Crip Dyke @cripdyke@octodon.social

@pzmyers

Getting some input from Walton on this stuff might be good, if Walton is available. I assume you have the appropriate contact info.

My afternoon #tea is a nice single-estate African tea from Rwanda. If you weren't aware that Rwanda can produce some great teas, try this one:

https://granvilletea.com/single-estate-black-tea/630-rukeri-rwanda-estate.html

On the same topic as @pzmyers "not even a wire monkey" post, I (very briefly) discuss the American Academy of Pediatrics opposition to the Trump policy of isolating migrating children at the border, even when they and their families arrive legally and use the legal procedure for requesting asylum - meaning they've broken no US law.

No surprise, but PZ and I both took note of Trump's "no hugs for toddlers" rule.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/18/american-academy-of-pediatrics-is-not-down/

PZ's post:
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/18/not-even-a-wire-monkey/

Exactly what are white US Americans complaining about again?

#accidentalerotica

Okay, I'm starting a series of accidental erotica posts - send in your candidates, a few sentences or so that, removed from its original context, sound much dirtier than they were intended.

The post inspiring this series was not entirely accidental - it was rewritten by me to emphasize the sexual assumptions to a comic degree, though it originally came from something a friend read that might qualify.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/15/dont-start-reading-the-story-in-the-middle/#comment-2427

@fobo

Congrats!

Was Pat Parker every bit the poet (and sex machine) she's been reputed to have been?

Yes. Yes she was.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/15/credit-due/

Celebrating Loving v Virginia a couple days late, why not read a bit about the journey Mildred & Richard took on their way to establishing racial marriage equality in the US?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/14/loving-day/

@WelshPixie

I love the Purr generator, thank you! Do you know who created it? Was that you?

This morning's #tea:

Nepali Oolong. And you thought that oolong was a coastal tea? For shame.

https://taooftea.com/product/nepali-oolong/

Is Bo of the original TV "Dukes of Hazard" the most oppressed man in America? Probably not. But he sure thinks the system is rigged against conservative white men. Why, to hear him tell it, when he had to spend 5 hours in jail recently, they didn't even give him privileged treatment! Seriously!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/13/dukes-of-hazard-persecution/

Today's afternoon #tea? Raw pu-erh from Yunnan.

http://thejasminepearl.com/yellow-bird-raw-puerh-brick/

#Pu-erh/ #puerh/ #puer

Rudy Giuliani (with apologies to international readers who are tired of US Drama):

"If you’re involved in a sort of slimy business, (that) says something about you — says something about how far you’ll go to make money"

Um. Yeah.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/07/giuliani-on-respect-and-credibility/

Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons:

A short bit on how the beauty of the art we create can tell us when we are getting things right, with an intro discussing Leonard Cohen (who wrote the lyric above) and a conclusion introducing Ruby Etc. to those unfamiliar with one of the best comics ever to address depression and anxiety in an ongoing way.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/06/guided-by-the-beauty/

Well, Aaron Persky's recall election may be decided by the time you read this,

but it's worth understanding why he's being thrown off the bench (hopefully)

and why his argument that his opponents are calling for judicial decisions be made according to media coverage is not merely a straw man,

but hides the fact that he unethically called for Brock Turner's sentence to be reduced because of media coverage in the first place.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/04/aaron-persky-the-real-victim/

Why don't victims report rapes? Well, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD's refusal to take a report from a woman who was roofied but not raped probably provides some insight:

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/02/why-dont-victims-report-rape-11-8/

@celesteh
thanks

Today's afternoon #tea:

http://thejasminepearl.com/golden-nugget-ripe-puerh-brick/

Red as *Sequoia sempervirens*, smooth as cream.