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Scenic designer, book-hoarder, gamer, human assistant to DammitMalcolm first of his name (cat), spouse of the wonderful Neil.
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ATTENTION, trans and NB friends … It’s being reported that the state department has stopped processing gender marker correction applications, and worse, they’re ordered to *CONFISCATE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS.* Be extremely cautious when presenting hard-to-replace documents in any federal office.

Absolutely terrifying. It won’t stop with our LGBTQIA citizens. Every protection for every marginalized group is under threat. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/u...

400,000 Americans lost their lives to Covid because of Trump's incompetence. He's not changed one bit because of it. American lives and deaths mean nothing to him.

1. In April 2024, California raised the minimum wage for fast food chains to $20/hour The industry claimed it would be devastating & require significant job cuts and prices increases Here is what really happened: workers got a raise, prices went modestly, and the industry continued to add jobs

Bodies are like Tetris--the longer you play the game of being alive, the faster shit keeps happening and the more you have to scurry around doing maintenance trying not to crash. I liked Easy Mode, dammit.

Pete Buttigieg told Democrats to not allow themselves to be so outraged by the Trump administration that they would neglect working for their constituents. “We cannot be mesmerized by the worst things that we see happening,” Buttigieg said. nyti.ms/3ZiKILz

MIT announced that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible.

I feel mislead by all dystopian literature. It's supposed to be a powerful authoritarian government that lords over a cowering population, and and we just need need a few brave acts of heroism to give the people the courage to rise up. Instead it's just half the country being dumb and mean.

This. Yes, we’re frustrated and angry that we live in a society where we don’t feel safe around men we don’t know, where we have to assume the worst for our own protection, where a rapist can SUCCESSFULLY use as a defense in court the notion that too much punishment will …

DammitMalcolm, prince of all he surveys.