I am unemployed! But with a ✨job offer! ✨ As I wait to get the paperwork for my new visa and however long it will take immigration to process, I have NO income. If I start work in January, I won’t have a paycheck until February 15. If I don’t start until February, then March Consider helping?

Anyone else’s feet have such terrible circulation that wearing thick socks sometimes cuts it off?

We need those who claim to be “left” to stop punching down on the disabled, covid cautious and immune compromised. Masking is resistance. It’s community care. The ruling class wants you sick and weak so you won’t fight back. Healthcare is being gutted. There’s never been a better time to mask

The woman fostering my spicy kitten from last March (pictured here in May) just sent me a video of her lightly petting the cat’s back and the cat briefly acknowledging it without freaking out. ❤️ THIS IS HUGE.

Whiteness is a trick made to get people to believe their supposed racial superiority and that they can one day become an elite and therefore think interests are aligned more with the elite then with working people of all identities with whom they actually share much more in common.

How does Good King Wencelas like his pizza? Deep pan, crisp and even.

All of these defining sex by who can produce eggs or sperm bills were literally *nowhere* before 2023, when Independent Women's Voices & Women's Liberation Front's "Women's Bill of Rights" got taken up by the states. Then it took off, and 11 months ago got stuck in the DJT's executive orders.

Kuroneko driver just gave me my package for free because he didn’t believe me when I insisted it was Cash On Delivery. 😂 I reached out to the seller so hopefully they’ll get back to me during business hours and we can work something out. This has never happened to me before. 😅

“Um they’ve been in Japan for x years and haven’t bothered to learn Japanese?” has the same energy as “Um they’ve been in America for x years and haven’t bothered to learn English?” and I’m sick of hearing both.

Do you know how rare it is to hear a non-swimmer talk about competitive swimming ACCURATELY? This is a guy who has made an EFFORT to understand his fiancée’s career in-depth. vt.tiktok.com/ZSPgU7NcR/

Every time I think “but how connected can my diet and symptoms possibly be?” I’ll have a small can of hot chocolate and be depressed and anxious for a week, or eat too many foods that weren’t pureed into pure soup and get a migraine a day later from the digestive stress.

Drop Fortnite

Seizing the means of production by using fabric from old clothes and stuffing from toys the cats previously destroyed to make new cloth toys for the cats for Christmas. ❤️

Is there a particular reason people get onto half empty trains and stand DIRECTLY behind you? Not to hold onto a handrail or lean on anything for balance or get off at the next stop. Just, totally free-standing in empty space 5 inches at your back, in your personal space like it’s rush hour.

Even if age verification laws require data deletion, you have to trust every website and third-party verifier will actually do it. That's a lot of faith to place in companies with spotty track records—and a risk that doesn't exist when a bartender just glances at your ID. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Community Does Jack Shit To Make Christmas Better For Town’s Second-Poorest Family

Thinking through bad defenses of genAI and bad defenses of crunch and seeing posts by someone realizing live that the only path to reasonable work hours is to make peace with doing less has me thinking I should try and write something about disability-induced productivity grief as a workaholic

Can’t stop thinking about this. The Trump administration is essentially extorting hospitals into dropping gender-affirming care—without Medicare or Medicaid they’d go bankrupt. It’s akin to a backdoor ban even for people with private insurance, a proposal that wouldn’t pass Congress.

I have reason to believe that processed sugar is a root cause of a lot of my bad mental health days.

There is no measure of my identity, freedom, or humanity that I can give you that will fill a hole you are digging inside of yourself.

I'm not adding anything new to the conversation, just stating again that harm is the goal. The people doing this enjoy causing harm. They are scared of so much and feel very small. They feel better when they hurt people, and bc doing so makes them feel powerful and safe, they keep doing it.

This is petty and gross on so many levels, but what stands out to me is that binding is the one thing kids absolutely WILL keep doing and that tons of them WILL get hurt when there's no safe equipment to do it with. "Irreversible damage" my ass

Because the endgame of the anti-trans folks isn't about surgery, or hormones, or bathrooms, or sports teams. Those are way-stations on the path to the world they're trying to build, which is a world of stifling gender conformity. And you can't beat them by giving them part of what they want.

as a trans journalist, echoing this. dont talk to journalists about diy.

