I know other countries have better parental leave than the US but are there any countries that have taxpayer-funded retreat centers and 6 months of paid leave after you’ve been sexually assaulted

Anora director Sean Baker never credited Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor as writers for Tangerine angelfoodmag.com/romance-labor

Romance Labor — Angel Food

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my Roman Empire is that in two weeks we’ll have a blood red moon eclipse on Ides of March Eve

Timothée Chalamet in his most challenging role yet — a melting stick of butter

my most evil landlord was a celebrity cupcake pastry chef

J¡m Vaughn@jiminyspigot.bsky.social · 2y ago

Celebrity chefs are funny. Like, imagine telling a famous person to make you some mozzarella sticks.

Elon having college-age kids on DOGE is so much like how the cult I grew up in, the "Moonies" mostly recruited on college campuses. Young & impressionable, they don't yet have a wealth of career experience to compare this job to. So they'll do their best to prove themselves without question.

Pretty Woman 2: Julia Roberts and Richard Gere buy Joann Fabrics to save it from private equity destruction, then sell it to the workers for $1

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Joann, a destination for generations of lovers of crafts projects for 80 years, is going out of business and shuttering all its stores

Posting this from months ago because we DO have homegrown experience with autocratic regimes in this country. In nearly half this country during the first 6 decades of the 20th century Black people lived under systems of cruelty, voter suppression, hate, state violence & corruption. Ask them!

Me last summer: “I don’t feel well.” Doctor: “Are you in pain?” Me: “I don’t know. What is pain? I’m in discomfort. A lot of discomfort.” [Doctor orders labs] Doctor: “Are you sure you’re not in pain because your kidneys are murdering you rn”

Fochti@fochti.bsky.social · 2y ago

Dr: does your head hurt most of the time? Autistic person: [thinks: well it hurts 3 days out of 7 every week which is clearly not normal, but since it's only 3/7 it's technically not "most of the time"] no :) Dr: well, then it's probably nothing! Autistic person: okay :) [dies from brain tumor]

my Roman Empire is that in two weeks we’ll have a blood red moon eclipse on Ides of March Eve

My migraines were under control until I was sexually assaulted a month ago. Now I start each day unable to see any light without vomiting so that’s neat

My new favorite way to celebrate a friend getting citizenship is to host a party for them at the @teslatakedown.com protest

The play I’m writing about human trafficking is not a musical but it has some very funny busking scenes

I just got an ad from my bank to pay my taxes with a credit card they want to sell me

I have a very niche audio engineering problem that will get me thrown in a Scottish dungeon if I can’t solve it

going to a US citizenship ceremony rn feels a bit like running into a burning building but Fahrenheit 451 was my favorite book in middle school so 🤷‍♀️

LA County gave people just 18 days to apply for assistance after the fires. I know trafficking survivors who lost their homes and businesses and are scrambling just to survive

My friend told me that my failure inspires them. I’m beginning to question whether this person is my friend

a woman is making a funny face while looking at the camera .

Alt: a woman is making a funny face while looking at the camera .kombucha girl uncertainty faces

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my trafficker is one of their confidential informants 🥴

@swop-usa.bsky.social · 2y ago

202 total arrests in a sex trafficking sting, but not a single report of a trafficking victim found. Interesting. www.abc15.com/news/crime/m...

the person who sexually assaulted me a month ago finally took a break from harassing me so that’s nice

inside you there are two hockey teams

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

I wish I could have been sexually assaulted after I’d finished filing my taxes because it’s making it really hard to concentrate on anything lol

Ah yes, farmers, famously the least depressed demographic. I fear what he’s actually describing is forced labor and internment camps

Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2y ago

RFK Jr said he wants to send folks who are taking antidepressants and ADHD medications to "wellness farms" in rural America where they will be forced to labor by growing organic food to "cure their addictions." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

When I was a teenager I performed a reverse strip tease on the same stage as Jinkx Monsoon where I seductively put on more and more layers of clothing until I was wearing 5 coats and fell over, drenched in sweat. For some reason, my career of dressing like a sexy Michelin Man never took off

You know why the Black Panthers were so feared by the fascist establishment? Because they served free breakfast among other very tangible things. May every good thing we create and work toward be as tangible and powerful as free hot breakfast

When you’ve been sexually assaulted by multiple family members, it’s a kind of trauma that is wholly different. I’m not saying it’s worse, but please don’t tell me that incestuous sexual assault is similar to date rape. I feel genetically cursed. My family and I should not exist

Being autistic preserved me and kept me safe and alive as a kid being tortured by my trafficker/dad — but as an adult, being autistic is making nearly every aspect of my life impossible

I keep wishing I could schedule when violence or sexual assaults have occurred in my life, but then I remember that there’s never a good time to “schedule” an assault. Ugh, the attempted grasps for control and order is one of PTSD’s weirder symptoms lol

One thing about me is I don’t love being sexually assaulted on the day a rapist is inaugurated president