Amelia Hannah (she/her)

There’s something wrong and extremely defeating about listening to Carmelita on my way to my government job that’s rapidly loosing funding

Licking my salt lamp like a horse with a salt lick

The government only listens to two things: money and violence, and they made sure the working class doesn’t have the money

Girl Dinner

Seen a sticker that says “Jesus is my savior, and Trump is my president” which if you think about it is the exact opposite of “no gods, no masters”

Governor of KY

Do people in Germany really eat these peanut puffs from Aldi or is Aldi just lying to me?

Siamese medium hair cat with its eyes open

Siamese medium hair cat with its eyes closed. It looks goofy.

This is bean, tell her hi 💕

My friend told me once, there’s a Russian saying that roughly translates to: “in the right hands even a dick can become a balalaika”

I love when a woman works at valvoline

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

Nothing makes you feel more batshit bonkers than trying to explain the plot of back to the future

“Oh no the coverage won’t change since we switched from BCBS to Aetna”

BCBS: covered everything like they’re supposed to

Aetna: automatically denies every single claim and you have to call them 50 fucking times

but, they do a good job at with DSOHCF and I don’t think that people with IDD, physical disabilities, and complex medical conditions, deserve to lose their care and quality of life. Because that’s what’s going to go, not the people who do the fucked up stuff that should be held accountable.

I’m not saying they shouldn’t be held accountable and that people responsible shouldn’t be fired. When they cut money those aren’t the people who are going to go. They already just lost 100 million dollars for mental health and substance use services. NCDHHS isn’t great -

I think NCDHHS has a lot of room for improvement, but the services it provides now shouldn’t lose funding so that they disappear. It doesn’t help that there seems to be a war on public health and NC has a lot of health deserts.

Why did DHHS send an email at 10pm to inform us we are loosing 100 million dollars in grants for mental health and substance abuse services. I hate it here

Orange and silver glass turkey tail shelves radiate from the end of broken branch, green algae paints their bases, and the last of the winter snow melts underneath. lol photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

I don’t mean to only come here to complain. I am trying really hard to implement positive community change and organize for people in my community, but how do I stave off depression when everything about my life is under attack and the world around me is (literally) on fire.

Finally standing up for myself by telling my uncle every disgusting thing he ever did to me and blocking him out of my life was one of the best things I did for myself. But now my grandfather is dying and I am not welcome in Alaska because he controls every aspect of the situation.

Be There For You…🌺

We literally just had the deadliest hurricane since Katrina 6 months ago and now have a red flag alert when we live in a temperate rainforest in the mountains and people will still deny we’re killing the planet

I wrote this letter mostly about my concerns of NCDHHS losing funding and wanting to know what will happen to the people I serve. I did mention federal employees, but clearly congress doesn’t really read nor care

Since we’re gonna start acting like Russia, I expect gifts for international women’s day

REMINDER: In 2 days, THIS Friday, February 28. NOT 1 PENNY SPENT. We can DO this.

I'm IN, are YOU?

Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

Considering logging back on X so that I can bully Elon Musk until he deactivates my account.

Screengrab from the NYT: So, putting work aside, one could reasonably feel a sense of moral injury just as a result of living in the world right now. We can change our work situation, or at least try, but changing the bigger problems is beyond our scope. Any advice for how to get through that feeling? A nice softball question! There are three ideas that come to mind. One is a quote from the amazing Mariame Kaba, who says, “Hope is a discipline.” She argues that hope is not this nebulous, airy thing. It is a practice that you cultivate through active effort. I think of a line by the great and late global-health advocate Paul Farmer, who said that he “fought the long defeat.” By which he meant that he was often swimming against forces that were extremely powerful, and he knew that he was going to suffer defeats and setbacks, and that he was going to fight nonetheless. Then the third one is an idea called the Stockdale paradox, which was named after Vice Adm. James Stockdale, who was a prisoner of war. When he was finally released, after a long time in captivity, he was asked how he managed to survive what he endured, and he talked about how he made it because he was able to hold two seemingly contradictory ideas in his head at the same time. One was the full and brutal realization of his situation, combined with the indomitable hope that things could get better. These three ideas anchor me in these moments when it feels like the gulf between what we hope the world should be and what it actually is seems vast and growing. That gulf is agonizingly difficult to bear, but we bear it nonetheless.

Read this.

Prediction: the Nаzi salute will become common within 2 years. RWers will half-аss it for plausible deniability, memeify the backlash, then start fully doing it "as a joke" "to troll the libs" "for being hysterical enough to think we were doing it in the first place"

I think about one time at the beach my husband met a group of British dudes. He told them we were from the mountains, and then he told them I was mostly Welsh, and they looked at me like I spit in their face 💀