@destinysugarbuns
She/her. Sex worker, survivor, autistic, adopted. Historian and writer. Profile ID: Photo of path between trees and flowers & text reading, "We are the wayside / community is a journey." Header ID: "Ever-masker" over collage of words like "ever-reader,"
Iran's government is more hardline, its people are poorer and more isolated, the region's on fire, and the global economy feels like its about to go into shock
If you want to know why people wanted to avoid war with Iran for so long, you're finding out in real time
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Also while I was fighting despair by sorting laundry and watering plants I want to say Happy International Women's Day to the women and especially the women who are in the closet about that
It's your day! Even if it's a secret
Even if you are 100% convinced that Democracy is already dead and our votes won't count...
PLEASE VOTE ANYWAY!
I'm begging everyone. There is a critical mass of voter turnout that will be too big to fix.
Please vote, no matter how bleak it seems.
A friend tells me a 2-bedroom apartment they looked at in Cambridge, MA is 6800/month. I’m sure to move would also require first, last, and security ($20,400). That doesn’t cover moving costs.
Who is affording this? Who can afford this?
• Veterans who were discharged from the uniformed services due to sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. - They do not need to live in Washington. - They do not need to enter school within a certain amount of time after separating from the military. - They maintain resident student status as long as they stay continuously enrolled. - Does not apply to veterans who have a dishonorable discharge from the uniformed services.
TIL that military service members who were discharged for their sexual orientation or gender identity qualify for in-state tuition rates in Washington regardless of their residency!
wsac.wa.gov/student-resi...
Parents, pls tell your autistic kids they are autistic: "You may think that an autistic child won’t notice they are different than their non-autistic peers; I have not met one autistic person (me included) who hasn’t noticed their difference early in life."
thinkingautismguide.com/2017/02/pare...
How many of the people screaming about how anti-vaccination parents should be tarred and feathered mask during surges in COVID? Or when they’re around vulnerable people?
Asking as someone whose mother passed away of Covid complications likely from infections contracted by unmasked visitors.
It's interesting how she starts by saying the news was on. She says she understands / doesn't blame them, but she made it part of her story of being uncomfortable. Clearly she knows the shitty things happening on the news are tied to her vote. She was uncomfortable before they even asked her.
Yikes
what clarification?
idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet
Graphic for March 8th International Women’s Day. The Long Covid SOS logo appears at the top in awareness day colours. Beneath it, “March 8th International Women’s Day” in teal and underneath in a lighter teal shade “Women living with Long Covid and other invisible illnesses deserve to be heard, believed and supported” “No more gaslighting” in orange italics. At the bottom the image shows layered silhouettes of diverse women in profile, in different colours and hairstyles to represent solidarity and shared experience. A faint lifering motif from the Long Covid SOS logo forms the background. And at the bottom left text reads “#IWD2026”
Women are too often dismissed when it comes to their health told it’s “anxiety”, “your age” or “all tests are normal”
#LongCovid is following a pattern many women already know. Women living with Long Covid deserve to be heard, believed and supported.
#IWD2026 #NoMoreGaslighting
Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.
1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...
![Screen shot of Blue Sky Post by the account Cats of Yore, quoting an anonymous message. The quoted message reads, "The participation trophy generation needs to grow a fucking backbone. The world doesn't cater to you. I don't owe you shit.
There is zero reason I should worsen my own health because of your virtue signaling. Don't like no alt text? Add some and stfu.." Cats of Yore's Quote-Post reads, "I was tagged into an exchange where a 'resistance' account had this to say to someone politely asking them to add ALT text to their images. Framing accessibility like people with disabilities are merely a bunch of whiny, entitled pussies is certainly a... choice.." [Frowning Emoji.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wedzpdnvjevwyjrk57qrpjiy/bafkreiddkbadyzkbhm2y5qpahx45pllh3lerrq66i73b7cvah5odn7ekfa)
Screen shot of Blue Sky Post by the account Cats of Yore, quoting an anonymous message. The quoted message reads, "The participation trophy generation needs to grow a fucking backbone. The world doesn't cater to you. I don't owe you shit. There is zero reason I should worsen my own health because of your virtue signaling. Don't like no alt text? Add some and stfu.." Cats of Yore's Quote-Post reads, "I was tagged into an exchange where a 'resistance' account had this to say to someone politely asking them to add ALT text to their images. Framing accessibility like people with disabilities are merely a bunch of whiny, entitled pussies is certainly a... choice.." [Frowning Emoji.]
Using "pussies" as shorthand for "weakling" is also a fucking choice
A federal judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return or replace property taken from unlawfully arrested ICE detainees and released without their belongings, giving the government 30 days to comply.
I wonder how many people realize this is the norm.
“Households containing an adult w/a work-disability require, on average…an additional $17,690/year…to obtain the same standard of living as a comparable household w/o a member w/a disability.”
www.nationaldisabilityinstitute.org/reports/extr...
Do younger people know about the huge effort that was put into decreasing the % of smokers. Education campaigns in print, on TV, in schools, new restrictions/enforcement, labeling, a soupçon of public shaming, changes in how smoking was depicted, etc. Might guide us in anti-anti-vax efforts.
(Polio. It's polio)
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
about preserving life.
always be pro-life in my book, regardless of when life begins, because terminating pregnancy is the lowest threshold of force necessary to remove the risk that pregnancy poses to every pregnant person's life. It doesn't require dehumanization because it's not about punishing evil-doers. It's just
To me the difference is that self-defense isn't about hurting anyone, it's about removing an active threat to life. It's self-limiting in that it can only sanction the degree of force necessary to remove the risk. If any other paths to security exist, war can't be called defensive. But abortion will
"It is a quick and easy slide from you did something horrible to you’re not a real person to the world would be better without you in it."
There’s an Indian journalist in Israel right now reporting in Hindi about how bomb shelters in Israel will allow even the pets of Jews in but will not open its doors to the Indian workers our shithole government sent in droves to make up for genocided Palestinian labor. Apartheid regime.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:
You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.
We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Just listening to abc radio news.
Apparently the algorithm determining disability support is not working. It’s denying high level support to people that can’t breathe without assistance.
Wot. A. Surprise.
#Robodebt
