Ginger's cancer is getting worse. She's in pain and uncomfortable. We made a final appointment for Thursday morning. I'm glad these six months here in California were probably the most comfortable, least anxious, happiest months of her life. I'm going to miss her so much but it's time.

Hot take: Christmas season can start on November 1st as long as Halloween Season can last until Thanksgiving. I also propose that (so called) "Christmas Carols" that are not about Christmas are allowed to exist as long as it is locally considered winter or otherwise applicable.

You will never convince me that hummingbirds aren't sweet little fairies.

Happy Halloween!

while surprisingly none of my books have been banned (that i know of) I MYSELF was banned from the texas library association conference. with that in mind maybe consider joining the TINGLEVERSE PATREON for banned book week. LETS TROT patreon.com/chucktingle?...

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Our vice president just hosted the podcast of a politically murdered private citizen, along with the deputy chief of staff, calling for consequences for people who use their first amendment right to talk about disliking said dead man. What the fuck man. Like what the fuck

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if you know who any of the protesters are, no you fuckin don't. don't say names to ANYONE. not even friends. you do NOT know them.

19 companies that have pulled support of Pride parades, in whole or in part, this year: Lowe's Dyson Nivea Tiffany & Co. Toyota Capital One UPS Disney DoorDash Live Nation Anheuser-Busch Diageo PepsiCo Nissan PricewaterhouseCoopers Citi Mastercard Booz Allen Hamilton Deloitte

Note: Now that the Pride flag is an official city government flag, many schools and cities across the US with Pride flag bans can now fly it. Many Pride flag bans have an exception for “city” or “government” flags. And those exceptions do not specify that they are your local government flag.

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Mentally ill people being loud isn't a reason to kill them. Someone being erratic doesn't mean they can't be victims of hate crimes. And people are in fact violently transphobic to trans men.

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Jonathon Joss, voice actor on King of the Hill, was gunned down in broad daylight by a homophobic bigot who had been harassing the couple for some time. Texas cops did nothing to protect them.

Jonathon Joss died because he stepped in front of a bullet meant for his trans husband. A bullet from someone who burnt his house down and killed his dogs. (Which *he* was blamed for.) Who dug the one dog up to mock them. And no one believed them because Jonathon was bipolar. And he died for it.

Choosing to get married at a plantation in 2025 is wild behavior. It’s not just “problematic.” It’s violent. It’s disrespectful at an ancestral level. #NottowayPlantation

If you’re not visiting plantations for a history lesson, you’re doing it wrong.

Human Chain: Form a continuous chain of protesters, creating a physical barrier and making it harder for law enforcement to move through the crowd.

Adding "-AI" (remove the quotation marks) on Google search prevents AI results being shown

I dunno man, maybe it's from always buying cheap clothes and wearing them out but fast fashion is actually way better quality than cheap clothes were. 10 years ago getting egg yolk all over a $10 dress meant it was garbage. But now you can wash it the next day with motel bodywash and it's fine lol.

Total lunar eclipse on schedule for very early Friday morning...viewing conditions look pretty good for us in the Capital Region. Some patchy clouds around but clear periods too. Expect temperatures in the 30s with light wind conditions.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

a sign of a healthy and functioning democracy is that i'm getting emails from my kids' schools assuring me that the teachers are dedicated to protecting my children against the federal government

I don't see a source for him ordering DEI hires to be placed on leave. Just that he's putting ppl who work in DEI on leave. Which is very different.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.", or Hanlon's Razor, is just a thing a random dude submitted to the author of a comedy book published in 1980. So stop bringing it up when minorities complain about being discriminated against.

Stop talking about attacks that are specifically against nonbinary people only in terms of how it will hurt binary trans people. A binary trans person who passes as cis is affected by Trump's orders even *less* than *any* nonbinary person, bc they *don't have to detransition to go stealth*

you dont even have to hire us just regularly giving us money works too.

I want to take this opportunity to share something I recently learned about the authors David and Leigh Eddings. TW: severe child abuse In 1970, they both served a year in prison after pleading guilty to 11 counts of child abuse. They kept their toddlers in a pen in the basement and tortured them.

Some Europeans get so mad when Americans identify with their cultural roots. But most of them are descendants of the people who made my ancestors feel they had leave their country, families, and homes to cross an ocean where they knew they'd be denied jobs and called slurs in the first place.

What most frustrates me about railing against self-diagnosis is, unless it happens to be caught when you’re a kid, the path to a mental health diagnosis runs through an initial self-diagnosis

Trans and intersex people in the UK need you to be loud about the new "deception as to sex" guidance released which makes trans and intersex people legally guilty of rape if we don't disclose our gender identity and/or the sex we were assigned at birth before sex. This especially harms sex workers!

I see people talk about how health insurance is used to oppress groups, and they almost never mention the group most directly targeted and affected: disabled people. How the fuck are we always left out of every discussion about healthcare?

I think it's important to understand that the rhetoric around transmasculine people re. irreversible damage etc. is less of actual sympathy or concern for the trans person themselves, and more addressed to the Patriarch: "Look at what transgender ideology is doing to Your Property".

We see it with how they talk to transmasculine people, & it gets reinforced when talking about detrans women - with the constant "they're mutilated, infertile, unable to breast feed" makes it clear what the real issue is: we were supposed to be wives, mothers, always available for sexual access.

Which is why I teach all of y’all every day. Cause y’all need to learn about sensory processing disorder, executive dysfunction, and alternative and argumentative communication

If you still called Trump supporters loved ones after they voted for him a second time, you're just as dangerous to me. *You're* the ones normalizing nazi rhetoric. *You're* the hypocrites making the rest of us who mean it when we say Trump is a genocidal democracy destroying fascist look like liars

So, I'm not the type to have a strong "favorite" when it comes to media. But based on the movies and TV I tend to enjoy and admire most, mathematically, John Goodman is my favorite actor and the Cohen Brothers are my favorite directors. It's just math.

Since we're talking about health insurance being a scam, I want to remind everyone to use your home/renters insurance. The idea a claim will make your premium go up astronomically is a scam. I don't think I've ever met anyone else who's used it before. Most don't know anything about their coverage.

We're paying hundreds of dollars a month to be "covered" and then still have to pay for every trip to the doctor with our own money ON TOP of the premiums. It feels like a scam, it IS a scam, and they expect us to just say thank you for the privilege of being insured.

some conservative somewhere: ‘thank god free speech won now we can finally shut up these protesters’

Fewer than 1/3 of youth referred to gender specialists received them. Dodgy journalists falsely claimed puberty blockers were automatically approved, which became conventional wisdom in the UK. The Cass Review later found the opposite, and buried it in the appendices.

Amid this reckoning over the inhumanity and dysfunction of the American health care system keep in mind you're being asked to believe the same system is treating trans people *too* efficiently

If you're surprised by the amount of people who "condone murder" wait until you hear how they treated and continue to treat disabled people who need healthcare workers and others to mask during a pandemic Eugenics is murder, too, but it's a passive sort so it's cool with a lot of people

People treating the complaint that Biden and Harris were forced on us as nominees by the DNC as a conspiracy theory from Bernie bros upset their candidate lost in 2016 can fuck off. It is an *objective fact* that the DNC did not hold a presidential primary in NYS in 2020 or 2024.

we dont know for sure if he was shot, the bullet could have been a preexisting condition