I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
On his first Father’s Day, Mahmoud Khalil will sit in a detention center 1,500 miles away from his wife and newborn son, as punishment for speaking out in support of Palestinian rights.
Good job holding boundaries that feel right to you, and sitting through the awkwardness.
None of this is meant to suggest anyone avoids medications which help them. The side effects are often subtle or nonexistent, and we need these drugs for valid reasons. It’s just information worth having, especially if it helps you take it easier on yourself.
4/4 end.
Drugs which can sensitize your skin to the sun are a whole additional thing, including some suuuuper common drugs like NSAIDs (ibuprofen/Advil and its cousins), antihistamines (like Benadryl), birth control pills & estrogens, antibiotics, and meds for high cholesterol.
3/?
Building up heat tolerance works for some people, but not everyone. It’s nothing to be ashamed of if you need more breaks to stay healthy, or if the heat takes you out of commission. Though it absolutely does suck not being able to do everything you’d like.
2/?
This is your periodic reminder that many psych meds impact your body’s ability to regulate your temperature and cope with heat.
Everyone has different limits, and it’s ok if your body can’t safely do what others can.
SSRIs, SNRIs, amphetamines, benzos and antipsychotics can all do this.
1/?
I’ve finally gotten all my clothes out of vacuum bags! It only took me … *checks notes* … 9 months. Wow.
I could’ve made a whole human in the time I’ve been struggling to unpack 😬
“-ai” is more practically functional and work appropriate without complicated side effects … but why not live dangerously?
PSA - Adding the word ‘fucking’ to your Google search query disables the unwanted AI summary at the top of the results page.
Bluesky … you clearly don’t sync well with my neurotransmitters. And yet, I feel deep existential panic at the crumbling of my communities. (Or the retreating behind closed doors which feels/looks like crumbling from the outside.)
So here I am again, clutching straws. 🙄
🎶 Thou needest not have wealthe
To be my love
Thou needest not be coole
To rule above
Ther nys no especial signe Ich have affinitee wyth
Ich nede naught but
thyne extra tyme and thy
[lute riffe]
kysse 🎶
PUT AWAY YOUR WAR SCYTHE, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE ENNUI. AND YOU WILL WIN.
I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it *does* seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?
Friendly reminder: body shaming is never cool. No matter how evil someone is. Their body isn't the problem.
Trump's universal 10% tariffs, and the massive tax hike for everyday people they represent, are still on.
The fact that he paused most of the even higher ones shouldn't cause people to overlook that fact or allow the goalposts to change.
The world’s richest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth after Trump pledged to pause tariffs for some countries. It was the largest one-day jump ever.
Wish that we could dump Trump
over the side of a merchant class vessel into the Boston Harbor and be free of him.
But throwing trash in the ocean is environmentally unsound. What’s a country to do? 😔
It’s a miracle any non-white, non straight, non-citizen person in America is getting any work done right now—
—While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.
Thoughts During The Crumble:
Huh. I should probably stop using the dryer. At least for clothes. Remember how LONG clothes lasted (even cheap crap) in my old life? Remember how many 15-year-old garments died soon after returning to America?
There’s a lot of make do and mend on the horizon.
SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. HAVE YOU EATEN TODAY?
Where is our humanity?
You guys, they're not stupid
They're doing propaganda
When they lie through their teeth, they are doing propaganda
Do you think the people behind Big Brother in 1984 were stupid? Big Brother says lots of nonsensical shit.
It's called
p r o p a g a n d a
I strongly agree. “Deportation” is not the word for what we’re seeing. If the financial transaction went the other way it’d look a lot like slave trade.
I think it's really important that folks hear this, and also understand that it's happening across many different fields right now--people aren't just grieving their jobs, they're grieving the fields themselves
Because a lot of this honestly might not get fixed in our lifetimes
TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW DO YOU HAVE MEDICINE YOU NEED TO TAKE?
This morning I discovered the brave new world of AI generated progress notes and care plans for therapists and social workers. The programs listen to your appointments and generate summaries, including clinical insights.
Nothing DEEPLY DISTURBING AND UNETHICAL about that.
2 sticks of butter are pictured with their packaging. The salted butter (labeled in blue) sits atop its box (color coded red) beside the unsalted butter (labeled in red) atop its box (color coded blue).
When we’re done fixing all the other problems, we should get around to standardizing the blue/red color coding of salted vs unsalted butters.
America is solidly in our, “Scream ourselves to sleep, shit ourselves awake” era.
