Okay I think I’m taking a bluesky break at least for the weekend. Don’t forget to take care of yourselves, friends. You can’t pour from an empty cup.

Encouraging update!

if you have a license that interacts with these system please contact your board and make a collective stand against participating in these systems

I have never been a big fan of YouTube for this reason. Why do you need a 15 minute build up to get to the point? Argh. 2 minutes total would have been too much. I would rather read.

Yeah, I worked in customer support and, if it's a 'peak' of one day, they will not care. They'll wipe their hands and say "ok, volumes are back to normal, it's fixed" If after a week they are still receiving pressure... Then they'll begin to get nervous

Lol the weather app is once again extremely wrong forcing me to delay mowing yet again.

Calling all scientists-join @faseborg.bsky.social on their August recess advocacy challenge. You don’t need to be a member to participate. Congress doesn’t seem willing to cut science funding as deeply as the White House wants but needs to hear from you 🧪 www.faseb.org/journals-and...

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Take 2 on webinar. It’s called “Staying Grounded: What International Postdocs and Administrators need to know”

Why yes, I did just sign on for a webinar 30 minutes early because my brain convinced me that’s when it was.

Same issue with answering a question they asked or explaining an interesting topic. People assume you’re talking down to them, I’m not, I’m just talking about this cool topic I know a lot about and I’m trying to share my knowledge with you. I don’t care that you don’t know, I’m sharing so you do.

Oh neat. The sump pump for the washing machine has started doing loud drip noises but no leaks and is otherwise working. That’s definitely not already overstimulating me. 🙃🫠 I guess time for headphones even though I don’t want them.

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Day 2 lol

Outlawing homelessness: when I spent five years rough sleeping during the early 90s, almost all the homeless men were vets with PTSD. Reagan shut mental health institutions and put them into the world with zero support. Every guy in our camp had been in 'Nam. Rinse...repeat.

A constant thought in the brain of people with pattern recognition 😩:

I had some ice cream out of a bowl with skulls on it. That helped some.

It wasn’t just that day, it’s been the whole week.

A story My late friend needed housing. They were disabled and living with abusive parents. Their mom said abusive and toxic things, hid their meds, & used chemicals knowingly setting off their child’s asthma. Their dad made food that regularly made them sick. 1/

*INSTITUTIONALIZATION IS WORSE THEN JAIL* Disabled, mentally ill, and homeless people thrown into institutions don’t get phone calls, lawyers, or trails. THEY ARE DISAPPEARED with no time limits or advocate for as long as the state pleases. You know it’s bad when prisoners have more protections.

The houseless EO has hit particularly hard tonight. I know so many amazing people who have been houseless or close to it. Everyone deserves better.

Finally watched Kpop Demon Hunters tonight. I was not prepared for the emotional gut punch 😭 but it was really good.

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Not only are there already not enough resources, new Medicaid cuts will gut the flimsy safety net, ending pathways out of punishment. Meanwhile, you know who leaves the light on 24/7/365. It's a straight-up mass incarceration edict gussied up with words like "humane" to help his allies sell it.

How many houseless people are veterans? Nobody should be treated this way but you’re going to thank people who voluntarily served their country by doing this? Because we know they won’t get the help they actually need.

do you know what does reduce crime & recidivism, cost significantly less than incarceration, hospitalization, institutionalization or even running shelters? housing (usually with some level of subsidy & support in maintaining it), harm reduction & voluntary pathways to recovery.

in addition to there not being enough treatment facilities/programs as it is, there’s tons of evidence on how forced/coerced treatment does more harm than good incarceration is also incredibly fucking expensive (more so than hospitalization at times) which the community ends up paying for

Here you go: action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

Boosting this again because it was morning for the west coast.

And they’re just deciding what we should or shouldn’t have accessible to us because a small group of people bothered them.

All the baby animals 🥰

Oh hell yeah, Hazbin Hotel finally announced season 2 is coming October 29.

Watch this. This is the precedent set by Gavin Newsom's proposition 1 & in New York. Involuntarily hospitalizing the mentally ill en masse. This is been coming for a long time. And we've been screaming about it.

Here are the questions that @itch.io, @drivethrurpg.com, and any other company that tries to justify this kind of action has to answer: 1) Who decides if something is NSFW? 2) What's to keep any unpopular group of people from being labelled as 'inappropriate' and removed? And most importantly,

My wfh supervisor decided he needed a catnip break

Annoyed I have to make an agreement for adults to sign for a volunteer position based on past behavior.

"Why Black people don't call the police." And "Why cops make the murder rate go up." Part 1000. Award winning musician GloRilla's house was burglarized by home invaders who knew she would be performing at a concert. Police showed up and... searched her house for drugs...🤔 And charged her.🤡

Temperature “realfeel” 108 degrees F. No thank you.

Your must-have info in the dystopian hellscape of our country is what to do if the gestapo storms the comics convention to abduct people to secret prisons.

itch delisted content & banned anything “nsfw.” queer & trans authors are fucked because the powers that be think queer & trans people existing is nsfw. itch claims they acted because payment processors demanded it. a hate group pressured processors with 1000 letters. i think we can do better.🧵

My friend would have loved this, they loved skramps. This is so adorable.

No Kimchi, the random Philo leaf you found is not catnip or yours. Don’t worry, i got it away from him before he ate it.

Reason 7,521 that cats are perpetual toddlers: random things on floor are fair game to eat.

like don't get me (or Michael) wrong--willful complicity is def a thing--but it is, also, astonishing the extent to which some of these people are like, 'but my colleague is always so nice in the capitol cafeteria' or 'but he too is a harvard man' and similar foolishness

the solipsism of “these guys are nice to me, personally, so they cannot be that bad” is i think the root cause of so many of the elected dems’ problems

So what action steps can we take to fight this payment censorship nonsense? Because I want to do something and I’m sure others do, too. I just don’t know where to start.

I am sorry to announce Hulk Hogan has ultimately lost his rivalry with the Undertaker.

Mutual aid for me but not for thee seems to be their motto.

Okay but…I had no idea he was an an actual person. I thought he was just a character on the show lol. His character looks just like him.