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“Curtis Evans stood directly in front of the gate with an American flag. The 65-year-old Evanston resident heard about the first protest on social media and came to represent “the ideals that our country stands for.”

“None of us have ever done this before,” he said…

Thank yall for the fun and thought-provoking talks, and for letting me get a glimpse of all of your cool work!!

Struggling to find a way to end this that isn’t overly corny, so: stay safe, stay Queer, and stay hopeful.

In that case, I probably will be following a fair amount of you folks again cuz I’ve really enjoyed the discussions that I Have gotten to have here!
Anyways— this account won’t be active anymore, tho I’m leaving it in existence so my @ isn’t taken
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Cuz it’s not worth all that. But after trying for a good while to feel comfortable and not assume I’m being watched, I’ve decided that’s not really possible right now under usernames they know. I might make a new account? But if I do I won’t be sharing it here because of that (cont.)

Hey yall. So I’ve been less active on here for a while now (and was never very active to begin with) due to an ex and their current friend group watching my known socials, or at least the expectation and fear of that, living in my head. I’m not gonna get into that and I won’t be naming names (cont.)

Artist! Quote with your night art! ✨️

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

The Punks vs. The Pigs An illustrated history of a lesser-known battle in Berkeley’s People’s Park.

All our stories are FREE right now, but that won't always be the case (we gotta make money) so read them now! There are so many good ones to choose from y'all.

Like this @janelleblarg.bsky.social comic that I love SO much: www.coyotemedia.org/the-punks-vs...

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

Stop calling it "political violence" in ways that suggest this is something new.

Politics are almost always violent.

OUR politics have always been violent.

The words you are searching for are "political assassination" or "deadly terrorism."

Which are also not new, but are certainly less common.

In June, a Democratic state rep in Minnesota was murdered, and a state senator was shot.

And a couple of days later, Trump said he wouldn't phone Gov. Walz, calling him "whacked out" and "a mess"

This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.

Goddamn but Chicago is pretty

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

PRAY HARDER. 😭😭😭

What a mooood 😭😭😭 Godspeed, it’s ROUGH out here

OH also husband made us sloppy joes and we watched The Birdcage :3 so it was a WONDERFUL DAY im just also fuuuucking exhausted

The problem I face every time I’m in a class that I Love is that I end up yapping waaaay too much and Still feel like I want to yap more once it’s done. That class could be 6 hours long and I would be Overjoyed

It’s okay tho cuz I saw my favorite prof today and a friend from last semester and that restored me just enough to make it back home lol

Ahahahah read a whole book in one night last night cuz the start of this semester has been SO chaotic. Then of course had Other readings in the morning (almost knocked out then) and forgot to eat before I caught the bus but was like “ok I’ll hit the vending machine” but they DIDNT FIX IT ALL SUMMER—

Clean house BIG RAIN LETS GOOOOO

It’s taken some time to get our stuff all oriented in the new apartment in a way that feels Nice and Good but ITS ALL COMING TOGETHER SLOWLY BUT SURELY. And soon….. I will finally start putting up ART ON THE WALLSSSSS

About to finish this Labor Day deep-clean just in time for a rain storm and OH it’s delicioussss

It’s not a “gotcha” if I want an actual answer

“ I need him to have a policy that doesn’t destroy homeless people”

Is not a “purity test”

It’s a request , making you say you don’t believe in that isn’t a trap

Because here’s the thing?

You could.

(Kept restarting at first cuz I was worried I did my farm setup Bad or Wrong, or would take a long enough break that I forgot how to do anything and needed the tutorial again lmao)

Been back on my stardew grind as someone who has very little stardew experience cuz I kept starting over a bunch and never made it past year one for AGES, but guess who’s on year 2 now baybeeee we are Progressing

Also you can tell this cohort is a nervous bunch cuz there was a Whole announcement about this to clarify (I missed it this morning) where the prof is like “hey, everyone?? It’s chill. We’re chill. YOURE OKAY, YOU ARENT FAILING” lmao

Like, is it Nice to have this one as a backup? Definitely. But also I’m GONNA write three more cuz this one is Not my best work so is it worth it????

Had a day full of Stuff after a week full of Things which meant I only had One Hour to write this 1000 word essay, and I SURE DID IT. But at the cost of finding out After doing all of that… That I didn’t even need to write it. There are 7 chances to write one of these essays and we only need 3 total