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I have had Covid once, because one of my housemates brought it home. The other housemate now has a heart problem. I continue to mask in all indoor spaces with strangers.
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The late 2000s to mid 2010s had at least these achievements:
- the internet became less hostile to queer people existing
- the internet and society became more aware of (and less hostile to) trans people existing
- countries were at least discussing legalising same sex marriage
- tech and many hobbiest conferences and online communities started to embrace codes of conduct
- income and wealth inequality was a mainstream conversation
- racism and its harms was a mainstream conversation
- it still felt possible that we could avoid the worst of climate change
- there was movement against sexual harassment and assault in workplaces, there were cases against the churches and other institutions for the sexual abuse of children and other vulnerable people
- it felt like there was reason to be hopeful
None of these things were perfect. Homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and racism were still big problems, but the bigots were beginning to be careful about who heard them spout off.
Codes of conduct weren't (and aren't) always enforced and when they're enforced it isn't always to protect the vulnerable.
Then the wealthy fought back with Brexit, Trump's first term and the rise of authoritarianism across the globe. They forced inaction on climate change and suppressed worker wages. This took away a lot of the gains we had made. Now wealth inequality is even worse, and the richest man in the planet has bought the USA government.
am taking perverse pleasure in reminding people it's 2025. that's a star trek year. silly little science fiction number. except it's happening, and DANG ain't it underwhelming!
These are brilliant
I keep hate-reading plague literature from the medieval era, but as depressed as it makes me there is always one historical tidbit that makes me feel a little bittersweet and I like to revisit it. That’s the story of the village of Eyam.
I'm so sorry. Good luck.
when i say i’m from ukraine, people assume i live somewhere else now. when i say i live in ukraine, they assume i’m somehow immune to war, and there’s a logical division between a ukrainian they chat with on discord and a ukrainian on the news. bitches my yaoi is written from the bomb shelter
That's so cool
FISH DELOUSING LASER????
I'd love to see moose one day
Wow
icarus laughed as he fell
Literally sobbing. A judge, a US judge defended us. A judge brought up intersex people, using the term intersex, to *defend* us by not allowing our erasure. I'm having a lot of feelings right now
Since this blew up considerably, if you would like to help a disabled intersex person afford their medications and transportation to appointments, please consider sending a dollar or two via cashapp to $ElJay777 🥰 Absolutely no pressure, no guilt trips here. Just if you have it to spare and would like to help. Truly inspiring and encouranging to see this post reach so many and have so much love shown, thank you all so much for seeing us and supporting us. It really makes a difference ❤️
this is genius!!!!
performer: @abby_seim
video source: @josey__terry
Some of the women were so contaminated that radiation could still be detected using a Geiger counter of their graves in 1987. 62 years after the chief medical examiner of Essex County, New Jersey, Harrison Stanford Martland, MD, published his report that identified the radioactive material the women had ingested as the cause of their bone disease and aplastic anemia, and ultimately death.
so much rage for anyone who tells the story of the radium girls like “ohoho weren’t people in the 20s fucking stupid” and not like “corporate greed has always cost people’s lives and health”
Ok, this house is weird. Firstly, I was wondering what was up w/the garage door.
Turns out it's a mirror. Built in 1955 in Palm Springs, CA, it's been remodeled and you must see the choices. 3bds, 3ba, 2,319 sq ft, $1,499,999.
Check out the floor, like a mass murder scene.
Conversation pit decorated with a sofa and tables. Was this once a hot tub?
The stains continue throughout the kitchen.
Two lone side chairs in a corner.
Gray cement walls in the kitchen.
Snacks for the buyers?
Looking out toward the pool from the pit.
Cement dining table. I think it's built-in. It also appears to have a convenient electrical outlet.
It's such a huge space to fill. The sun is casting shadows, but it looks like there are steps here.
The glass wall opens to the pool.
There's a shower room here, but it's open. At least the shower & toilet are behind a wall.
The bedrooms and baths have floors that look watercolor stained. Interesting how they put the bed partly under the arch.
The bed from behind. Is that a fridge?
The ensuite is big, but so sparse and spread out. I would've expected a sink under the neon mirror. This is so ugly.
The secondary bedroom is plain and has floating nightstands installed.
The primary bedroom has folding doors to the patio.
Out by the pool, it looks like they repainted the statues pink and black, themselves. The lamp is broken.
Matching statues.
Nice fruit tree.
Fancy ceiling lights in the garage.
.28 acre lot.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2275-E-Belding-Dr-Palm-Springs-CA-92262/18019319_zpid/
Or perhaps "how far off are we [the Brits]?"
