It's funny in a depressing sort of way that the folks who seem the most sold on the hyper-individualism of US culture also seem the most rigidly opposed to ideas that would meet more people's needs with less labor hours, and thus allow more time for individual expression and pursuits.

When I was a kid, it was pretty obvious to me that X-Men stories were a metaphor for racism. However, it took me until age 41 to realize that Magneto is a pretty obvious representation of the problems with zionism.

I just finished watching the CW show, Good Cop Bad Cop. Copaganda aside, I thought it was a pretty fun watch. The character, Henry, is clearly coded as autistic in a Sheldon sort of way (they describe him as "having no social skills"). I'm a little torn in my opinion about him.

I strongly feel that no one in the US should have lower pay, less paid time off, or poorer health coverage than our members of Congress. How are they supposed to represent the people if they have a much higher standard of living than most of their constituents?

I lost my sweet 15 year-old boy, Prints, last night. He was my first pet, and my life won't be the same without him. He charmed his way into the hearts of everyone who had the privilege of knowing him. He was such a big personality packed into a fluffy little body. I'm sure gonna miss you, buddy.

The party of "fiscal responsibility" and "small government" wants to increase administrative costs to avoid providing care to people they consider undeserving. The cheapest, most equitable, and most humane thing would be to abolish health insurance and simply give care to everyone.

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If the concern were ever actually about waste, fraud, and abuse, they would have taken a fine-toothed comb to the Pentagon before anything else. Then, they would have put maximum funding into the IRS so that they could enforce tax collection on the wealthy. But we all knew it was never about that.

I was listening to the most recent @coolzonemedia.bsky.social Book Club podcast, and it occurred to me that a lot of the reason I always have trouble meeting speed expectations at work (aside from chronic pain) is that I can rarely get myself out of an artisan worker mindset and into a factory one.

How much more aggression from Israel do people need to see before we get a broad demand for an arms embargo?

It's funny how Bible literalists (my younger self included) can hold onto the belief that their deity is all-knowing, even though this concept is contradicted multiple times in the first few chapters of Genesis.

Here's a video I made to bring attention to some of the things that led to my deconstruction from Christianity. (The smudges all over my face are because I recorded it while on breaks from my job at a tire retreading plant) www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8rLWuFg/

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Yes. We're opening a clinic. And we're doing it on purpose.

I don't have a lot of time left with this sweet boy, so I'm trying to make sure that I capture as many memories with him as possible before I have to let him go.

Prints communicates his moods pretty clearly with his posture. Pic 1: "I want tummy rubs!" Pic 2: "My needs are met. Time for a nap."

I was double-checking my shopping list before heading out, and Snugglepuss told me that the list could wait because he needed some affection.

Why do we have insurance companies?

I just read that folks in Boston called 911 regarding armed, masked men attempting to kidnap people. The thugs fled when authorities arrived. This should happen every damn time.

We've been here before, but many don't know the history. This (pushing trans and other Queer People out of the public eye) is the kind of pressure Project 2025 and the Trump regime are putting on us once again, winding us tight like a spring (that will eventually POP if pushed too far).

I once again had to just stare at a wall for a minute trying to process the absolute stupidity. "Don't vaccinate healthy children and healthy pregnant women"? Hmm'kay and what about when they lose Healthy™️ status because they contracted an illness that they could have been vaccinated against?

COVID infections cause a huge number of "healthy" people to join the chronically ill community. RFK Jr. said that he wants to fight chronic illness. Why, then, would remove the recommendation for any group to get vaccinated? It's almost like he's unqualified and full of sh!t.

Immigration court arrests continued across the nation yesterday (and are likely ongoing today). Yesterday, in NYC, 30 ICE officers swarmed the immigration court, holding lists of names of people to arrest. All were dutifully attending their immigration hearings and many had pending asylum claims.

For almost 2 years, no public figure has been allowed to speak about the atrocities happening in Gaza without first condemning the actions of Hamas. I think that now no one should be able to speak about the killing of the two ambassadors without first condemning the actions of Israel.

Welcome to the USA, where we impose work requirements on the poorest and disabled people, and we give tax breaks to the most privileged, who earn money by simply owning things. We should absolutely be taxing billionaires out of existence.

Mask bans are horrible, but since so many areas have them, let's start using them to prosecute ICE agents who traumatize and abduct people without identifying themselves.

#RefugeesWelcome please share.

#chronicillness sometimes means digging really deep and giving it all you have every day just to do things that others take for granted. They often can't see the effort it takes to just appear normal. Then, when a new obstacle arises, they accuse us of being lazy if we can't overcome it on our own.

I love the internet

When I hear someone mention Jesus, I think, "Gee, sus."

The crew at Some More News do a great job of bringing the facts in a very entertaining way. Here's a clip about how a certain billionaire wants to make life worse for everyone so that we'll have more [white] babies. youtube.com/shorts/_u4bQ...

If the Democratic party were anywhere near as left-wing as conservatives accuse them of being (meaning they actually enacted policies that primarily benefit the masses), the Republicans would never stand a chance. Instead, to borrow a Bible phrase, they are lukewarm, and the people spit them out.

While I have serious objections to the concept of granting tax incentives to any educational institutions that charge tuition, I still applaud Harvard for not caving in to this administration's attempts to control them.

The apprentice is now the master.

Given the history of conservative leaders making accusations that turn out to be their own behaviors, it wouldn't surprise me at all if we eventually learn that our dear leader has pushed someone in front of a subway car and hit an elderly person in the head with a baseball bat.

If RFK Jr. were right about something causing people to suddenly become autistic around age 2, then there wouldn't be so many parents getting diagnosed after learning that traits they share with those kids were signs of their own autism all along... #autism #actuallyautistic

Where are all the 2A absolutists who used to always say things about fighting tyranny and human trafficking? Why aren't they standing up for their neighbors against illegal abductions?

When agents of the state use terms like gangs or terrorists, it's pretty much always for the purpose of taking away due process, profiling, and further marginalizing members of communities that are already vulnerable .

Spotted this cute little marmot while I was on break the other day, and it brightened my mood a bit.

Conservatives want to rewrite the way history is taught because if the general public was conscious of the fact that all of us white people are descended from immigrants, we might find solidarity with those who have arrived more recently and refuse to tolerate the way they're being treated.

Chronic pain makes my current work physically unsustainable. Chronic brain fog makes the prospect of finding and performing a less physically demanding job inconceivable. #fuckchronicillness #chronicpain #brainfog

One of the many obvious demonstrations of the way right-wing pundits are full of sh!t is the way they were free speech absolutists when they couldn't give university lectures, but they have no problem with students being disappeared for practicing their own free speech.

Columbia University has caved to the demands of the orange man. Boycott Columbia University!