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For those who haven't gotten tests recently:

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

anyway, i am super stressed out. making art right now is a struggle. if you wanna be a pal and buy or share these book bundles id really appreciate it. also you get romance novels to give you a little break from the current madness. payhip.com/RWBirthdayBo...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

You are MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. If they threaten you with arrest for trying to access a site you are lawfully entitled to access, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING ARREST YOU. YOU MAKE THEM SLAP THE CUFFS ON A CONGRESSMAN LIVE ON TV, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING DO IT.

submitted 20 days ago • 202 comments

Kurt Vonnegut pointed out that "we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” People who do the Nazi salute in public to "pretend to be Nazi to upset the libs", are in fact Nazis doing the Nazi salute. Lets stop giving them bullshit excuses.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Kenzie gets her last kitten vax today. She’s also eating everything in site. Hoping this is the last growth spurt.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

The market for apps that are basically "This existing software, but how it was 5-8 years ago" is functionally infinite at this point. Every Office app. The entire Adobe suite. It's open season. Hell, ATP tech babble aside, 95 % of Bluesky users are here because it's Twitter with less bullshit

submitted 37 days ago • 36 comments

Why does she sleep on the rug? It’s cold in the house.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

One of the sexiest things you can do is report these ghouls.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I can hear the winds in OC today. Did not hear them at all last week. deep breaths

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

The City of Los Angeles is 500 sq mi- 44 mi from tip to tip, 30 mi across. And LA County is 8 times bigger than the city borders. At 4,058 sq mi. it is larger than the state of Delaware. The population of LA county is also larger than 40 individual U.S. states. time.com/7206020/los-...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Y'all HERE IS THE LOS ANGELES FIRE CHIEF TALKING ABOUT HOW THE BUDGET CUT WOULD IMPACT THEIR ABILITY TO RESPOND TO LARGE SCALE EMERGENCIES www.nbclosangeles.com/news/califor...

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Regulation matters

submitted 47 days ago • 66 comments

It appears that the person who ratted out this 20-year old Texas abortion patient to the cops was the man who impregnated her, which leads me to my sad but essential reminder: if you are having an abortion in a ban state, tell as few people as possible, and importantly, do not tell your boyfriend.

submitted 68 days ago • 40 comments

1/ Two years ago, I stood in the dairy aisle of the last grocery in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. It's the poorest place in the US, with the lowest life expectancy. But the store, like a lot of independent retailers, was vibrant. Signs in English & Lakota. School pride gear on all the walls.

submitted 73 days ago • 8 comments

I should put on my glasses cuz staring at screen, but I have a kitten sleeping on my lap

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

First question from boss in today's 1-on-1: How are you holding up? This is the only acceptable opening for bosses this time of year.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

i brought home a Siamese mix kitten from an adoption agency. I'm now battling fleas and at 2-months old, she's too little for over the counter meds. The comb (and I) will win.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

You see it, you share it. Them's the rules.

submitted 100 days ago • 5 comments

MS doctor keeps trying to get me to agree to a spinal tap. I have refused for most of the current year. I was informed next year they are changing diagnostic criteria, at which point my argument against getting the spinal tap is no longer valid. yay progress, boo my spine/impending migraine.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

I put my ragdoll, Baby Bell aka Bella, down on Monday. I'm having such a hard time doing anything this week but cry.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

the CA attorney general has determined that the city of beverly hills violated state law by thwarting the planned opening of an abortion clinic. it’s the state’s first action under Proposition 1, which enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution.

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submitted 116 days ago • 23 comments

Dear mail-in voters, If your state's return deadline is Election Day (Nov. 5), the U.S. Postal Service recommends that you mail your ballot by Tuesday (Oct. 29). Sincerely, The reporter who wrote this: www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...

submitted 119 days ago • 32 comments

On the night 6 years after what might be the most deadly antisemitic attack on US soil, Trump takes the stage at MSG to echo versions of the same white nationalist replacement theory that inspired that domestic terrorist to commit mass murder at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, in 2018.

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve been using Libro for a bunch of years now. The website and app have much approved and no polluted river to deal with.

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

let me make something perfectly clear: the endorsements are a secondary issue. this is about billionaires exerting control over the editorial process. freedom of the press is under direct threat.

submitted 122 days ago • 42 comments

Again, I'll remind you all of what I said earlier this week. When I was in AdTech these next few weeks are ALL THAT MATTERS to publishers. NYT, WaPo, CNN... All former customers. They're hoping to make a year's worth of revenue right now. They will do whatever they need to do to make that happen.

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

Two members of the LA Times Editorial Board—Karin Klein and Robert Greene—resigned tonight, a day after editorials editor Mariel Garza did the same. This comes after the paper's billionaire owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, refused to publish the board's endorsement of Kamala Harris. (via Sewell Chan)

submitted 122 days ago • 29 comments

While we don't have kids, I do often feel that we struggle, and don't understand why based on what we make, and then I see things like this that remind me just how violently wages have not kept pace with inflation

submitted 123 days ago • 18 comments

Crazy idea, stick with me... Law, but for rich people.

submitted 168 days ago • 46 comments

Plus my ballot was counted. Decent Sunday

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

So much cooking today. Hopefully it gets me to the beginning of last of the holidays.

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Sep 20th: my bubbe dies Oct 17th: my aunt (who managed a lot of my bubbe's care) had a stroke can we stop with the medical stuff?

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

people logon on social media platforms and develop a very weird idea of 'toleration'. but the blocking culture on here just reflects a very normal reaction to the fact that our access to each other online outstrips our accountability to each other

submitted 129 days ago • 44 comments

So far in the past month: my best friend's mother died, my grandma died and was buried two days before Helene hit and destroyed my uncle's house in FL, I've made so many trips to SD, survived the first two holidays, and did the highlights tour of Getty Villa and Centers. Next: complete the sukkah.

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

This helped

submitted 133 days ago • 31 comments

It’s done. This is the moment Britains last remaining coal power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain. HT National Grid ESO

submitted 146 days ago • 52 comments

I did not expect this number to be below 25k.

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

Kroger now admits it jacked up milk and egg prices above inflation. Millions of shoppers had no choice but to accept it. This is what happens when five companies dominate over 60% of American grocery sales. Minimal competition means maximized price gouging.

submitted 177 days ago • 12 comments