I recently saw a new doctor who, before saying anything else, asked if I'd considered a GLP-1. "It might help take care of this," she said, and reached over and patted my belly.
It was behavior I hadn't experienced in years--the last huge wave being during the popularization of weight loss surgery.
Do NOT ask about office gossip this triggered an unskippable cut scene where he explained the IT ticket system at work in depth
I asked my husband the first question and he cast Josh Gad as me I actually recommend this
One of the more depressing aspects of the GLP-1 stuff right now is how utterly inescapable it is. Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, there are people shrinking at alarming rates, and endless discussion of said shrinking. There's seemingly no place to just *rest.*
I transitioned TO become an effeminate gay boy. Now what
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
wikipedia PLS do another baby globe plush sale I didn't know about the first one 🙏😭
ACTION ALERT
“As the #ELCA, love of neighbor obligates us to act to prevent wars and to seek alternatives to them.” #war #Lutheran #peace #IranWarPowersResolution #S.J.Res.104 #H.Con.Res.38
Click here to contact your reps:
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Take away my pronouns, my passport, my prison cell, my hormones, & my bathroom, I'm still trans. I'm still here. I'm not going anywhere. And tomorrow there will be more like me. I'm not scared, I'm fighting mad. You can't have my life. It's mine. Because we are #WhatTheFutureOfGenderLooksLike
Largely fears over cancel culture among elites are likely motivated by the fact that they truly believe that their status and wealth should shield them from certain moral or ethical standards. Pretending it is anything else is delusional at this point.
The largest infrastructure projects currently being built in the US appear to be data centers and detention centers. The AI boom has coincided with ICE becoming the most heavily funded government agency. It's hard not to see a connection: This is the architectures of digital fascism
(this is doing numbers on tumblr let's see how bluesky likes it)
my buddy Paul, pacing: bro we can't let our freedom be a stumbling block to others
Luther: got some straight gas 🔥 😛 this strain is called "justification by faith" and you'll be zonked out of your gourd 💯
Me: yeah whatever. I don't feel shit
5 minutes later: dude I swear I'm totally free subject to none
What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest, possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels. Never was there a clearer case of “stealing the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in.” I am filled with unutterable loathing when I contemplate the religious pomp and show, together with the horrible inconsistencies, which every where surround me. We have men-stealers for ministers, women-whippers for missionaries, and cradle-plunderers for church members…Here we have religion and robbery the allies of each other—devils dressed in angels’ robes, and hell presenting the semblance of paradise. — Fredrick Douglas, Lynn, Mass. April 28, 1845
This could have been written this morning. How exact and how applicable every word is. "Stealing the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in." No better description exists of the blasphemous, murderous, corrupt America of Trump and of ICE.
Ever wondered what were the greatest hits at a monastic disco in the ninth and tenth centuries? Ekkehard of Sankt Gallen has you covered! Move to the rhythm of With a Humble Prayer, listen to the acoustic ballad The Lofty Hope of the World and get carried away by the rock anthem Today We Must Sing!
I know this is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things but these guys are paid with your tax money and have no real job. ICE isn't necessary. They don't get rid of criminals. They just terrorize communities. And THAT'S why they should be abolished. No need for reins. It's not a job!
"Once in the old neighborhood, when he was seven or eight, he’d fallen off his bike, his helmet splitting cleanly in half like a cantaloupe. He showed the halves to all the neighbor kids as a way to warn them to never ride without one."
- @kristenradtke.bsky.social
www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
“The $65 billion should be placed in an unmarked federal appropriations bill—if it isn’t, that will be the end of your precious Minnesota,” read the note, a handmade letter assembled from magazine clippings and sent with what ICE claimed was the severed finger of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
An opossum dipping a cookie in milk near more cookies and strawberries on a plate
ME: [begrudgingly practicing self-care because I refuse to let the world harden me]
Playing the campaign as the woman character and every time she complains about how bored she was spinning wool in her father's house I shake my controller and yell that women had public lives in second century Rome
Playing Anno 117 and would you be surprised if I told you it's not very accurate to the reality of the Roman empire...every game can't be Pentiment, I suppose. 😔
Graph of Left-leaning protests during the second Trump admin outpace the first Guardian graphic. Source: Crowd Counting Consortium.
Graph comparing scale of 2025 protests with other notable examples over the last few years such as the 2020 George Floyd protests and the 2022 protests over roe v wade falling. Guardian graphic. Source: Crowd Counting Consortium.
after a year of protests all across the country over ICE, Gaza, trans healthcare, several one day mobilizations, and more, protests appear to be up 133% from the one year mark in Trump’s first term. @chenoweth.bsky.social says we’re at a historic inflection point
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Fascists are obsessed with aesthetics. It's the bedrock of their appeal to their supporters. Confronting them in ways that make them look weak & absurd is highly effective.
It's ESSENTIAL to make it obvious to everyone that these people are indeed irredeemable losers.
A standard rejection letter from American Short Fiction
If I can have everyone's attention please I have received my first ✨rejection letter✨ (My first time submitting anything since I was 16!) Thank you to ASF for considering my work.
Stay tuned as I continue looking for a home for The Town Behind The Wall!
Apparently we are talking about speed cameras again so let me remind everyone that every reduction in the frequency of police encounters is a reduction in police brutality.
It's often presented as a kind of conformity or groupthink to "trust the experts," but you do in fact need to do this to have a functioning society!
What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?
