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"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.

if the government was actually shut down they would stop taking your taxes federal student debt would stop accruing interest Argentina wouldn’t get a $40Bn bailout Israel wouldn’t keep getting shipments of bombs and we wouldn’t blow up fishing boats but it’s not shut down at all.

It's a conservative habit to stratify caring - they care a lot about immed family, less about ext fam/neighbrs & not at all about other ppl's fam/neighbrs. It drives conservatives nuts when libs elevate non-family above their place in this hierarchy by asserting we should care about, yk, everyone

One of the most important things QA can do for you? Tell you that part of the game isn't fun. That's a thing that requires a human being. You don't want to lose that bit...

$24,000 is a literal rounding error for the federal government but it’s being withdrawn from a service that is a “crucial part” of helping people exit homelessness

The owner of Heretic Coffee said Tuesday the shop had raised over $72,000 to help feed people losing food benefits as the government shutdown continues.

boringpost, please disregard. but, literally why would I care what bill gates has to say about climate change. he's rich. that's his qualification. when it comes to climate science, he's literally just some guy with a stake in a mining company and his name in big letters in the fucking epstein files

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Yeah sure, this guy will absolutely seize the Mandate of Heaven once old Dong Zhuo dies

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

*tosses another example onto the comedically large pile of examples showing how replacing spelling and grammar checkers with a statistical engine to find the -likely- word rather than the -correct- word and training said engine on everything everyone ever wrote online produces Not what's needed*

Their reason is control. Authoritarianism relies on in and out groups. Marginalized groups are demonized to establish the in group. In groups are easily manipulated because they fear being marginalized. So they give up freedoms, benefits, control to remain within the In group.

Wtaf

Monday morning starting off with purrs from baby Eggnog (sound on)

The thing about the relentless march of time is that you only get an ending (happy or otherwise) in fiction. Here in the real world no cause is ever lost forever even though we may not live to see it prevail. This is both hope and cautionary tale.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Yes, parenting is divided into entertainments that tire the child faster than the parent, and vice versa. Your press-ups are a failure. A gem for parents who like to hike: the "run ahead and hide" game. You just pretend to be surprised while your once-reluctant children complete athletic hikes.

I am so goddamned tired, if y'all had listened to tiny minorities and even much larger ones (like Black people) back in 2016 we wouldn't be here now

Did he miss the part where the usda website currently has a notice on it saying snap won't go out because democrats want to fund "illegal immigrants and gender mutilation surgeries"??

My guy did you miss the part where they turned trans people, a similarly sized minority, into an issue that they're still using to mobilize their base? Or are we that fucjin invisible to you? Cause we're not invisible to the GOP.

We don’t get to choose the times we’re born into, but we can try to shape the time our grandkids will be born into.

I really need folks to stop acting like Trump's goons are somehow emotionless terminators. They are super insecure bullies who desperately want to seem strong and powerful and popular and it kills them inside when they're not. Like Trump.

Reminder that food banks have the ability to buy food in bulk and can make the most out of the economy of scale so cash (if you have it) is always preferred. But also, they're not going to say no to your pantry items. 💚

“I refuse to die until I’ve had coffee,” said Aunt Nadia. “I won’t do it.” (T. Kingfisher, ILLUMINATIONS) #qotd @tkingfisher.com

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"Guillermo del Toro's CRIMSON PEAK isn’t really a story about ghosts. It’s about learning to listen to them."

This is a bleak as fuck turn of events. (One of my most uncomfortable opinions is that it is bad, actually, to put traumatised parents on pedestals and podiums, stick cameras in their faces, and validate their grief-stricken opinions as if they're unbiased experts. Rarely as damaging as this, tho.)

who is your halloween familiar this year?

the ability to think stuff is dumb without making it your whole personality is something we've lost as a society. this is also why a lot of media criticism reaches for "this is bad because of <overarching reason>" instead of "I just think this sucks"

I honestly miss posting about fun and ridiculous things, but with the news lately, I feel like Captain America from that one "Texts from Superheroes" comic. 😠 I've also been cutting back on bottomless brunch, which means no more dedicated 2-4 hours of inebriated weekend shit posting, sorry. 💖

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

Free will rules

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791245... is good. I am biased as the author is a friend.

Status report, "Oh What NOW?" dep't: Just a quick note about the Clueless Trek Take Guy whose opinions about the universe as a whole are making the rounds. I'm not going to point anyone right at him: those interested can go digging if they please. (1/n)

these are technically year-round neighborhood decorations but it's close enough to halloween that they deserve some love

I love that @aniente.bsky.social's ex-feral cat decided he was going to adopt another cat and no human in the household was allowed to have an opinion on the foster fail

my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard and they're like, "there's not enough room" damn right, there's too many of you how 'bout, form an orderly queue

"The species is named after Inazuma, a character from the Japanese manga ‘One Piece,’ known for the ability to change sex between male and female"

"The rule prevented covered entities from discriminating against certain protected groups in providing health care services, insurance coverage and program participation." They overturned anti discrimination in healthcare for trans people. Universally.

My cat is so spoiled he'll hiss at the feather toy if it "runs away" from him too effectively

Food banks need money if you’ve got it. For everything else, contact them and ask—some can take donated meat by hunters or eggs from backyard flocks, some can’t.

I swear, the only thing that brings my cats running faster than a can opening is when I attempt to do something while sitting on the floor.

I wish I loved anything as much as my dog loves when I sit down on the floor

E g. The food bank here in San Diego buys bulk quantities of rice for a fraction of supermarket costs and re-packages it themselves in consumer-sized packages for distribution. Your money there goes much, much further than an in-kind donation. (In kind donations and volunteering are still good tho!)