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yeah, people do lie on the internet, however i am so passionate about things that if i lie it will feel like i committed an autistic sin
if i just accidentally say something wrong i panic tbh catch me putting "to my knowledge" and "from what i remember" disclaimers on everything to account for human error
From what I remember, 1 + 1 = 2. I think. Not an expert though, feel free to fact check me! This is just an educated guess.
During the most poor and homeless period of my life, I had a lot of people get angry with me because I spent $25 on Bath and Body Works candles during a sale. They couldn’t comprehend why the hell I would do that when I had been fighting for months to try and get us on our feet, afford food, and have an apartment to live in.
Those candles were placed beside wherever I slept that night. In the morning, I would move them and set them wherever I’d have to hang out. At one point I carried one around in my purse - one of those big honking 3-wick candles. I never lit them, but I’d open them and smell them a lot.
I credit that purchase with a lot of my drive that got me to where I am today. I had been working tirelessly, 15+ hour days with barely any reward, constantly on the phone or trying to deal with organizations and associations to “get help at”. It’d gone on for almost a year by the end of it, and I was so burnt out, to the point that I would shake 24/7. But I could get a bit of relief from my 3-wick “upper middle class lifestyle” candles. They represented my future goals, my home I wanted to decorate, and how I would one day not be in this mess anymore.
When we moved into the apartment, and our financial status improved, I burned those candles every single day. When they were empty, I cleaned them out, stuck labels on them, and they became the starting point of my really cute organization system I had ALWAYS planned to have.
So whenever I hear about someone very poor getting themselves a treat - maybe it’s Starbucks, maybe it’s a home deco item, maybe it’s a video game… I don’t judge them. I get it. I get that you can’t go without anything for that long without it making you go crazy. You need to pull some joy, inspiration, and motivation from somewhere.
poor people deserve things they want, too. it is unfair to expect poor people to only buy things they “need”.
My grandfather used to tell me: if you only have 20 kr left, you buy grocery for 10 kr and flowers for the other 10 kr because you need a reason to live as well.
“Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses.”
As a former hobo I cannot describe to you how much Hope and Beauty are essential for survival. The number of times I gave up a meal for a little taste of humanity were many.
we are gonna be vacuuming up this post for the next five years
Some funky little patches from the last couple days 👀👀👀
government is trying to ban tiktok meanwhile millions of poor and disabled americans are about to completely lose their internet access at the end of april because congress wont renew funding for the affordable connectivity program
hell fucking world
if you want to help us convince congress to do something that actually benefits society, please check out the link below. we only have roughly 45 days of affordable internet service remaining from the time this post has been written
guys the email stuff seems super intimidating but it's so easy. put your name, email, and city and they'll send in the emails FOR YOU. all repaired and written
Wow.
You should really listen to the WHOLE thing because this woman does not mince words
[Transcript: My name is Jessica Valenti and since Roe was overturned, I've been documenting the harms caused by abortion bans in a newsletter called "Abortion, Every Day."
I cover everything from legislation and court battles to anti-abortion strategy and language, but the topic that I find myself writing about most, I'm sorry to say, is suffering.
And while Americans know about some of the suffering caused by abortion bans, thanks to the bravery of women like Doctor Dennard, there are hundreds of other stories that go unreported.
I have spoken to a twenty one-year-old woman in Texas who was denied an abortion even though her fetus developed without a head, and a hospital worker in South Carolina who watched a college student die after attempting to end her own pregnancy.
I get more messages every day than I could ever possibly answer. And while I could share stories that would shock and sicken you in the way that I am shocked and sickened every single day doing this work, I wanted to use my time here to stress that this incredible suffering, this cruelty that treats American women as less than human, is all by design.
Despite Republican assurances that cases like Doctor Dennard's are the result of legislative growing pains, or doctors simply not understanding the law. Despite claims that their bans just need to be tweaked or clarified. I want to make clear that all of this pain and suffering was not just expected. It was planned for.
Anti-abortion lawmakers and activists would have voters believe that they had no idea that this is what post-America, post-Roe America, would look like, but they had fifty years to plan for this moment, and they made that plan carefully, strategically, and callously.
Every raped child forced to give birth, every cancer patient denied care, and every woman arrested after having a miscarriage, was accounted for and strategized over.
But with Americans getting angrier and angrier at what abortion bans are doing to their families and communities, Republicans are desperate to hide that truth from voters. They need us to believe that they're not the cruel extremists that their laws show them to be.
And they certainly don't want us to know that they planned for women's deaths in the same way they strategize over a talking point or a poll. And I mean that literally.
For months, I have been tracking a conservative campaign to sow distrust in maternal mortality numbers. Republicans know that the data is going to show that their laws kill women, so they're preemptively claiming that maternal death numbers aren't accurate.
