Chelle (she/her) 🐸☕

I used to argue with my mother about this all the time.

If someone is intending to commit the crime of assault... a silly little thing like being in the "wrong" bathroom isn't gonna be what stops them.

She could not wrap her head around this.

Feeling like the internet is being EXTRA stupid today so I'm muting all discords, closing all social media tabs, and taking a me-day.

We shall try and engage with the world tomorrow.

I had a lot of fun playing it, although I mostly just dorked around and played it solo.

I’m sure the lawyers for the sandy hook families owed a billion dollars will be fascinated by this new partnership

Said website has now taken down all false author quotes, blamed the issue on a freelance writer using Google Bard, and now the article is about why writers -shouldn’t- use LLMs.

They mentioned “lots of emails” so good work everyone!

(I sent an email as well)

Big Pharma Could Save One of the Abortion Pills. Yikes! It's a supersized episode on everything you need to know about the imminent threat to medication abortion.

So the Court taking this abortion pill case is a mixed bag.

If you want to know more about this case, you should check out this episode of Boom! Lawyered:

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Jess Pieklo tweets: I'll just add this. The conservative legal movement is peddling white Christian grievance as legal standing and this Court has largely bought in. The mifepristone case is another case of grievance standing. Vibes outweigh the law here.

And as @hegemommy.bsky.social has said, this court is on the verge of allowing people to sue abortion providers because abortion gives them a case of the sads. She calls it grievance standing.I called it "I feel some type of way" standing. In either case, it's not an injury.

Elie Mystal quote tweets a tweet from Steve Vladeck. Mystal says: "Again, the standing issue in the mifepristone case --the argument that anti-abortion doctors have the right to challenge a drug's approval because women who take the drug are too sad and embarrassed to sue in their own capacity-- is the dumbest most misogynistic shit imaginable."

The bad news is that, the notion that doctors need standing to suing because, as Elie Mystal put it on Twitter, women are too "sad and embarrassed to sue in their own capacity" is misogynistic horseshit.

A chocolate cake on a white place. It has been dusted with icing sugar, topped with whipped cream and sliced strawberries.

I made a chocolate gateau!

Yes I absolutely had a slice for breakfast, it was delicious.

Awww, I'm sorry hun.

Of course my friend <3 I'm really glad you're here.

Dungeons & Dragons owner lays off 1,100 staff two weeks before Christmas “to keep Hasbro healthy��... Hasbro, the toy company that owns Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, has laid off 1,100 workers two weeks bef…

Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks claims the company laid off 1,100 people days before Christmas as "a last resort."

Cocks makes $1.5 million annually and took home $9.4 million in total compensation last year.

Brittney. Amanda. Purvi. Their Fates Could Be Your Future. These are some of the first victims of a war on pregnant people. It's a war that will end with mass incarceration, surveillance, and even death.

It's unfortunate that a lot of the press is going to be centered on wealthy white victims of states' anti abortion policies. But believe me women of color and low income white women have been imprisoned for bad pregnancy outcomes for over a decade. rewirenewsgroup.com/2021/12/03/b...

In a Post-Roe World, There's No Such Thing as 'Hold Women Harmless' "Hold women harmless" means nothing when the incarceration of women is the natural result of the fetus-first policies anti-abortion activists champion.

I wrote this piece immediately after Roe fell when antis were trying to convince everybody that they weren't trying to harm pregnant women and other people capable of becoming pregnant.

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In a Post-Roe World, There’s No Such Thing as ‘Hold Women Harmless’ rewirenewsgroup.com/2022/06/17/i...

Imani Cassandra Gandy has a bit of a ring to it...

I'm sorry. I have some idea of how difficult that is. And in your case I imagine it's amplified so many more times. My fervent wish is that eventually we can see how much foundation and groundwork you laid. And that day comes soon.

Well, I don't know that I can magic the things you want. I struggle with a lot of that myself. BUT I can tell you that you already have one of those things. People like you. And not just for what you do for them, just for being your self 💚 I know this is true cuz I like you!

so anyway nurses are cops*, and if you have a pregnancy complication due to self managed abortion, you don't have to tell anyone at the hospital what you took. They'll ask. You don't have to tell them because if you live in an abortion hostile state, they might call the cops. Best safe than sorry

I've mentioned before that a lot of the Bernie Bros really just seemed to me like "alt-right but make it left". There's an extremely toxic whiteness and masculine energy (although women are absolutely not immune!) to a lot of these people and movements.

That seems, ridiculous.

Two sides of a clay tablet covered in cuneiform writing. It’s a conversation with Ea-Nasir, the infamous bad copper ingot merchant

New Ea-Naṣir tablet just dropped

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DEAR EVERYONE TEACHING TORAH THIS HANUKAH:

The idea that you don’t display your menorah publicly “in times of danger” only applies when Jews are literally forbidden from practicing Judaism by state authorities. Not when antisemitism is rising.

Check yer Rashi and yer Shulchan Aruch. Jeez.

I thought this was the part where he gives the jury a reason *not* to go hard on the client

one thing to remember is that conservatives have been trying to dismantle higher ed once anyone not a white man could enroll.

once women and POC were accepted and hired, they've been framing universities as left wing institutions when the truth is the complete opposite

That's the part that always gets me. If I could have some magical juicer that I didn't have to scrub the filter every time I think I'd use it daily.

I have a free discord if anyone wants to come hang out and talk about video games and all sorts of other stuff. It's a fun group! Everyone is friendly. It's not one of those discords where people talk shit about other people 🫶🏾https://discord.gg/v3CJwDCM

and then mind your own business afterwards. the whole "what if they spend it on XYZ? i can't support that"

who gives a shit. you gave someone money. it's their money now. they can do what they want with it

Whuff.

Classics of Pagan Cinema: Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather Meg Elison invites our readers to curl up on the couch for a Christ-less Christmas Classic, the 2006 miniseries adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel "Hogfather."

A Christmas movie with no whiff of the holy infant (so tender and mild!): Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather

Ah yeah, that's hard. I don't follow a lot of celebs/personalities so I think it was easier to dip.