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In the greater Seattle area. Still not ok and that's ok. Every step forward counts. DevRel by day, crafter/artist/queer by night. I like Javascript, Rust, robotics, baseball, macropads, and hearing about your hyperfixation. I have 3 cat babies I adore.
My little mutual aid team has fundraised over $250,000 in rent support over the last 3 months JUST for families at our neighborhood school.
$1 million for the whole city does NOT come close to meeting the scale and depth of need in our city.
Fuck Frey. This is unacceptable & will cause harm.
DOGE (leftishly)
Experts have cautioned the general public about the dangers of autism acceptance, warning that it may lead to autistic people being treated like human beings.
The level of misinformation spread by proponents of youth gender medicine, many of whom have a professional stake in it and many of whom have fancy letters and affiliations affixed to their names, is really demoralizing. Jack Turban MD @jack_turban O ..• This of course runs counter to the recommendations of all major medical and mental health organizations, as well as all existing
Jesse Singal now appears to be siding with Ken Paxton on forced mental health conversion therapy for trans youth.
Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”
Y'all this is just bachelor chow from Futurama
James Franco / Ballad of Buster Scruggs "First time?" meme
Gen Z complaining to Millennials about America starting an immoral, manufactured war in the Middle East while the country teeters on the edge of an economic meltdown because of overheated financial engineering
It's painfully obvious to me that a whole lot of people who are telling us the elections can't be interfered with are totally clueless concerning what has been done in several important states that will allow them to do just that.
Today is the last day of February and rent is DUE.
I'm working with @ziibiing.com at Stand With Minnesota to raise funds to pay rents for ICE impacted families.
You can send funds to me
V: colocharachel
$:ColochaRachel
OR
submit a form to adopt a rent: www.standwithminnesota.com/adoptarent
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Lilly Wachowski $5,000 • Top donation
I do gotta say that if anyone had told teenage me that someday I would be prepared to personally bail out an entire high school but the woman who made The Matrix did it instead I would definitely have been like “ok somebody needs their meds adjusted”
What an absolute real one. Thank you, Lilly 😭
Damn, @thedailytism.com is funny. And painful. Painfully funny.
To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.
It’s Day 87 of the ICE occupation of MSP.
Everywhere you go, you’ll still see patrollers keeping neighbors safe.
And also everywhere you go, someone is raising money for rent for their community.
Give what you can at StandWithMinnesota.com
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
A tumblr post from user nitewrighter: Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances. Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW. Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
Boss, it's the fascism.
i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.
Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.
Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.
Understood instantly what it meant.
HAHAHAHAHA ouch
"I need someone here now, or else I'm going to have to shoot this kid."
-- ICE terrorist when a cyclist followed him
It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.
They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.
Exactly this.
And this is why it is extremely important that if you care about bodily autonomy you have to care about trans healthcare rights.
If the federal government can take away my right to testosterone, they can take away your right to birth control.
And they want to do both.
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.
Remember: when they say kitchen table issues, Dems are, and always have been, referring to the issues that they perceive as being important—in a politically neutral way—to the heads of households of (white) nuclear families.
To treat an adult like they're not responsible for their own actions is infantilizing. I have enough neurodivergent quirks to hand out to everyone and still take some home with me, and I'd still feel really shitty if I hurt someone and people told me it wasn't my fault because of what I am
The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.
The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.
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One of the kind of fucked up parts of the ICE occupation here is that a lot of folks want to believe it’s over, and the media seems to tell us it’s over, but folks on the ground are still seeing tons of activity and vulnerable people are still (rightfully) terrified to go outside. We can’t stop yet.
Bluesky function that works like alt text where you append an explanation for people who need an explanation of your joke. then when nobody reads the explanation and still reply you get to feel even dumber
