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aerialist. I make tiny furniture and wear a mask in public. they/them

This is an excellent reminder that it’s never too late to start masking again. It’s community care. It’s self care. It’s a great way to show solidarity with disabled and marginalized groups. If you’re unsure what mask to get or want to learn more about respirators, my mask guide is below:

We’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a Mask

Measles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask!

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If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, STUDIO 60! 20 Years and you're still the worst show that's ever been on television that wasn't a prank or a tax dodge.

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I wrote this in 2023 when attacks on critical race theory and DEI were at a critical mass and conservatives began moving on to transgender people, using early childhood education and weaponizing white childhood. What we are seeing from Democratic candidates is exactly what I knew would follow.

With these temporarily consuming culture wars, the right mobilizes to set the cultural context that enables them to enact authoritarianism with little opposition. Meanwhile, conservative dark money groups astroturfed the “organic” local opposition to critical race theory and are doing it again with transgender people. When the general public moves on and accepts the controversy as a hum of white noise in the background, bad actors no longer have to put work into maintaining the veneer of new cultural grievances within this policy area anymore. They have manufactured enough seemingly superficial pop culture controversies in early childhood to enact their real goals. Now they’ve moved onto using light beer to stoke violent threats in order to silence positive trans representation for young people on social media.

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

this is an extension of the school of thought that the only valid type of debate is dispassionate, impersonal and completely objective, and expressing any human emotion means you are irrational and should be excluded from the conversation

Money is for two things. Reducing entropy and having experiences. If you are a millionaire or a billionaire you fucked up so bad. You have to spend that shit to help people and then go see a metal show or buy some art at a gallery show or something

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

The cut did an article on hetero men not having friends and relying on their spouse for all social contact and support/suffering from rapid psychological disassembly when their wife leaves them or dies bc of this and on fb every comment from a man is “I don’t need friends, I have my family”

Some argue web accessibility is super expensive and time-consuming. That's true if you wait till the end and have to rebuild the site. But if you consider accessibility from the beginning and your team knows what to do, then accessibility doesn't have be costly or time-consuming.