I feel guilty even saying this because honestly, I'm incredibly privileged. I'm white, I have a law license, I have a roof over my head and I'm married to the love of my life. But I'm so tired.

I'm tired of the daily death threats. I'm tired of being all that stands between good people and the abyss. I'm tired of waking up every morning and doing the "clear the mechanism" routine from "For Love of the Game" to make the pain from my Crohn's bearable so I can focus.

I'm tired of being called a kapo because I believe the evidence of my eyes and not propaganda. I'm tired of not being able to pray in a synagogue with my wife because every congregation in a ninety minute radius is either zionist, transphobic, or hostile to interracial couples.

Not so gentle reminder that Noah Schnapp (Will in Stranger Things) proudly showed on twitter some time ago a sticker with "zionism is sexy" written on it. Since the final season is coming up and the producers didn't fire him, let's not give it our time.

“No one bikes in the winter.” Minneapolis protected bikelane at 4pm after 1-2” fell in the middle of the day: Look at all of these bike tracks made outside of the popular commute times. 😍

Anyone who has participated in or attended a naturalization ceremony knows how meaningful and joyous these ceremonies tend to be. The cruelty of this is heartbreaking and enraging.

everyone needs to start pirating movies and TV shows again NOW

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

More proof of what @prisonculture.bsky.social says that most people in this country have no idea what's going on: Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.

Life is like 80% a series of annoying and frustrating obstacles. The 20% barely makes it worth it.

Immigration is down! Yay! What's that? We don't have enough nurses and midwifes because everyone's racist now? Oh.

This part in the story about the arrest of the alleged pipe bomber sticks out. These purchases were done long before the event. These are common household items. The FBI having access to that level of data for that period of time is alarming.

One of my things about “you probably don’t know how to use a burner phone” is that actually buying a keeping a burner phone is really hard. If the feds can find you buying sanitary wipes—IN 2020, DURING THE PANDEMIC, A YEAR BEFORE THE ALLEGED CRIME—they can definitely find you buying a phone.

A culture that abuses children en masse is not contradictory with a culture that hates free artistic and sexual expression It is complimentary Consensual sexual activity and rape are not really nested subjects. Rape is a social technology of control. It isnt about attraction; its about domination

I hope everyone had a great day except for the McDonald’s manager that called the cops on Luigi.

the thing is that blowing up drug boats is just murder. no law licenses it. it is just war crimes. but to say out loud what the penalty for committing them is puts us in the position of accusing high government officials of capital crimes. it is critically important to be able to say the obvious.

"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.

... Do a lot of disabled people actually consider being disabled to have improved their lives? Of course it's going to vary based on the particular disability, and in practice it can be hard to tell what's a result of the actual disability vs other people's bigotry/uncaringness, but overall?

this also pops up a lot in chronic pain patient spaces and it grinds my gears every time like those aren’t “the few bad apples ruining pain management for the rest of us” those are people with very real and debilitating medical conditions too!!!

There are two ways to do well at IQ tests 1: your family is wealthy enough that you are afforded sufficient leisure time & tutors to learn the skills & knowledge needed 2: your family gives you so much grief, and/or you are so poor, that i.e. reading dictionaries & textbooks is your only escape

need help talking to a lawyer

There has always been a massive overlap between trans people and autistic/neurodivergent people with the latter constantly used to scrutinise and infantalise the former for their identities It's deeply *DEEPLY* naïve you wouldn't realised they'd go after ND people next

expanding the court is the moderate position

if all the people who thought this way disappeared the world would be unequivocally better in every way

when i was a kid i was led to believe that being Good At Things was the only thing that mattered, so i got good at whatever i did. turns out that shit doesnt matter at all, the only thing that matters is actually Talking To Other People

I use a fair trade, ethically conscientious mom-and-pop platform called Pirating MP3s

Men don’t have to “pretend to be women” to enter women’s locker rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms. Famously, Donald Trump just strolled right in

If abled get the same benefits, they will just select the abled people and not the disabled people. Because the disabled people actually had much slower cognition and the abled had no such impairment and is able to make their own test breezy while it still stresses disabled.

What if everything everywhere was designed with the intention of having many different people accessing it? People in wheelchairs, tall people, short people, fat people, elderly people, people with less than four limbs, blind and deaf people, people with chronic pain and illness, and on?

Having to identify oneself as disabled to access accommodations is, on its own, a huge barrier to getting many disabled people the accommodations they need.

If there is an accommodation so desirable that a problematic number of people are “faking” disability (doubt!!) to access it, that shows it’s an accommodation that could have wide social benefit is implemented in abundance. This is often the case with accommodations generally.

Public smoking bans just got in under the wire, too. Younger folks might not realize how rare they used to be and how hard they were to enact.

bad idea: a game with "dark topics" but instead of depicting any of them, it just refers you to other pre-existing fiction that depicts them. like, for this scene, go watch game of thrones season 1 episode 13. if you go in this room, go read The Shining, page 173.

I am a suicide attempt survivor so I’m kind of selfishly interested in prevention and, again, while it may difficult to completely prevent IDEATION, what ChatGPT does (despite guardrails!) is *cheerlead and facilitate* completion. You can come back from ideation but not a chat-optimized completion.

This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.

Kinda seems like the tendency of capitalism over time is to turn every machine into an orphan-crushing machine.

"I produce 10x more than I did last year but still make the same money. And the machine I now use eats human fingers. Who the fuck is benefiting here?" Not a difficult issue, not a weird position for a person to have.

If I had had that surgery as I was younger I would deeply regret it. Have they considered sending them to therapists instead? What if they just do it to follow a trend?

I wanna say that the point of pushing intersex women out of sports is not just transmisogyny, racism, intersexism, misogyny all play a role here, the boundaries of sex need to be violently enforced to uphold patriarchy

Also, if anyone's wondering, Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull has indicated their next move will be to restrict Scouts to cis boys only, in order to drive trans people out of there too.

Cis women with higher levels of testosterone, a hormone that all women produce, are being bounced from their sports entirely to punish trans women who are INTENTIONALLY reducing testosterone (among other hormones). None of this makes sense scientifically

And every cis person pretends to have forgotten this

For my Firefox using friends

at some point it stopped being funny how often I just get entirely screwed over. Stop using your fucking phone while driving ko-fi.com/d7th

people getting their spotify wrapped today: it's a great time to switch to another service. spotify is doubling and tripling down on taking ICE's business and running ads. switching to tidal took me all of a few minutes and they made their own annual most-played thing anyway.

it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse

it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value