Call me Mat

This is a big and significant win, and speaks to the real power of public advocacy campaigns. Still a VERY long way to go in the fight against the cuts, though. Join us at @tbfighters.org in pushing against attempts to cut U.S. investments in domestic and global health.

My doctor asked me at my latest appointment if I’d heard of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome before and I had a bit but didn’t think it applied because my elbows and wrists are normal but she just looked at me and my skin and my dislocatable fingers and went
“I think you should at least look into it.”
So.

Had to explain to someone recently the reason I ‘didn’t care when Obama did it’ is because I was 9 when he was elected.

I got a promotion at work and to celebrate spent way too much money on the deluxe edition of bg3 because I refuse to buy digital only games. I am so excited to get it tho

Currently imagining a hat that says ‘caves want me, snails fear me’

It’s finally here! Im posting my #cyhainobang2025 fic today! First two chaps are up, with the rest on the way!
Huge thank you to the mods @cyhainobang.bsky.social for organizing and to @flawedideal.bsky.social for their art!

archiveofourown.org/works/667766...

So happy to finally be able to show you guys the fic and the art Dylan made! #cyhainobang2025

I drew art for the @cyhainobang.bsky.social in a fun collab with writer @sauerpeach.bsky.social and artist @regnniar.bsky.social, featuring Aranara shenanigans!!!

"Rooting for You!" fic by Sebbie
🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/67081012

#CyhainoBang2025 #cytham #haino

Cyno smiled, shaking his head in chagrin and retrieving Alhaitham's cloak from its place on the coat rack in the corner. He held it out and Alhaitham put his arms through the armholes, letting it settle over both shoulders for once. "Would you like to walk home with me?" Alhaitham asked, putting a few things from his desk into his belt pouch, "I can't think of anything specific to talk about but I am told that friends shouldn't only see each other at work. I have been doing poorly at this." "Well," Cyno began, following Alhaitham out of the office. "I did have another, not-work-related question." "What is it?" "Why are you so big? I've seen pictures, in your house, of your Grandmother and your father when he was young. Both of them seemed to be closer to my height than yours. How did you get so tall?" Cyno asked, teasingly, but in a very serious voice. Cyno said everything in a very serious voice. Alhaitham, for the first time since Cyno had known him, laughed. Cyno thought it might be his new favorite sound.

Another sneak peek for my #CyhainoBang2025 fic entry! Coming to an Archiveofourown near you July 7!
#cyhaino #cytham #haino #alhaitham #cyno #fanfic @cyhainobang.bsky.social

So Alhaitham has friends now, in Nilou and Tighnari, and a famous mercenary from the desert that Kaveh had yet to meet himself, and the strange man with the strange hat that now worked as Lord Kusanali's secretary of sorts. And then there was Cyno. Cyno, who, as far as Kaveh knew, had never been impressed with anything; once called Alhaitham's combat skills 'commendable for a scholar. Cyno, who, at Lambad's, now rambled in a manner of subdued excitement about an exchange of word play that 'should have been expected from the brightest of Haravatat'. Cyno, who Alhaitham let reset his shoulder when it dislocated after an incident that was not Kaveh's fault led to him falling over a railing on the tree of wisdom. Cyno, who Alhaitham loaned his headset to when a head injury gave the General Mahamatra an unexpected migraine. Kaveh didn't know what to make of it.

This makes my first time participating in a bang!
Here’s a sneak peek of the fic I wrote for the #CyhainoBang2025! @cyhainobang.bsky.social

Made a therapy appointment and I’m already anxious about it what if I don’t know what to say and then I don’t work on the things I actually need to and then waste all my time.
As you can see, this appointment is overdue.

I should definitely go back to therapy because holy fuck the world is on fire but I don’t know if I have the energy to do it 😭

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump ) with the text: 'We should spend less time worrying about Putin, and more time worrying about migrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, and people from mental institutions entering our Country - So that we don’t end up like Europe!'

Says the man who just admitted the Tate bros to the U.S.

It seemed like a movie that would be… fine? Like if I was in a waiting room somewhere and it was on, I’d watch it but I didn’t feel like seeking it out myself

Frozen 😬

“Everyone was so overly earnest ahead of the ban. It’s going to be so embarrassing now.”

Fuck no. Break open the earnest floodgates. We’re about to enter a cold, cruel four years. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Insist on warmth and softness.

Just stop me if I read poem aloud or something.

Say what you want about TikTok but when I was sad that I couldn’t dye my hair blue back in 2020, hundreds of people duetted to show me videos of their cool hair colors so I could enjoy it vicariously through others. Someone I didn’t know drew art of me with pastel blue hair. I’m gonna miss it.

Honestly, I really enjoyed the videos where you showed us cool stuff you found at the thrift store and talked about your day. It felt like FaceTiming a friend. I like watching people do things that make them happy so whatever you decide to do next, I’m down for it.

Democrats really out here looking like Wile E. Coyote repeatedly blowing themselves up in absurd and expensive efforts to outsmart a goofy ass bird.

I got to drink a delicious peach assam tea from the Korean market a town over! It was so good I wish I could go more often to buy it again

They obeyed in advance…AGAIN!

The Washington Post killed off its "Democracy Dies In Darkness" slogan.

New slogan: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”

That’s schroedingers tea ☕️☕️☕️

Okay I’ll see myself out now.

I have just enough drawing ability to amuse myself drawing a seductive tortilla but not enough ability to draw anything that matters. ADHD is a bitch when it comes to motivation re:learning new skills

if there's anything I've learned in 2024 it's this: leave comments on fanfic you like. I can't count the number of times someone told me I made their week by telling them I liked what they wrote. It feels good!