🍵 holly 🌿 @holly@v.st

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“No one is teaching your kids to be gay,” she told the room. “Sometimes, they just are gay. I have math to teach. I literally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/01/hernando-county-ron-desantis-book-bans-democratic-governors/

Holy shit: Causal evidence that the Shingles vaccine prevents a significant fraction of Alzheimer's cases. So 1, vaccines are a god damned miracle get your ass vaccinated, and 2 the implication that Alzheimer's disease is a preventable byproduct of viral infection is tectonic.

https://www.metafilter.com/199451/Dont-miss-your-shingles-shots

And really the sheer absurdity of European Sleeper

Here are two determined guys. They lease a freight locomotive, 2 ancient sleeping cars (at least with air con), 6 couchettes without air con (also old) and 2 seating carriages

And they manage to run a Berlin-Brussels night train, something that others - like DB, NS or SNCB - could *much more easily do with their financial means* BUT REFUSE TO EVEN TRY

And basic though it is it’s booked up all summer

Slide to Unlock: ridiculous finger-twisting multitouch game for mobile browsers https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/slide/

“Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird, I think you’re focusing on the wrong shit.”

- Wanda Sykes

This case is interesting because plaintiffs are arguing from the basis of parental rights. In essence, they argue that parents, not the state, are best positioned to make medical decisions for their children.

In doing so they cite to some fairly strong precedent, including precedent that suggests that the matter falls under strict scrutiny. This means that a law needs to meet a compelling government interest and must be narrowly tailored to that interest.

🚣‍♀️ Vanwege de afsluiting voor zware vrachtwagens bevoorraden bedrijven rond de Nieuwmarkt nu over het water. De voordelen zijn groot: geen hinder en opstoppingen op de weg, het verkeer wordt veiliger en er is minder uitstoot.

➡️ https://www.amsterdam.nl/nieuws/nieuwsoverzicht/vervoer-over-water/

Pick a friend, find a book. It's great. https://neamhspleachas.com/an-ode-to-buddy-reading/

“Hard for me to see gender as biological if it requires a police state to enforce it”

If the GOP has decided drag & trans folk existing is the wheel they want to break this country on

I’m thinking cis men need to start wearing sparkly eyeshadow

One shade is about .99 at CVS

Simple, straightforward, & in this case, truly, they can’t arrest you all #shadowprotest #shadowban #drag #transrights #ally

DNA Analysis Reveals Interesting Information About the Origins of Native Americans
https://mymodernmet.com/dna-analysis-native-americans/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

I gave a speech at Florida's New College Alternate Graduation. It's only 3 minutes long. I meant every word of it.