short king moon ☾

the bizarre dysphoria i get sometimes when i see someone else with my deadname is so strange. like, that’s literally not even me, so why do i feel like cringing away just from seeing it?

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

creating a new category of asexuality, cicadasexual, which is when you emerge like once a decade from underground relentlessly horny and screaming about it

10:30am: "Brevard County Sheriff Sheriff Wayne Ivey: "If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at, because we will kill you graveyard dead." 10:49am: law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

Jesus.

The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

Any person in uniform wearing a mask and refusing to be properly and reliably identified should be assumed to be the same kind of murderer we’ve seen in Minnesota.

To me, casually mentioning that you use chatGPT is like casually mentioning that you had Chick-fil-A for lunch or shop at Hobby Lobby- I will just low key mentally dismiss anything you have to say forever.

So this week we’ve had a man impersonating an ICE agent tie up a woman and steal $1000; a man impersonating a police officer assassinate a top Democratic politician & her husband (and shoot another Democrat & his wife); and a man impersonating a king hold a military parade for his birthday

Americas big naturals

they’ve never forgiven me for growing so tall (5’1)

a square drawing in white lines on a dark purple blue background, made of symmetrical geometric sections, embellished with curved and straight lines, small dots, and teardrop shapes. the diamond-shaped center is balanced by squarish sections in the corners, and a jewelry box shape nestled in the space in between

i really like doing these symmetrical geometric designs a lot, figuring out how to fill the space and balance the sections from the corners and the center. i tried to challenge myself a little with weird shapes and more detail, and i think it turned out well. i’m calling it Guarded

they’re going to try to start conversion therapy to double prong attack children that are autistic and transgender and it’s going to traumatize a new generation of kids in a way we aren’t ready for

a dead tree that has seeming arms

Maestra conducts the forest orchestra...

"We'll give you AI friends!"

"The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With!" The HHGTTG defines the marketing division of the SCC as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes”"

my favorite thing about tricksters is they’re also often very difficult or impossible to truly kill, which means that when the godly war of the apocalypse comes, the only ones left in the end will be the Impossibly Powerful Chaos Gremlins and their Eternal Shenanigans

if you lived through the lead up to the iraq war then you know that this is the most delusional thing anyone has ever said

On top of everything, we should be deeply troubled by the government’s arbitrary designation of someone as a terrorist without providing any evidence in public (and then backing it up by citing El Salvador’s president’s arbitrary designation of him as a terrorist)

it’s “cause we say it it’s true”

These are not detainments—they are kidnappings.

These are not deportations—they are human trafficking.

These are not detention centers—they are concentration camps.

Language matters.

This is fascism.

We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

Color photo of a white lily blossom, overlaid with a black skull and cross bones and text that reads “no lilies for kitties”.

It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

I wish this was mentioned more often in news reports & on bsky:

The most famous act of defiance by a president against the Supreme Court was when Andrew Jackson forcibly removed thousands of Indigenous people, a murderous display now known as the Trail of Tears

www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/par...

It is legally impossible to deport citizens. This is not deportation. Removing citizens to foreign prisons, knowing to a certainty that they will be subjected to treatment that violates the U.S. constitution, doesn’t deserve any label that connotes legal legitimacy.

One of the reasons Obama reneging on his promise to close it drove a wedge between a much younger me and the Democratic Party.

It was - is - so obviously evil, so obviously unethical, so obviously illegal, so obviously wrong. It's a violation of every principle we claim as a nation.

Be the adult that you needed when you were a child

There was a moral imperative to close Guantanamo bay and when it didn’t happen it paved the way for this

i’ll take a card! whichever deck feels right 🩷

The reason people are more upset at Target than they are Walmart or Amazon is because Target went out of their way to make people to think they cared about and supported diversity and inclusion.

They made a business decision, and so did we.

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague

“The idea that caring about others could end civilization may seem extreme, but it comes amid a growing wave of opposition to empathy from across the American right.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...