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It's ok to not feel ok.
It's ok if your antlers haven't grown in yet.
It's ok if you can't shape-shift into a raven.
It's ok if you haven't haunted the night for a while.
I know you're doing your best, and that's all any of us can do right now.

The women, gender, and sexuality student conference was today. I moderated a session and attended a few more. Also did exhibit tours for some attendees. I was able to connect several with related resources that fit their research interests, which I always enjoy.

Related: about to murder the big diesel truck owner running it outside my house. The sound/vibrations are juuuuuust the wrong pitch to make everything worse.

Skipped the evening event I was going to go to. Body made very clear that it was crash time and I could either be safely home or trying to make it through a micro opera.

Dear Heavenly Father, in this holy season of Lent we petition thee for just like a soupçon of schism energy to bring the vibes up around here. Please grant our blessed Pope the strength to excommunicate Vance and maybe a few other assholes for good measure. In the White Sox’ name we pray. Amen

Granted I haven't done any hardcore cleaning, but not a single chip, 5 days in.

Halfway through a wash cycle, just realized I didn't empty my jeans pockets. Thankfully, I think the only thing in there was business cards.

This. And some of the stuff Tudyk has said in the last year or two also raised my eyebrows (I'm not remembering exactly what off the top of my head).

a comic book panel of a meteor missing earth

TURN AROUND AND FINISH THE JOB YOU COWARD

This is Aly. She just learned about capitalism. Certainly not a perfect system, but if that is what it takes to put chippies on the table, she understands. 13/10 (IG: alythebichon)

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

Though the non-manual-labor grandpa WAS a Mason, so I am related to both kinds.

1 Inquiry for New York Times Good afternoon, My name is [REDACTED] and l am a reporter for the New York Times. I am researching how much money the Palestinian diaspora community has sent to support Gazan families since the war in Gaza began. Does your team track this figure? I really appreciate it. With gratitude, [REDACTED]

Palestine Diaspora Movement Hello [REDACTED] We do not collaborate with The New York Times. Your email asks about money sent to Gazan families "since the war in Gaza began." Let us first correct the premise. This is not a war. It is a genocide. Calling it a war is part of the problem. It obscures the reality of a colonized people being massacred by a military machine backed by the United States and defended, sanitized, and rhetorically softened by institutions like yours. The New York Times has spent far too long parroting Zionist propaganda and laundering Israeli state narratives while Palestinians bury their dead. That kind of coverage does not merely misinform. It helps create the political climate in which Palestinian slaughter becomes explainable, defensible, and forgettable. So no, we will not be sharing any figures, internal data, or community information with a paper that has so thoroughly damaged its credibility on Palestine. Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it. Do not contact us again for this purpose, The Palestine Diaspora Movement Team

“Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it”

lmaooo GET EM

Mason (stone and concrete, not Free)/general contractor. The other one was a lawyer but mostly worked in banks (there was family Drama so grandpa was only at the family firm for a year or two).

I know this pain. Last time I needed new frames I only had 2 or 3 options that fit, only one of which wasn't terrible on me. Pouts. Want pretties.

So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members.

So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company.

Shut it all down.

I really really feel this. We're hosting the Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibit right now, for which I'm solely responsible. Really wish this content wasn't so relatable because everything go boom.

Podcast Addict

A Tiger Electronics portable LCD game branded for The Flintstones movie. Featuring Rosie O'Donnell as Betty, Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma, Rick Moranis as Barney, and John Goodman as Fred. The system is purple with yellow accents. Nothing appears on the screen except the sparse background image.

We're being led by the Tiger Electronics portables of humanity. Everything is black and white, they have no music, and no matter how much you push the buttons, it doesn't feel like you can control a goddamned thing.

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

It’s interesting* how “competence” is gendered & used as a way to dump work on the “highly competent” committee member (often a woman).**

* Not interesting at all. Infuriating

** I’m sick of having to do all the things as chair of this v imp campus comm. I can’t even get anyone to take minutes

On one hand, headaches are my normal, so I'm good at dealing with them. On the other, goddammit yet another migraine, and, while I do have a box left, insurance is being a dick about my rescue med.

Out: Vote Blue No Matter Who

In: PRIMARY THAT FUCKER OR YOU'RE A SUCKER

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

Feeling generically yucky, dizzy and a bit nauseated. Maybe a low grade migraine. Since my work schedule was pretty empty, took a half day and will prob try to nap.

Absolutely agreed! I manage the queer resources library guide for my uni it is so angry-making how much stuff either just quietly disappears (everything queer for my university and the system) or goes the way of the resource you're using.

Ugh. Because of course. You've prob already thought of it, but perhaps a wayback machine capture of the site would work.

Marilyn Monroe on a subway grate:

YouTube video by Tom Paxton - Topic Peace Will Come (Live / 1988)

Got Peace Will Come stuck in my head for no reason at all. Absolutely none.

youtu.be/0byAA23_gP4?... #music

Thread of KS orgs to help.