Y'all I'm legit panicking about how I'm going to feed my cats next month since it's likely going to be July/August before my visa is changed and I can actually start at my new job. I can't even take temp or part-time jobs bc they don't fit my current visa category. It's bs but it's where I'm at.

I don't know how to tell you this, but if you're an elected official who no longer has to worry about income or healthcare, you're not "one of the people." You have to accept that every day you spend in office, your intuition for "the will of the people" becomes exponentially less reliable.

So glad you reached out to these 8 and the Equality Caucus over this vote. My whole face is twitching over this idea that you can't give a child a safe place to exist because they'll still be unsafe at home.

Trump’s DOJ proudly admits they’re deleting info about the insurrection, rewriting history right before our eyes as they prepare to reward the attackers with mountains of cash.

@repmarcykaptur.bsky.social I have no idea how you thought a Republican-sponsored bill titled "Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act" was going to be anything but transphobic slop, especially using the dogwhistle "gender ideology," but that sure didn't stop you voting to pass it.

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

Any Ohioans who'd like to join me in letting Democrat Marcy Kaptur know how they feel about her voting to pass the "teaching gender ideology is extremist and we must out trans kids against their will" bill: Washington DC Office Phone: (202) 225-4146 Toledo District Office Phone: (419) 259-7500

Imagine being a billionaire fascist tech-douche and training your AI on literally any data from AO3. Babe, that's the complete works of SuperWhoLock.

Thank goodness the rain let up so all the construction guys can get back to spending 2 weeks building a tiny cement wall. How did I survive without both daytime and nighttime construction noise?

Hey so if ANYONE can help me out with cat food, that would be AWESOME. I cannot start my new job until July/August and none of my side hustles (or the $600/month unemployment benefits) will come close to covering rent and utilities, much less cat food next month. www.amazon.co.jp/hz/wishlist/...

Hey so if ANYONE can help me out with cat food, that would be AWESOME. I cannot start my new job until July/August and none of my side hustles (or the $600/month unemployment benefits) will come close to covering rent and utilities, much less cat food next month. www.amazon.co.jp/hz/wishlist/...

Ngl, more than ever I feel like I have a responsibility to really go hard this pride month.

A right-winger would complain that I, a foreigner, am receiving taxpayer funds for unemployment instead of working. Right? The only reason I can’t start working literally next week (as in, I have a job offer) is the weeks (months) it takes to get the appropriate visa. That’s it.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.

Or Gen-AI prose is fairy food. It looks the part on the plate, and you can sometimes even get your fork into it, but put it in your mouth and it's gone in an instant, leaving behind no taste, no texture, certainly no nutrients, only the faintest memory of the 'mouthfeel’ of someone else's meal.

These types of rulings will ultimately open the door to the seizure of patient records of all women who dare to exercise their reproductive rights and their rights to basic health care.

The problem is the court didn't want to address the giant elephant in the room and say that o Connor and DOJ are openly colluding to abuse the system to hunt down trans kids. They think preserving the veneer of collegiality is more important than acknowledging what is really happening here.

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

Fun story, huge amounts of carbon are stored in the soil. When we dig it up, clear-cut trees, and pave it over, we’re putting massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and removing ways for it to be put back into the ground through plants. Unrelated, Japan is getting August heat in May.

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

I think what's important to understand about noise-canceling headphones is that they can only cancel noise up to a certain volume. Which means that your noise-canceling headphones can cancel out everything EXCEPT the one noise drilling into your skull.

My first ever shirt from a repurposed yukata is 90% finished! (Just gotta add buttons, which will involve learning to use the button foot on my sewing machine.) I didn’t have a pattern, just dimensions from a sewing book, so the collar is too big. Otherwise it fits well!

Just got the dumbest scam email. “I've over the years watched and monitored your every move and all that you do in your so called private time thinking no one can notice.” And NOW you’re “reaching out” to exploit me for Bitcoin?? After “years”?? Like damn, I must not do much worth blackmailing.

Unpacking your trauma to understand why you feel violently attacked when a trans person exists in public is a deeply uncomfortable experience. It involves engaging with your worst pain to understand it. This is why people prefer the catharsis of turning that internal violence outwards.

“But this is typical of a type of centrist politician who views sincere values as embarrassing emotionality. If the electorate took firm political stances, he might have to take one too.”

Listen, if you spend several years emphasizing contact tracing, quarantine, masking, and viral transmission, and then dispense most of that with the excuse “nah but this virus is different, trust me bro,” people are going to lose trust in that messaging asap.

