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TOS scene. We're outdoors in an arena of some kind with old rocky columns and artifacts surrounding an open dirt area designed for some kind of event or show. A sky colored red lends itself to the passion on display. In the middle, Spock and Kirk are laying on the ground together, Kirk on top, Spock on the bottom, thier bodies intertwined. A love that dareth not speaketh it's name. No caption.

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1

Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

For anyone that needs this reminder-

✨️No D&D is better than bad D&D✨️

You are devoting precious time, effort, and social energy to participate. Those are valuable resources. If you wish you were doing something else while in a session, *something* needs to change

💖 If it sucks, hit da bricks!! 💖

There’s a reason that white culture engrains “politeness” and reveres it above all else, and that reason is so the community never learns to take out its own fucking trash.

I'm done debating trans rights. Completely done. We exist. We are valid. There's no one right way to be trans or right way to gender. Either accept people are the gender they say they are or get fucked.

Just did a big round-up for new job listings in the tabletop game space, from crowdfunding, design, marketing, sales and more.

Check out the Tabletop Game Jobs group if you are looking for work in the tabletop game space - www.facebook.com/groups/Table...

Probably CAD because when I looked (in the US) it was $14.99

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✨🔥✨T R A N S✨🔥✨
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💜🪩❤️F U C K I N G🧡💎💖
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Since Trump fired most of the National Park Service, the bears have to pick up the slack.

“Alaskan bear corrects a fallen roadside cone”

Credit @gunsnrosesgirl X

@altnps.bsky.social

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

How To Be a Fighter When You Feel Like a Punching Bag Many of us are suffering from a kind of social atrophy.

My latest: "The more often we have experienced true helplessness, the more likely we are to feel powerless in situations where action is possible. And the more we freeze or flail in response to threats, the more deeply ingrained those responses become."

People assume they’ll be the exception. That disability, poverty, homelessness won’t befall them

That if something “bad” happens, they will be able to “try harder” their way out of it.

This false belief allows them to blame the ones who are suffering, instead of the oppressive systems that trap us

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

Tracking Federal Cuts Mapping Project This form allows you to contribute to the Tracking Federal Cuts Map with local stories about how the cuts are impacting your community. The goal of this is to better inform the public about the impact the firings of civil servants, withdrawal of funding, and termination of programs may have on everyday Americans across every state. The intent of this project is informational. With things moving so fast on so many levels, it is hard to know how changes made in Washington, D.C. will impact us. We hope this map will help put a face to these changes. We are a group of grad and PhD students working on collecting stories from across the country and need your help! What impacts are being reported where you are?

WHOA -- this is soooo cool and very needed!!!

I hope this takes off. Contribute local stories about federal cuts for a Tracking Map to go live next week.

Contribute here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

More context here: www.linkedin.com/posts/abigai...

Raise your ✋ and repost this if you're participating.

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out.

They gut the FAA.
Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted.
Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

It makes as much sense to have a public debate about trans healthcare as it does to have a public debate about hip replacements. You almost certainly know nothing about it and so you should shut up. The government knows nothing about it and should leave it to the experts

Part 3, in which AOC explains that the calls we have been making to members of Congress this week are having an impact on Republicans and Democrats alike.

Don’t let up.

Keep making noise.

Keep fighting. Keep dancing.

the only president in the history of polling who began a term in office with approval as low a Trump's right now was ... Trump in 2017.

that's what CNN is gushing over. the second-worst start-of-term approval rating in history.

Found this article on bland, generated music being promoted heavily on Spotify really interesting: harpers.org/archive/2025...

Do something kind for yourself no matter how small once a day. It doesn’t have to be big, it doesn’t have to be bombastic. It can be as much a smelling a flower, taking a bath, dreaming, writing/drawing, or sitting in silence to detox — but no matter what happens:

Do. Something. Kind. For yourself.

legiscan showing US Congress Senate Bill 9 Status Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 36-0) Status: Introduced on January 7 2025 - 25% progression Action: 2025-01-08 - Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 2. Summary A bill to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth. title: Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025

hi, cis folks! meet S.9. it's the senate sports ban for trans athletes that matches what passed the house & they'd love a bill for trump to sign day one.

short call scripts for democratic & GOP senators follow. if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.🧵


legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

And yup, as expected, the NYT and WaPo stories about the app going dark only mention that Congress passed and Biden signed a law. Zero mention of Trump's previous actions and comments to push for a ban, or of his cozying up to its leadership (and vice versa.)

this random but should be heard:

you are not and will never be a bad person for distancing yourself from someone who was destroying your mental health/making you want to relapse. no matter how hard they guilt trip you.

The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.

THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊

Hey! Adventure Time/Gravity Falls artist (& good dude) Phil Rynda will draw original art for you when you donate to animation artists’ wildfire relief funds! airtable.com/appugwkqKAVG...