A Sea of Pens and Feathers

Photos from the Artemis II flyby of the far side of the moon on April 6th 2026

Rocky's proudest moment ❤️

It shouldn’t need to be said, but here we go: Take needed medication, listen and try to learn from facts even if they’re associated with opposing points of view, and don’t set yourself or others on fire.

But I’m so tired and sick from seeing so called “progressives” celebrate the “resistance”. Hamas is not Palestine. We’re talking about innocent Jews being murdered, tortured and raped.

I’m so sick of being asked about Israel every time my Jewishness comes up.

I’m so sick of Jews being held to a standard for Israel that white Christians aren’t for their colonial governments.

So if you’re celebrating today, just say you hate Jews and want us to die. Just say it. I’m so sick of the veils of anti-semitism.

Hamas wants to kill Jews. Hamas wants to kill LGBT+ people. Hamas targets women and children.

So many of you think you’re supporting a just cause, but how do you think it feels to scroll on every social media and see support and celebration of a massacre of your people? To see the justification of it?

If you’re about to post something supporting Palestine today, please listen: I know you may have good intentions, but it feels like when something horrible happened to you and then someone posts, “well, this is why you deserve it.” You can support Palestine and pray for Palestinian safety, but please include your empathy and support for Israeli civilians who didn’t want any of this war. Please be mindful before you post today of how it will affect your Jewish friends and family.

and i've been really surprised by how many people who have been going "this movie is anti-men, and that's GREAT" when like. it's not anti-men. it's opposed to patriarchy and toxic masculinity, but it extends a great deal of compassion to individual men

not just to magic ken and sugar daddy ken and allan and the other rejected kens, but even to stereotypical ken, who like. causes a lot of the problems in barbieland and leads it. it extends a great deal of empathy for his sense of powerlessness and loneliness

and it would have been very easy for the film to basically just call him an incel and punish him for what he's done by disenfranchising him even further, but it doesn't do that? it says, hey. you need more to your identity than your gender, and there's more to you than being str8

and that's exactly the same weight of the message communicated to barbie, that there's more to her identity than her gender, that there's more to her than her perfect appearance and performance

neither of them have to just be dolls

idk, i enjoyed it as a well-crafted film without finding it like, hugely artistically impactful on me, but that aspect of its gender commentary was incredibly refreshing, and far more nuanced than i'm used to expecting of cisgender creators