I know people joke about melting in the heatwave but considering my migraine and loud firework pops, and feeling all sweaty and thready... Take care, y'all. Especially folk who are autistic, have POTS, EDS... many things can make this painful and harder to deal with.

I saw a video where someone said the things that she was proud of about the USA. It included: 1. The genesis of the modern tax-supported, free public library 2. The progenitors of modern tax supported free public schools. 3. The oldest and longest-standing written national constitution in force.

Hi hello I was going to do a full thread on the Great American State Fair later but it seems I'm starting early: why in the fuck are PragerU, Patriot Academy, and other far right groups the ENTIRETY of the Department of Education booth

This sentimental, exceptionalist idea that the USA, unique among nations, is always striving to be better lands badly at a time when it is clearly striving to be worse. It's like celebrating your 50th birthday when you've just blown up your marriage and been fired for misconduct and arrested

On some level I think cis people assume if it was really bad there'd be an outcry. The outcry re: ICE and immigration is (imo) still woefully short of the complete shut down we should be having to meet the severity of the moment, but people certainly are hearing about it.

The most common "free" or "cheap" ways to get into gaming now is gachas or Roblox, both of which are incredibly exploitative. It's not about the specific hardware and focusing on that really is missing the forest for the trees much like Kate is saying. The class imbalance is getting worse.

If the entire industry swings this way (which seems likely), this ends the public library's ability to lend new games to players who can't afford them. Sony loses that chunk of their demographic forever, and Playstation games are the most popular console games in my library system.

The fever swamps are cooking up mandatory surveillance of every woman for signs of pregnancy to enforce immigration law.

The issue is that nonpartisan, independent, and fact-based (good goals for journalism) have been replaced by centrist and equally critical of both parties, neither of which are journalistic principles. So confronted with a radical wing of the GOP, legacy media invents equally radical Dems.

StoryCorps founder Dave Isay has set out to capture the national mood with Connect250, an oral history project matching strangers across the United States to interview each other about their lives, families and formative experiences.

Now THIS is interesting Monday content.

Connotations are probably different, but ICYMI: are chatelaines just old-timey carabiners? Are carabiners modern chatelaines?

So, I hate to ask, but I need financial support. I need to replace some PC components or I can't continue to work, and it's pretty urgent. I hate to ask for financial support, but if you can afford to help me out, 0lease let me know. PayPal.me/laurakbuzz

Are chatelaines just old-timey carabiners?

Sorry I also just don’t understand, even in the most cynical terms, how the reward to men’s feelings in terms of social dominance that results from the exclusion of women from work and education that would result from this is supposed to be anywhere equal to the loss of women’s contributions.

Idk call me a fire breathing radical but I don’t think it’s just for women and only women to have to sacrifice their ambition, talent, dignity, material independence, and health in exchange for sex. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hormonal contraception is a gift to human survival, capacity, & health on par with vaccines. But because it’s mostly women’s survival, capacity, & health that it preserves, the right’s attack on it isn’t seen as the anti-science, anti-human regression as the anti-vax campaign is. That’s a mistake.

Wouldn't this also mean people getting away from abusive family (which may or may not overlap, considering homophobia and transphobia etc) can't change their names until age 26? Bc wouldn't this mean everyone becomes suspected of changing for gender reasons - & how would you prove otherwise?

this July 4th, while the conservatives are crowing, just remember that the foundations of the United States Army were laid by a gay Prussian leather daddy and his polycule of adjutant twinks.

This is in fact exactly backwards. The math isn't quite the same because the European climate is generally more mild, but it is more energy intensive to use a heat pump to heat indoor air in the winter than it is to cool indoor air in the summer. And summer is when solar energy production peaks.

This florist in Korea drops 2+ hour long ASMR videos which are a joy for background work, bc it's just ignore ignore ignore look up oh that's *gorgeous* ignore ignore ignore so maybe you need this too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JslC...

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

Tim Swindle cryarsing about AI disclosure being a scarlet letter lets slip something significant here, because if AI was all that slop jockeys claim it was, then surely such a disclosure would be a mark of pride, even a selling point! Surely people would be clamouring for AI games. But they're not.

I was preteen when I had heat stroke for the first time. I had the flu, was dehydrated, it was an Oklahoma summer... Even going to hospital, the ACUTE recovery was still three months. As a preteen that did martial arts, fit, etc. (I was 13 at the time.) And people DO die of heat.

for context of people who don't know how far this guy drive to do this: it's 3,392km (2107 mi) from Lethbridge to Montreal - basically driving from western Montana to Vermont as the crow flies.

