When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism.
A few suggestions...
The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.
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hi, cis folks!
this week, with some democrat votes, 2 anti-trans bills passed the house. one bans medicaid funds for trans youth care, the other proposes jail time for providers.
they haven't passed the senate, but dems may need convincing to vote no on both.
tap into the 🧵for a quick action.
Withholding funding from states purely politically not only is illegal, but it genuinely should be taken as seriously and gravely as it ought to: a breakdown of our contract as a society.
Of course, all of this is entirely rhetorically stupid. Taxes fund things that benefit the many, an investment in our neighbors and our collective wellbeing.
But to the sycophants, it's always robbery and undeserved anyway, so why not steal it from the ones they disagree with.
I know they like red hats, but they're basically saying they're red coats at this point as well.
"Yeah, we'll tax you, then we'll remove your representation in how that tax is used because we don't like what you like."
Guess governors of "blue states" should withhold federal taxes they collect.
“18 trillion” and yet tens of millions of Americans are about to either lose healthcare coverage, or drop it due to costs rising by 200% or more. Some people were given quotes in states like Alaska, basically 400% cost increases.
Our healthcare system will collapse in months.
Nothing says “I’m very innocent” like asking for immunity from prosecution by the ICC…
I don’t believe any other presidential administration had this problem. How unique.
Look out, it’s AZUZILLA! *\(^o^)/*
💥Legal vtuber name: Azusa Kairu
(Azu for short)
💥Kaiju name: AzuZilla
I’m an axolotl kaiju 🦎💥
Currently in pre-debut! Soon to emerge from my cursed pond to a screen near you
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Tags
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🔞: #axoloodles
Love that Windows 11 update that makes my second monitor unusable even after drivers are updated. Super cool. Can't even "display on secondary only." It just flashes and reverts back and fourth until I unplug the second display.
Strong work Microsoft. Strong work.
If he’s ever going to hope to have the high staff turnover he had from term 1, he needs to hire the most qualified and experienced grifters and frauds. Pardons are like their job applications at this point.
I used electric first, then went over with a razor (nothing fancy, just one of the gillete skinguard razors since they don't get gunked up like ones with like 4 or 5 blades in them).
Hardest thing was keeping the bad arm isolated, since for me it was my dominant arm, had bursitis in my shoulder.
Batman slapping Robin meme with the caption, an "18+" sign being over Batman's face while Bluesky's logo is over Robin's. Robin as Bluesky: "No discussing self-harm, suicide, abuse (sexual, drugs, substance, etc.) unless it's educational—!!!" Batman as 18+ creators (or non-professionals in general): "Artists are not teachers or therapists. We are not obligated to teach you anything."
Apparently a lot of ppl needs to hear this
#bskycensorship
A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48.
Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.
Of course I force nonody to stay if they want to leave.
But if I did NSFW with those themes they hate so much, I would post them and repost them so much times here and see how they would handle that.
A fight.
I just hate when people try to stop an artistical freedom.
Platforms that blanket ban instead of enforce better content moderation or tools for content creators, they have to capitulate to the laziest users and the worst of censorship by the worst of governments. It will happen.
It won’t matter if it’s consensual in context, it won’t matter if they are depicted even moderately safe/questionable. The ban will come.
It has for other platforms, and the way our government wants to do things, federally for everyone.
The fringe stuff like this is usually swept under the rug “oh, well who wants that stuff anyway??”
Brother, please just look at other platforms, and definitely look at the way things are rolling. This is not the last change. There will be more. Fictional or artistic, won’t matter.
Give this about 6 months and there will be a total ban on any adult content that is explicit. Why? Because BlueSky like every other place is reading the room and seeing where operating in the United States is going: authoritarian regimes don’t like adult content.
You will be silent, or be gone.
When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
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.🧵
Games are not groceries. Games are stories in a library, experiences in our lives. They're memories we share collectively together.
If people can't preserve that, the medium will eventually die out altogether as an expense no one can afford.
If these companies genuinely want to argue "well, we can't let you do that." Well, enjoy scratching together a functional copy of your previous works in 50 years when copying games isn't legal and all our games are up and gone 2 years after launch because the game uninstalls automatically.
There's the positive capitalist take (not being negative); companies want to re-release a game in a decade or two for new consoles/platforms that don't exist yet? Let *us* actually preserve the games we love.
Let us actually own what we buy. "Piracy" of dead game platforms comes with that, ofc.
Aaaaaaaaand it's gone.
axchibi.org/policies
You can tell they're turning heel real hard because they didn't just quietly erase it, but left up the clause and did a strike through to make sure people know they're not going to enforce it anymore.
Let's see if AX has a statement.
If somehow you do see me at a con or event, it’s fine to talk to me, just know I’m not great at it.
I do appreciate when people make the effort to talk and say hi and whatever at events. Pretty rare, but I do enjoy it when it happens.