@samwall
Death doula, writer, CSWA, counselor, jackalope wrangler. Former Co-director at Scarleteen.com. I write about sex, death, and monsters. Hire me! https://morningstardeathdoula.com/ https://samwallcswa.my.canva.site/
i am not generally a "go through the hoops to write a comment I don't think will really be read" kind of guy, but for a plan THIS bad, by a guy I hate THIS much... I'll make the exception
i feel strongly that anyone that thinks that there is a nefarious cabal of surgeons and doctors Transing people should be forced to try and schedule one (1) transsexual procedure
"Calvino’s point... is that breaking down existing language, analyzing it and taxonomizing it, and then recombining it to form new stories—all this is fine for emails and things no one wants to read anyway, but it’s inherently regressive and misses what makes literature vibrant."
Incredible essay.
The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.
You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off.
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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free note to everyone: you can just say we shouldn’t be bombing Iran rather than pretending this would be fine if Trump explained himself better
abolish debate club and model UN and all such things. they don't teach persuasion or negotiation, they teach that foreign policy is a trolley problem so it's actually very mature and noble to sacrifice 100,000 strangers from a conference room but absolutely unacceptable to talk out of turn
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
of the two articles currently circulating about Sheri’s Ranch which feature Jupiter Jetson, this one is way more worth your time. there is a fascinating and important story in the unfolding workers’ rights movement in Nevada’s legal brothels that will resonate with anyone who’s been a contractor
But this isn’t just a regular account. Johnny MAGA appears to actually be a White House staffer named Garrett Wade who works for the Trump administration as a rapid response manager, helping to run the very same White House account his anonymous MAGA account amplifies. A phone number associated with Wade is linked to Johnny MAGA, according to a WIRED review of publicly available records, and the connection was confirmed by a source close to the White House. Wade and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.
The Johnny MAGA account was created in September 2021, according to its X profile. (It originally used a different handle, which referenced Wade’s birth year, according to records reviewed by WIRED.) While the account’s earliest available posts focused on NFTs, it has been a consistent pro-Trump presence since at least 2022. The operator of the Johnny MAGA account has not disclosed an official relationship with the White House while operating the Johnny MAGA X account. Multiple media outlets, including Mother Jones, TownHall, and the New York Post, have all linked out to posts on the Johnny MAGA account seemingly as organic reflections of public sentiment on political issues.
This is very good reporting that sheds light on just how small the extremely pro-Trump online right really is. The online right is totally astroturfed. The White House's own staffers are running meme accounts to make them look more popular than they are. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...
9. The American Psychological Association's reaffirmation of its support for transgender youth health care is significant. Many readers of Singal were left with the wrong impression, and this latest story is yet more proof that the NYT and Singal continue to try to manufacture doubt on trans care.
The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news.
These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.
I lived across the street from a middle school in LA. The only danger I was ever in was to my eardrums, because tween girls scream at a pitch that hurts. They’re kids, these cops are in riot gear around children exercising their rights.
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"for sale: baby shoes, never worn" is officially deprecated
the new six word tragedy is "i only use it for summaries"
need a rent fund to give to? here is a good one!
Having to deal with or find work-arounds for:
+ Piracy.
+ Doxxing.
+ Online censorship.
+ Banking discrimination.
+ High payment processing fees.
+ TOS exclusions with almost every service.
+ Age Verification laws that deter the few customers who respect erotic labour enough to pay for their porn.
Keep Minnesota Housed! Much of the medía has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction. Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds! #keepMNhoused
Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation.
Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.
🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social
Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson
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always push back
Vegetable still life with rabbit by Johann Georg Seitz (1810-1870)
One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.
It only took me a month, but I finally made a volunteer page on Stand With Minnesota. Because we are about to need a lot of freaking volunteers. Help us keep Minnesota housed!
Every day it becomes clearer that capitulation (Columbia, Perkins Coie, etc) was the wrong strategy
For Valentines Day, I did a "Doomed Love" episode of Strange and Unusual. You can listen at the archives by selecting "strange and unusual" from the show list. 🥀🖤
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I really think the whole notion of “bearing witness” has gotten deeply twisted
“Witness” does not mean merely to observe firsthand. It means to carry truth and to testify to that truth in the pursuit of justice
You don’t need to traumatize yourself in order to know that atrocities are happening
I’m allowed to post this today
A colleague at a previous job whose work involved handling reports of CSAM material and getting them taken down accidentally opened one of the images in question. He immediately closed the image, turned off his computer, handed it over to IT to be wiped, and reported the incident.