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now the guy behind me is in an even bigger truck somehow lol

Gotta meet him with some resistance. 😉 Despite RFK Jr.’s claims, the CDC did not remove COVID vaccines from the childhood immunization schedule.

the guy in front of me has a (huge, lifted) truck so loud the drive-thru person can’t hear him. then when he tried to turn to drive up to the window, he couldn’t maneuver it without driving up on the curb 😌 that’s ~pure texas~

holy shit the sound of the girls’ mid-80s lunchboxes on this ep of HACF just gave me the weirdest sensory flashback 😵‍💫

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if a tornado can sweep you up and drop you in Oz, where would a dust devil drop you? I just swerved to avoid driving through a massive dust level, and now I’m wondering if I should’ve just let it take me.

just saw a tiny goth in the garden center.
tg: flowers can be BLACK, Grandma?!
grandma: yes, some of them.
tg lifting the pot of black velvet petunias and hugging it to her chest: i want these.

I never asked for peace.

I demand liberation.

is Helena the Gollum/Sméagol of Orphan Black?

So beautiful 💜

men with truck nuts on their lifted trucks who also think trans people are “obsessed with gender” and “shoving it in everyone’s faces”…what do you think the numbers on that look like, percentage-wise?

i hate when a doc makes me go in for an appt before they’ll do another prescription refill. barring a miraculous healing, i’ll be on this med forever. and i have no new issues. so WHY do i have to come in for us both to be like, “yup, nothing’s changed. still have the same fuckin disability…”?

We need more doctors that will give out notes freely for mask wearing. Every good doctor knows how important wearing a mask is, not just for oneself, but for everyone around you.

There is so much ableism in this email. The eugenics of it all.

“Eugenics isn’t just about eradicating the lesser people like myself, like people with disabilities, it’s about attaching disability to marginalized communities in order to slate them for eradication.”

Fantastic crash course in eugenics, ableism & anti-blackness from @imanibarbarin.bsky.social

i could really go for multiple laps around a lazy river right now

loss stays merciless / love mercilesser

—Rose Zinnia, from “The World Is Always Ending / We Stay In Love”

i’m so fucking sick of being relieved when a week feels like it went by quickly. yeah there was work, but all these days are also my life. i don’t want to be relieved my life is flashing by in a blur.

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it would be so satisfying to say to someone, “looks like you’re trying to make this your business. you have a license for that?” imagine delivering that perfectly? a little “ooooooh” from folks nearby, like you’re in front of a live studio audience.

Musk’s staffers are now forcing federal employees at several agencies including the FAA to sign non-disclosure agreements. The goal is simple: silence the resistance through more threats and now, forced agreements. Maybe we’re not supposed to be talking about being forced to sign NDAs… oops, lol.

Time to re-read The Masses, the 1910s literary magazine crushed by government censorship. This political moment in America has been chilling for free speech and dissent, but like so many things about America, this government and vigilante repression isn’t new. Before Mahmoud Khalil, Rüm…

@jamesfolta.com revisits The Masses, the literary magazine censored in the 1910s for speaking out against war and conscription.

i think that’s part of the point. anti-Asian racism often lumps everyone together. the point of it is giving an example of racist thinking.
Mark Levine (not the person who made this post) is acting like fascism is some non-American thing or even non-Western thing. But it’s been here a long time.

The Justice Department quietly invoked the Alien Enemies Act last month, granting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents the power to conduct warrantless searches of people’s homes based solely on suspicion that they are “alien enemies.”

A bird was making its nest.
In the dream, I watched it closely:
in my life, I was trying to be
a witness not a theorist.

—Louise Glück, from "Nest"

He isn’t saying anything himself here. He’s pointing out the racist hypocrisy in Mark Levine’s (from the image) comment about North Korea.

worst and baddest are the same, but being called “the worst bitch in town” is not the same as “the baddest bitch in town.” really makes you think.

They will tell you
that this virus
is a dangerous bioweapon
that escaped
from a laboratory,
but if they see you
taking any steps
to protect yourself
from this virus
they will tell you
that this virus
is really just a cold.