The Emerald Daisy

No executive order can truly erase LGBTQIA+ people. We’ve always been here. The sweeping executive orders are supposed to make us feel hopeless. I refuse to let them.

No executive order can truly erase LGBTQIA+ people. We’ve always been here👇

www.wearequeeraf.com/no-executive...

Line drawing in cartoon style. A little rabbit, looking extremely satisfied with itself, holds a slice of bread in its mouth. Caption: ‘Rabbits steal toast.’

Comic by my husband. Don’t know why I love this one do much but I really do.

Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"

OpenAI right now

📢 EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT LAW

👏DO 👏 NOT 👏 COMPLY 👏 IN ADVANCE 👏

This is the number one thing you can do to support trans people and to stop Trump.

Call it what it is 👇

#ResistTrump

NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.

OPM has literally been taken over by Project 2025, the Heritage Foundations, and the Hickman Family Foundation.

These are the true organizations and people behind ALL OF THIS.

Jan 27th. Pun Calendar.

"There was a recent study that tried to pinpoint the effect that alcohol had on walking.

The results were staggering."

Hehehehehe. 9/10 shots.

My Gen X siblings: "Why don't you have Facebook Messenger on your phone? That's how everyone communicates!"

Me: "Why don't you have Discord on your phone? That's how everyone communicates!"

For reals though, screw Meta.

#meta #messenger #discord #facebook #millennial

Six block-printed patches on different colors and patterns of fabric. The patches read “do not obey in advance” in hand drawn type.

I made some block print patches. Trying to craft my anxiety into a more productive activity than doomscrolling.

Cryptocurrency Might be a Path to Authoritarianism Extreme libertarians built blockchain to decentralize government and corporate power. It could consolidate their control instead.

That time when I wrote this seven and one half years ago

You fuckers are sleeping on Jupiter’s moons. I don’t want to ever hear one more person whine about Pluto if they can’t tell me a single fact about the in-every-way-superior Ganymede.

Federal Judge John Coughenour, appointed by Ronald Reagan: "This is a blatantly unconstitutional order. Frankly, I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar would state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order. It just boggles my mind."

America is now in the third frame

The Anti-Defamation League Is Finally Sick of Elon Musk's Nazi Jokes After defending Musk against allegations of making a Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration, the Anti-Defamation League criticizes his Holocaust puns.

The ADL can excuse a Nazi salute, but they draw the line at Goebbels puns:

I expect that the new normal will be starting work everyday already exhausted by having to process a fresh onslaught of previously unthinkable news.

I am going to have to figure out a way to compartmentalize so I can function.

With ICE raids already starting, remember this when you get asked if you've seen anyone they're looking for,

NO
I don't remember
I haven't seen anyone
I don't know
Fuck off

Ok, maybe not the last one, but erase your memory

Be an ally

Jan 23rd Pun Calendar

"I gave all my dead batteries away… they were free of charge!"

Another double pun, we appreciate. Points docked for the crime of giving away dead batteries. 30/45 AAAs.

The Roman Republic fell to division and civil war, which was replaced by the Roman Empire, the beginning of the end of Rome.

History is crazy and definitely has no relevance in the modern age /s

3) The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

This short story is a very powerful message about complacency and active versus passive exploitation. I read it several times a year.

I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by Coke Zero and snacks

Tip from @snowjob.bsky.social

If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov"

The national archives is still doing its job for now.

i’m so tired but i’ve got obligations 😩

this week got me like

What does "Radical Leftism" look like? Let's ask @theletterhack.bsky.social and Harvey Kaye.

2) A Fortune For Your Disaster
When I read this poetry collection something in my mind shifted and clicked into place. This was the book that managed to override my white guilt and I am much bettdr for it. I think about the poems “How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This” a lot.

Media that ultimately radicalized me

1) Esperenza Rising
I read this book for the first time in fifth grade and I think about it regularly. This is an excellent book for young readers and in general, and it went a long way for planting the seeds of empathy for immigrants in my mind.