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One of the most underrated cultural divides in America is between people who know and care what motion smoothing is and people who still don't. The anti-smoothers went for Kamala by 20 points, minimum.

Guess Iā€™m just glad I figured out all my shit and became totally healthy and regular before now. No personal concerns here. Just ready to act bravely in historic times. Phewwwww!!!

If you want to fight fascism? Wear a mask. If you want to show solidarity with disabled people? Wear a mask. If you want to protect your own health? Wear a mask. If you recognize that no one is coming to save us? Wear a mask. My ultimate guide to respirators:

Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

Lots of folks are feeling overwhelmed and scared right now and say they donā€™t know what to do. Wear your masks, yā€™all. Itā€™s one of the easiest, radical anti-fascist acts you can do.

Why pay $100+ for a weighted blanket when you could pay much much more than that for the care and upkeep of a cat

not getting on another plane unless they bring DEI all the way back. the captain has to open with a land AND air acknowledgement. every attendant gets an ASL interpreter. allowable emotional support animals now includes BlƄhaj

The idea that sanity will prevail and that the U.S. will quickly return to normal is comforting and is also extremely dangerous. I donā€™t know how we snap people out of this, but weā€™ve all gotta try.

It looks likely RFK Jr will be confirmed to lead HHS. Itā€™s a death blow to public health, but we are NOT powerless: Update your vaccines Stockpile meds Obtain extra birth control & EC Wear a mask! N95 or better will keep you safe from many contagious illness We can help save each other

a maximalist strategy of opposition against every nominee as unqualified would have stood a better chance of creating the kind of public outrage that might have led to more republican defections, but i'm sure the imaginary family that chuck schumer relies on to guide his decisions disagreed

This moment continues to feel like February 2020 for fascism: smart people who pay attention are freaking out, your average sea cucumber-like American is either totally unaware or blithely assuming everything will Be Fine.

Listen, supermarkets, I donā€™t want a cart. I want a basket. I donā€™t care how small the cart is, I want a basket. I know why you want me to have a cart rather than a basket & it has nothing to do with my convenience. So stop it. Put the baskets back now and nobody has to get hurt.

I canā€™t stay angry for long. It cuts into my anxiety time

Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.

if i text you this just know youā€™re cooked

Friends, this piece by M. Gessen is a bracing, sobering read. We need to understand the era we are likely walking into. We have to ask ourselves what will be irrevokably lost. What are we willing to do to stop it? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

None of us are free until all of us are free. If trans people arenā€™t safe, neither am I. I know who these people are because they are who they have always been.

You know it's unprecedented times when Millennials are voluntarily making phone calls.

I sincerely donā€™t know why people arenā€™t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

this, my god i am getting overwhelmed w/ the info. nearly reshared something that was later debunked by Snopes. been focused on the coup that i forgot other chaos was happening. none of this is normal and whatever youā€™re feeling, well, youā€™re not alone and itā€™s okay to scream and cry.

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.

i just cannot get over how much the administrationā€™s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve

Absolutely. This. Is. Fucked. Up.

All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool

Keep your cats indoors! We have two who like to escape and Iā€™m gonna be honest we got pretty lax about it because they just hang around in the yard and chase bugs, but we have been making a very conscious effort to keep them inside. Cats can be infected and itā€™s like a 70% fatality rate.

Checked out the NYT homepage and cannot find anything at all on Trump stopping all medical research or him saying ā€œI donā€™t careā€ about the economy. 4 DEI pieces though!

#AO2025Ā  | Madison Keys is through to the final after coming back from a set down to beat world No 2 Iga Swiatek 5-7, 6-1, 7-6(8). Keys, a Grand Slam finalist for the second time in her career, will play defending champion Aryna Sabalenka in the title match. šŸ“ø | Getty

And joy has once again hit my Bluesky tennis feed. So needed after the last 3 days.

Meant to sleep after getting really discouraged by accidental doomscrolling, but that Madison Keys ausopen semifinal matchā€¦.WORTH IT šŸŽ¾

Goddamn I got sucked into the news. It's exactly what I expected but it's still gut punch after gut punch. I'm going to go outside and stare at the sky for a little while.

Itā€™s been a shitty enough day for Americans already. Please.