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puzz.neurospicy.party
She/Her/They/Them Mid 40's Xennial, Queer, Disabled, AuDHD and Trans Texan. Infodumping randomly, building communities and trying my best to keep people safe through the interesting times we do not want to be in. Always Antifascist.
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The camo pigs under an awning reading "make tacos not walls" really making a lot if points here.

if you represent or work for a hospital who gets investigated by the FBI, i want to talk to you. my signal is in my bio.

Reading this interview with Maksim Borisov, a gay Russian dissident who sought asylum in the US last year only for ICE to arrest and detain him in February. He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear."

Got a copy of this off the meta platform to share finally. Drove hyperlapse video I shot of that intense storm that hit Austin last week, edited by a local forecaster with annotations of what was happening over the 11 minutes I captured.

If anyone has ever told you that a fancy text trick you used on socisl media is inaccessible to screenreader users and you didn't understand why, this is a great video that demonstrates the problem super clearly!

Approximately 40, 000 tons of interplanetary and cosmic materials fall to the surface of Earth every year from space — that’s 120, 000 million tons since human ancestors evolved approximately three million years ago. 🧪🏺

hey!!! weekly reminder!!

The US is trying to ban masks, mRNA vaccines, dismantle healthcare and social supports and arranging to keep lists of people with autism (and possibly other disabilities). This is not how you tackle the chronic illness epidemic. This is how you begin a nationwide eugenics program.

The brokest be the wokest. The people who need mutual aid for themselves are the ones you’ll see working hardest to provide mutual aid for others, & in international solidarity with a clear understanding of how the systems work against us. So supporting one mutual aid seeker you enrich a village.

General strike, when?

He's gonna make showers great again, perfect, winning. America will be the GOLDEN standard of SHOWERS.

The romanticized and absolute dramatized farm life that people think of and especially so in a way that we can somehow have thriving farms is ludicrous, just another subset of people living in a very different reality than truth.

As he gets his daily rations of Mr Beast SnackUm's and a 5 minute break between the next 8 hours of being on display, he whispers to Pelosi "hey, we're really gonna sweep em in the next elections because of these 5 minute break policies really don't poll well when I asked around the cells"

The year is 2028, Chuck Schumer is now a resident on display in the dumbocrat exhibit at Trump America Theme Park and Casino Resort (formally Washington, DC, abandoned when they moved everything to Florida).

I don't waste my time arguing with people whose view of doxxing is "it's doxxing when it happens to my team but not when it happens to yours." It's the power dynamics that matter. The powerful should be held accountable and the vulnerable deserve protection. That is all.

They’re also firing generals and attorneys for the crime of not being male.

This isn’t useful for racially marginalized communities and long term oppression and I’m trying to say this as gently as possible while actually really angry I need @eff.org and everyone in this space to actually step up

Good read on why what the US is doing is trans genocide.

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them. It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests. I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights. Find the EO here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

It’s really frustrating how even as so many people are working so hard for the rights of immigrants and trans people and everyone else this administration is endangering, Democratic politicians are like: “If they don’t knock it off, we will be forced to ask permission to tell them to knock it off!”

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different. In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that. a 🧵

We’re living through Deconstruction. I don’t know what else to call it — it’s an assault on the New Deal, Great Society, Reconstruction, and every other rights movement I can think of.

Everyone who stopped taking COVID seriously fell for propaganda that wanted them to abandon science, justice, & anyone deemed undesirable. If that’s you, commit to doing better now. Put on an n95 & follow the lead of organizers who were savvy enough to never take theirs off. Give/get mutual aid:

Today has been really surreal. The mood has shifted heavily, particularly so in Texas. Lots of great people still willing to fight but I can feel the less marginalized allies in the air just willing to put up with a lot fucking more of this evil for their own comforts.

it only took 3 hours

🚨 Trump will instruct the federal government tomorrow via an executive order to not recognize that transgender people exist and exclusively recognize people as their sex assigned at birth. www.thefp.com/p/trumps-day...

"Trans people are so demanding and controlling and want special legal protections and rights and aid far above and beyond what's normal to be happy" Average trans person: "Today someone used my real name"

Fragile cishet neurotypical white men. I wish I got paid every time they got upset with me for speaking my mind clearly, I'd have money to fix my teeth and truck at least.

Eating this banana bread (first thing i've baked from scratch in years) is giving me some good mental health today, even with everything else going on right now.

at what point do moderation guidelines turn into a blueprint for who to harass and how? well, i guess zuck found that line and crossed it

Lots of heavy lifting in all the ways in life right now, but its decidedly better, aside from this hellish timeline we're in. Making big steps to be in a much better place for suriving 2025 and beyond.

This erases entire fields and departments. Absurdity.

if anyone knows any good immigration lawyers that can help AAPI adoptees prepare for what might be coming next re: denaturalization please feel free to drop them in this thread!! defense that amounts to "nothing bad is happening" need not apply.

it’s pretty funny whenever people talk about needing to have a “wider tent” for a political party they always mean people who are transphobic and not trans people

OK, so what happens now? My colleague Kate Sosin digs in, in a partnership between The 19th and them.us.

Seeing everyone flock over here is really nice finally, especially as they get excited. I'm strained on time and spoons for social media but would much rather keep up with folks and post up stuff here as more friends and interesting folks make it over. More updates soon, life is *busy* RN.

It simply does not occur to a hell of a lot of people that what is a moral position and what is a "winnable" position may not be the same thing and that you had better take the fucking moral position when those things diverge. bsky.app/profile/sema...