologist, this is a roller-coaster from start to finish.
The cover painting of this issue appears to feature William Barden, Jr., who provided an article insisting that if you looked at it the right way the Color Computer would be perfectly usable as a “business computer,” perhaps especially so for “Mom and Pop operations that don’t require and can’t afford a Tandy 2000 or IBM PC with printer for $5500.”
Yes asexual people are a thing, and our asexuality doesn’t make us inhuman, but the Bible explicitly states “[Jesus] has been tempted in every way” (Hebrews 4:15 NIV). Not in lots of ways, not in most ways, in every way. This clearly implies he did not lack sexual attraction.
Well, fuck me sideways. Connections have been made.
My girlfriend has this specific gesture she does sometimes, a very particular way of turning her wrist around and locking her fingers in one specific grip. Fast or slow, the angle of her wrist and the rhythm of the movement are always exactly the same, and at this point I’ve learned to recognize the motion well enough that she could do it with her back towards me and I know she’s doing it.
The first time I saw her do it I thought she was putting something into her pocket, but once I noticed her making it more often I started making connections. I saw her doing it unconsciously when some situation in the house is getting tense - not during the casual sparring arguments with my other housemates, but the serious fights where shit is about to actually get fucking real - and I figured that it’s a nervous thing, she doesn’t like where this is going and it’s scaring her. So that became my cue that it’s time to back down.
I don’t know when she noticed that I noticed her doing it. We’ve never talked about it, but at some point she started doing it on purpose, as her way of telling me that I should stop causing problems. Rotating her hand slowly means she’s seeing a problem brewing and it’s better that I watch myself before I start escalating it, and a quick flick and snap means whatever I was just about to say or do, I should cut that shit out right this fucking second. It works for some reason, so I’ve respected that.
My girlfriend does some volunteering favors for the neighbors here sometimes. Today she asked if I wanted to come along to walk this one old couple’s dog, and I was feeling up for it so I went along. My father was terrified of dogs so I’m not familiar with them, but her family has always had them.
So we were walking, talking about something else, enjoying the nice weather for once, when my girlfriend saw another dog walker approaching. I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary, but the other dog walker started pulling the dog back with this roller leash thing whatever the fuck they’re called. And then the old couples’ dog started growling.
With the familiarity of someone who’s been handling dogs all her life my girlfriend grabbed the little fucker’s leash, wrapping it around the width of her palm and gripping it to pull the dog closer a second before it could bolt to attack. A move she’s probably done countless times in her life, that she could do in her sleep, by instinct, without ever even thinking about it. A gesture I’ve learned to fucking spot from across the room from the corner of my eye. That exact same fucking twirl and grip. I have no idea if she noticed me noticing it or making the connection.
She’s fucking learned to pull my fucking leash back when I’m about to start shit.
Yeah man, this wizard conference is such a drag. I just saw a guy clap his hands together and say “Hastened Networking” or something, and suddenly everyone in a 20 foot radius was holding a copy that dude’s business card. Nobody even acknowledged the quality of his card, that’s how common this is. I’m over here casting Handshake and level 2 Small Talk. I think I just heard “Power Word: Video Call” two groups over. I gotta get a new job.
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