Jess (they/them)

It’s hard to make friends as adults and even harder if you’re truly living out leftist, antifascist values by wearing an n95 in public.

But I just made two new friends by semi-shouting, “Look at these masked baddies!!” at two strangers across the street while we were all wearing 3M auras.

GREEN DAY / #riotfest

The teenage me would say YES!

The view up the side of the US Steel Tower, a metal skyscraper, with the undersides of the letters UPMC at the top, against a blue sky.

Well as part of the die-in I was laying on the ground looking up at this view as they beat the drum 375 times for each of the 375 patients being forcibly detransitioned by UPMC’s decision to end gender-affirming care for minors and 18-year-olds. So I might need a drink now.

Pride month will continue through the rest of the year until morale improves

i'm pretty sure the political lesson from Iraq is that we can say we're against war and march around with signs all we want but until we build a mass movement capable of directly interfering with the US imperialist project, our tax dollars are going to keep being used for massacre & subjugation

Goose yelling meme: How did the Iranian regime come to power? HOW DID IT COME TO POWER, CIA?

🪿

at least toby keith is dead this time

on this st patricks day, a plea for irish americans to remember that the thing we have to be proud of is 800 years of anti-colonial resistance, not green beer.

Hundreds of Protesters march downtown on President's Day Several hundreds of people gathered outside of the William S. Moorhead Federal Building this afternoon to protest apart of the national 50501 demonstrations on President's Day. Protesters marched down...

Hundreds gathered outside of the William S. Moorhead Federal Building this afternoon to protest apart of the national 50501 “No King’s Day” demonstrations on President’s Day:

#Pittsburgh
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I'll explain the gap in my resume if you explain the gap in your workforce

Take it from a person who grew up with a narcissistic mother: resistance isn’t entirely combat. Resistance is also: avoiding low-hanging fruit; doing things they didn’t want you to do; deciding your future even if it’s unpopular; choosing actions that give you your own self-respect; finding healthy sources of information outside of them; being successful even when the odds are stacked against you; finding acceptance from people they didn’t want you to know existed; fighting FOR happiness instead of fighting them - which keeps you IN unhappiness. And leading others to see that false choices created by toxic people only perpetuate their control of you. And that isn’t resistance.

On this Jan 6th, take it from a person who grew up with a narcissistic mother: RESISTANCE isn't always combat.

Resistance is also choosing actions that give you your own self-respect. Finding healthy sources of information outside of them.

& fighting FOR your own ideals, instead of fighting them.

David Lynch spent the last portion of his life in isolation. He said it was due to being high-risk and unable to risk getting COVID.

He’s not the only person with disability or illness who’s been left behind.

Everywhere you go without an n95 is a place you’ve decided disabled people don’t belong.

Welp Instagram thinks this post is misinformation. In case that's not Meta enough 🤣

Mass produced products could never compare. Being more intentional about where I spend my money and supporting small artists is one of the ways 2024 WAS a good year

Wildfire climate connection Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.

Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:

www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

$1,131,794,901

That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.

Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.

Whattttttt. How are they this cartoonishly evil

A New Form of Slavery? Meet Incarcerated Firefighters Battling California’s Wildfires for $1 an Hour We go behind the scenes of California’s raging climate-fueled wildfires with the hidden men and women on the front lines of the state’s ever-growing fire season: prisoner firefighters. Of the 13,000 f...

A New Form of Slavery? Meet Incarcerated Firefighters Battling California’s Wildfires for $1 an Hour (from 2018)

Window has what looks like drops of rain but are actually frozen ice beads

Temperature dropped so fast the rain on my windshield froze 😮 (we were parked for this, just so you know)

Picture of a cake with swirled blue pink and purple icing with a fluffy buttercream icing border and sugar heart decorations

Birthday cake from the work besties, HBD to me!!!

May your birthday wishes come true!!!! I knew we had the same sign ♐ but I forgot how close our birthdays are!!! (Mine is in 2 hours).

Nighttime photo of light snowfall in yard with a tree also covered in snow

Happy December! #snow

Sunset view from a curve in the road. Light sky blue at top of sky fading to a vibrant bright pink

Sunset walk