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If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

Alternatives to calling someone or something "crazy" when they're doing fascism.

instead of "crazy" → fascist
instead of "lunatic" → fascist
instead of "schizo" → fascist
instead of "psycho" → fascist
instead of "bipolar" → fascist
instead of "schizo" → fascist
instead of "insane" → fascist

I need to renew my US passport like yesterday, but recent happenings have me reluctant to do so 😑

People need to understand how bad this is.

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

I have a hunch at who it is… They need to clamp down on these nuisance streamers; they’ve been wreaking havoc and no one likes them

HEADLINE: CDC posts, then deletes, data on bird flu spread between cats and people. The data which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households.

It is evident the CDC is being muzzled SO let’s talk about what YOU can do to PROTECT yourself AND your pets. 🧪🧵 ⬇️

My best friend just said “there are now people who have lived before and after civil rights. There are people who were born before civil rights, they obtained rights, and now they are losing them.”

Im speechless.

Like if they really start fiddling with people’s Medicare I s2g. But it wouldn’t surprise me at this point

It is WILD to me that every day I read another account of these dorks (derogatory) just waltzing into another federal building to illegally access data. By now there should be some plans for resistance or something right?

Has anyone done a count of how many Trump’s appointees have been credibly accused of assaulting women? Apart from Trump himself, I mean.

Is it just me, or is giving a shit about other people considered far left now?

Just once during a crisis I'd like to be able to answer a work email like "hey man, I can't answer that, do you see what the fuck is going on??" Just once

Musk's unelected, extremist online teenagers are messing with everyone's grandma's check.

When protestors uttered the slogan “defund the police” the national media had a massive freak out. But now that Trump wants to actually gut the FBI and (it would seem) illegally fire 1000s of people who work there, the same media sees it as a curiosity, a dull bureaucratic matter.

How the hell we making ethnic cleansing sound like a wacky yet noble plot

The genocide in Gaza hasn’t stopped—it’s just slowed. Internet access remains life-saving, but funding for eSIMs has taken a hit. With costs rising and donations dropping, Crips for eSIMs for Gaza needs to raise at least $42K CAD to keep folks connected. Help if you can!

Can we stop saying “he can’t do that, it’s illegal!”

The man was convicted of 34 felonies and then rewarded with a second Presidential term

He’s pardoned people who were involved in a violent insurrection

He doesn’t care about the rule of law. You put a criminal in charge, they commit more crimes

Japan's immigration processing fees to rise starting April 1 The Immigration Services Agency has cited rising prices and personnel costs for its first price hikes — of as much as 50% — in over four decades.

Application fees for some of Japan's required immigration procedures will rise by as much as 50% starting April 1, the first price hikes in over four decades.

Going online’s been kind of exhausting recently with all the news. I’ve also been struggling trying to communicate my upset to the Japanese partner without him thinking I’m overreacting or a conspiracy nut… Japan’s done such a great job “sanewashing” the news coming out of the US, even now…

They have learned nothing. We’re cooked

It's exciting to see things finally pick up here. Kinda bummed since I've only been signing in at the end of the day when all my spoons are spent, so I haven't been posting much. Also, I've never been such a Discourse Beast and don't wanna trip up on some half-baked take lol

I ask my undergrads what percentage of Americans they think are Muslim, then show them how off they are. Same with Jews, same with immigrants. That we are terrible at perceiving demographic contexts means we can be easily manipulated.

A poem by Langston Hughes titled "Tired". It reads as the following: "I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two -- And see what worms are eating At the rind."

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

#books #reading #booksky #poetry

In the year of our lord 2024, someone (a bot?) messaged me about making art for “enhancing” a fanfic I abandoned over ten years ago on Fanfiction.net. Is this a thing? Anyhow their profile is new and barren and the whole situation screams sus af so I’m ignoring it

I want this site to add a bookmarks feature with the quickness; I have too much social anxiety to be the only one to post the thumbtack emoji under an account I don’t know

A photograph of a large coffee mug featuring a painting of a pelican above the word "fuck".

Sometimes all you can say is 'fuck'. https://www.effinbirds.com/collections/fuck-pelican-collection

So I’ve pruned my irl social circle to be only people who believe me when I talk about my pain/fatigue/whatever symptom. Seems the next hurdle is convincing them sometimes a doctor visit or medicine won’t fix everything; sometimes one just has to sit with your symptoms, as sucky as that sounds