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American friends, esp fellow freelancers, workers whose employers offer NO health insurance, entrepreneurs, small business owners.

Yep, I've been ALL of those things. The BIGGEST obstacle to my career dreams has been health coverage. If you're on the ACA exchange, here's some practical help.

Giving them an ultimatum to get rid of so much of their library AND not giving a temp spot for the club? RIT continues to hate any clubs/extra curriculars I see 😒

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

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hi, cis folks!

if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.

the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.

we need you to call senators: reps.fyi

more info & script downthread.🧵

I don't doubt the folks who run Frog Con would have good insight, they've done an online con with a virtual artist alley a couple years in a row now.

Anthropomorphic dip-pen and inkwell stand infront of a table stacked with books. Pen holds a sign with '18+' drawn on the center, with a heart around it. Inkwell is holding a paper colored rainbow with 'LGBTQA' upon it. Inkwell is holding a hand up in a 'stop' motion. Behind the table is the vague sense of a crowd also holding signs. Above image it reads: "CARTOONISTS Against Adult Content CENSORSHIP"

The Cartoonist Co-op stands against the censorship and pay discrimination of 18+, erotic, and NSFW artists.

Check the link below for our official statement, ways to take action, and resources.
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Screenshot from Twitter of a post by WhyDo saying: "Five months ago I reviewed Multiversus, a game SO greedy that I spent days researching all the laws it broke. Well, after that video, I ended up studying, applying.. and today, I got accepted to my dream law school! Multiversus was so evil that it altered the course of my life"

Ah yes, the way of WhyDo

For anyone that does still have a puzzle itch to fill Puzzmo has quite a few word games, accounts to keep track of progress, AND even hires trans folks among others to write their crosswords. I was delighted to see that last one especially.

AP DONATE Signin LIVE: House vote Hakeem Jeffries The Mann Act Stock market tc POLITICS Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender -fffirming care for kids,a - setback for transgender rights

AP DONATE Signin LIVE: House vote Hakeem Jeffries The Mann Act Stock market tc POLITICS Supreme Court throws out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in 4 states

Supreme Court signals support for Maryland parents who object to LGBTQ books in public schools

AP DONATE Signin / LIVE: Housevote HakeemJeffries The MannAct Stockmarketto POLITICS Supreme Court will takeupanew case about which schoolsports teams transgender students can join

There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.

As a queer author, thank you for buying our gay books in response to the challenges and bans and court decisions, but I implore you to go stand up for your public libraries and schools—they’re our greatest advocates, and they’re kind of the main target of this whole effort.

hi, cis folks!

so senate’s king nerd struck the trans healthcare bans from the budget bill—that’s good! but the GOP may put it back in, meaning dems need to be ready to challenge it on the floor—that’s doable, but they need to know you want them to!

today’s a great day to call senators: reps.fyi 🧵

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr.

Scientific American has published a guide to the EVIDENCE-BASED vaccine recommendations in place BEFORE ACIP members were removed by the administration.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

here is a more inclusive diagram that includes more medications that cause heat sensitivity than just SSRI/SNRIs!!

I have to type "receipt" and "received" every day at work and I fuck them up every time 😔

Isn't there not even any tea in the ingredients? Just flavoring? For shame 💀
I am curious to try people's recommendation of just putting some Lipton tea bags in Sprite, that seems less atrocious.

Speech: "We Fight to Live" In the wake of the Skrmetti decision, I found myself reflecting on the state of our rights and freedoms. It feels like the ground has shifted beneath our feet, a feeling that is all too familiar. It wasn't even three years ago, in June 2022, that I shared this familiarity, but I am grateful now that I am at peace, all thanks to gender-affirming care. You see, I woke up in a hospital bed three years ago. My memory was foggy. My body was weak. My parents sat beside me, their faces filled with worry. I didn't understand why until the truth hit me. I had almost given up. It was just days after Roe fell. I had spent months watching the government strip away bodily autonomy, hearing the same tired debates about whether people like me should have control over our own lives. And while that was happening, I was in the closet, working in trans advocacy, yes but still afraid. Afraid of what coming out would mean for my family, my relationships, my safety. When the Dobbs decision leaked, I felt something crack. I already knew what it meant to feel like your body isn't yours. But that day, the rest of the country got a glimpse of what that felt like. I went to the protests. I marched. I shouted. But I felt completely detached from myself.

And when the decision officially dropped, I broke down. I believed I had no future. No agency. No way forward. That night, I tried to end my life. But my friends saw what I couldn't. They got me to a hospital in time. By the time I arrived, I was unconscious. My organs were shutting down. For a few moments, I was pronounced dead. But a nurse refused to give up. She saw a flicker of life and told the doctors to try again. And somehow-they did. Somehow—| came back. I woke up three days later with a second chance. That day, I made a decision: I would live for me. I would no longer let the government, or society, or relationships, or fear dictate who I was. I came out. I started my transition. I legally changed my name. I got top surgery. I claimed my life. And let me tell you something, choosing to live as my full self was the most radical, most powerful thing I have ever done. Because here's the truth: the struggle isn't that we're trans. The struggle is that we live in a country obsessed with control; controlling bodies, controlling gender, controlling truth. Let them drown in their own fear and lies. I'm still standing, and that's what they can't take. And every single day I live as my whole self is an act of defiance. Of love. Of revolution.