Executive chef at a top Thai restaurant tells Gordon Ramsay that his Pad Thai is trash [x]
Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."
This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find
Some people get existential dread from this
Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating
Former Minnesota Vikings punter, Chris Kluwe, who was blacklisted from the league for standing up for marriage equality, speaks at a city council meeting where he calls Trump a Nazi. He is subsequently arrested and carried out by police.
Tell your family, your friends, your social media accounts, your colleagues, your unions and your managers. Tell your elected officials. Tell them this is not okay. I know it feels as though there's so much shit, and nothing is happening, but what we're seeing is not inevitable. People are acting. You can help. Start by talking about it. Find your local activists.
Not talking about it because no one wants to argue about politics, looks the same as quiet acceptance, even if you do so in despair.
It's really bad. Trump has literally posted "He who saves his Country breaks no Laws". That's King shit. It's a 5 alarm fire.
Don't just reblog. Think of a friend. Find 5 things in the list above that will directly affect them (tariffs, insulin, another potential pandemic, dangerous reduction in the staff who take care of the government's nuclear assets....). Gather your evidence. Then call you friend. Give them the above list. Ask them to do the same.
Consumer sentiment matters. Republicans WILL bend if enough people start being loud about their disapproval. Find your local activists and be part of saving what remains. If you don't do anything else yet at least check out Mark Elias's Democracy Docket for updates on where the legal stuff is at.
elon musk did a nazi salute twice at the inauguration, and republicans are defending him.
trump revoked executive order 11246, which prohibited discrimination.
trump put all dei employees on leave to be fired.
trump blamed the dc plane crash on dei.
trump banned all lgbtq+ flags from being hung in government buildings.
trump ordered the pentagon to cancel celebration of mlk jr. day, black history month, women's history month, holocaust remembrance day, asian american pacific islander heritage month, lgbtq+ pride month, juneteenth, women's equality day, national hispanic heritage month, national disability employment awarenessmonth, and national american indian heritage month.
trump proposed removing all palestinians from gaza, turning the area into a vacation resort called “riviera of the middle east”.
trump rolled back biden’s executive order to lower prescription drug costs for people using medicare and medicaid.
trump rescinded the $35 cap on insulin, and prices are expected to rise to $1500 a month.
trump ordered the national institutes of health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.
trump ended the guidelines to prevent ai misuse. the guidelines prevent many things, but notably it prevents production of ai child pornography.
when sean hannity asked trump about the economy, he said “i don’t care”, after campaigning with the economy as his main talking point.
trump has withdrawn the us from the world health organization.
trump is ordering health agencies to stop reporting on bird flu and halt publications of scientific reports.
trump has pardoned over 1500 people who stormed the capitol on january 6th.
trump changed denali back to mount mckinley.
trump signed an executive order to rename the gulf of mexico to gulf of america.
trump shut down cbp one, an app which granted legal entry to 1 million+ immigrants.
trump is allowing ice raids at churches and elementary schools.
trump announced plans to declare a national emergency at the us-mexico border.
trump signed an executive order to expand the use of the death penalty.
trump disbanded the school safety board that works to prevent school shootings. it was comprised of survivors, educators, and gun violence prevention advocates and formed after the school shooting in parkland.
trump has threatened to invade panama to claim the panama canal.
trump withdrew from the paris climate act.
trump revoked all protections for transgender troops in the us military.
trump rescinded executive orders made by biden that benefited and protected women, lgbtq+ people, black americans, hispanic americans, asian americans, native hawaiians, and pacific islanders.
trump is attempting to make it legal to refuse to hire or fire pregnant women.
multiple state legislators are drafting bills to allow the punishment for abortion to be the death penalty.
trump pardoned 23 individuals convicted under the freedom of access to clinic entrances (FACE) act for their anti-abortion activism, including oftentimes violent protests at abortion clinics.
trump signed an executive order allowing deportation of foreign students who they believe express support for hamas or hezbollah.
trump announced that the us government will from here on out only recognize male and female as sexes. intersex is not legally recognized anymore.
trump has told all schools and universities that they have two weeks to end all diversity initiatives, or he will cut federal funding. (as of feb 19, 2025)
trump fired the staff of the federal aviation association after a deadly plane crash in dc.
trump has fired the heads of the tsa and coast guard, and gutted a key aviation safety advisory committee.
the official white house twitter account posted an “illegal alien deportation” asmr video where they did closeups of chains and the sound of ankle chains hitting the metal stairs of the airplanes deportees were being loaded onto.
the trump administration paused health communications to prevent the fda from announcing food recalls.
google and apple maps now display the gulf of mexico as “gulf of america”.
rfk jr. wants to ban SSRIs and put everyone on them into labor camps.
