memmek2k, She/Her

It's 2025. We don't even know the extent of the damage yet, but we know much of the damage can never be set right. The human rights abuses of migrants, the mass firings of civil servants, the deaths due to shuttering USAID, all tragedies beyond the ability of a 2028 Democrat to fix.

For me, it was because I was incredibly touch starved and burnt out and really just needed to be able to trust someone else to take care of me for a while. When I healed from that, my dominant side came out to play! Eventually I settled into being a switch, but I still really only sub for one person

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability This proposed rule would revise standards relating to past-due premium payments; exclude Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients from the definition of "lawfully present"; the evidentiary st...

And look what snuck in a proposed rule change for Affordable Care Act.👇

"...prohibit issuers of coverage subject to EHB [essential health benefits] requirements from providing coverage for sex-trait modification as an EHB."

Add a comment & say fuck no!

Make this viral!

H/T @scrappyaf.bsky.social

under current political pressures, Dem politicians are increasingly revealing who they really are: has a spine vs spineless. willing to stand up for LGBTQ+ ppl vs merely saying pro-gay-ish-sounding platitudes so long as it's politically convenient

With the news coming out that the Trump administration is still transferring trans women to men’s prisons despite court orders telling them not to, I’d like to share what happens to trans women in men’s prisons in this country.

But sure, keep telling the trans community that we’re overreacting.

An open Letter to Lars Krutak, tattoo researchers and academics, fellow Indigenous tattooers and community at large: Lars Krutak’s book "Tattoo Traditions of Asia" misrepresents Ryukyuan Hajichi tattoos, featuring appropriation by a non-Ryukyuan artist. The book ignores the genuine revival efforts by Indigenous Ryuk...

The Ryukyuan communities, especially the hajichaa who ink these tattoos, aren't very happy about the book's treatment of our culture.

14 hajichaa + 15 academics penned an open letter urging the author and/or publisher to make some necessary corrections:

luchustudygroup.wixsite.com/2022/post/op...

A book called "Tattoo Traditions in Asia" recently came out.

1 of the topics is the hajichi of the Ryukyu Islands. The author seems to have only spoken with a tattoo artist who's also not Ryukyuan.

Discussing an Indigenous tattoo practice without involving any Indigenous people is bullshit.

i keep banging this drum - now is the time to educate yourself on the concept of necrosecurity. the right wing believe mass deaths make THEM safer and society stronger.

understand this and you will understand RFK and what they will unleash on us.

Breaking: 10 NYT writers think trans rights are the least important and attacks on the trans community aren’t that bad.

Least surprising news ever.

Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the Year: Opening the door to a new era of HIV prevention A drug with a novel mechanism protects people against the AIDS virus for 6 months. It could speed the end of the epidemic—if those who need it most get access

Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted priority review status for lenacapavir, a promising new HIV prevention treatment available as a twice-yearly injection.

Lenacapavir has shown astonishing efficacy in two clinical trials, with 99.9% effectiveness in high-risk groups.

Push to preserve native Okinawan languages reaches Hawaii While the culture of Okinawa continues to thrive in Hawaii, the native language of the southern islands of Japan is on the verge of extinction.

Hell yes!

www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/02/26/p...

Why are Republican states trying to overturn a pillar of disability rights? They may not be successful in repealing Section 504 as part of the attack on treating gender dysphoria, but it begs the question of what they might come for next.

NEW: On Section 504. "Attacks on any one group will be used as a wedge to attack all of us. You may not personally know any trans people, and you may even be uncomfortable with the idea ... but letting this attack go forward will eventually hurt you and the things you love, too." /1

I live in the Midwest/south, it's four hours to visit any friends that don't live in my city and over 30 minutes to get to the other side of the city 😂😭

"the biggest city in Canada is bigger than most cities in the US"
"The biggest cities in the US are bigger than every city in Canada"
"The biggest city in MX is bigger than every other city on the continent"
You seem like you've got a big chip on your shoulder about Canada

LA has three times as many people as Toronto, what are you on about

That's only like an hour and a half away on the interstate tho

Here's a thread about how trans people can approach remaining informed of the news in a way that prioritizes pragmatism, self-care, and building resistance.

It's based on what I'm doing personally. So, fyi, I'm more anxious than usual, but holding up substantially.

Hold up.

Oh no is this how I realize I'm a narcissist? (I'm different, it's good and not stepping all over the song when *I* do it /s)

And if you do get good at it, everyone appreciates you for like the bare minimum effort

It's pretty great to be a bassist for hire ngl

The unanswerable question of modernity

the world may be bad but the mtg community raising over $300k dollars in 2 days for trans people is fucking incredible

@delaneynolan.bsky.social, who reported this story, points out that the $17.5 million spent on forcing these people into a freezing warehouse is the equivalent of *one year's rent* for 1,200 individuals.

Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.

The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

Most of the MSM: We don't want to risk losing access.

Wired: YOLO! We're going at this full send! *chugs a four pack of Redbull* So, here's the admin's LATEST batch of bullshit, exclusive.

Smash Mouth warned us all that the world was gonna roll us and like fools we didn’t listen.

"Transitioning is scary!"

Do it anyways. Do it scared.

"I'm too old to transition!"

Do it anyways. Do it old.

"I'm too fat to transition!"

Do it anyways. Do it fat.

"I'm too horny to transition! What if this is all just a fetish for me?"

Do it anyways. Do it horny.

Announcing the finalists for the 2025 Libby Book Awards Here’s the full list of finalists in the second annual Libby Book Awards, nominated and chosen by librarians, for the best books of 2024.

thank you LIBBY buckaroos i am honored to learn that BURY YOUR GAYS is nominated this year for a libby award of best horror. LOVE IS REAL www.libbylife.com/2025-01-29-a...

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.