And so is your life. They can say whatever they want. They can lie. They can distort science, history, and reality itself. They can say l'm a woman. But I live as a man. I love as a man. I move through this world as a man. And nothing they say or legislate will ever change that. To my trans siblings,the same goes for you. We win by refusing to disappear. We win by caring for each other. We check in. We show up. We get our people what they need. They can take over the courts and try to strip our rights, but they will never understand our strength. They cannot break a community that has already survived so much. And this fight isn't just about trans people. When they target undocumented folks, they are targeting us. When they gut DEIA programs, they are gutting spaces we've fought to exist in. When they fire federal workers, they fire trans workers too. When you come after our healthcare, you will no doubt be impacted whether you are trans or cis. We are everywhere. And when they come for one of us, they come for all of us.

The Skrmetti decision is not the end. We are entering a new era. There will be grief, there will be losses. But we cannot afford to give up. We must fight not only to survive but to live. To thrive. Out of spite. Out of love. Out of a deep, unshakable belief that we deserve to be here. Because we do. And we are not done fighting. Thank you.

My speech at the Skrmetti rally in DC yesterday.

CLARIFICATION :

The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY

So spread this around

They can be texted. They can be called.

The intersection of abortion rights and trans rights are essentially two main highways converging into an interstate. Bodily autonomy is at the core of both. It's not a coincidence that both abortion rights and trans rights have been attacked simultaneously.

My favorite addition to this is a YouTube comment on the clip that basically says "it was so bad his brain took away all his vocabulary except caveman words" 😂

The cover spread from a one page zine printout. The left (back cover) features images of a scale and gavel, with notes on First Amendment and filming rights, and the advice to “shut the fuck up.” On the right is the cover, a megaphone with the title text “PROTEST SAFELY.” Behind it are faceless protestors. The subtitle notes, “A brief collection of tips from around the internet.”

A spread from one page zine printout. On the left is an illustration of a protestor with the title “What to Wear,” including a helmet, goggles, ear plugs, gloves, a mask, a backpack, and layers/long sleeves/pants. Each have additional notes explaining their use. On the right is “What to Bring,” featuring illustrations of a backpack, money, water bottles, a mask, a granola bar and bag of trail mix, a first aid kit, folded shirt and pants, and an ID, with “DIY Defense” listed underneath it showing one protestor using a luggage case, one holding a trash can lid, and one using an open umbrella as a shield.

A spread from one page zine printout. On the left is “Protect Your Identity,” advising to cover up identifying features, avoiding photography of protesters, deactivating biometric phone-unlocking tools, and writing emergency contact and counsel numbers on your arm. On the right is “Be Like Water,” the motto of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and the text “BEWARE THE BAIT” with images of a palette of bricks and a masked man holding a crowbar toward a protestor with a sign, “Psst, free crowbar?” encouraging the reader not to engage with traps and undercover agents.

A spread from one page zine printout featuring the hazards of protest opposition, including tear gas, rubber bullets, and LRAD sound cannons and flash bangs. Caution tape images accompany the text explaining the dangers of each, how to flush out eyes that have been maced/etc, and how to extinguish a gas canister with a traffic cone.

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️

toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

Keep California Rolling: Reel Jobs Need Real Action NOW We are in the most critical moment of our fight to expand and modernize our California film and television jobs program. Simply put, we will need the voices of every single member, small business, f...

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reminder, bsky has a clever way to display pronouns that's built in!

but you only see them if you yourself opt in, so please feel free to here by subscribing and then choosing which applies!!

@pronouns.diy

If them getting in bed with AI features wasn't enough to push some studios away from ever upgrading, this whole thing will definitely make studios never update again. They'll just keep duct-tape fixing it like old versions of Flash. What a shortsighted decision.

YouTube video by Sarah Moon AI Could Never Translate This Anime (feat. Chihayafuru)

we desperately need fans to:

A. know that AI localization will absolutely ruin their favorite manga, anime, games, and books

B. fan outrage over AI use is one of the best and only ways we can fight back.

most loc professionals are freelance. we're not union. we have no power.

Fans must speak up.

I love Robert Pattison's career move of going whole hog into the freakiest roles. I also really loved him in The Boy and the Heron dub. I was shocked he voiced the heron at first, what range.

The more I hear about the remake, the more shocked I am at how much they fundamentally either misunderstood or simply threw away nearly every major point of the original. I always felt the remakes were souless, but this one feels the worst.

The biggest mistake I see in discussions of trans people's healthcare is the idea that hormones and the like are some special service just for us when really all kinds of people access the same health care for all kinds of reasons but they are *withheld* from us because we are trans

Financial aid for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) by Point of Pride Point of Pride's HRT Access Fund provides 12 months of free medical care for trans folks seeking gender-affirming hormone therapy (HRT).

🏳️‍⚧️ For US-based trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse people:

Point of Pride’s HRT Access Fund is now open for application until June 30, 2025.

The recipients of this fund will be provided with 12 months of HRT-related care via the organization.

More info:
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