E.J. Phipps

Big day for people who care about other people

(I'd love to talk at length about the town council election that I'm following, but it (the council) is honestly such a shitshow that I don't know where to start.)

4/3

Remember, gang, if you’re yelling insults at ICE, stick to things that will be deeply humiliating if they’re read aloud in court. Consider “Your parents only love you out of obligation, not because they like you,” “l bet you jerk off to the Teletubbies” and of course, the Yo Mama joke.

Meanwhile, 60% and 65% of students in our schools test below their grade level in math and reading (respectively).

Oh, and folks running for school board in past election cycles ran on the platform of kids learning cursive again.

So, yes, school board (and other local) elections matter.

3/3

School boards determine what teachers focus on.

My local board (which meets at like 10AM rather than at a time when parents and community members can attend), has a member who is concerned about how teachers dress and whether they're good role models.

2/3

If you're in the US, this is your reminder to vote today.

Even if it's "just" for your local school board or town council because those elections are so freaking important.

I don't have any local (to me) elections this year, but I'm watching a nearby town council election closely.

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.

How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

Screenshot of text, written by me, which reads: “A message to any early-career creatives, wondering if things have always been this tough: No. No they haven’t. I’ve been doing this for 30 yrs, through recessions, financial crashes, pandemics and wars. It has *NEVER* been this tough, not even close. But please, PLEASE keep going if you can. Your work has never been more needed or more important.”

My nine month old has been staring at her reflection and screaming in joy for the past five minutes.

As one does to celebrate their nine month birthday.

#Squirrel

Fuck content. I want stories and essays and videos and illustrations and photographs.

I've really hated the way "content" has become how society views art and have since it became the go-to way to describe any art on the internet.

Read the whole thread — this is the kind of energy we need.

"If we had a contingency fund."

You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded?
www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

BIG NEWS

Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity.

It’s not about the money, Trump just wants Americans to go hungry.

If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP.

A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.

I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.

"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.

Don't say the second when you mean the first.

Shades of blue and gray clouds across the sky. A golden horizon with sunbeam is partially blocked by immature pine trees. Foreground is grass.

I'm finding that being outside first thing in the morning does wonders for my mental health. And it doesn't hurt that I get some pretty gorgeous pictures of the sunrise.

Walmart employees? On SNAP. Junior US military personnel with families? On SNAP. Wherever workers are being underpaid, they are on SNAP.

American protest is getting more playful. That doesn’t mean we’re not serious | Cas Holman Play makes us more agile and resilient. Bring on the frog costumes and naked cyclists

American protest is getting more playful. That doesn’t mean we’re not serious | Cas Holman

If you see someone stealing groceries, no you didn’t

Welp, I absolutely just rage-wrote the first draft of something by hand.

Is it good? I dunno.

But damn did channeling that rage feel good.

#amwriting

This is insanely illegal and incredibly fucking dangerous.

I feel this so, so hard these days.

The dark romance girlies have every man fooled into thinking we all have an abusive stalker fantasy. No, baby. Use that bass in your voice to ask me about my day. 😂

Regardless of what exterior forces want you to believe, there is no such thing as overconsumption of reading and learning, especially in a time of rising anti-intellectualism. They've created the myth to try and ban books and defund public education.

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

The Epstein Ballroom it is

This paired with authors actually being paid reasonable amounts of money

Silver blue pittbull puppy staring at the camera with one ear inside out. She is wrapped in a fuzzy blue blanket and laying on a leather loveseat.

Hazel Basil says that this is her blanket now.

#pitties