alyssa mercante

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an aperol spritz in human form (views expressed are mine alone)

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

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Slightly redid the living room! It was feeling too warm and too crowded with the ottoman and monstera and all that yellow, so I brought in more cool tones with a few smaller ottomans and a new rug and blanket, swapped some plants around, and hung a new picture.

Alyssa and Shane in their living room. A huge monstera sits against the fair wall, a yellow couch with matching ottoman are in the center of the roomThe redone living room. A Congo plant is on the left wall, the yellow couch has. A blue and yellow blanket and blue pillows on it. There are two green ottomans and a light blue ottoman and a yellow green white and blue rug. two pictures hang on the wall. Plants are in the window

PSA for New Orleans: Free IUDs for people without insurance and who make 400% or less of the Federal Poverty Level w/proof of income. Basically, if folks wanted an IUD but cost is a barrier, this is a great chance. via @nolanews.bsky.social

CrescentCare in New Orleans is giving away free IUDs in August. See who is eligible.

To be eligible, a person must be uninsured and make 400% or less of the Federal Poverty Level. Without insurance, an IUD typically costs between $500 and $1,800.

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If you have an online audience and use it to obsessively track and post about a person to mess with their emotional state and livelihood (and routinely sic your fans on them), you should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. If you did this IRL, you would be.

chopping it up with the transphobes before the Fire-Fever game on Friday really hammered this home: they want to endlessly "debate" abstract gender concepts because they have absolutely no way to implement any kind of sports-gender policy that doesn't require a whole lot of child genital inspection

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

The Campaign to Force Genital Exams on Girl Athletes Soon Washington State could require sex-verification tests for those playing sports in schools.
Portrait of Andrea González-Ramírez
By Andrea González-Ramírez, a senior writer for The Cut who covers systems of power.

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

The Campaign to Force Genital Exams on Girl Athletes Soon Washington State could require sex-verification tests for those playing sports in schools.
Portrait of Andrea González-Ramírez
By Andrea González-Ramírez, a senior writer for The Cut who covers systems of power. Those physicals, Maria explains, are usually perfunctory: “Like, Are you walking normally? Are you lightheaded? I have never had to take any clothes off. I’ve never felt uncomfortable or violated.” If IL26-638 were to pass and Maria were still in school, she says she would likely drop out of her team. (We’re withholding Maria’s real name to protect her privacy.) “I honestly don’t know if I would be able to do these tests,” she adds. “It would also make me question, If I do it, are all my teammates going to too? Or would I just play with the three or four girls who are willing to or have access to do it?”

Every once in a while I find a non verbal group of Overwatch players on comp, we win and then group up for multiple games, queue up instantly in between, and every round we roll teams in complete silence perfect synergy — this is very rare but when it happens I remember why I love this game

This is it, the entire conspiracy: In early 2020, Fauci and a bunch of scientists thought the virus could be engineered. Then they did more research and found that it didn't show any evidence of that. Nothing we've learned since has overturned this finding.

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Someone I respect very highly on a specific sloptuber: "Carefully skimming up the outrage that floats on the top of the sea of public discourse and concentrating it into a foul and briny cocktail."