Mary is Queer-ying

no one will know
#dimileth

idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet

KIDS Act Passes Energy and Commerce along Partisan Lines, COPPA 2.0 Postponed Additional bills on kids online safety and cybersecurity passed with bipartisan support

The package of censorship and surveillance bills brought up in todays markup has been advanced

Continue to contact your representatives and demand this legislation be opposed. Tell your family and friends, explain how these bills are not what they appear, and ask them to join us in opposition!

The angry part of Bluesky remembered KOSA (now under the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, or H.R. 7757) exists but rather yell at you I'll say:

If you have REALLY bad anxiety (like me!), you can call your reps after hours! Voicemail counts! The site 5Calls give you a script to read off of:

I love getting comments and kudos (those ao3 email notifs get saved, believe me) but 👀👀👀 if anyone does do art please tag me omg I would cry

You should hammer all these reps who voted yes on the KIDS Act.

Additionally, keep contacting your other reps as well

Just fuck all those queer families who have to have forced conversations with their kids about straights I guess. We remember kids if you can get your group declared the baseline then not catering to you is bad.

All Robot & Computers Must Shut The Hell Up To All Machines: You Do Not Speak Unless Spoken To → And I Will Never Speak To You + I Do Not Want To Hear "Thank You" From A Kiosk I am a Divine Being You are an Object You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue

re "claude is conscious explain human consciousness"

"I don't want to have to explain to my kids what gay people are" is ridiculous. You have to explain everything to them! They've never seen anything before! What else are you doing this about? You don't like broccoli so you just refuse to ever let your child know about what broccoli is? Okay man

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Computer: Tea; iced; from Panera; that kills you. Authorization code Picard-Gamma-Seven.

Dunno if this helps anyone but a reason why “don’t engage, just block” is so effective is that most troll culture is just about them feeling like they’ve won by virtue of having made you waste your time. It’s just emotional vampirism. Once you understand that, engaging seems pointless.

shark skirt art mockup

Shark skirt shark skirt shark skirt shark skirt shark skirt shark skirt....

#art #store

The makers of Inside Out want you to believe that they have zero interest in encouraging conversations about things that might be difficult emotionally.

Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say Health officials plead with residents to vaccinate against measles as Utah hits 358 infections.

I will never get over how the result of going through a global pandemic that killed over 7 million people, including 1.2 million Americans—and where we swiftly created an effective vaccine for it—was massive growth in anti-vax sentiment, the rise of RFK Jr., and the return of fucking measles.

100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money? Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say

Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”

Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth

tenchi masaki from tenchi muyo dressed in a grey schoolgirl uniform walks through a scifi scanner thingie

a computer screen showing his skeleton and a DNA strand, captioned dialog reads "everything looks okay"

the space cop or whatever says "but did you know your frame is very masculine?"

tenchi says "uh, i... have a father who's a man"

it's a pleasant surprise if you find a crossdressing character in a 90s anime and the joke being told is funny

Platner is a white guy who’s really good at being white and it’s impressed a lot of white people who are kind of dimwitted oafs but they have college degrees and they are paid to have opinions and well they’ve got vocabulary but they’re stupid as rocks and that comes with being a white American.

I was just venting to a friend the other day about how 10 years ago it was like… unheard of to see this volume of projects get so far into development before the company funding it decides “project cancelled, everyone go home” how much money is being thrown away on art no one gets to see?

move slow and repair things

This thinking is not different from antivaxx, it just says “tech” more

Pup got her nails professionally trimmed today because we just couldn't manage it on our own

she received a good grade in being a good girl for her nail trim, which is normal to want and possible to achieve

'An Iranian missile landed on him': Sky News speaks to son of expat who died in United Arab Emirates Saleh Ahmed, 55, was delivering drinking water when he was fatally struck by debris after a missile attack on the first day of the war. His son tells Sky News he does not believe his father knew the c...

Victims in our countries seldom get profiled and humanised in Western media. This is a portrait of a life cut short. What a tragedy.

"Saleh Ahmed (55) lived in the UAE as an expat for 25 years, sending under £500 per month in earnings to Bangladesh for his wife and four children."

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

#cutiesaturday

"bluesky is boring" then youre a fake ass poster. youre not supposed to mindlessly scroll youre supposed to post your every thought for the five people who care about u

To help make the case on Iran, [Senator Lindsey] Graham traveled several times to Israel in recent weeks, meeting with members of the country's intelligence agency. “They'll tell me things our own government won't tell me," he said. He spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, coaching him on how to lobby the president for action. Netanyahu showed the president intelligence that persuaded Trump to go ahead, Graham said.

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So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right