Aimee Stephens, heroine: Stephens’ lawyers argued her firing was a clear example of discrimination because of her sex, and the 6th Circuit agreed. “The unrefuted facts show that the Funeral Home fired Stephens because she refused to abide by her employer’s stereotypical conception of her sex,” the court wrote in a 49-page decision. “Discrimination against employees, either because of their failure to conform to sex stereotypes or their transgender and transitioning status, is illegal under Title VII,” the court said. “It is analytically impossible to fire an employee based on that employee’s status as a transgender person without being motivated, … Continue reading Fights That Shouldn’t Have to Be Fights

Can’t stop the celebration signal:  A huge part of Ramadan is about the community, Ismail said. Not just getting together with family and friends for iftar meals to break fast at the end of the day, but eating with strangers and gathering with large groups to celebrate in the mosque. He wanted to try to emulate that in a game that has been so appealing to people in quarantine precisely because of the community aspect. He put out a call on Twitter, offering to host people to celebrate Ramadan on his island, and very quickly got a lot of responses … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks

The bees on the roof of the library are okay: 🐝 Spring is here and so are the bees (and new queen)! Did you know? Since April 2019, the Main Library's Green Roof has been home to two honeybee hives. Watch the bees live from the Green Roof and learn more ➡️ https://t.co/OSYCDOCnlD pic.twitter.com/qPsUyOOVgY — @oakparklibrary (@oakparklibrary) May 2, 2020 A. Continue reading Not Everything Sucks

If you want happy in your inbox every day subscribe to this. I’ve learned a ton about skincare and online consignment and country music and it got me into Hadestown which is maybe not the HEALTHIEST musical to be obsessed with at the moment but it’s giving us something to listen to in the house that isn’t Disney. A. Continue reading Not Everything Sucks

I mean, kind of it does. but people have this phenomenal capacity:  PARIS (AP) — In the age of confinement, Elisha Nochomovitz figured out a way to run a marathon anyway – back and forth on his balcony. That’s right. He ran 42.2 kilometers (26.2 miles) straight, never leaving his 7-meter-long (23-foot) balcony. He saw it as a physical and mental challenge, but he also shared the images online as a way “to extend my support to the entire medical personnel who are doing an exceptional job,” he told The Associated Press from his apartment in Balma, a suburb of … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks

If there’s something you can do, or something you need, keep posting here. A. Continue reading Keep Taking Care

FREE BOOKS.  I’m sure you all were on this way before I was but I figured out how to do this finally YESTERDAY and I’m already halfway through a book I’ve been thinking about reading for YEARS and I finished Gideon the Ninth which you all need to read so we can talk about lesbian necromancers in space and what everyone’s deal might actually be, so on the off chance you didn’t know you could do this, you should do this immediately instead of being on Twitter all day or in addition to it. It will improve your life. A. Continue reading Not Everything Sucks

Molly Seidel exists:  Getting to the start line of the trials was a victory in itself. Seidel would not have believed it was possible just six months ago. “And if they told me, ‘You’re going to get second at the Olympic trials marathon,’ I’d be like, ‘OK, that’s funny.’” Seidel has shared her struggles with disordered eating, and knew that recovery would not be easy. She told Runner’s World that she turned down sponsorship offers four years ago when she was not emotionally ready to turn professional despite her success at Notre Dame. “Your long-term health is more important than running … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks

This guy exists:  Stewart never expected this to become his life’s calling. It goes back to the Great Recession, which began in December 2007, when he was working as a veterinarian at an “economically challenged” animal shelter in Modesto, California, and was overwhelmed by the sheer number of stray animals who needed help. He wanted to show his young son the importance of giving back, so one day, he went to a soup kitchen with his son and girlfriend and started asking people with pets if he could examine their animals. “I knew then and there I was going to keep doing … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks

Jalaiah Harmon exists:  Though Jalaiah is very much a suburban kid herself — she lives in a picturesque home on a quiet street outside of Atlanta — she is part of the young, cutting-edge dance community online that more mainstream influencers co-opt. The Renegade dance followed this exact path. On Sept. 25, 2019, Jalaiah came home from school and asked a friend she had met through Instagram, Kaliyah Davis, 12, if she wanted to create a post together. Jalaiah listened to the beats in the song “Lottery” by the Atlanta rapper K-Camp and then choreographed a difficult sequence to its chorus, … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks

Roger Angell is still with us:  In 1962, Shawn decided that The New Yorker needed more sports pieces, and, knowing that I was a fan, asked if I wanted to go down to Florida and write something about spring training. I was surprised he even knew there was such a thing. I’d never been to spring training, so I said yes, thank you, and went down to the White Sox camp, in Sarasota, where I found the little wooden stadium jammed with elderly fans watching the young stars. Later stops at larger parks in St. Petersburg and Tampa confirmed this peaceable view … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks

This one was a motherfucker and next one’s gonna be worse. Sorry. You here for consolation? Wrong shop, chief. I wrote this in the wee hours of the morning after Trump’s election, and the fight was barely hours in coming, and we’ve been losing ever since, every day, on everything: Charlottesville, Kavanaugh, Gallagher, abortion, the ACA, the Muslim ban, the border camps, every single fucking day it’s another kick in the guts. You tired? Anybody here fucking tired? (We’re all so, so tired.) They’re counting on us being tired. Go get a B12 shot, take your stims with a shot … Continue reading Happy New Year

Can’t stop the signal:  Since October, a wave of anti-government protests has swept across Iraq. The protesters represent a cross-section of society and, unusually for a traditionally patriarchal country, women have taken a leading role. Their prominence is celebrated in murals which have sprung up across the capital, Baghdad. Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, epicentre of the protests, has been transformed into a hub of creative defiance. I won’t repost the photos so you have to go to the link to look at them all. They’re gorgeous. One of the most frustrating things about the post-9/11 discourse was the half-assed discussion on … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks

Welcome! Come on in! Everyone here loves you and is so glad to see you and we’re glad you’ve decided to stop by. Grab a drink, a handful of Chex Mix, and make yourself at home. Party closed. I love you all. Behave yourselves today and tomorrow and remember, there is a place where you’re valued, loved, and admired as brave fucking badasses. A.   Continue reading Virtual Christmas Party!

Cybertruck: Tesla truck gets 150,000 orders despite launch gaffe https://t.co/z3tegxoDKi — BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) November 24, 2019 Everybody had a good time clowning on this, and on this asshole, who says things like this:  We successfully launched the Falcon Heavy rocket, which is the most powerful rocket in the world by a factor of two. So that’s twice the power, twice the thrust of the next biggest rocket. And we actually launched a Tesla — my Tesla Roadster — to Mars orbit. The reason we did that is actually because, normally, when a new rocket is launched, you just put a … Continue reading At Your Expense

  The Mandalorian exists and is good: We’re only three eps in and so there’s still a lot of clunky “this is the character that I am, allow me to say aloud my most defining traits so that you may see them” dialogue, but it’s very Original Three Star Wars in that everything looks broken and messed up. Everything in Star Trek always looked like a theater company worked really hard to paint it nice; Star Wars was like three stoners realized they had a diorama due the next day and glued an answering machine to a toaster. This, despite … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks

This guy’s still catching lobster:  John shows me the lobster fisherman’s license he received at age 16. Dated July 1, 1938, the creased and torn document is a remnant from the Depression, when lobsters sold for 15 cents a pound. After high school, he bought a brand-new boat, paying for it the Maine way: “I went into the woods and cut 100 cords of pulpwood with a bucksaw and ax,” John remembers. “There weren’t no chainsaws.” Via Virgotex. A. Continue reading Not Everything Sucks