you ever see a take that is obviously the fault of falling literacy rates because it is so drastically lacking in basic familiarity with the concept of words which you want to explain the nuance of but you know it's impossible to because of the aforementioned illiteracy? anyway, open the schools.

UNBEATABLE has firmly planted itself in my list of games that irreversibly altered my brain chemistry because its a piece of art that screams to be heard and lays bare the souls of its creators, and because the drink-mixing minigame features a guy named Shithead, which greatly amuses me

internationalism really is dead and buried and it needs to be built anew. it's never been this dire. everything is a nationalism and everyone is miserable

the europeans Fucked Around (at best quietly sat around during or at worst actively abetted our utterly lawless sponsored genocide in gaza) and now theyre Finding Out (getting the other end of the utterly lawless US stick)

90% of the health risks of HRT are just "transing your sex gave you the same risk factors as cis people" and the other 10% are allergic reactions to specific methods of HRT

🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️

people whose most frequent talking point around gender is "you don't need to want medical treatment to be trans" should have to articulate their worldview to a roomful of trans kids who have been cut off from accessing health care

literally like you're trans before you start any medical stuff, the denial of access is just a human rights abuse

love your friends, let your friends love you

every single goddam crisis happening right now is self imposed

it is -10 here today. I was supposed to go do a volunteer shift standing outside loading groceries into people’s cars to deliver to families stuck at home. just got a call not to come in because they have too many volunteers already. if you were wondering if the cold would stop us.

unfortunately i also know trans ppl whose families went from passively nonaccepting but putting up with them (or e.g. not trying to insist others use their birth name etc) to outright cutting them off or becoming abusive, mostly since november 2024. also have met a lot of newly anti-trans people

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

fwiw these are unionized hotels and their local sent a formal request to employers not to accept ICE bookings or allow ICE to use their facilities www.facebook.com/share/p/1aV9...

Scene from Chapter 33 of The Sisters of Dorley by @badambulist.bsky.social

Cool thing about being a trans woman with ovaries: sometimes, they just randomly hurt. Especially the left one. Sometimes I think it's ovulation, but I know from hormone panels it usually isn't, so it's just like... A follicle/cyst bursting or dissolving or something. And then I get cramps anyway.

A quick note to all the media covering Minneapolis right now, the Reich called my grandfather and great uncle "protesters" when all they were doing was stopping SS from disappearing their neighbors. So maybe don't be like the Nazi Press unless you are the Nazi Press.

It's funny that one of the things people learn as very small children is "you get better at doing the thing by doing the thing." Everyone learns this as a small kid, it is very obviously completely true. And using genAI manages to instantly make people forget it, and start arguing about it.

studies have shown that bodycams have zero impact on police brutality complaints but do lead to higher conviction rates for ‘assaults against officers’ in case youre wondering why they seem to be the one thing politicians push in times like these

remember that the most important part of DIY is to have fun and be yourself

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

Inside the detention center, Gibson said officers put him in a bare, metal holding cell about the size of a small conference room with around 40 other detainees. Their legs were shackled. Gibson said one person in the cell appeared to have scabies.

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

Post something pretty

DHS said in October that "comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences." After I found one of their lawyers for ICE is a racist and a self-described fascist who has praised Hitler, there have been no consequences.

hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.

Her mother called 911 for help… and got turned into ICE instead. They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone. ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them. Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.

it's crazy that there's isopod species spanning from the deep ocean to arid deserts while still looking basically the same. this is a message against fast fashion trend chasing. find a look that is truly timeless and for all locations, like the isopod body plan

How much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."

This and also the McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit was not frivolous like you have probably heard

to young people: you may at some point have heard about the Y2K problem. some people may have told you it wasn't a big deal i need you to understand the only reason it wasn't a big deal was that everyone spent loads of time fixing code before it could become a problem, which is why it never did

reading about companies who fired all their employees only to realize that the AI they intended to replace them with straight up does not work and putting asside how obvious that outcome was for a second, i'm left wondering why the choice was made to do it in that order

Big agree; people point to small-fish or epiphenomena without glancing at civil society generally falling apart

This is exactly right. The white kids and adults I know who know the true history of the United States and Colonialism don't feel bad or guilty; they feel angry, in community with their peers of other races, and empowered to push for change. Enlightened white people are dangerous to the hegemony.

it’d be pretty cool if any of the people elected into positions of power that could possibly stop something like this would actually try to stop something like this

idk man you do something scary once and get to spend the rest of your life as a woman or you never do the scary thing and spend the rest of your life as a cartoon skull that yells at women

Friedrich Engels wrote Anti-Dühring, a serial that popularized and more or less codified the philosophy of Dialectical Materialism, in part because he kinda hated the guy and his "colossal arrogance". People love a polemic! "Your ideas are bad and you should feel bad" type beat

Honestly water balloons and super soakers in this weather is Genius Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

When someone starts arguing with you about messaging it's because they oppose your message Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!

Diversity of tactics doesn't mean actively undermine the tactics of others.

"deserve" is a capitalist word

It's a shame more white men over 35 aren't yelling at them then. Get to work.

It is so fun to have to use Cash App’s borrow feature to pay for groceries because you’re overdrawn and your client still owes you five figures. Bills are due too! They told me two weeks ago, then this week, still nothing. I’m so fucking tired of living like this.

also the way this is clearly supposed to speak to cishet WOMEN. like they need to manage their man's masculinity.