andy ogles drafted a constitutional amendment to allow trump to be president for a third term.
the us senate confirmed russell vought, one of the main authors of project 2025, will lead the white house budget office.
nancy mace repeatedly used the t-slur during a congressional meeting, three times were out of spite.
andy biggs introduced a bill to abolish osha and completely eliminate federal workplace safety protections.
georgia republican congressman mike collins called for the deportation of new jersey born mariann budde, the bishop who urged trump to “have mercy” on the lgbtq+ community and immigrants during a service at the national cathedral.
florida republican anna paulina luna has introduced a bill to add trump to mount rushmore.
new york republican claudia tenney introduced a bill to make trump’s birthday a federal holiday.
there is a bill named the SAVE act which would require americans to provide their birth certificate, passport, or other citizenship documents every time they vote, and would require the last name on their driver’s license to match that of their birth certificate. this would prevent married women who have changed their last name from voting.
bill h.r.1161, which is available publicly on congress.gov, would authorize trump to enter into negotiations to acquire greenland and to rename it to "red, white, and blueland".
six states (arizona, idaho, iowa, kansas, mississippi, and north dakota) are planning on challenging obergefell v. hodges, which would end same-sex marriage nationwide. about a dozen more states have representatives are also considering filing similar resolutions.
a bill to ban the mRNA vaccine has passed out of the house committee.
amazon revoked protections for lgbtq+ and black employees.
the cdc has removed their hiv prevention page.
the united states state department has officially changed its “travelers with special conditions” page which previously said “lgbtqi+ travelers” to “lgb travelers”, completely getting rid of the tqi+.
every single republican told us we were overreacting. trump swore he had nothing to do with project 2025 yet continues implementing details outlined in it. not a single person has the right to tell us we’re being dramatic anymore.
hope “cheaper eggs and gas” was worth it.
EDIT: i removed the “trump refused to swear on the bible” point because it was being taken as me being an offended christian. i’m not christian, im agnostic. the reason i included it in the first place is because he’s the first president in history to ever refuse to swear on ANYTHING. meanwhile his “conservative christian” followers had no issue with this, and decided to continue to scramble for excuses instead of admitting he may not be as religious as he claims he is. i figured taking that point out entirely is probably better than filling this with an explanation in the middle of the other important issues.
Wow
I grew up with a grandma who quilted, but she’d never been interested in passing along the hobby, so when she finally kicked it I was the grandkid who got all her materials, ‘cause I was the only one who knew how to use a sewing machine. Then, in 2015, a friend had a baby and I figured I’d make her a quilt, ‘cause how hard could it be?
oh
my
god
Luckily I am the stubbornest human alive, ‘cause I never woulda finished otherwise. I didn’t know what I was doing, didn’t know the terms to look up how to do anything, I musta reinvented the wheel like eight times and it took ten months, BUT I DID IT.
Figured I’d suffered enough and would never do it again and now I’m on quilt #9 smdh
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I’m hyperventilating.
Holy shit. Holy SHIT.
This is INCREDIBLE.
Oh my god.
I’ve gotta go lay down holy shit look at this how do we just walk by other human beings every day and live our separate lives when there’s a person sitting next to you on the train or in line for coffee who goes home and makes things like this what even IS being human holy shit.
GOOD FUCKING JOB.
It's also okay to describe what the active character is looking at. For example, "I saw her eyes starting to water, and as the first tears fell, I reached across the table and cupped her face in my hand. She looked down and leaned her face into my pain. I wiped her tears away with my thumb, across the ridges and valleys of her crows feet.
Or
Uncomfortable at her tears, Adrian reacted across and held her face in his hand. Her tears ran over her face, highlighting the wrinkles exacerbated by the upset tension in her face.
In writing, epithets ("the taller man"/"the blonde"/etc) are inherently dehumanizing, in that they remove a character's name and identity, and instead focus on this other quality.
Which can be an extremely effective device within narration!
They can work very well for characters whose names the narrator doesn't know yet (especially to differentiate between two or more). How specific the epithet is can signal to the reader how important the character is going to be later on, and whether they should dedicate bandwidth to remembering them for later ("the bearded man" is much less likely to show up again than "the man with the angel tattoo")
They can indicate when characters stop being as an individual and instead embody their Role, like a detective choosing to think of their lover simply as The Thief when arresting them, or a royal character being referred to as The Queen when she's acting on behalf of the state
They can reveal the narrator's biases by repeatedly drawing attention to a particular quality that singles them out in the narrator's mind
But these only work if the epithet used is how the narrator primarily identifies that character. Which is why it's so jarring to see a lot of common epithets in intimate moments-- because it conveys that the main character is primarily thinking of their lover/best friend/etc in terms of their height or age or hair color.
