Elizabeth she/her

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

OMG! Now wondering if Bouba is also available 🤔

This is the thing about bathroom bans targeting trans people - assault is already a crime! Indecent exposure is already a crime! And laws that protect trans people don't suddenly make them legal

I had to breathe like I was in labor after reading this headline.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem testified that detainees receive medical attention within 12 hours.

That’s just plain false.

Listen to the U.S. Citizens who were wrongfully detained and denied critical care.

This 100% worked on me!

Started reading in bed at a very young age and I can't imagine how to go to sleep any other way. I'm totally novel dependent and addicted and I wish more people were! (especially young people)

For a Purim spiel, of course 😉

Obvious ai manipulation on the left. Original photo by David Batcheller on the right. Look at the wings, feather shape, head, neck and bill shape, lack of tail etc. This is way more than a filter and absolutely destroys the joy and wonder of the original.

So loads of people are sharing an obvious ai "glow up" of an actual photo. I never share ai stuff even to dunk, but in this case I'm sharing a comparison to show the problem. We have to stand against this slop at every level or it becomes normalised. They want us to stop caring. See alt text.

The image is already amazing before being manipulated. This makes absolutely no sense!

(not doubting you, just incredulous at human folly)

Texas AG Paxton Declares Therapists Affirming Trans Youth To Be Illegal And Child Abuse The declaration echoes his 2022 efforts to target parents of trans youth with child abuse, and may force conversion therapy on trans youth in the state.

1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration:

Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure.

Its a horrifying escalation.

a woman with red curly hair is smiling and says that 's starfleet Alt: a woman with red curly hair is smiling and says that 's starfleet

Did you see?!

Tillllyyyyy! 💖💖💖

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

The things that gets buried talking about the Kansas thing is... everyone says "just move" every time something like this comes up. And to loose your license? You can't move.

I am currently moving from one state to another right now. Thus far I have used my old state license to:

9. As a result of this extreme anti-transgender law, the state of Kansas has seen its status deteriorate to a "Do Not Travel" warning in the EITM Trans Risk Map. Transgender people should exercise extreme caution when traveling through the state.

Pretty sure she's going to be in this next one finally!

But, yes, I also thought she was supposed to be a regular.

This is, literally, Dickensian.

In the opening number of OLIVER!, ‘Food, glorious, food!’, the workhouse orphans pass the bosses & their massive feast, on their way to bowls of gruel.

I was 12 when I saw that film & I gasped out loud. I couldn’t fathom how adults could be that cruel to children.

The Tale of Despereaux

Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Holes

The Princess Bride

Ditto on the Pratchett (especially Guards, Witches, and Feegles/Aching strands)

(I hit the YA hard for my comfort reads)

‘Abolish ICE’, ‘Caleb Chilliams’ Among Winners of Annual Snowplow Naming Contest The other winners of the fourth annual contest were Stephen Coldbert, Pope Frío XIV, The Blizzard of Oz, Svencoolie and Caleb Chilliams, Chicago officials announced.

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

you: normies won't get behind Abolish ICE

me: THEY NAMED THEIR SNOWPLOW AFTER IT

At least the Good People of Dachau could insist that They Didn't Know, until at the end of the war Allied soldiers brought them to see the concentration camp right outside their town.

No one in this age of instant information can say that they did not know.
#NeverAgainIsNow

eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor is it known unto the human heart, the magnitude of hate Pope Leo has for JD Vance specifically

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

😲😲😲

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

Perfect example of "don't tell me what you value, show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value."

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Also, it feels like 2, 3, & 4 all variant nicknames from some ur-paul name.

3, 4, 7, 9

6 only if you call it "teekha meekha, koat na kreesha"* for short.

*I don't have time to Google the cyrillic because I'm frying mushrooms.