Feel as though people will truly never understand his death. He was killed for being an Indigenous Queer Man with a Transgender Partner. Every single one of those signifiers on axis/intersections/marginalizations is extremely important, but it is in tandem all at once not just because he “Gay”.

June is Indigenous History Month and Pride Month ❤️‍🔥 @Chief Lady Bird Art

First day of #Pride month. Be kind to yourself, stay hydrated, and take care of each other. Promote smaller LGBTQIA2S+ artists, projects, and products. Ignoring the latest "discourse" is self-care. It can feel like a lot just existing, but please keep at it. The world is better with you in it. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💖

I like this site and I think people who have a really hard time here are kind of babies. Sometimes I get yelled at on here and some of those times people don’t have a point, but who cares? If anything, I should evangelize for this site more as the last place on the internet I still learn stuff.

I'm an adult and I like hearing people read to me (even if it's just like, a post) and as a kid, it felt great having the focus and attention of a parent and *how* they make the story matter more because it's their voice delivering it to you

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I think what frustrates me is that it’s so incredibly hard to be a human right now, and because of that there are literally hundreds of ways to make the life of a person you love easier and better and less frightening.

And evergreen advice for any kind of alarming email/phone call. Something I have struggled to remember when I've been phished, for real.

Since January 1, New York has been the first state requiring insurance to cover scalp cooling devices for chemo patients—technology that can preserve hair during treatment. A00430 passed both chambers unanimously before Gov. Hochul signed it, sparing patients $1,500–$3,000 per round.

The way these questions go unasked <<

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

True! Fun fact: They did this because someone leaked Robert Bork’s rental history during his confirmation battle.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Hell, I wanted to simply INCLUDE both my bio and adoptive parents on my marriage license and I wasn't even allowed to do that! Not even when I pointed out that both my adoptive parents were dead! Nope. We still have to pretend they gave birth to me or my ability to get IDs might be compromised. 🥚

People who think they know more about what I’m talking about than i do, and come into my replies telling me that i can already do this, are simply ignorant. I have no legal capacity to remove my adopters’ names from my birth certificate. And that is at the core of what I’m talking about.

It's almost like the orange one attracts a particular type of person...

Still thinking about the audacity of a dude recently converted to a religion telling a man who has spent his whole life in service to the poor and downtrodden that his theology is bad

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

when i say that #adoption is about more than, or other than, child welfare—that it is about creating a simulation of a “biological” family and thereby satisfying the dreams of adopters who seek it—please believe me.

an adult human being who was adopted should be free, at any time, to legally sever themselves completely from their adopters.

More than ever: Be kind (but put up with no shit.) Be peaceful (but defend against the violent) Uplift and hold space for others (but do not give platforms to the intolerant) Find balance between all (but never suffer those who would tip or destroy the scales)

I have more than once joked about being purchased from The Catholic Baby Store (aka Catholic Family Charities) and BOY HOWDY do some people get really bent out of shape when I say that! 🤣

We should start introducing ourselves to each other as, “I was sold through the *Chaparral Home and Adoption Services.” *Insert your baby brokerage here

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Reminder to people outside of streaming that this is the reality of even the top 1% streamers. Only a handful of people online make a living off of it. The vast majority of streamers and youtubers LOSE money (games, assets, visuals...) Remember that. I'm not asking you to support as, but be kind.

one time I was walking into the bar and saw someone beating the shit out of a guy who was already on the ground and before I could intervene a regular was like, oh, no, he was sticking his fingers into girls’ mouths. see that same kind of thing on here every day

I think a lot of Bluesky users are in the demographic of “people who simply will stop using social media entirely if all the text-based social platforms that aren’t run by unrepentant Nazis (like this one) go away,” myself very much included

Another collab with @aberrantcreations.bsky.social Well, it's about time! We'll drop the link early next week (6th not 13th, whoops) You were just thinking about picking up a sweet new hoodie, weren't you?!

Our fuel-up, who art in heaven,⁠ haunted be thy taste,⁠ the cursed hue of Mountain Dew,⁠ in tea as it is in soda,⁠ ⁠ Give us this day our daily leaves,⁠ and forgive us this monstrositea,⁠ as we forgive those⁠ who created the original.⁠ ⁠ 🙏 AaaAaahh-mennnnnn 🎶

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

I'll say it again, as this is ramping up: if you gave access to the archives of goverment data and information, it is your moral responsibility to make sure that untouched versions get preserved, now. There are people worh archival expertise who can help you, if you don't have it yourself. Start now

I don’t mean this to pile on the guy who posted about BlueSky’s engagement metrics—or lack thereof—but maybe it’s that ppl are simply tired of chasing engagement? I’m not an influencer & have no desire to be. I follow ppl I like and try to keep up with the news and see funny shit

Bondi wants to strip people of their citizenship. Do you trust her to be honest & fair? Don't put up with it. Don't put up with her. ☎️ 202 224 3121 Congressional Switchboard resist.bot/petitions/PV... #resistbot @resist.bot #Naturalized #Denaturalization

no one should ever be allowed to "close" an #adoption and legally anonymize a person from their family. we need to imagine long-term custodial care without the pernicious idea of erasing and rewriting a child's identity to suit other people's dreams of family building.

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.

Pew research did a study showing that birthright citizenship isn't that common in the world outside of america and a handful of other nations and like, yeah dude, its one of the few places we can genuinely point to and say this is what makes America great.

*screams from the mountain*

Please do me a solid and buy this tea. If you're in Seattle, you can go buy a cold Brujah Blast already made for you. Get Brujah Blasted

This man is going to catch himself in the crossfire of the racist fuckery that MAGA is trying to do and I don't think he realizes it. Thomas's grandfather that raised him is very lucky not to be alive for this, but I think WE would all be luckier if he were. Then somebody could talk sense into him.

This rightly frames the question, like all of the most basic questions about the nature of the political community and of human rights, as a question of the rights of *children*, who are debarred from almost all forms of participation and standing in the polis.

i am an #adoption abolitionist. This means different things to different people who favor abolition, but to me at a basic minimum it means no legal falsification of a person's vital records.

I think about that every single time a REAL ID is brought up. Because the papers adoptees use to verify for “real ID” 😒

My amended birth certificate that lists my adoptive parents as my literal biological parents has a note at the bottom: “This is to certify that this is a true and correct reproduction or abstract of the official record filed with the Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia” That’s not…

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! And because I love to recommend books, today I suggest you pick up Slow Gods by NB author Claire North. It’s the best sci-fi I’ve read in ages (reminded me of Iain M Banks and LeGuin) and really is a love letter to the expansive promise and possibilities of humanity

I was going to make a "rolling with disadvantage on stealth checks" joke about Trans Day Of Visibility, but then I got sad about the number of folks for whom stealth is actually a crucial safety and self-preservation tactic. Here's to a future where nobody has to hide their gender identity. 💔🏳️‍⚧️❤

TRANS CREATOR SUPPORT THREAD! happy #tdov! i’m hosting a lil thread for my fellow trans creators to boost their work!! 🏳️‍⚧️💕 introduce yourself and post some of your work - share shops, commissions, or anything else you want to plug! :D