Salty Octopus

This Election Day may seem unimportant because there are no “big” offices on the ballot but many states hold their nonpartisan municipal elections in off years. Races for city council, school boards, county judgeships are VITALLY important to the day to day functions of your community! Participate!

I was so put off by the racism I didn't stick around to hear the homophobia.

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

Always good to get another, just in case

If you're a mammal.

#TeamInvert > #TeamBiped

Saw some post somewhere earlier about people “not getting” transness or whatever

You don’t have to get it.

If you believe in bodily autonomy for all, then no one needs you to understand their personal situation to earn being seen as a person by you.

You just treat every human being as a person.

Love this. Some things do need more burying than others

They did.

I disagree strongly

Salty Human has had luck with doctors at lens crafters. They're independent but houses at the stores

Also, you should get your eyes checked every year anyway

*Tsk tsk*

The oubliette is for anything that you never need to think about again. Put that folder in a hole in the ground and cover the hole with dirt.

(Your results may vary. Multiple oubliettes may be required.)

Try this (info from an actual therapist on tiktok)

Imagine a drawer of file folders. Label the folders "tomorrow", "later this week", "next week," "next month", and "oubliette."

Take each argument out swirling thought and visualize putting it in the appropriate folder.

Definitely check with your eye doctor. It could be nothing or it could be your retina giving the sclera a trial separation.

Swiftie here 🐙

And those comments are well deserved. It's her weakest effort. It feels rushed. It sounds like rejected first drafts of other albums. The lyrics are pathetically shallow and obvious. The music is ... fine. In the worst way

About 125,000 transgender people are assaulted in the restroom every year.

No transgender woman has ever been convicted of assaulting a woman in a public restroom.

It's okay for the abyss to stare back, but does it have to wink?

That's just unseemly.

Good morning. For anyone that needs to hear this:

Boobytrap spelled backwards is partyboob.

Screenshot of part of compact: "Students shall be treated as individuals and not on the basis of their immutable characteristics, with due exceptions for sex-based privacy, safety, and fairness. Women’s equality requires single-sex spaces, such as bathrooms and locker rooms, and fair competition, such as in sports. Institutions commit to defining and otherwise interpreting “male,” “female,” “woman,” and “man” according to reproductive function and biological processes. Otherwise, immutable characteristics, particularly race, do not permit unequal treatment, including in grading as well as access to buildings, spaces, scholarships, programming, and other university resources."

'Women must be separate to be equal' is a hell of an argument. How long til they expand this "protection" to other "immutable characteristics"?

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

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No.

Just... Ugh!

Overheard in Cleveland:

"It's such a beautiful evening. Although the Guardians just lost."

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

A flier with a woodcock saying "psst". The text says "Did you know that I have a store? posters, tshirts, mugs & more" and there's an image of the digital storefront on Topatoco for Bird and Moon comics, including posters and a mug and tshirt.

Did you know I have a store? topatoco.com/collections/...
I sell prints of some of my most popular comics, plus tshirts, mugs, and more.

Heads up: Feed, by Mira "@seananmcguire.bsky.social" Grant is on US ebook sale for $2. I got some for random giveaway.

Hundreds of general officers making them walk off stage in total silence

Is total allegiance to the Constitution and pure gold

Taylor Alert - Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce flex with podcast bros Bussin with the Boys...after her surprise Nashville performance - Taylor Swift News Another moment from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s stay in Nashville this week has been...

It comes after this
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And hanging with some MAGAts. So ... Yeah

If Taylor isn't performing at the Super Bowl, then her saying "47" twice on the New Heights podcast was definitely winking support for Trump.

Gonna miss being a Swiftie, but we don't play with fascists

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

Buying a company by taking out a massive loan, then making the company you bought responsible for paying off that loan, is so patently evil that it should be beyond illegal. The kind of thing that inspires enlightened societies without corporal punishment to bring back the death penalty as a one-off