As a person who lived in Idaho at the last gubernatorial election, let me assure you: Brad Little was the better choice [of those that would actually get elected in a consistently republican state with a history of white nationalism and extreme libertarianism]
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Last time I checked, seeking asylum wasn't breaking a law.
We don’t have state income tax but you could raise property taxes on homes worth more than $3-4 million. You could tax giant businesses like Amazon and Starbucks. There are ways you can take money from those with excess and not those living paycheck to paycheck.
Strong boundaries around your time, your energy, is absolutely critical. Don't be guilted into violating your boundaries.
Today is a hard day for me: I work in higher ed and I am trans and I have trans loved ones who are not-quite-19.
I don't have the energy to go over how youth exclusion from gender-affirming care potentially indirectly affects people who aren't under the explicitly named cohort atm, but... it will.
The downside is, when I stay zoomed in too long, shit like "Microsoft Windows 11" is enough to ruin my day.
So, with the shitshow in the world, I'd decided earlier last week to zoom in, focus on the things around me. I've got a cat on my lap, a bit of a brownie, a cup of tea - these are good things, and I am content.
Things that make me irrationally angry:
Having to deal with AI (especially, but not limited to, when a person is actually better suited for the task).
Taking away options that make my life easier.
Interestingly, updating to Win11 has triggered both.
Glad I took my blood pressure meds today.
Yes, obviously. Now stop debating this and posting memes about hypocrisy and start getting together with your friends and talking about what you are going to do with your one little life to fight the rot taking hold around you.
"What Will Be Normal"
Produced November 2023-January 2025
That's super cute!
A man carries a coffin with a skull on the front and spray painted on the side "we're here we're queer we hate the fucking president"
ACT UP, 1990
Me, having never downloaded tiktok
i am not specifically anti TikTok I just hate how anytime you suggest getting rid of social media people bring up look this group of people have adapted positively towards it and hey glad some nice people benefit from Facebook check in on the Rohingya lately?
lol No wrong answers - just my luddite ass trying to make sense of this world.
How often do you leave your house without your phone, intentionally?
A black and white cat sleeping on a pile of blankets, his back foot curled up towards his nose adorably!
My cat is super cute, and I just wanted to share him with you. #cat
It's true. And given the environmental effects of their push, I'm terrified of what this will actually mean for the world. :(
Ouch. The wound hurts, but the cost to get it taken care of? Devastating.
Just, don't make it worse, 'k?
A screenshot of a local newspaper's website, with the corner hovering box saying "Please sign in to access the AI chatbot" magnified for effect.
I appreciate innovation and even novelty, to a degree, but a thing that will almost guarantee I don't subscribe your service? AI Chatbots.
I went to read an article someone had sent me from a local paper, and this is hovering, undismissable, in the corner. I don't need this, I don't want it. Ugh.
The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
NEW: a man in Oregon state prison has been in solitary confinement for more than 250 days. He’s a disabled combat veteran with PTSD - and the person to receive the harshest prison sentence in relation to 2020 BLM protests theintercept.com/2024/12/05/b...
Toxicologist here for any fluoride concerns! The amount of fluoride added to water to prevent tooth decay is so minuscule that—no matter your age, size, or health status—you would die from water poisoning long before you could ever even start getting toxicity from fluoride. Fluoridated water is safe
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #96 POEM AT DAWN Empire is its own undoing
Build community. Stay alive. Take care of each other. Take care of yourself.