On every website I go to, including #NWS, this is where the weather history ends. Mar 8, around 8am PST. I feel like this is a pres musk thing, but I cannot find anyone who has written about it. Is it just a glitch in the system? Or is this deliberate? #weather #archives

When I was homeschooling, so many Christians were idolators of Jefferson. It was nauseating. I'd ask them about the slavery and the rape and they'd say he was a product of his time. He raped a young girl, then sold the children from the act for money. #conservatives #partyoffamilyvalues

It's Friday. I'm very happy. This means I get to stay in bed until I feel like getting up tomorrow. I get to watch baseball. I get to work on my projects. And ignore for a few hours that the country is literally falling apart around me and the real people are in peril. #friday #eattherich #weekend

I'm so exhausted. I shall quote Adam Conover: The Democrats are not coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. And, quoting myself: Fuck you, Gavin Newsom. #gavinnewsom #transrightsarehumanrights #fuckdems

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I have not been this poor of a student since high school. In high school I was being driven to suicide by my mother's literal encouragement & my father was trying to force me to "dress in a way that made him want to look at me more." The school did nothing. University is the same. #cptsd #childabuse

One of the most hilarious things happened last night. Of course, I can't post it because I live in hell and the demon lord was clogging the airwaves with his bullshit and people are--rightly--responding to it. I then realized why people hate #politics.

@tayryn.bsky.social Man, you guys aren't messing around, eh?

Just gonna leave this here for when people are ready to peel themselves off the ceiling.

Zelensky: Have you been to Ukraine? Vance: I watched some stories… 🤡🐮 👇👇👇 - The USSR was amazing. - Have you been there? - I watched Soviet movies. 🤠 or 👇 - Auschwitz was a wellness camp. - Have you been there? - I listened to Goebbels on the radio. ☺️ (From Russian-speaking social media)

I just heard via @jamellebouie.net that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov plan on attending Trump's speech this week. Please call 202-224-3121 today AND tomorrow: let them know this is unacceptably weak of them. Absolutely facile. The only acceptable response is Dems walk out.

My youngest daughter, the first atheist in our family, is reading the Bible and trying to understand it through logic. I think she's gonna give herself a migraine. #atheist #antitheist

Final: Dodgers 8 Athletics 4

Final: WhiteSox 3 Dodgers 6

Mellifluent song sweet sounding tones: Spring peepers and cheepers Waft #past my ears. Earth-moving thuds of the baseball bat the fastball whack a deep glove smack Emerge from the radio. #Mellisonant echoes of Springtime's movement. #Blueskyrelay #prompt #poetry #writing #baseball

The Toronto Blue Jays are up 1-0 over the Atlanta Braves going into the bottom of the seventh. In case you needed to know. :) #baseball #springtraining

My landlord has added a migraine inducing add to the rent portal. You know, in case I didn't already think that landlords were evil. #renting #landlords #housingisahumanright

I realize that the month is ending, but it doesn't have to be February to celebrate Black History. I commit to learning black (and indigenous, LGBTQ, women's, non-Christian religions, and other under-represented groups) history all year round. Who's with me?

What I'm watching now. :)

Donald Trump has signed an executive order making the official language of the United States fourth-grade-level English.

never again do I want to hear “women are too emotional to be world leaders” after that vengeful egotistical disgrace sits hunched over in that chair

I was indoctrinated throughout childhood that the holocaust was the greatest evil & was told repeatedly in church & school that if someone like Shitler were to get into power, I'd better stand up to him or *I* was evil. Well, look at the churches & schools now. #hypocrisy #religion #endofempire

I took the day off. I feel a little better. I don't hate my job, but I do not want to go back tomorrow. :(

Every day, it's something worse. And I still have people telling me to chill--see my last post about my university.

