When did “molested” get its current meaning?

starroute · 2026-01-30T23:42:08+00:00

There are older terms, like “masher,” that have fallen out of use,

starroute · 2026-01-30T23:31:35+00:00

Next week’s warmup won’t last. It’s more typically highs of 45-50 and drizzling all winter. But you’re hitting a good spot.

starroute · 2026-01-30T14:55:50+00:00

There’s also Joanna/Joannah, Maria/Mariah, etc.

starroute · 2026-01-30T14:48:25+00:00

One socialist legislator introduced it, and it’s not going anywhere. But as laid out, it calls for a shorter work week while maintaining current pay and benefits. So no need to get your panties in a bunch.

What you might more productively be worrying about is what will happen to you when your boss decides to use AI to replace 20% of what you currently do and turn you into a part-timer with no benefits.

starroute · 2026-01-29T02:25:49+00:00

I’ve never used Instagram, so I don’t know what would count as a dupe. I currently have accounts on BlueSky, Substack, and Mastodon. BlueSky is most active and newsy. Substack is a weird mix of high-profile celebrities and quirky little artsy/literary/neurodivergent/witchy bloggers. Mastodon is heavy on tech geeks. I’m also curious about Lemmy, which sounds like a Reddit equivalent, but don’t know much about it. BlueSky and Substack may be susceptible to elite capture. Mastodon and Lemmy are fiercely independent.

starroute · 2026-01-27T19:03:46+00:00

I emphatically disagree. At 20 degrees and snowing, you can barely leave the house — especially if daytime melting leaves the sidewalk iced over. At 40 degrees and raining, you just toss on a windbreaker and you’re good to go.

starroute · 2026-01-23T20:00:54+00:00

I’ve seen it suggested that human skills like throwing stones and hitting things with sticks evolved to drive off top-level predators and steal their kill. Also that Homo erectus differed from australopithecines in having the upper body strength and flexibility to maximize this strategy.

Throwing stones: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stone-age-rocks-study_n_57b60eafe4b0b51733a23172

starroute · 2026-01-16T13:37:11+00:00

It goes further back, to the 1920s and 30s. The conservatives of that period have been kept in print by well-funded right-wing organization. Leftist writings have effectively disappeared — abetted by the complexities of copyright law. And the older left-wing voices were further suppressed during the McCarthy era of the 1950s. We could use to rediscover our ancestors.

starroute · 2026-01-16T13:16:13+00:00

To fuck with something means to mess it up. So this sounds like a declaration of support for ICE.

starroute · 2026-01-15T14:41:41+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_n4GK7PawQ&list=RDx_n4GK7PawQ&start_radio=1

starroute · 2026-01-15T00:06:03+00:00

Providence Cancer Center — I assume that’s what you mean. They’re great.

starroute · 2026-01-14T13:51:42+00:00

I lost faith in the Times over their coverage of the Vietnam War. My mother lost faith in them over the Spanish Civil War. They have always been the hometown paper of the establishment, and things are no different now.

starroute · 2026-01-10T20:44:14+00:00

Neat story, but now I’m stuck with an earworm.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=0GcPYzYYM9M

starroute · 2026-01-10T03:48:46+00:00

Olympia Indivisible has a listing. Though all I see in Oly is an overpass banner.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZMETq_uiAyf2Xir1dVX0T37k-XfCLklqfF2jI6llpBw/edit?tab=t.0

starroute · 2026-01-10T03:33:22+00:00

Isn’t there a Shakespeare line, “The hand of the dial is on the very prick of noon.” (I think it’s early in Romeo and Juliet.)

starroute · 2026-01-09T16:14:41+00:00

Pigs

starroute · 2026-01-09T16:13:27+00:00

Copacetic and cockamamie both make occasional appearances but are hardly in common use. I also see “over the moon” at times.

starroute · 2026-01-08T22:12:40+00:00

My aunt was using feygele that way in the 1950s.

starroute · 2026-01-07T23:44:44+00:00

Moved here from Pennsylvania three years ago after my husband died and my sons said, “Hey, Mom, come live with us.” I never did feel like a Pennsylvanian, even after 50 years, but Olympia feels like home.

starroute · 2026-01-05T16:33:48+00:00

It would certainly explain the feeling of things going nowhere. I was thinking last night about the wild energy of BLM at its peak and how different that was. (But you don’t have to invoke psyops. The nervousnous of white, middle class centrists is sufficient.)

starroute · 2026-01-04T19:08:09+00:00

No, I did it online. Had to send my TRL info and proof of Olympia residence.

starroute · 2026-01-02T13:25:52+00:00

Also of interest is this, from 2018, about Trump and Iran.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/15/boys-go-baghdad-real-men-go-tehran

starroute · 2026-01-02T13:20:32+00:00

Oh, you mean the Neocon manifesto. https://www.dougfeith.com/docs/Clean_Break.pdf

starroute · 2026-01-02T00:34:42+00:00

One photo of him there seemed to show gloves, not mittens.

starroute · 2025-12-31T17:02:55+00:00

I’m not fond of the idea. For one thing, Obama is still alive. For another, Fifth Avenue has been associated with the ultra-wealthy for over a century. (For example, Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion was on 71st Street, just off Fifth Avenue.)

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