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in other news i have given up yet another weekend, for work, and am missing out on my tenth family activity for just this year, for work, and all i get in return is empty acknowledgments

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are looking up at the same spot in the ceiling. Green: Do we have a dead moth on the ceiling? Blue: No. It's alive. Green turns to look at Blue, whose eyes are still on the moth. Green: It's what? Blue: It sits in a different spot every morning. Both of the foxes return to looking up at the moth. Green: Should we do something about it? Now Blue turns to look at Green, who keeps staring at the moth. Blue: Make it pay rent? Green: I think it flinched.

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

cw: body stuff

me last night: i feel like i’m getting the flu

mom: well you have been under a tremendous amount of stress lately

this am: HELLO SUCKHA it’s me your period!!! did you forget cuz i didn’t!

all of this tracks, my period very much acts like the flu every fucking month

attended my 20 year high school reunion last night - what the what

Depression is like a very demanding improv partner. Yes, and… now you’re lying on the floor again.

a close up of a stuffed animal with big eyes and a red beak ALT: a close up of a stuffed animal with big eyes and a red beak

when you’re watching a true crime show & one of the subjects shares your name

It was the OH JESUS CHRIST, WHAT NOW?!! of times and the YOU’VE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME?! of times.

an hour later and i’ve succumbed but she’s abandoned me

JUST BECAUSE THE CLOWN CAR GOES VERY FAST DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN’T FULL OF CLOWNS

People have already forgotten that a number of the more prominent Ferguson protestors have been found dead. I don't go for conspiracy, our country has a LONG history of assasination.

More than 300 foreign students have had their student visas revoked in the three weeks "Catch and Revoke" has been in operation, the official said. There are 1.5 million student visa-holders nationwide.

We're paying attention to what, four prominent cases? But the State Department says there are another 296. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...

let me emphasize that Rumeysa Ozturk was HERE LEGALLY TO STUDY TEACHING. She co-authored one op-ed *a year ago* that criticized Tufts for not divesting from Israel financially. She was grabbed by a group of individuals who did not show a warrant and had no indication of being federal agents.

Notably missing: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia. Kind of mindblowing to me given what the substance of this letter is: "government should not retaliate against law firms"

Okay but REAL - the way Hexxus was animated and voiced in the number Toxic Love, erotic is a deeply accurate description. It's quite a feat to make an anthropomorphic cloud of noxious pollution sexy but they did that, I have such vivid childhood memories of it.

Very intrigued to see this lecture. 👀

THIS is what teachers worry about, what they do, not sex changes and indoctrination. We're just trying to keep children safe, loved, seen, and hopefully we get some reading and writing and adding and subtracting in there too. Teachers are in a fucking war zone.

once again, every accusation is a confession. republicans spent 15 years accusing democrats of winning elections by trading cash for votes. now, here we are.

Since we are discoursing about academics it’s also probably good for everyone to remember that academics are some of the *first* people that authoritarians target

Also feeling forced to leave your home country is hard because it is no longer safe for you is hard, not fun

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student

"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.

a small cream colored cat on top of a pile of blankets

she thinks she subtle curling up in my blanket pile & trying to entice me into napping

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue is hanging from a ceiling lamp, as Green sits below, looking up at him. Green: Alright, get down from there and let me see. Blue: No. Green: Just let me have a look and see if I can help. Blue: I will not. Green frowns in frustration. Green: You know, when you let people help you, you're doing them a favour as well. Blue closes his eyes, with a self-satisfied expression on his face. Blue: Well, you know me. Never been a people-pleaser.

A painting of a bird next to the words "who even asked for this shit"

I wish to fuck that (particularly) boomers didn’t think of politics like sports teams.

“Can’t we just all agree to disagree?”

No we cannot.

No I will not.

I am done explaining this to people who will not listen.

He deserves sunflowers ❤️
#911onABC #911abc #EvanBuckley #evanbuckley #OliverStark #911fanart #buck

For the Ides of March this year, we should all come together and embrace what the holiday is really about.

only sometimes!?! all times

Headline in New York Times: "Young Democrats' Anger Boils Over as Schumer Retreats on Shutdown"

It's certainly a decision to frame this as a "young people are mad" thing and not a "people who don’t want fascism are mad" thing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...