Yeah I wasn’t dying, I was just getting constant ocular migraines and hypoglycemia at least once a day. Then it stopped this winter. Because I stopped eating complicated foods. My only spices are ginger and salt. I’m having less sensory sensitivity or mood swings BECAUSE MY BRAIN ISN’T STARVING.

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

Record heat is forecast across 22 states, with the Intermountain West, Plains and South facing the most intense conditions. Temperatures could reach 117 degrees near Death Valley. The heat comes as nearly 60 percent of the U.S. grapples with drought. https://wapo.st/4eAvCt3

I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here

A transgender student at University of Washington was stabbed to death. 💔 Transgender people face over four times the incidence of violence than do cisgendered people. The endless stream of anti-trans hate and misiformation from the right fuels that violence.

I haven’t heard “cotton-picking ____” in a minute but I wanna emphasize that I grew up with this phrase. It was commonplace; so much that I never had cause to question it. And because it’s so uncommon in Japan, this is the first time I’ve thought of it in a decade, and the inherent racism is STARK.

Cats trying to understand cause and effect: Mila: *sniffs Kit’s foot* Kit: *foot twitches, bonking Mila’s nose* Mila: *nips Kit’s foot* Kit: *reflexively kicks Mila in the face* Mila: *ears back, swats at Kit* Kit: *face alarmed, stares in confusion* Food Dispenser: *dispenses food* Cats: *run*

This sounds like the latest misdirection from the Takaichi government, which has focused on "cracking down" on "lawbreaking" foreigners instead of addressing core issues such as rapidly rising consumer prices. buff.ly/ZqCAZ70

Excited to spend the next 2-3 weeks blasting music into my noise-canceling headphones for 7 hours a day to block the skull-rattling sound of machinery ripping up the tile on three floors of the apartment complex across the street.

I guess until we figure out how to make my website be alive again I will be posting comics over here www.jephjacques.com/comics and on my patreon www.patreon.com/jephjacques

3 passengers evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship as new case is confirmed in Switzerland. " A man who had traveled on the ship was being treated for hantavirus in the Swiss city of Zurich, authorities there confirmed." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

just spent several hours listing a shit-ton of rare, OOP movies from my personal collection on ebay. all sales will be helping fund my upcoming escape from texas. insomniacs and early risers... you get first dibs www.ebay.com/usr/maboot-6...

Farmers vote against workers' interest bc most of us aren't working class. Farmers are business owners. With inherited wealth & property. It's not that hard to figure out! It's not folksy, & it's not "economic anxiety." Most *small family farmers* in the US are millionaires w 6-figure incomes.

It's a real Experience being a farmer trying to shout as loud as I can about what's happening out here. While journalists ignore the obvious so they can write their tear-jerker bullshit. Farmers chose Trump, as a strategy to take advantage of their own workers & the entire US taxpayer population.

“In a world dominated by digital platforms and their content algorithms, a self-printed, independently distributed zine offers a material experience that you know is a genuine encounter with a creator rather than a curated experience based on surveillance.”

Yurindo, one of Japan's best-known bookstore brands, said in a statement that zines "have become something we can't ignore." Major chains are now stocking zine shelves alongside conventional magazines.

Cherwell Collective continues to run Harvest@Home greenspace gardens in Banbury and Kidlington. The project aims to “empower individuals to grow their own food at home through skills learned as they care for the community greenspace gardens we manage”. cherwellcollective.com/harvest-at-h...

Buy me a coffee to keep me & my cats afloat until I find a new job! Even if I get a new job tomorrow, I won't get paid until June. Unemployment benefits start May 11 but won't cover half my living costs. I can't afford cat food or litter & I'm freaking out a bit. ko-fi.com/by_colin/goa...

Versailles, 2012 (Photo by me).

Buy me a coffee to keep me & my cats afloat until I find a new job! Even if I get a new job tomorrow, I won't get paid until June. Unemployment benefits start May 11 but won't cover half my living costs. I can't afford cat food or litter & I'm freaking out a bit. ko-fi.com/by_colin/goa...

I desperately need a disabled person who uses some type of AAC device for communication to write a book (straight horror or horror comedy) about a ghost using a character’s AAC device instead of the ouija board OR using the ouija board as an AAC device.

At this point I can tell when an unsterilized feral cat is outside because my own cats start screaming at it. Even Muffin, the black feral tomcat whom my cats yelled at for YEARS, is now ignored since someone in the neighborhood TNR’d him. But tonight’s visitor got a whole choir of “GO AWAAAAYY!”

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