That moment when a dog abruptly gets up and leaves 😞

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is it not plausible that those vicious political, social, and economic realities have something to gain from quiet expressions of our experiences of them?

man it's so wild to me whenever I end up somewhere rural in a northern state and see confederate flags, larping as the dudes you beat is insane

She's straightforwardly saying schools’ federal funds are at risk unless they reduce their Black student population to something Trump is more comfortable with By design, the safest way for schools to avoid suspicion is to not admit Black students at all ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Some right wing dark money org put out an anti-trans ad attacking Talarico and it's clear the training data for the LLM has been trained on god knows how many no-budget webseries from the 2010s because it somehow set the video output in Champions studios

Here's the actual whole poem: shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use...

People online yell at folks "voting is harm reduction; you're electing your most favorable opponent" and then when people start pushing elected officials to deliver on their actual promises, it's "they are doing their best why are you all such assholes." LMAO...

I don't think that single payer is viable in the US without the codification and protection of healthcare as a *right* (well beyond EMTALA). That means timely access to preventive care, not just emergency care.

So, this [forcible de-transitioning of Trans / GNC youth who receive gender-affirming care through the UK's NHS] touches on my single biggest reservation about single payer

Pogroms are not spontaneous protests. They are organized and planned campaigns of violence. Neglecting this fact makes it much harder to deal with.

GoFundMe donations finally made it to my bank account 😭🙌 Thank you again to everyone who donated. What a massive relief I'm still keeping it open since I'm not quite recovered to work again yet, if you wouldn't mind sharing to support this trans activist: www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...

Every time we discuss mass surveillance, these are the horrors that happen. Because the abusers are in the system, and use it to harm. Tech-enabled abuse, at mass scale, impacting real people, real lives. Violating the victim 100's of times.

The widespread refusal to take a stand by people in a position to do so is what's killing us by inches.

The fascist internationale is real. We need to work across borders to defeat it.

Supporting my mom, who has pancreatic cancer, makes me want to start a nonprofit that provides free, around-the-clock, personal medical advocates for people navigating hospitals. Because if you don't have a team who can be present for/with you 24/7, you are simply NOT getting the care you deserve.

As climate threats grow, the Trump admin is dismantling the tools scientists use to protect our communities. Ignoring the science won’t change the reality - it just leaves us less prepared for it. Article: zurl.co/6jDTk

The incident is racist neo-Nazis wandering around in a pack and attacking anyone they decide looks like an immigrant.

Republicans have stopped accepting the results of elections that don't go their way because they've realized they don't have to. They've learned that if they get enough of an echo chamber going that the rest of the world will have to accommodate whatever they're repeating, no matter how stupid

People who like reality TV need to understand themselves as enjoying a genre of entertainment and not expect everyone else to know about or enjoy it. But it is also really weird for people who are not into that subculture to be smug and loud about not knowing about it.

cis folks actually love putting minors on HRT or giving them surgery when they're intersex, so they're just liars to begin with, anyway trans kids aren't allowed to consent to HRT/surgery but cis adults can force any kid onto a new hormone profile if they have any number of 'justifications'

You can also apply a synthetic pesticide called permethrin on your clothes and insect repellant on any exposed skin

the Manic Pixie Dream girl is now an almost 40yo queer who is burned out from transactional relationships in a society that seeks to make everything a commodity

these tiny angels really do look like my siblings did when they were so tiny themselves. 🇵🇸 Please do what you can or share. Palestinians and Palestinian families are real people, not spam, and deserve every bit of support and love, too. gofund.me/1c9e35982

the only character creation sliders that matter #InvertebrateShitposting

hey just checking in on this again?

only four songs left to write for act one, let’s fucking go

“if you died nothing in my life would change”: a twitter exchange about a pizza “face god and walk backwards into hell”: a dril tweet about hollering at zoo animals “you cannot kill me in a way that matters”: a tumblr shitpost about mushrooms

Who produced Death of a Salesman? Guess we’ll never know!

asking myself this daily

None of us has to like this state of affairs, but it is where we're at right now as a country, and wasting your time and energy addressing election denialism to conservatives actually obscures the core issue that these people don't think we're all entitled to participate in democracy

I’m begging for resistance to police abolition that doesn’t amount to “I refuse to read the millions of explanations and will instead pretend that people refuse to explain it to me, when the reality is that I am dumb as shit”

I struggle with the idea that masculinity is a fully constructed hierarchical identity in the same way that whiteness is. Whiteness is a fairly recent creation that only exists in contrast to POC. Whereas I moved heaven and earth to be a man and would be even if women didn’t exist.

why wouldn't I want kids like me to get just the one puberty, the one they want? why the fuck should anybody be saying "no, you have to go through the wrong one first"? That is not a serious position on the matter

Kawami is a 55-year-old bar owner. Unlucky in love, she was divorced at 25, separated from her daughter, and burdened with 30 million yen in debt from a man she dated.

i'm pretty convinced that every brain dead and liar rightwinger is talking about the LA mayor race being rigged so they have "justification" to rig or cancel the 2026 or 2028 elections

I'm an intersex and trans woman trying to survive in a hostile world. Since coming out 6 years ago I've been: Assaulted by a Dr Almost died of sepsis Been robbed Had all my possessions destroyed by parents Lived in extreme pain and ignored by doctors Lost family Dog died Help! gofund.me/803f42d82

You don't have to go as far as SRS. The standard 'defense' of youth trans healthcare I've seen focuses 'misinformation'. "No one's being rushed into it," the well-meaning ally chides. "The system of grinding, years-long wait times for access to a stopgap is working as intended." Wonderful.

I'm not just suggesting, but insisting that what is best for *everyone* is for people to get to exercise sovereignty over their bodies. Even when those people are legally minors.

I’m honestly super disappointed in everyone at that stadium who let him leave in one piece

Imagine being the most decorated gymnast in history, almost dying, and media referring to you as “NFL Wife” as your greatest achievement.😑 Misogyny is a helluva drug. Smh. Truly hope Simone is safe and makes a full recovery. What a horrible experience.

society would be so much better if everyone had a red or green bracelet they wore in public to signal “do not talk to me/i want to be social”

"Tupac's Estate" means Tom Whalley.🤷🏿‍♂️ Afeni Shakur (Tupac's mom) hired Tom Whalley to manage his estate. Then Afeni Shakur passed away too. Tom Whalley hired himself as manager of the estate, and paid himself ~$5.5M.😮 Tupac's surviving sister, Sekyiwa "Set" Shakur sued Whalley for embezzlement.

ah, I was wondering why the NYT was having a panic attack yesterday lol

my colleague José Olivares has been doing amazing work interviewing Delaney Hall detainees' loved ones. "We needed their voices to be heard, which is why the protest started in the first place," Gabriela Soto, wife of Martín—a hunger and labor striker whose sudden transfer sparked protests—told him

it’s honestly downstream of the weird perception some NYC-born-New Yorkers have about the rest of the world as backwater holes. I know so many who are genuinely afraid to leave the city.

Turns out this was exactly the motivational message I needed today, maybe it is what you need too

funny thing where the comic industry awards are almost never separated out by genre, and the lit awards that deign to give prizes for comics rarely distinguish by audience and often not even between fic/nonfic, and THOSE often have people with little to no familiarity WITH comics as judges. anyway