There is no reason to do this.

Y’all. This is it.

If you urgently need a meal, there's no emergency number to call. But if you steal food, there's a 24 hour response so you can be punished for it (it's not a crime prevented by force, just by food). How we design our emergency responses reflects our values but also inertia.

Saw this on r/Denver. I'm cackling

"The first step of any project is to grossly underestimate its complexity and difficulty." — Nicoll Hunt, game developer

When Republicans are telling you they'll go full fascist if they gain power you should take them literally and seriously instead of doing a "both sides" analysis. It's OK for journalists to be biased against fascism. The water is warm here. Jump in.

Apologies for the delayed response to your email. I was coordinating my family’s individualized approach to two pandemics

imagining what a color picker for words could look like

Having ADHD is like, "I have a thing I have to do in four hours, so I don't have time to do anything before that happens."

for clarity i think the solution isn't just higher salaries but rather the abolition of wage labour and a completely new economic system that prioritizes life and joy over endless profit

when I see that September starts this week:

More people need to be talking about Jackson, Mississippi. The city ran out of bottled water to give residents yesterday. It’s the largest city in Mississippi. It’s 80% Black. Their water system is failing because of years of neglect. This is environmental racism.

Patriarchy, racism and capitalist exploitation cannot be solved on a per individual basis by celebrating exceptional cases who survive and thrive despite those systemic oppressions.

life is full of horrors but sometimes you see a baby hummingbird sipping from a raspberry

We recommend avoiding the vague jargon officer-involved or police-involved. Be specific about what happened. If police use the term, ask for detail. How was the officer or officers involved? Who did the shooting? If the information is not available or not provided, say so.

looking fwd to the twitter documentary

White women are still more beholden to whiteness than they are to their womanhood.