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cayaberndt.bsky.social
Design student and culture examiner. Queer, autistic, fueled by sugar and stress. I’m an optimist, I swear. They/she 😷🍉📚🎧🌻🐋
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At my last on-site desk job I told my cubiclemate that pregnancy was a form of biological warfare lmao I really have always Been Him

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

an image of a poem’s heart embossed

Happy Valentines Day to the unsung labor heroes! 🥳 We love and support sex workers in this household 🥰

The moment they make a cigarette that’s good for you….its all over

The moment they come up with a cigarette that’s good for you it’s all over

Our capacity for bastardizing classics is truly majestic. It’s one of those reminders of why I love this beautiful goddamn country.

I do not love that autism is once again weaponized as a sign of Americans being "unhealthy." I'm not unwell. I'm disabled. Disability is only bad if you believe people have no value if they can't work, which is the type of reasoning eugenicists used back in the day. Ominous vibes in this EO.

It seems all well and good, until you realize the language places the responsibility of good health solely on the individual, rather than addressing environmental and structural issues that lead to poor health, poverty specifically. It's all about bad food and an "overreliance" on medicine. Hmmm.

Gil Scott-Heron said the revolution starts from within. If the show wasn’t up to your speed, that’s fine. We don’t need celebrities to be revolutionary leaders anyway. But for some person, that show may have been the first small step to their own radicalization. That will always have some power.

Just gawgeous ✨

BREAKING: A fourth judge blocks Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship. "This ruling ... is based on straightforward application of settled Supreme Court precedent reiterated and reaffirmed in various ways for more than a century by all three branches of the federal government."

Hot take: but this may be the ideal fry.

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.

Pro-natalist capitalists:

One of my Year of the Snake wall slabs! There are a couple more left in the shop: shop.lioninthetrees.com/collections/... #art #pottery #SciArt

Two facts to remember about these people 1) Every accusation is a confession. The reason they're calling it all fraud is to muddy the waters and mask the fraud, graft, and corruption they themselves are committing as I write these words.

Need to have one of these.....

Dems need to change their messaging bc this is how a lot of y’all sound…..

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

Humpback whale skull. Ventral view. Pencil on paper 🙂 #sciart #natureillustration

Yeah I’m bringing in a style called “neo constructionism” (I learned Adobe like a month ago)

USAID only takes up about 1% of the US budget. All of Elon’s talk about “cutting budget spending” doesn’t apply here. It would be one thing to consolidate this program with another, but that’s not what they’re doing. They don’t want foreign aid to non-white countries. The cruelty is the point

Paper collage by Brooke Van Der Linden, 2018

Saw a post that said something like “the 00s are to us what the 80s were to our parents” and god that explains so fucking much

this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it

Avian flu isn’t just about egg prices - can you spare anything to help my friends protect their birds?

Saying DEI with the hard R

The imperialism of it. The selling of ethnic cleansing under a disgusting, paternalistic “it’s a terrible place, it’s for their own good” message. It’s always the actors on the outside with the worst things to say about a place they’ve destroyed. Palestine belongs to Palestinians. End of story.

Impeachment

I hope he gets his flowers

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.

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Strict regulations around animal welfare and farming isn’t just about the animals. It’s literally public health lol we work around these guys. (Note: I’m strictly against factory farming, but it’s the sort of thing where if we MUST raise animals for food ffs it has to be sanitary)

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

incredibly cool shit

I wrote about trans community suicide prevention, including a 4-step guide to peer interventions with links to further resources, for Xtra: xtramagazine.com/health/we-mu...

I'm gonna frame it like this: if this were any other slur, the N-word, the F-slur, any of the vile ethnic slurs, what would the appropriate Congressional response be? If you were to hear any of those slurs, how would *you* feel? Why is this one any different? Think about it. Then call your reps.

they just lied they lied, and they lied, and they lied, and they won because of it and now they're claiming they had a mandate to do all of the things they lied about not doing and many more besides the press bears an enormous amount of responsibility for all of this

Call your R reps. If you have a regional accent, make the most of it. Tell them you didn't vote for CANCER and ask them what the hell they're gonna do to stop Musk and Trump. reps.fyi