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Reading, procrastinating, and no longer living out of a backpack in places both familiar and foreign, because it's (still) a damn pandemic. Mercenary educator. She/her.
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Men do not need to put on a dress and go into a public restroom to abuse women and children. They usually just go home.

submitted 8 hours ago • 14 comments

Just thinking about the times I've been warned/surprised by a small craft advisory on a windless morning and wondering if anyone will be around to monitor/issue them this summer. Critical infrastructure I did not think I would have to worry about, like ever. WTF

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

My prediction for 2025:

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Might be time to risk another noise complaint.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks 
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Im STILL wearing my masks everywhere, fuck y’all mean “we?” You must speak French or some shit lmaooo

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

SSA employee to me re: 50% staff reduction: "Can say unequivocally that such deep cuts to SSA, which is already at historically low staffing, will cause significant to extreme degradation of services, very likely including checks missed and individuals dying before their claims can be processed."

submitted 2 days ago • 122 comments

In case anyone was wondering whether I received a noise complaint this morning for blasting Can’t Keep It In at 9:30am, the answer is a resounding yes!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

You know that feeling when you can’t sleep because your brain is entirely consumed by the 1970 Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam banger Hard Headed Woman? No? Just me? *Sigh*

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I'm proud of my brave friend

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Move fast and break things. So very, very many things:

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

my husband's ideas for protest signs included "I've had about enough" and "cut it out," which are the signs i imagine bob from bob's burgers would carry

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

This is also the political result of prosperity theology. If you’re good and virtuous, you’ll be rich and healthy. Poverty and disability are your own fault This is fifty-plus years of Christians using the Republican party to legally impose their poisonous doctrine on everyone

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

coworker: wow how’ve you been eva it’s been a while THE GOVERNMENT’S OFFICIAL POLICY IS THAT PEOPLE LIKE ME DON’T EXIST LITERAL NAZIS HAVE ACCESS TO THE SSA DATABASE OF NAME CHANGES ITS AMBIGUOUS IF MY VALID DRIVERS LICENSE IS FRAUD AND GROUNDS TO IMPRISON ME me: fine

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 16 days ago • 309 comments

literally the most annoying* part about being sick is that there's not a single medical office on the planet that has its act together, not a one can be relied on to actually do the things they said they were gonna do, and I have to be an unpaid project manager for half a dozen different offices

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

Keep scrolling if you've already seen a toddler smothered in cuteness by a giant pack of puppies.

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

This is super cool. The Blazers are the first professional sports team to provide OneCourt's haptic display at every home game! This cutting-edge technology enables fans who are Blind or Low Vision to experience live basketball action in real-time, at no additional cost. #RipCity #Blazers

submitted 46 days ago • 32 comments

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

submitted 21 days ago • 257 comments

I think what's being done to trans people in this country is a FUCKING SCANDAL. It's absolutely an attempt at eradicating trans people from public life and ALL OF US must refuse this. Everyone. Stop being a loser mealy mouth person. This is bullshit. You should say so in all the places you inhabit.

submitted 22 days ago • 113 comments

Why I do what I do: Touching people’s lives in a positive way is as close as I can get to an idea of religion. - Keith Haring 10/100

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

hey look a new Mountain Goats song

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

submitted 24 days ago • 1324 comments

If you're protesting tomorrow: "I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present." MEMORIZE THAT, because aside from asking if you're free to leave (or providing ID if you're in a stop and ID state), that's the ONLY thing you ever say to cops.

submitted 24 days ago • 187 comments

I remain fascinated by the expanded child tax credit case study & the implications for leftist policymaking. People received REAL financial benefit from it. It drastically cut child poverty rates and it was rescinded without a real fight. I think about this at least once a week.

submitted 23 days ago • 202 comments

submitted 27 days ago • 8 comments

Why is it that so many of yalls initiative to give a singular fuck abt people being genocided is the imaginary future where white ppl get a reckoning. "When they kill all the x, we're next!" Cool. I don't need to be "next", peoples I'm unrelated to being annihilated is already destroying my brain

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

if they want to go back to the 1950s, we’re bringing the cuisine back to the 1950s too. you put me in the kitchen, I will spend 100% of my time in there finding how much horseradish and shrimp I can put in Jello before God personally comes down here to stop me.

submitted 34 days ago • 887 comments

If you're in Illinois, you're on Section 8, and your landlord tries to evict you because of the government funding freeze, email me at [email protected]. My cases are pay-whatever-you-can.

submitted 31 days ago • 179 comments

I don't really wanna see the first I came poem because we heard warnings from living and breathing trans people, immigrants, unions, disabled people, BIPOC people... If you need the poem now then like idk dude, all the people in the poem have been talking

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

If you aren’t following those who’ve been warning about everything that’s ultimately happened, then apparently you don’t like knowing the future🔮. I’ve been listening Imani 👏 @imanibarbarin.bsky.social

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

the venn diagram of stuff i think i will eat when i am meal planning vs stuff i want to eat at actual dinner time is two circles, separated by an infinite distance through time, space, and other dimensions whose qualities are so inconceivably foreign to us that we could not possible conceive of them

submitted 31 days ago • 23 comments

WE SHOULD BE ASKING THAT, YES.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

You want to be more involved in community care? Wear a mask. You want to be an ally for the most vulnerable like disabled people and people of color? Wear a mask. You talk about revolution but it means nothing if you’re not masking. By masking, you’re preventing death and disability.

submitted 35 days ago • 11 comments

1. Sabotage public institutions. 2. Claim they don’t work efficiently. 3. Eliminate them. — That’s the playbook.

submitted 36 days ago • 103 comments

https://youtu.be/0xTmeg-H4ac?si=NDRaZuPxBCeGRf3k PORT OF ENTRY: a short film "Inspired by the immersive theater experience by Albany Park Theater Project and Third Rail Projects. Created with appreciation and love for all the immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in our community."

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

This book sounds cool as shit:

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The point of the firehose of Executive Orders is to disorient and to demobilize. It's to instill maximum fear. If we know this, then that's already half the battle. This means that we have to respond with focus on those most vulnerable & targets. It means we have to refuse their attempt to scare us.

submitted 38 days ago • 80 comments