Been thinking about how unsupportive school has been of queer & disabled students during the last few horror-filled weeks. Got an email today for a seminar on how to 'cultivate calm and encourage peace." They are coming for us and you want us to remain calm?!? FU, #academia. #disability #queer

Last night, I told my younger daughter that I needed to take a grippy sock holiday. Then, I had to explain it to her. It was then I realized I needed to take a day off. Not sure if I can take a mental health day, but illness is always a good excuse. I honestly feel a bit better now. #mentalhealth

Every morning I wake up to a new level of dystopia that would make readers go "nah, this book is too unrealistic." But MLB.tv has four free spring training games today, so I can pretend life is beautiful on my work breaks. #baseball #springtraining #theusisadystopiannightmare

Today's Spring Training game count is three. I do love the weekend. :) Honestly, though, the whole season should just be a holiday. Who wants to work when the game is on anyway? #baseball #springtraining

This was shared with me today. I feel like, as old as I am, I should have heard this before. Anyway, I'm adding it to my punk playlist because the lyrics are 100% punk. #harrychapin #whydolittlegirls

This AM, my oldest daughter (autistic) got upset at the coffee place because one of the workers put our sandwiches in the oven before the people in front of us in line had finished their order. Because "that's not fair." #autism #senseofjustice

I can't wait for this to be the reason i get banned on twitter

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

It's so sad that they went with "Third Term" when "Third Reich" was right there waiting for them.

The only thing good about the Super Bowl is that when it's over, life improves exponentially. I'm on my fourth game today. OK, that's because I flipped between three this morning. :) #baseball #springtraining

What's going on in my brain when I converse with the only Trump supporters (two) that I know.

Yesterday, I told my kids I was going to remake my IG algorithm to give me just red pandas, needlepoint, & crochet. This morning I learned that Frumpy & Friends are going after disabled people, calling them a threat to our way of life. I'm just gonna stop working on my mental health. #endofempire

Also, I just learned that Project 2025 targets romance writers, including anyone who has posted on places like AO3. Apparently OK has a bill that would criminalize even possession of romance writing. I liked these folks better when they just told me I was going to hell, not prison. #aceromanceauthor

Well, it's been a day. We've been trying to get all pertinent paperwork in order for potentially leaving. & I have an assignment due tomorrow. I'm still trying to figure out why we are all just going to work & school and our principles & professors act like the nation isn't sliding into fascism. 1/2

The 50-year trend of public disinvestment in our public colleges and universities has led to higher tuition and fees for students, to cuts in academic programs and courses, institutional closures, and the decline of stable, full-time positions in academia. @rweingarten.bsky.social #academicfreedom

Programs in Michigan and Wisconsin have already shut down, leaving families scrambling for childcare. This is what happens when extremists put politics over kids. https://apnews.com/article/head-start-blackouts-trump-6e7655e56c0b451092411e7fdd1def2e

NYC Union Square

I'm looking at all the news that happened today & I do not know if I will be able to get my kids out of here quickly enough. I don't want to be one of those people who thought that things would get better or that reason would reassert itself. I know what happened to them last time.

Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital is pausing gender-affirming surgeries for patients under 19, complying in advance with Trump’s executive order. 💔 Enraging. Heartbreaking. Terrifying. www.wbez.org/2025/02/07/l...

I don't hate my job. Love it, actually. But I do not want to go today. Between all night autistic meltdowns & my daughter's hospital turning out to be run by goons & daily emails from the school about ICE protests, I do not get how I'm supposed to pretend everything is fine when it's obviously not.

"The Unruh Act does not allow you to provide care to cisgender patients while withholding it from transgender patients,” Bonta said If providers such as CHLA continue to deny care,his office could take legal action, seeking a court injunction that compels institutions to comply...monetary penalties

"...continuing hormone therapy and puberty blockers for cisgender youth prescribed the treatments for other medical needs – a move Bonta said illustrates how the institution was discriminating against trans patients. Some cisgender youth with delayed puberty, for example, are prescribed hormones."