Can I just say how fucking wild it is that a man travelled to Montreal, booked a hotel room across from the Pornhub offices, fired BULLETS INTO THE WINDOWS OF PORNHUB, killed two bystanders and the Guardian does not mention Pornhub or WHY HE WAS THERE. Even as they warn against "copycat attacks."

Lots to say about this quote from Phillipson but I think a key element is how cis people are understood as 'biological' and therefore as having material needs (services, spaces) where as trans people are an 'identity' and therefore only have cultural/recognitional needs ('not being pilloried').

I do appreciate how the season of LoVM that not only has a plotline relating to love and death in various forms, and ends on the villain accomplishing their goal, is... the fourth season. (Y'know, like how the number four can be pronounced the same as the word for death in Japanese?) -

Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger, was banned from the site for using his followers on X to sway content and decisions on the site. He’s a right winger who believes Wikipedia has a left wing bias and so he’s trying to inject “intellectual diversity.” He must be sad a billionaire can’t just buy it

Not only does Mamdani not work for Congress, but the idea that it's a problem that he is *good at his job* which inspired other people to want public servants to also be *good at their jobs* (or to do them, at least) is ... well, there are a range of Yiddish words for this.

“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” - ChatGPT

NEW: As states hollow out their mental health care systems, what's happening is that they're using their jails as mental health providers. Jail is where people with mental illness cycle in and out of, basically as a state's public policy. We just reported on how that's working out in Colorado.

ALSO Accessible Social mentions* constraints of each platform. Some may not allow you to add alt text, for example. Some do but you have to know where to look. Etc. *or used to, it's still a great reference!

(Going unlimited also makes employees afraid to use it because when it’s an earned entitlement, an employee taking a vacation is a normal, expected part of the business environment. When it’s “unlimited”, it becomes a privilege granted only to the favored employees, and everyone else is a slacker.)

Seconding this. The business advantage to unlimited PTO isn't happier employees necessarily. It's not having to pay out the PTO that people banked once the person leaves the company.

Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

Londoners, there is a webpage for you to see where your nearest "cool spaces" are when the extreme heat hits - places with water, air-conditioning & shade. Have a look and spread the word, especially to those who may need this but might not think to look for it: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

It's currently Prime Day, and if you'd like to support someone who isn't a dystopian megacorp, well, you have lots of options really, but if you'd like to do that for mechanical keyboard stuff, zines, and a few other goodies, I'm running a 20% off sale on WeirdLittleKeebs.com! #mechanicalkeyboard

This is the money Marge. Reskeet for good fortune💰

Happy Juneteenth! It costs 0$ to repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more! Store: Bibipins.com

And since it’s impossible to get some of y’all to care unless it’s directly impacting you—yes, this means they will be trying to institutionalize people for queerness and political dissent. This is one of those urgent red lines and I am seeing zero alarm in nondisabled people.

DOJ memo suggesting “interpreting” Olmsted differently. The Supreme Court decision that affirms disabled people’s right to live in a community instead of institutionalization. If you don’t push back against this, nondisabled Americans, we’re in deep shit. From your son with an IEP to your grandma.

💔💔 Daveigh Chase, star of ‘The Ring’ and the voice of Lilo in Disney’s ‘Lilo & Stitch,’ dies at 35. She was homeless and living in Los Angeles near the hospital where she died, the Los Angeles General Medical Center, according to her father www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I'm Basil, an Afronative game designer and sensitivity consultant/coordinator! I design weird, frightful games and also cozy ones. 😘 I've worked with MCDM, Hit Point Press, SoulMuppet Publishing, and Brotherwise Games. #PortfolioDay Website: towerofbasil.wordpress.com Games: kobanya.itch.io

Basil is one of the reasons why Draw Steel kicks so much ass.

Saw this on tumblr: a Black-led, trans-led nonprofit that has distributed over $1 million worth of gender-affirming resources to trans and gender non-conforming people. They have a free online "store" where folks can get all sorts of things. Based in my home state 🌴 and simply based

Happy Juneteenth! In case you've never heard of this holiday or you just don't know enough about it, here's a short explanation. I encourage you to learn more and then spread the word. #Victorian #slavery #CivilWar #blackhistory #blackisbeautiful #history youtu.be/MR3WqYI6wco?...

Renewed my WAS certification (Web Accessibility Specialist) for another 3 years. But that's $200 that I could put toward something like Overqualified or another program to help me job search. Overqualified, WITH the hardship discount, is still 1,500. www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ke...

We’re back this July for our second annual #Gaming4EveryBODY fundraiser event! Celebrate Disability Pride Month with us and help start more conversations about the importance for accessibility in gaming spaces 💚 #G4E2026 officially starts July 1st with @tiltify.com & @crowdcontrol.live integrations!

Normalize having disabled creators in your preview events. If a game has at least some accessibility, disabled players deserve to know about it early.