samuel

Over on the other site Elon Musk said that DOGE stopped $50M of condoms from being delivered to Gaza which Trump the repeated several times but it turns out that was the number for all contraceptive support from USAID everywhere on Earth, of which none went to Palestinians.

how do you cope looking at your own parents knowing they support someone who wants you dead

putting queer phobia aside, how they with a disabled child think any of this is okay, especially with one working in special ed at a public school

The “free speech defenders,” ladies and gentlemen.

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by Coke Zero and snacks

can’t believe everything that’s happened has me disappointed but not surprised

Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

looking around at my loved ones that are going to be hurt the most the next four years and it’s impossible to understand why they see us as sub human

i am not going anywhere. 🏳️‍⚧️

A man carries a coffin with a skull on the front and spray painted on the side "we're here we're queer we hate the fucking president"

ACT UP, 1990

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

Fuck. This is so fucking stupid.

just got home from rehearsal and so grateful for my ed staff making such a hard activity accessible to me. physical disability is rarely seen in the marching arts and my staff is a testament to how possible it is to make it accessible.

downloaded this a couple months ago but haven’t touched it yet…

my name is sam! i’m 20 y/o and a music ed major, low key a life long band nerd

i have hEDS & co and am a forearm crutch user

convinced Friend of four yrs now (and would love to find other quakers!)

j here to hope to find community

i genuinely can’t believe tiktok is gone. i spent over five years creating and finding community on there. i just hope i can find a resemblance of it on here.

going to try to make long form content on youtube but everything is going to be so much more work for so much less benefit.