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The fact that you seem to think some inherent part of the process is the problem and not specific implementations is proving mine.

Right, b/c I never had classes with others. I wasn't at Spanish 2x/week with 8 other kids, PE with groups of 5 to 20, Biology/Chemistry in a class of five for high school, weekends playing w/ neighbors...🙄

It doesn't literally mean we stay home all the time. Please at least research it a bit more.

Not sure homeschooling is the thing to rail against. Obvs you have to have the requirements that the kids be tested yearly to make sure they're actually learning. But I was homeschooled and ended up with a more comprehensive education than most of my public school peers. Problem is quality varies.

Oh no! You're getting treated the way you treated everyone else? How sad for you! Now piss off!

#HazbinHotel is fantastic, because it lets me unironically say stuff like "'Piss' is one of the best love songs I've heard in quite a while".

The shape of the flock reminds me of a zeppelin.

A Hindenbird, if you will.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

I believe I speak for most if not all trans people when I say...

I am so god damn tired right now, Jesus Christ I'm tired, can you ghouls not give it a rest for 5 god damn minutes? Give my head peace already, I've had to put up with so much relentless hate for my entire god damn life, give it up.

You could not run a kingdom in that world that just abandons people to starvation or death simply because they're disabled, even if that prevents them from doing their primary job. Humans simply don't fuck that fast (& mostly 1 kid per bonk) and it takes over a decade to get someone who can do work.

And likely financed by the kingdoms that employ the artificers that make them.

Forgotten Realms are *terrifying*. With ravenous monsters, hostile furniture, and scheming devils at every turn, the number of people missing at least a finger will trend towards 99% the longer they've been working.

Suuuuuure would be a shame if a maintenance guy accidentally dropped his can of mace into a ventilation intake and the top broke off.

findhelp.org

Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity

Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity

Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity

Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.

It aids fascism.

Christopher Columbus was scum.

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

the idea that trans rights have swung elections to republicans is a fiction made up by media and political elites (both conservative and liberal) who are personally transphobic and want transphobia to be politically popular so they no longer have to hide how disgusting they think trans people are

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

...Huh. Today I learned that Batman (originally published in 1939) is American Zorro (originally published in 1919).

Yeah, at this point my plan is just to make my death as costly for them as possible. Not much else I can do unless stuff gets a lot cheaper real fast, and that's not likely.

Given his lack of enthusiasm for trains, one might argue he didn't take enough. 🙃

Meme of Steve Rogers (Captain America) sitting backwards in a chair, captioned "So. You saved all your items till you needed them and now the game's over."

Not me doing this with every game, only to reach the credits and have Steve Rogers come have a talk with me about my 74 health potions, 35 elixirs, collection of 200+ assorted scrolls, 6 high-yield explosive charges, and 2 spare weapons of each weapon type...

Chart shows Detention Population, Among Those Arrested by ICE in the Interior, by Criminal Record. The chart shows three lines; Prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. From 2019 through September 2025, the largest group is people with criminal convictions, with much further down people with pending charges. But starting in January, those without criminal records spikes dramatically. In July it crossed pending charges and in the latest data it jumps above criminal convictions.

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.

As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:

"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting. The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The "known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson. So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself." 1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium. Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary. Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

More people should be talking about this.

if it's not end-to-end encrypted, it's public

"trans women aren't women" "Bruh, i'm so woman that being a man couldn't stop me from being a woman" Cameryn_Leah

Good morning Bluesky

"Gotta use the law to hurt the left" is definitely a fear reaction, yeah. Otherwise they'd be promising to do it themselves. It's different when it's the fash leaking on the floor, eh?

This was the promise of modern media licensing law. They told us we'd be able to license music for personal use and then listen on any of our personal devices. And then once we agreed to it, they turned around and demanded a repeat payment for each additional platform.

Yeah, I feel like we had a few options that could have been decent. Maybe not as progressive as we'd like but certainly better than... this.
Dems did themselves, and by extension the rest of us, dirty by deciding to cater to old money instead of real people.

Yep, pretty much. Allies, arms & ammo, defense and escape plans, supplies in a go-bag, and a secure 2nd location to retreat to. Voting isn't useless yet, but it's also not getting us out of this by itself, not by a long shot. Storm's here, time to weather it.