The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

As a Hoosier, particularly a Hoosier from the NW Region, I am livid.

Child Me: I don't think I'm supposed to accept candy from strangers. Time Traveling Adult Me pushing an Altoid tin filled with vyvanse at myself: dang it, I'm such a nerd! misbehave just this once and take one "mint" a day, okay? You'll thank me in college.

Slate Julie 😉

People love to talk about how awful theater kids are, and they’re not wrong, but let’s be real, debate kids have made this country a lot worse

-"I've been really depressed" Bummer. Pedestrian. Far too accurate. -"I've been doing a lot of self reflection" Sounds like you're an intellectual. Gives the impression of self awareness. Is technically still accurate.

I made an MS Paint-style flowchart for the OCD girlies

in french they call drinking water "the little drowning"

SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now. Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it. Don’t forget this.

Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night. Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim. Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen. Authoritarianism hurts all of us.

You know it's the rapture outside when you go outside and get raptured.

Dr I trust more than RFK Jr

No Donald, Chicago is not your war zone

Trans folk who follow me, please add yourself to this. You deserve to be seen and supported.

There are two NDs inside of me. One can't stand being in nature cause it's sticky and itchy, and there's bugs and dirt and animal feces and ticks and sunburn, and humidity. The other stops every few feet to take pictures of interesting mushrooms and has a pocket full of rocks to take home.

Yayyyyyyyy!!!! A federal judge has blocked the transfer of any additional immigrant detainees to a detention site in the Florida Everglades and ordered much of the facility to be torn down.

Incredible 30 seconds

have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is endlessly frustrating about current activism. Disabled people are INCREDIBLE organizers and have fought for successful change for generations. And yet these days y’all leave us out of your activism and refuse to create accessible spaces. But look at what actual solidarity can accomplish:

that ADHD ability to lose something you were holding in your own hand without even standing up

Wow, the new Whale Rider remake looks lit.

I'm convinced that under the right set of circumstances, I could really change the world through policy or something... But I'm useless before noon, so what are ya gonna do?

So true.

Without love, Christianity is either a pretty bad joke or a twisted political agenda.

Me *polite and accommodating to a fault: no rush! Take your time, i know you're busy and we all have spoons to manage. Also Me * an adhd person 30 seconds later*: this wait is torture. I'm being tortured. This is what hell is.

What's the cutest thing you saw today? I'll go first: a stray kitten chasing and pouncing on lightening bugs in a twilit field.

There's nothing I can say about the current state of affairs that isn't already being said by much more eloquent, influential, and worthy voices than my own. On the verge of a literal holocaust and little if any power to stop it. So I'm going to go back to vague posting song lyrics for a while.

culprit

Friend- hey, what's your favorite color? Me- black. Them-... Me-... Them- ...I'm sorry to tell you, but you're wrong.

This is exactly how I view people who use AI to make art.

The new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other.

I've been writing more often lately Thinking a lot about how I live my day to day life Just like everyone else TW/ stalking, trauma, femme experience

Here's an idea for a law that will absolutely never go through- Auto payments can only occur during the business hours of the payee. B/c charging me $143 I wasn't expecting at 2:30 in the morning on a Saturday when you can only be contacted Monday-Friday 9-5pm is HELLA shady. Screw you, Prose.

A fondly remembered ghost

Why can I add pickles to my cherry limeade but not to my breakfast burrito?... Answer me, Sonic... ANSWER ME!

What I say: I've been spring cleaning this week. What I mean: I got some furniture from FB marketplace and now I'm forced to rearrange and declutter so it fits and now I have piles of things throughout the house that I need to get rid of and a couch on my lawn I can't fit through my door.

The Fentanyl epidemic is caused by White border crossing Americans. Border Patrol lets them cross and return with a handwave. Because they're White. 88% of Fentanyl that's intercepted is found in vehicles (often pleasure boats) of Americans returning from Mexico and the Caribbean.

These days, if you're an American, anti-American is the pro-American stance.

Might save a life.

Very important floof update

propaganda implies the existence of antichristiannyet

I made a stupid little political cartoon while bored at work.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if you strictly interpret a text written in a time of patriarchy and slavery, without allowing for the revelation of history, you will get patriarchy and slavery. But I’m guessing that’s the whole point.

i'm on bluesky for the scientific community

Today’s entry against despair.