Musings of a Tired Reader

Well fucks? Get to it!

41.7k notes and as of 7th April, the signatures are only 14,817.

The deadline is 9 July 2025.

Trans rights are always wavering in safety and are not stable and well protected in the UK. Please sign.

Trans rights in the UK is my rights.

For you @nildespirandum looks like a fun group to hang out with!

@joyfullymassivewhispers fashionable, outdoorsy, and sociable! I am in.

Vincent Price introduces The Bat (1959)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me?

Some people really lose all ability to distinguish between depicting something and advocating for it to happen in real life the moment something freaks them out.

Honestly not being a killjoy, but do we have photos on what the protests were like in Republican territory? That seems more significant than the numbers in liberal zones like DC/NYC/Boston/Portland/Philly/etc.

This is a photo from the protest I attended at the KS Capitol building in Topeka as well as estimates from a local group as to the size of protests around the state.

Kansans were OUT

Here's a photo from Salt Lake City, Utah:

Source

Tom Waits

Tom Waits

1985

The problem? It's untrue. As the evolutionary anthropologist Sarah Hrdy put it to me, "Except for blips in history, men have never really been breadwinners, supporting a woman at home."

Even now, globally, "the male breadwinner–female homemaker division of labour is… unusual," writes evolutionary behavioral scientist Rebecca Sear. "Childcare is not the exclusive preserve of women in most societies and, even more so, productive labour is not the exclusive preserve of men."

That includes during our hunter-gatherer days, which account for some 95% of human evolutionary history. The idea of "man the hunter, woman the caregiver," widely popularized by (male) anthropologists in the 1960s, is, Hrdy notes, a massively "mistaken trope."

There's growing evidence that, in many hunter-gatherer cultures, women hunted. How common this was is debated, but it may not matter—because either way, women were key in provisioning food for their community. In fact, in several foraging societies in sub-Saharan Africa, often considered the closest likenesses to our shared evolutionary past, women's average contribution to their community's calorie intake range between 60 and 80%. These societies could survive without the sporadic acquisition of meat, anthropologists note. But they could not survive without the tubers and other plants reliably, and consistently, dug up or picked by women.

Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!

Happy Leland Melvin Day!

Happy Leland Melvin Day!

Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!

Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!

"The children have just begun to live. We feel sorry for our country, they (russins) are killing us and no one is doing anything."

Locals have been bringing flowers and toys to the site in Kryvyi Rih since morning where children were killed in a russian attack on April 4. Nine children were killed in a russian Iskander missile strike. Six remain in hospitals, most of them in serious condition.

Source: Suspilne Dnipro

IF YOU ARE IN NC AND YOU VOTED, CHECK IF YOUR NAME IS ON THIS LIST.

The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted. The ruling comes after Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin, who lost the race, challenged the eligibility of tens of thousands of 2024 voters. Those voters will now have 15 days to verify their eligibility, potentially changing the outcome of the election. Check your name here: https://thegriffinlist.com

Ruling made April 4th, 2025. This is current.

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