Hey, married women: Go apply for your passport.
The SAVE Act has passed in The House. It makes it illegal for a woman whose last name does not match her birth name to vote as a "citizenship verification measure." The main way around it is being able to present your passport at the polls since that proves your citizenship.
Look up your Senators here and raise hell on their phone lines about this blatant attempt to disenfranchise millions of women:
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
Keep your messaging simple:
“Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.”
That’s it. That’s the messaging. Don’t get bogged down disputing Trump’s false claims. Just blame him, in short and repeatable sentences.
![Screenshot of a news article from The Economic Times, published/last updated Feb 17, 2025 6:06pm.
Title: Newly launched DOGE website hacked: Classified information released?
Synopsis: Elon Musk had [said, sic] earlier that DOGE would be the most transparent government organisation ever.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/0e5329aeab537a45f7ba2cea5ffdacda/0e78cd678c9b54f9-c7/s640x960/ea743a21ff077911d62604cdfd0dc54d4f423d8f.png)
I don't think that "we don't know anything about hosting an even moderately secure website, we haven't secured our database and we don't know how to protect classified information" is the kind of "most transparent government organisation ever" that we want.
You probably know someone who is affected by this. Often they don't know that it's not just in their head. Spread the word.
We all know what erectile dysfunction is but literally no one is ever taught what vaginismus is and it can cause people to feel extremely lost, broken, and cause people to take their own lives. Raise. Awareness.
The breed standard for Persian cats is extremely bad for the cats.
Image and much more detail in the below. https://thelittlecarnivore.com/en/blog/persian-cats-is-it-too-late-for-the-breed
The breed standard for modern Persian cats calls for the nose and mouth to be in “vertical alignment” with the eyes 😭
The threat was loud and clear: Report your so-called “DEI” employees or else. What exactly “DEIA or similar ideologies” means is up in the air, but the message was out there. And so was the email address of the DEIA snitching hotline. Fake emails quickly started to roll in. ‘I don’t care, fuck these McCarthyite bastards,” one BlueSky user said, with an screenshot attached of an email to the hotline where he ironically reported Donald Trump and JD Vance for being “put in their positions solely because of their race and/or gender despite the fact that they are wholly unqualified for their jobs and, in some cases, have criminal records.” “Anyone have a script to fire off a billion e-mails an hour??” another user asked in the replies. “Anyone can email anything of any size even if it crashes the site,” one X user noted. The scope and effectiveness of this latest phase of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade remains to be seen.
Quick reminder that it's always morally correct to punch nazis.
It really did.
what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?
would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?
Anyway
If you decide to read this, just remember you're not obliged to finish reading it. It's a hard read and stopping and watering the garden or making dinner or having a cup of tea and looking at plants are all good self care.
Quick notes below if you can't read the whole article.
The article expands on a story that became public mid 2024, but in short, Gaiman is alleged to be a serial sexual abuser.
During the acute phase of the pandemic, Palmer who was in the process of divorcing Gaiman, befriended a homeless and vulnerable woman, Pavlovich, and offered her a job in being nanny to her and Gaiman's son (shared custody split between two homes). Gaiman could easily have afforded to pay an experienced nanny but somehow ended up having this vulnerable woman, Pavlovich, come play nanny at his as well. Palmer allegedly told him to leave Pavlovich alone, but Gaiman allegedly did not, and allegedly sexually assaulted/raped her repeatedly throughout the time she was their son's nanny. A lot of terrible abuse is detailed, including under-the-covers sexual activity with the lights on in a hotel room with his under-10yo son metres away looking at his tablet.
Payment for the nannying was... spotty at best.
Eventually Pavlovich told Palmer about Gaiman's behaviour. Palmer tried to help Pavlovich during her (very understandable) mental health crisis as a result but was not very effective. Eventually Pavlovich told the police about the alleged assaults and rape. The police said they'd need Palmer to verify her parts of the story, Pavlovich was convinced she would, but Palmer didn't.
Pavlovich is now doing much better far away from the two of them.
Palmer lost everything in the divorce (an outcome she was probably hoping to avoid by keeping her mouth shut) and now lives with her parents. I'm not sure what the custody agreement is for their kid but hopefully it's not 100% with Gaiman.
Gaiman has been doing fine.
The article attempts at various times to blame Gaiman's behaviour on the abuse he probably experienced as a child from Scientology/Dianetics, that he's never talked about but which may have informed some of the child abuse in The Ocean At The End Of The Lane.
TW: rape, sexual assault, child abuse
Archived version here, in case you hit the pay wall:
https://archive.is/HJtxW