A.J. Ash

we've reached this weird point with masking and science that like sure I still don't know what's going on with my immune system and my own autoimmune disorder but I'm more masking because I don't want a disease that will ya know wipe out the immune memory and fuck with my T cells

Pictures of a pink sea anemone sitting on top of a hermit crab shell.

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

Crowd outside the U.S. Supreme Court with a raised hand holding American and rainbow pride flags.

Kim Davis who tried to get the #SupremeCourt to overturn same sex marriage now owes a gay couple $360k — Fabulous 🏳️‍🌈

Small-town murder mystery about a brooding film noir type who monologues about "their town" like they want to have sex with it, as one does, but instead of wanting to fuck the idea of Los Angeles or whatever they're horny and repressed for the concept of a village with a population of 3000 people.

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Average healthcare costs in the US:

Giving birth? $18,000

Cancer treatment? $150,000

One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.

That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.

Cost in Canada? $0.

Cost in the UK? $0.

Cost in Australia? $0.

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Good luck!

The bigger fight? Buddy, I die without health care and your pals in the Senate — none of whom will ever go without access to lifesaving medical care — told me they were gonna fight so my premiums don't go up 50%. And then they folded.

I feel like everything you need to know about our current political craptitude is evident in me packing a guillotine pendant for someone I know is a Quaker.

😆😆😆

Where do you seek advice?

1. friends & family
2. forbidden books
3. witches of the wildlands
4. deep wisdom of the Muppets

An up close and personal picture of a sleeping cat face. He’s a gray tabby with a white chin, a brown nose, and his tongue peeping out. He is also showing you all his teeth. Yes, that’s all of them.

anyway good night

honestly i think we should have the option to toss everybody out and start anew if the government won’t work properly for the people

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen

Thus do all traitors

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

I just received my food delivery that I was able to purchase because I RECEIVED my SNAP benefits today. I sobbed. I didn't expect that reaction. I cried for the relief of having access to food but it was ALSO for the 42M under so much stress and for the MILLIONS who have NOT received their benefits.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Millions of Americans went without a paycheque.

Millions more went without SNAP & endured the trauma of not knowing where their next meal would come from.

They suffered because healthcare is worth fighting for.

They rewarded the Dems with a blue wave and Schumer just ensured it was for nothing

Am reading EXORDIA by Seth Dickinson and came across this quote ripe for the moment:

"only weasels play trolley games. Heroes jump down there and start pulling people off the tracks. Heroes pass laws regulating better trolley brakes. That’s how you make a society."

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Oh god these craven motherfuckers

Photo of a beautiful, glossy shorthaired black cat with green eyes, standing on a velvety seasonal blanket with orange pumpkins on it.

This is Shadow May, a gorgeous girl I photographed at her foster home today. She is so sweet and available for adoption in Burlington, VT! www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...

I hope you have a nice night.
I also hope talking owls arrive carrying carafes of wine and you invite them to hang out in your rumpus room while the stars break the darkness with their ancient glow.

Deep down, don't we all want the same thing?
To be with someone who makes us feel safe and loved?
Someone who will help us run a tea shoppe & used bookstore in the old forest for witches, fairies, and the wild folk of the wood?

Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨

Imagine going to court demanding for the right to starve both your people and their children for no other reason beyond malice.

“I asked ChatGPT—“ yeah well I asked you to stop doing that and now we can’t be friends anymore

Not only are they still lacking congressional approval for these strikes, but Hegseth has barred department of defence employees from speaking to Congress about them.

It’s murder.