The biggest impact hantavirus has had on me is a kid in my life sharing fake news roblox videos about it and having a convo with that kid about how to spot fake news on the internet. It was stupid and weird but ultimately a good convo. But also why did it have to be roblox. The internet is cursed.

@clairewillett.bsky.social @swilua.bsky.social any chance I could get a little boost for this? An org I care about needs some additional funding and I'm trying to help 💛

You know all the terrible things happening in Tennessee right now? Want to directly help affected queer folks? Nashville in Harmony is an LGBTQIA+ choral org that has been singing for 20+ years in TN. They've been affected but DEI cuts and need funding to continue. www.nashvilleinharmony.org/donate

Trans people are facing a decades-long, escalating, international effort to drive them out of society supported by some of the richest, most powerful people AND governments in the world and you are right that a few of them being snippy with you on social media is, essentially, the same thing.

You don’t hate country music, you just hate the same 100 songs of bootlicking corporatized trash about saluting the flag while drinking a beer in your truck at a football game next to your pretty silent wife in daisy dukes who also knows how to fish.

If everyone who thinks we should leave the south because it's too scary to live here would instead move here to fight and vote with us it would be a different place. Think about it.

I know it sounds snobbish, but that doesn't make it untrue that the majority of Americans have no idea how delicious chocolate can actually be, because all they've ever had is Hershey's.

Sometimes if you have certain cancers things start to speed up, too. I've known a couple of folks this has happened to and it's become a litmus test for me for if a doctor thinks you have cancer. Are they telling you to do x today instead of schedule it for whenever? You probably have cancer.

@katerosebee.bsky.social I'm a software developer and an activist looking for a career change. I remember you mentioning there is more security work than the ddf can do and more orgs are needed to pick up that work. Is there a chance we could chat or you could send resources my way about this?

hmm I followed the instructions I’m not sure why he looks so different

I'm experiencing severe sound sensitivity with my migraine and my very adhd family is blundering around the house dropping and knocking over everything in some sort of absurd sit com situation. My family: when diagnoses collide

In 2012 I went through a period of feeding 2 adults on $25 a week. It was really hard and when we didn't have enough we just went hungry. It fucking sucked. Eventually I learned how to get on welfare and that helped a lot.

All my acquaintances who had easy first babies and decided they'd have two kids under two are now realizing that karma is a bitch and after my history I'm struggling to feel bad for them

Story of my life

greetings from the listless nihilism of liminal burnout before the new year i simultaneously don't want the new year to start and also am afraid of this space

The nature of childhood is that you don't appreciate that your mom would never talk about five nights at Freddy's for this long with anyone but you.

I really enjoy Lois McMaster Bujold's portrayal of Miles' disability, and her portrayal of Miles' mother Cordelia parenting a healthy baby after parenting a disabled one really got me. I had disabled babies and it really affected how I interacted with toddlers.

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For a long time I only heard Ancillary Justice pitched as an exploration of gender and while that was def in it I felt like the themes of empire were way more defining in that series. It's massively underselling the series to only/primarily talk about gender and not "Justice, Propriety and Benefit"

Make the yuletide gay ❤️ [ #cuteart #traditionalart #sketchbook ]

Working on my inner child by listening to French Christmas music to remember the magical Parisian Christmases of my childhood and I was not prepared for these feelings

Watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation for the first time with some friends who like movies. I did not like this movie and did not find it held up to either the nostalgia or the hype. The best part of the movie was the moose cups.

I know that it's not true that "everybody is a little neurodivergent" because my boss is neurotypical and I struggle so much to communicate with him. It's not WHAT you say to him it's HOW you say it to him. Your tone of voice and the vibe, the contents are almost immaterial. Drives me fucking insane

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There's magic in the schools when winter weather is in the forecast, especially in areas where you get a day off in bad weather. Teachers and students whisper spells to each other in hallways and classes and then they go home and perform them and pray for a day off.

One of my ice cold takes: at the beginning of the year some folks in my circles made moves to host social events and emphasized that they were safe spaces for trans people.

The US process has a component where they send you a letter where you have to hand write or type write (like with a type writer) multiple pages explaining how your disability impacts your life on a daily basis. There is a 10 window to return it and if you are late you are marked not disabled.

People in my city think 50 degrees is cold and nearly a decade after moving here I'm still regularly out in tank tops in that weather. When the boogers in your nose freeze when you take a breath you can talk to me about it being cold. I *am* a huge grump, thank you for asking.

Turkey Crafts have happened at my house

Spouse is running Wildsea for a crew of 13yos and one of the characters has a companion named Gooby Snoober that is a 2ft tall leech that gets bigger every time it eats. Gooby Snoober wears a monocle and a top hat.

Legit didn't know gyoza was an appetizer for a long time. Costco sold huge bags of potstickers so we made it as a meal with edamame and rice. SIL told us you're not supposed to eat them like that and we were like...ok but all our kids eat it without complaining so we're not stopping.

If being a parent has taught me anything it's that being eleven is so so hard

I started cutting my own bangs because I got tired of driving 20 minutes each way to get them cut. I stopped going to a gym class I've been going to for 6 years because I was tired of driving 20-30 minutes each way. This is apparently the year of taking back my peace which includes driving less.

Got the new @themountaingoats.bsky.social album and the first song is a whole other vibe on 33rpm if you don't notice what your record player is set to

My hot take is that Halloween is the worst holiday. It is not cozy at all. It is overstimulating, loud, requires me to walk around neighborhoods trying to keep overexcited children safe instead of being in bed (where I belong) after dark.

Hammer horror fans—here’s Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in their last photo together.

I've had occasion to hang out with the queer youths lately and they're all obsessed with Epic the Musical which has themes like *checks notes* "Ruthlessness is mercy unto yourself" and "I will stop at nothing to be with my family" I wonder what ramifications this will hold in the future

Gonna set up my vassalage then join a Jacquerie uprising to fight for dignity and roast a knight on a spit because it turns out being a serf is terrible actually

Sometimes conservatives worry that people are becoming Trans or self dxing as autistic because they want social caché. As an autistic person who lives with a Trans person I'm waiting for all our social caché to start flowing.

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

Spouse: I wonder if she got Frankensteined. Me: Would it be Franksteined or Frankenstein's Monstered? Spouse: The procedure is always named after the doctor, never the patient.

I'm a senior developer on my team. I've rewritten multiple legacy systems and built more from scratch. Yesterday I had to teach a customer how to scroll right. You truly never know what your role will entail.

There is a worm haunting the most common Javascript dependency library called Shai-Hulud why does anyone allow developers to name things

There's a lot of moms in my circle whose middle school kids want vivid hair. Getting it done professionally is out of our budget, but we want to support our kids' expressing themselves. And we don't want them to experiment with those chemicals unsupervised.

It's time for my ice cold take on Cracker Barrel: Maybe the company is struggling because their food is extremely mid. Every time I eat there my first thought is "well, that sure was food".

Both my kids and my wife (who is newly on HRT) are going through puberty. They are all so hungry. How do I keep food in my house for a whole week Why am I going through 32oz of pickles a week every week

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

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