Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
I just don’t even know what to fucking say anymore.
Everything I grew up being taught, all the tests I passed, the playground rules I abided, sharing, caring, the golden rule, none of it means anything when there’s so much money to gain for old men in denial over being able to take it with them.
Kid: "How do you play this game (Lord's of Waterdeep)?"
Me: "You work to complete quests based on what your Lord wants here." *points to text*
Kid: "I can't read."
Me: "Welp, that's an issue."
Dafuq?
After the week I've had, I needed that Amazing Race result.
I learn so many things are words from the random guesses I throw out at Wordle.
We hit 51 backers 🥹 $1862 😯
Y'all, it would be so cool if we hit $2k
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...
we are living under fascism right now
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days.
At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/
I played Feed the Kraken (a social deduction game) tonight on the good team with 4 other people who collectively distrust each other the most with these kinds of games. How did we win that when we spent 2/3 of the game giving each other stink eye?
D&D was just an answer on Jeopardy with a video of a rolling d20 which crit. Very cool! #dndsky
We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!
The way that I knew the glow-in-the-dark yarn I got today that I thought was cool during the day was going to irk me in the dark while trying to sleep is something else.
