J. Lily Corbie 🦇

Frida Kahlo is a famous disabled artist. Her art explores her disability. When she had the accident that disabled her, she painted from her bed in her casts. Many artists in history have been disabled. Many are now. You will not find them fighting to have AI take their creative process from them.

The Republican Party’s treasonous war of racial purity waged against the civilian population of the United States continues.

This is torture.
This violence and its falsely touted "success" will be used to try to over turn "Conversion therapy" bans legislated in states.

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

A grey cat curled up in the middle of a folded fuzzy pastel rainbow blanket, sleeping the sleep of a boy who ended yet another trip to the vet, then played so hard with a new toy he almost destroyed it.

Celebratory nap.

I don't fold this blanket to be tidy. It's Laszlo's favorite nap spot if it's folded.

Laszlo has been in and out of the vet's so much in the last few months, and today was (please please please) the last time until June, so I got him a new toy to celebrate, and he played with it so hard that he's now out cold.

I wish he could understand tomorrow's pill is the last one.

I hate trying to find information about health conditions these days. According to this guy, I should immediately cut the following out of my diet: gluten, dairy, sugar, soy, iodized salt, caffeine, all processed foods, seed oils, and my favorite, some vegetables (not specified).

A fascinatingly widespread belief is that “the city” is some kind of passing fad and not, you know, one of the oldest ways of settled living.

My weirdest creation is almost old enough to drink.

These are just the ones bad enough that someone thought a child might die. This doesn't capture all the ordinary illnesses and misery, or even the measles cases.

The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

Frantically trying to get my house ready for company by...organizing the chaos closet in the library, a room my guests will totally, definitely see.

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

This is what I need cis folks to understand.

It's been a decade.

Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

I finally started listening to Malevolent. It's quite enjoyable. Like a point and click adventure game, but an audiodrama.

Turns out I have a coworker who got gout from the carnivore diet.

Pro tip: Your food will cook faster with the burner on.

She is right; the only people who need to be held responsible for this mess are the BBC and the BAFTAs organisers.

There are three victims in this who should have been supported by them at the time, but weren’t.

And demonising one minority to gain sympathy for the other minority is never the way.

OKAY I FINALLY FINISHED IT

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It's always surreal reading my doctor's notes on our appointments because that's somehow never the appointment I lived through. But somehow whatever she wants to make up is the official and reliable record.

I swear all the effort to demonize fat and carbs has caused incalculable harm.

Add in a general disdain for basic scientific literacy with a healthy dose of confirmation bias and... And stuff's bad.

Interesting how many influencers are pushing diets that will simultaneously give people scurvy and gout. Historically it's an interesting feat to combine a disease of malnutrition with the rich person's malady, but what a shame to spread so much suffering in the name of ignoring science.

Thank goodness America is the only country in the world

I went to the library sale yesterday, and I found a cookbook for people with a condition I just learned I have. This might be handy, I thought, until I flipped through it and it said I can't have tomatoes, peppers, or chili peppers, and I immediately put it back.

I did buy a curry cookbook, though.

ICE arrested me without cause. What I saw will haunt me forever. | Opinion One ICE agent, apparently referring to Renee Good, said, 'You guys gotta stop obstructing us — that's why that lesbian b---- is dead.'

Our constitutional rights haven't changed.

Despite what ICE may claim, we all have the right to record and document ICE activities in public. We're suing.

“A force numbering in the hundreds — several times larger than that initial deployment — is not a retreat. It is a tremendous enforcement footprint in a single metropolitan area, and a force capable of inflicting mass terror, carrying out targeted abductions, and sustaining a climate of fear.”

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

And I still don't know what's wrong with my left arm or why I can't use it.