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It takes a bit of determination to stand out as the only masked person on the whole train or plane, but I'm glad I didn't stop. Maybe you can help me stand out less. ❤️

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Turns out there's such a thing as reality, and it's so damn good to see a judge who gets that.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Been thinking about this moment from a Bug's Life lately.

submitted 10 days ago • 35 comments

Oh look, they found a way to get those fields harvested now that migrant folks have gone into hiding from ICE.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: A federal court temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order aiming to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under age 19 nationwide. This is a major victory for our freedom to access life-saving care.

submitted 13 days ago • 50 comments

Whew. Right. So. Sorry for keeping it kind of quiet. Didn't want people to worry. I'm back from the hospital after a bit of surgery. It went fine! The superfluous blob was almost certainly benign, is now gone, and I'm recovering at home. Just feeling like I got trampled by a herd of ponies.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This won't work. Google Maps has an internal process for black-holing updates to a contended map feature. Use your energy elsewhere.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

“While Democrats in Washington adjust to a new political reality, many on the left are placing their hopes in local and state leaders.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

I know cruelty is the point but… man this one is just especially ghoulish. They say they’re doing this to “protect the kids” but it’s always been so painfully obvious what the truth is. The want trans kids to die, to disappear, to be erased.

submitted 18 days ago • 51 comments

The movie will be harrowing and will win a ton of Oscars and we'll all say "never again", again.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

A thing to understand here is that Wired + Teen Vogue is Condé Nast — this is the Newhouse family being basically the only good billionaire publishers. Other than them, it’s the indies of the new alt media and stalwarts like ProPublica and then basically crickets.

submitted 19 days ago • 99 comments

Still can’t stop thinking about the binary nature of American elections, a few hundred thousand votes in three states all the distance between just normal stuff and armed officers keeping House reps out of the department of education and a guy named Big Balls canceling everyone’s Medicare

submitted 19 days ago • 96 comments

"...it’s only a matter of time until DOGE’s meddling inadvertently triggers a catastrophic failure of Bureau of the Fiscal Service systems," writes @lizthegrey.com in an op-ed for @thebulletin.org. thebulletin.org/2025/02/why-...

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

guys guys this isn't just a petition, it's a European Citizens Initiative! Belgium already banned conversion therapy but this can help people in other EU countries and we're halfway to the treshold to get enough votes for our country to count so let's add some to that!!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Had a convo recently where the other person--an educated liberal!--was shocked to learn <2% of Americans are trans, puberty blockers are temporary & reversible, and virtually no minors get gender-affirming surgeries. The right is so, so good at inflating things into boogeymen.

submitted 23 days ago • 28 comments

this trade war could have been an email

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 24 days ago • 85 comments

Honking great idea actually, I gotta go that. My "stay feral" pin is heartfelt but insufficiently specific.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

submitted 70 days ago • 71 comments

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

submitted 25 days ago • 44 comments

Seriously -- please tell me they can't be so stupid as to default on treasury bonds. I can't even imagine the consequences. 2008 was only a *private* debt crisis and that was unpleasant enough.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment