A large ask but urgent!
My phone bill is due tomorrow and Internet is due Wednesday. These are already extended dates and will be shut off Friday if I can’t get help which means I can’t come online for help, can’t contact my disabled kids medical team, my kids schools and my elderly dad I help.
I spent today at the hospital and didn’t see a single respirator (other than my own).
There were a few people wearing surgical masks.
Signs saying it was a “mask friendly” environment.
No free masks.
No mask mandates.
Tons of coughing & sickness.
Masks belong in healthcare. Period.
im homeless n hav only had 2 slices of bread today to eat, please help us
Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.
This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.
Never doubt your power to change the system.
Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865)
My Little Pony generation one (1982-1995)
The covid amnesia shell game happened DESPITE THE DATA, in part bc we never had a reckoning or real memorialization
The *moment* we replace this regime, they will memory-hole everything they did. If we don't keep clear records and then make them into public memory, they'll get away with it.
Everyone here is overly familiar with the Nazi bar analogy. If 8 people at the bar are "doing fine" and 2 people are destitute and suffering then you live in a society of destitution and suffering.
I DO have a lot of anger in my heart but it does not outweigh the love, the anger is there BECAUSE of the love, because the world is callous to the suffering of myself and my sisters, because of the violence we endure. I am angry because I love
Orban's defeat has me in a good mood, so here are 10 US #KindleBookGiveaway copies of Terry Pratchett's Small Gods, which has an ending that makes me feel the same way. This is a fantastic book, and was the first pterry book I read that I *loved*.
#GNUTerryPratchett
It really did lol
The US can automatically register men to go to war but can’t register them to vote.
They can afford billions on war but can’t give their citizens healthcare, housing, childcare or food assistance.
War is profitable.
People are cannon fodder.
It’s exactly how the ruling class wants it.
World events are A Lot right now. Let's do a #KindleBookGiveaway -- 3 copies of the truly excellent Starter Villain by Scalzi. It's outrageously funny in parts, but also kind of appropriate for the times.
www.amazon.com/kindle/redee...
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Autistic despair is probably the most despair a person can experience.
Being utterly alien on Earth, never to be understood and accepted by the dominant neuroculture, and being trapped on the edge of society, is the most desolate a person can be.
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All my sympathies. Literally all of them. And I'll go looking for more.
Maybe I can steal someone else's sympathy and offer that too, cause noooooooooooo.
I adore this essay by Ms.W.!!
"The success of Mincome allowed people to try new things, get dental care for their kids, start small businesses and generally live in a way that was governed less by fear and more by hope."
Universal Basic Income via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
What bothers me most about JK Rowling discourse is people view her as simply a problematic writer whose books contains bigotry who also tweets bigoted & transphobic things and not like a billionaire, more akin to Elon Musk, actively financing the far right in her goal of eradicating all trans people
just one moment of celebration for getting a major donor to move $3 million dollars this week to rent funds
now if only there were more than one generous super-wealthy person and the news hadn’t moved on from this entirely predictable crisis