Some states have even disbanded their maternal death review committees entirely, and because the people most likely to die are the most marginalized among us, their hope is that no one will care.
I've also documented how the anti-abortion movement laid the groundwork over months to blame doctors for women's deaths, as if the people working under threat of losing their license or jail time are the problem, and not the laws that prevent them from doing their jobs.
All of which is to say: when Republicans feign surprise or compassion over post-Roe horrors stories, they are lying.
They knew that women would suffer and die as a result of their laws. They decided it was a trade-off worth making, and everything they've done since Roe was overturned has been in service of hiding that fact. Most of those lies are hiding in plain sight.
When Republicans tell Americans that the national fifteen-week ban they're preposing is a reasonable middle ground, they leave out the fact that the law would force women to carry non-viable pregnancies to term.
Their compromise would do to any American capable of pregnancy what Texas tried to do to Kate Cox. And again, this is not an oversight, it is a deliberate part of a much broader extremist strategy.
Right now, there is a quiet, but well-funded, campaign led by the most powerful anti-abortion groups in the country, that is focused entirely on pressuring and forcing women to carry doomed pregnancies to term.
They're not only trying to do away with exceptions for non-viable pregnancies, they're trying to eradicate prenatal testing altogether. It's a lot easier to force women to carry a dying fetus to term if they never get diagnosed to begin with.
When I tell people about this, the question I get asked most often is "Why?" Why would anyone want to deliberately create a world where women are forced to be walking coffins? It is inexplicable until you understand that this has nothing to do with families or babies, but enforcing a worldview that says it's women's job to be pregnant, and to stay pregnant, no matter what the cost or consequence.
But because Republicans don't have the bravery to admit that truth, and because they're afraid fo voters who are more pro-choice than ever, they lie.
They talk about compassion because they know that their laws are cruel. They use the word consensus while passing bans that voters don't want. And they call Democrats extremists while fighting for the right to deny women life-saving abortions in emergency rooms.
And because Republicans know that voters overwhelmingly oppose their bans, they claim to be softening on abortion by pushing one of the biggest lies in abortion politics: exceptions.
Again and again, Republicans deliberately prepose and pass exceptions that no one will ever qualify for. The only purpose they serve is to allow extremist lawmakers to feign moderation, or pretend as if they've conceded something.
And frankly, any Republican who claims that exceptions are real, should have to do so in front of all the people who've been told that they do not qualify for care, even as they went septic or had their uteruses removed.
They should have to defend themselves in front of women like Kate Cox and Doctor Dennard, or Brittany Watts, who wasn't just denied care by a religious hospital when her water broke too early for her pregnancy to survive, but was arrested when she miscarried at home.
The only Republican exception that holds an iota of truth is the one about women's lives, though not in the way that they think. When you look at any Republican life-of-the-mother exception, they all contain a caveat. And that caveat says that women whose lives are at risk can be given abortions, unless the risk is because she's suicidal.
And I want to stress how telling that is. Republicans know that forcing people to be pregnant against their will, will make them want to kill themselves. And they enshrined into law that they don't care.
In a moment when we are hearing so many extreme horror stories, it can be difficult, I think, to get back to that foundational cruelty. That to force someone to be pregnant against their will, for any reason, at any point, causes profound existential harm.
Abortion is healthcare, but it is also freedom. That's why every abortion denied is a tragedy, and increasingly, Americans understand that. They don't want the government involved in their decisions about pregnancy at any point.
The first time I came to D.C. was in 1992. I was thirteen years old, and my mother brought me here for the Pro-Choice March for Women's Lives, maybe some of you were there. Um, I remember men screaming at us from the sidelines, and I remember how confused I was over why they hated us so much.
Today, my thirteen-year-old daughter is in the room, and it's her first time in Washington, and yet somehow, she's here with less rights than I had thirty-two years ago, and I think that we should be ashamed of that.
My deepest hope is that she doesn't need to follow in the steps of her mother and grandmother, and come here decades from now to defend her daughter's humanity. Thank you for your time.
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i need to look like a man so i can dress like a woman
this got seven notes in like seven seconds its a hit with the faggots in my phone
gender non-conforming people we are all holding hands in this chilis tonight
Surprisingly accurate to the original
enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to
Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised. Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”
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UNMUTE UNMUTE UNMUTE
I cannot stress enough how important it is to do silly, frivolous things that serve no other purpose than making you happy.
saw a poll about dry/humid heat and like OBVIOUSLY everyone preferred dry heat but. would love to know what everyone considers to be “too hot”
me personally it’s a hard cutoff at 75°F. don’t need anything more than that thank you 🫶🫶🫶
i had a joke about orpheus and eurydice but looking back it wasn't a good idea
writers and artists will go "this isn't good enough." my brother in christ, you're creating something new out of nothing and expressing yourself creatively. your productivity and unrealistic standards of perfection do not define you or the worth of your art. you're doing great.
