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Happy launch day to Valerie Fridland's "Like, Literally, Dude"! A book that made me say, "Wow!" multiple times.

It's not often that a language books surprises me these days, but this one did. (And yes, that's my blurb on the cover that reads "Smart and funnyβ€”I loved it!")

Get ready to listen to Valerie talk about my favorite parts of the book on tomorrow's Grammar Girl podcast.

re: Lewd 

@MnemosyneSinger

The bishop asked me if I was a practicing homosexual, I told him I didn't need to practice anymore, I'd perfected it.

Lewd 

The bishop asked me if I had a problem with masturbation. I said nope I'm pretty good at it!

gotta tell you that not only am I tired of the right wing trying to legislate my friends and family out of existence, but I'm also tired of both the complacency of some on the left and the abstraction of trans rights into some kind of strategic tool that should be just *dropped* because "middle america doesn't get it"

you don't have to understand someone else's gender identity, but disregarding them as irrelevant because you don't "get it" puts you squarely in the same camp as desantis and trump and the rest of the far-right, because you're denying their essential personhood. if you're repeating right-wing talking points, that should be a huge internal red flag and you should probably examine some things at length

trans rights means exactly what it says. it's not a left wing talking point -- it's the human recognition of other humans as humans and accepting them for who they are. you don't have to "get it," but yeah, you do have to treat people who are just trying to live their lives as people

Another day, another act of sabotage inside Russia. Today it is the very center of Siberian oil production, the city of Tyumen, which endures an enormous fire.
#ukraine

@JimSwift

That letter should have started:
Dear Penthouse, you'll never believe what happened to me when I got stuck in an elevator with 4 supermodels...

@caffination

For those of us without the ability to create art, that's a thing of beauty.
My efforts look more like this:

This is big news: the public price tag for Cop City has gone up, meaning that a vote from City Council will likely be required to keep the project going. This is a huge time to contact reps and tell them to STOP COP CITY atlpresscollective.com/2023/04

News orgs like the CBC should remove the Twitter share button from their sites and articles. #CBC #Canada #birdsite #News #Media

Don’t tell me how to dress! Tell them not to rape!

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) Support survivors.

Raise the awareness, #Boost

#SexualAssault #Awareness #April #SAMM

It was 80 degrees 48 hrs ago. 😭

Who hurt you #chicago that you are torturing us like this!?

#weather

@ronfilipkowski@bird.makeup

This is the guy who is allegedly on board with torture, so whatever he does in Florida shouldn't come as a surprise.

@taoofdavid

If you see people shambling on the path, don't tie up there. Just keep going.
(For those who haven't seen it, yes, this is a real thing. As in, it's a real TV series that they made. No, I don't know why. But it is.)

A little-known European medical team is poised to become one of the most important groups in the shifting landscape of U.S. #abortion bans.

nbcnews.to/3KFDp8b

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