just saw an ad for Walgreens that was like “Because you don’t stop for a sick day. And neither do we.” and uh. yeah that’s the whole fuckin problem bud

This piece deals with being contingent in Spring semester 2021, through the pandemic, the insurrection, and a sexual assault. And it was originally written for a collection about contingent pandemic teaching that couldn't find a publisher. @contingent-mag.bsky.social is happy to publish it.

I’m not going to lie, leftists/liberals/labor organizers acting like they’re too cool for alt text is so common because they don’t think disabled people could possibly help. Do they all think this way? Of course not. Do enough that it’s a safe bet? Oh yeah.

coworker: *explaining why she used chatgpt* [I am not paraphrasing this was a direct quote] “The math was hard so I wanted the computer to think for me” pharmacist: *clearly not vibing with this use case* me: *innocently* “Oh you mean like a calculator?” pharmacist: *trying not to laugh*

This isn't housing policy per se, but in a city where infant care averages $26k a year, universal child care would function as a massive, de facto housing subsidy—freeing up roughly $2,100 a month for rent. More politicians need to grasp this: when it comes to "affordability," it's all connected.

Alternatively I'm having an extremely shitty day so if anyone wants to help me get a comforting meal, that would be nice. I don't get my food bank box until tomorrow PayPal.me/AugustMcMullen

told a trans man today his glasses have Jonathan Bailey vibes and he turned BRIGHT red, sorry king I forgot how we all feel about him for a sec

Saw a cybertruck today and realized I never posted my best cybertruck meme here on bsky, so for the benefit of all, please behold!

You ever think about how the Lord of the Rings books were originally just the literary equivalent of found footage films?

when I lived in Newfoundland I tried a lot of traditional food that was designed to avoid spoiling and our ancestors weren’t eating all fresh and healthy, they were eating stuff like “this has been filled with so much salt it requires a multi-day soaking process to draw enough salt out to eat it”

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

you are not invited to whiskey fridays with tony dokoupil, which are exclusive, non-televised, in-person events

This is genuinely psychotic.

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did someone wish to return to the fundamentals of western classics on a monkey’s paw

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

And zinc chloride gas yikes if it wasn’t already obvious the US government is committing crimes against humanity in the US, it’s hard to see this as anything else

I AM JUST GOING TO SAY SOMETHING BOLD AND REVOLUTIONARY....... IF YOU CAN LOOK AT THIS REPUBLICAN CARNAGE AND YOU CAN WATCH ALL THIS UNNECESSARY HUMAN SUFFERING THAT REPUBLICANS ARE INFLICTING ON INNOCENT HUMAN BEINGS AND YOU ARE NOT ANGRY.... YOU ARE FUCKINGGGG SOULLESS. THERESYA SIGN.

His 6 month old stopped breathing! HIS SIX MONTH OLD STOPPED BREATHING! A father was getting his kids out of the neighborhood because it was unsafe & ICE threw flash bangs & tear gas at his car with children & a baby inside! His 6 month old stopped breathing & all the children were hospitalized!

This leads me to believe that up until this meeting, Trump absolutely thought it was "hole milk."

"Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE."

Either Palestine becomes free, or every place gradually becomes Gaza.

I was supposed to be in bed an hour ago but sending links and videos to people so they know to avoid the green gas (zinc chloride). Once a lab steward, always a lab steward. Seriously, I was a chemist twenty years ago, you do NOT want heavy metal toxicity. It fucks you up in weird ways.

Nothing captures the messaging gap between this country's parties like the way Republicans whip their supporters into frenzy over things that aren't real and how dems will look at kids being flashbanged by an occupying force of secret police and say "pls don't do anything dad is gonna be mad :["

I love that every city has added a new mischief to the anti-ICE work: LA started the noise outside hotels Portland started the inflatables Chicago started the whistles Minneapolis started not warning them about the weather lol If ICE comes to your city it’s your duty to out-scamp the last 🫡

If ICE says the guy had a shovel, I assume there might be a shovel somewhere in the state of Minnesota. That’s precisely the level of benefit of the doubt I’ll give an organization that tries to kill babies and children with flash-bangs.

they're shooting us in the face, ted

The real ones know I was a poster FIRST. Keep posting kids, it might get you a career

Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state

I wish I loved anything as much as doctors love putting trans women on the lowest possible dose of estradiol and never raising it

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

“Drive to rule” is a good idea in any case, but especially now

Wow.

Yaoi on Ice

Referring to Heated Rivalry as a Yuri on Ice adaptation just to see if I can forge a new type of guy

I think it's important to highlight that these aren't "non-lethal" they are "less lethal". There's a big difference, and any solid projectile fired is the latter.

"ice just broke into a family home in minneapolis without a warrant or any legal authority" this is LITERALLY WHAT THE REDCOATS WERE DOING THAT WE WERE PROTESTING AGAINST IN THE DECLARATION OF FUCKING INDEPENDENCE

To any ICE agents reading this who are from down south—you have never experienced anything like this cold. Our European climate equivalent is literally Stalingrad. It will hurt to breathe. You will be outside in it. So will we, but we are used to it. Next week is what will break you.

in yet another world first we will be integrating a child pornography website into our military. wow. impressive

"i serve the Lord, not a draft-dodging coward" is the kind of phrase that would be slightly cringe online and is incredibly badass when being stated by a man surrounded by armed men threatening to murder him

Peter: do you know what circular reasoning is? Felix (age 3): it's circular reasoning!

“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?” 1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore. 2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions. 3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.

I think for the first time I'm experiencing first hand the radical difference between how predators treat women vs how they treat men, and I just want to share this because I don't think it can be fully, bodily appreciated unless you're on both sides of this experience. 🧵

just a reminder that the SCOTUS oral arguments today are going to be a highlight reel of the dumbest and worst faith regurgitated transphobic shittery from the past decade, there will be absolutely nothing to glean from this nonsense, and trans people you don't need to hear any of this again

Truly A&W (the fast food place) has no right being so much better in Canada than it is in the US but it is, and for that I’m sincerely grateful