Some days you’re gonna hang on by hope. Some days you’ll exist out of pure spite. Some days you’ll live for revenge. Whatever it is that keeps your feet planted on this Earth in this minute/hour/day you hold onto it with everything you have. Live to see them die.

Americans need affordable health care. No one should go bankrupt because they got sick and needed a doctor. If Republicans want to shut down the government so that they can keep increasing costs and cutting health care, then they need to explain that to the American people.

he's a good governor

There are times when weariness overtakes you, where courage feels beyond you, where staying strong is a daunting task. Take heart! The path to glory is not a straight line, and though detours and setbacks abound, the path is still there. So too is your strength, your courage, your glorious destiny.

This. I mean, technically my line was crossed the day that shit gibbon was re-elected, but it’s not like there’s anywhere to go. So I’m here for the long haul. For however long that ends up being.

Acknowledging our pain or vulnerability is not "surrendering" to it-- it's the first, necessary step toward realistically transforming any of it. We're not "whining" or "ruminating"-- we're strategizing. The art of war involves knowing our opponent w/o illusion.

If I ever leave my current apartment buying a house in the desert just seems like the only option. Or "find a landlord that likes unions" which uhhhh

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Really rough therapy day. Owww.

something that I'm not sure how we fix is the bit where the people on the center-right and the right who are loudest and most strident about shaping the conversation seem to be some of the most miserable people alive and have zero interests or personality or joy in like, anything. and that's weird!

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Into my veins!

weird al version of klingon opera

Went for a walk, stopped by the farmer’s market, and picked up stuff to (hopefully) head off any possible pantry moth infestation before it sets in. I hate these things so much, gasaaahhh.

Cool. "Solar-powered ‘artificial plant’ purifies radioactive soil by 95% in 20 days" interestingengineering.com/innovation/a...

and our spirits, too, will never be broken! Let's add more horses, comment with your flags if it is missing, let's see how many I can add xD

Alright, I’m up, I’ve had coffee, and it’s gorgeous out. Time to go touch grass.

Every version of us handling a trigger, flashback, or other trauma response involves pushing pause, acknowledging what's happening, & using a self talk, mental focus, or physiology tool-- which in no way means doing this is "easy," "obvious," or that struggling w/ it is shameful.

Games and stories are imitations of life, ways of playing at life, sometimes ways of learning how to live. Some of the rules may appear both cruel and arbitrary. But if you want to play the game, or live the life, you have to follow them.

when we talk about censorship of sex and sexuality, I'll be honest, this is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night above even my own work being blacklisted. at best right now we've got "it's okay if it's in an educational context" but who decides that, and how

What character permanently altered your brain chemistry? That little red-head down there did more to shape my personality as a kid than pretty much anything else. If you’ve ever seen Unico, you get it.

Our enemies are cowards, and we are going to defeat them.

“Portrait of a DNA Sequence” is a 50-foot sculpture in the lobby of UC Davis' Life Sciences Building. Created in 1997 by sculptor Roger Berry, it represents 201 base pairs of DNA, represented by stainless steel & dichroic mirrors. The mirrors cast colored reflections on the stairwell.

Yup, they do this to trans folks constantly.

FALL FASHION TIPPE - Disappear ynto the woodes of an eveninge, when the skye ys lavender and blue. Call unto the powers that dwell ther, and lo! thei appear yn their glamour and their panoplye, radiant. Aske of them what thei have seen and thei will tell thee: 'sorrow.' Accessorize wyth a scarf.

Oppressed people are "dramatic" about what we face, until our predictions end up happening, and then it's a lot of "well, you should've done more to stop it." As if they didn't spend that same time doing absolutely nothing. Anything to deny their own culpability.

It is the final day of our big "just gotta hang on until the book money hits" sale! And y'all have been SO GENEROUS and also we're running out of stuff, so I'm gonna try to pre-schedule one final thread and hope stuff is still in stock! lol thebrokencircle.etsy...

the wild thing about this is that they don’t even want to convert liberal elites to conservatism they want liberal elites to simultaneously continue to hold their existing views and to admit that conservatives are correct, smarter than they are and worthy of more respect

ugh, yes, I can't think of a better summary of genAI than "It would improve nothing in my life.

damn

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Refilled the various feeders this morning and found a pantry moth infestation in one of the seed bags. FFFFFFFFFF, I hope it was contained to the bin with the seed. Those things are a menace. 😫

Abuse or neglect does not automatically "make" a victim evolve into an abuser in the future. Trauma can create vulnerabilities in people-- but nothing can "make" you, or anyone else, into an abuser (and it did not "make" them abuse you). You are not "destined" to be like them.

hang in there

But yeah, you gain power when you do the right thing. People like you more, they listen to you more, they want to be around you more, they’ll trust you to make choices they wouldn’t otherwise trust people with. You can’t bully that out of people or manipulate them for it too long.

Thread. Also, tangentially, very much so the second to last post - as long as the unknowable terror remains in the dark, the fear is that we do not know when it will come for us. There is no way to effectively fight against it. Dragging it out into the light morphs a nightmare into heroic fable. ->

Each day, give thought to those who have helped you, shown you compassion, have been there for you. As a true warrior, you may that person: one who came to someone's aid and are in their thoughts now. Be grateful, for that is true honor.

This thread is so great because ANCIENT DOVECOTES (aka pigeon homes). The insides by the way have a slope at the bottom so they poop is easy to scoop out for fertilizer.

I’ve had to drastically cut back my time here for mental health reasons. Even just a few minutes is enough to make me feel hopeless. Stay safe out there, my people. And if you can’t be safe, be loud.

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that they’re rushing to meet the statute of limitations and have already pushed out a prosecutor who didn’t think they had a case tells me there’s an enormous chance they eat shit in hugely embarrassing fashion if they actually bring this to trial

I tell ya what, the most timid trans person is still braver than any of these pampered little transphobes.

I have a MIGHTY NEED …but no money. 😭

In light of today’s terror memo: if you’re a historian or a political scientist talking about who did or didn’t do what in the ‘24 campaign, cool, thanks for your knowledge. But the rest of us can step up to this accelerating moment, or just admit you care more about being “right” than being free.

stop stop pretending there's a plan, stop pretending we're Making America Great, stop pretending this man speaks for Real America, just stop it's stupid and he's stupid and everyone who helped put him in power is stupid fuck

some days I have actual commentary and some days I'm like this is all stupid bullshit and today is one of the latter this is all stupid bullshit

Alright, the depression is sorta better but also…not. It’s that weird sort of “I am just going thru the motions because it’s familiar enough to not hurt as much.”

it's important to have role models!!!

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