THIS is why we have been SCREAMING that Trans Genocide is not fucking exaggeration and it's not appropriation, it's REALITY. THEY ARE SHAPING THE WORLD IN SUCH A WAY TO MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO BE TRANSGENDER. THAT IS ***LITERALLY*** GENOCIDE

The entire purpose is to make it impossible to "pass." They want trans people to be obvious so they know who to deport/kill.

This "Baker's Handbook" recipe book from 1895 is really sweet because the author, Eugene Schurr, wants to help bakers who may turn down job offers simply for lack of confidence in their ability to make commercial items like cakes, ice cream, and candies. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=lo...

I'm checking old cookbooks (1880s-1920s) for waffle recipes and it's hilariously hard to find any. The recipe lists are like "pudding, pudding, pudding, pie, pie, pie, pie, pie, cake, cake, cake, bread, soup, sauce, oysters, oysters, vegetables." 😂

YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME. I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center. People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.

Call Your Senators (or email) and say this: "Stand up for trans rights, do not allow a vote on legislation to ban healthcare for trans youth. I will not vote for you if you throw trans healthcare under the bus. Trans people need our support!"

Did you know historical cookbooks are just available online?? Because I didn’t! digitalarchive.tpl.ca/internal/med...

Now that I’ve held and used cast iron for cooking, I can’t watch Rapunzel without wincing every time Rapunzel smacks someone with her frying pan like it’s a baseball bat because they’d be DEAD.

Saw a video by a trans woman who recommended being weird in response to transphobic comments and I gotta tell you, it’s great fun. Tell them unrelated anecdotes that never happened to you. Ask them for recipes for gluten-free holiday meals. Correct their spelling on words that are already correct.

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.

The fact that it’s really hard to access raw materials for making things from scratch or fixing things you own really does hammer home the whole “means of production” thing.

Super excited to commute an hour to work and back to teach two classes on *checks notes* watching 1/3 of a movie in English.

every article about Elon that doesn’t start with the fact that he starved thousands of children to death is malpractice this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society

Tell me why at 39 living in Japan I’m getting into finding and cooking old-fashioned American recipes. 😂

The biggest hurdle to overcome in reducing waste and buying less is the willingness to cannibalize your own stuff for new purposes. Do you NEED buttons and fabric from the craft store, or do you have clothes you never wear that you were planning to sell/donate?

The amount of money Google is burning to advertise Gemini to me on YouTube alone makes me think nobody wants to pay for that, either.

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

Found a listing on Jimoty (Japanese Craigslist) that’s basically offering a “free house” but not the land. Oh, and actually they want you to demolish the house (or pay a contractor to do it) while they keep the land.

Ah, that wonderful culinary accident of chopping an apple on the same cutting board you used to chop garlic earlier. 😵‍💫

Most of my good ideas come from being bored. The less entertainment I’m force-feeding my brain at high speeds, the more time it has to think and then, you know, come up with stuff.

Shopping freeze at Home Depot in Manhattan this afternoon in protest against the company allowing ICE to stage & target people seeking work at Home Depots across the country. An estimated 300 activists purchased & returned ice scrapers, copying activists in Los Angeles. Ended with a rally outside.

The real issue of birthright citizenship is that everyone EXCEPT naturalized citizens get their citizenship that way, and no one has proof of anything else. Your birth certificate says your parents’ names and where you were born, not citizenship status, and most Americans don’t have passports.

This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money. Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.

🚨How much better are N95s compared to surgical masks?🚨 "N95 respirator use was associated with a 72% reduction in new infections (P<0.001) compared to surgical masks." Link to paper in next post 👇

“I am asking for a human at Apple to review this case. I suspect an automated fraud flag regarding the bad gift card triggered a nuclear response that frontline support cannot override. I have escalated this through my many friends in WWDR and SRE at Apple, with no success.” Yikes 😳