it would appear the two sides of the coordinate clause "build digital God and ask it for money" are beginning to delaminate

Axios@axios.com · 3h ago

NEW: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down

This is a 1,600 bed facility, so it will instantly become one of ICE's largest facilities. It will also be one of (if not the actual) largest ICE jail/prison in the midwest.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterday

🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.

Even under Trump we can still force through billions of dollars of student debt cancellation All praise to @eddebtjustice.bsky.social for fighting the good fight for over a decade to make this the largest class action in US history The fight is far from over

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 5h ago

So many people I encounter, especially in HigherEd, believe the only strategy for this moment is "keep your head down." @debtcollective.bsky.social didn't change priorities in 2024, nor in 2020, nor in 2016. They barreled ahead. There first big win was $800 million. This one is $11 billion.

a human woman takes the form of a horse

“Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?" —Jack Gilbert, "The Abandoned Valley"

"People perceived to be vulnerable are frequently targeted in instances of exploitation, harassment, theft and violence during experiences of homelessness. Studies have documented the pervasive victimization of older adults, women and other marginalized populations in shelter environments."

SN Désirée Cha@sndesireecha.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"She was committed to changing the dehumanizing nature of a homeless-serving system ... [As the] COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, the job fell through, an abusive roommate kicked her out[. It] was a 'perfect storm" that [arguably] brewed over a lifetime of accumulating vulnerabilities."

this violence happens daily. “And it turned out to be a man who pulled a woman out of her sleep while she was experiencing homelessness on the monument & dragged her towards the bushes right by the water.” “She had her license stolen. So she was an injured woman who was experiencing a hard time.”

Good Samaritan describes helping stop Georgetown attempted sexual assault

A man leaving an early morning showing of the new Spider-Man movie at the AMC Georgetown sprang into action to help a woman yelling for help from the bushes in the nearby waterfront park.

nbcwashington.com

my nervous system cannot cope with the sensory overload of gyms or even public libraries some days are like this cocoon restore

California’s uninsured rate could nearly double by 2030, with the sharpest losses hitting Black, Asian, and Latino residents in Southern California. A new documentary reveals the human toll behind the numbers, including families navigating Medi-Cal amid immigration raids and looming benefit cuts.

California nearly achieved universal healthcare. Now, millions are losing coverage

California’s uninsured rate could nearly double by 2030, with the sharpest losses hitting Black, Asian, and Latino residents in Southern California. A new documentary reveals the human toll behind…

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please help as much as you can

SN Désirée Cha@sndesireecha.bsky.social · 5h ago

i live in a car. my body cannot effectively thermoregulate bc autoimmune illness & meds. must run car A/C. 3/4 tank filled cost $51—2 days ago, now at 1/2 tank. i use raised $ as soon as i receive it. job-hunting since Feb ‘25. i need help. please help me stay alive. V SNDesiree C $SNDesiree

i live in a car. my body cannot effectively thermoregulate bc autoimmune illness & meds. must run car A/C. 3/4 tank filled cost $51—2 days ago, now at 1/2 tank. i use raised $ as soon as i receive it. job-hunting since Feb ‘25. i need help. please help me stay alive. V SNDesiree C $SNDesiree

SN Désirée Cha@sndesireecha.bsky.social · 2mo ago

disabled crip bodies are not built for living in cars. no bodies are.

New rule, if you want to engage with Air Conditioning Discourse, you also have to send @sndesireecha.bsky.social $5

SN Désirée Cha@sndesireecha.bsky.social · last mo.

This is urgent. Heat deaths are on the rise and I live in my car. My disabilities mean my body cannot effectively thermoregulate.

Vijay Prashad: “We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ... [Difference] among peoples is something we negotiate in our everyday interactions, 1/2

“asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness." —Vijay Prashad, "Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity" 2/2

how to not be preyed upon by people who hunt vulnerable lonely people

Damn this makes me so fucking sad. People hate to ask for help, it feels fucking awful. Nobody chooses, NOBODY, to be homeless or destitute or unable to fend for themselves. Everyone wants autonomy and agency and control of their own lives. Capitalism is killing us. You are helping being this way.

People hate survivors.

in 2017 Autostraddle published my essay, “The Mammalian Dive Reflex.” It names one of numerous harms visited on a body in an abuse culture sans frontières. Last spring I dealt with another SA. You don’t pay rent with this kind of writing. But I am proud of it. www.autostraddle.com/the-mammalia...

SN Désirée Cha@sndesireecha.bsky.social · 8mo ago

the facts are: people do not believe survivors. there is a sickly, guilty embarrassment, a sort of, "why are you making a big stink out of nothing?" blame implied. it's the emergence of denial, white supremacist racial capitalist patriarchy, and rape culture. it's why people don't speak out.

in truth, there are as many reasons for being homeless as there are people experiencing it. it's not all mental health, substance use disorders, or whatever the flavor of the month may be. some of us are alone in the world. some of us are survivors of violence. listen to people.

in 2024, i lost my birth mother, older half-brother, younger half-brother, and my youngest maternal aunt forever. so i have been grieving.

bless the rescue inhaler for breathing is important

$80 in the bank. i will die out here. goal: $500 to get through August homeless since 2025. please help a femme stay alive. V SNDesiree C $SNDesiree

rationing the puffs left in my sole albuterol rescue inhaler because i can’t afford another one and cannot access a doctor to prescribe a new script

If you’re curious about what happened to people who are struggling now, many of us can direct you to a straight line between the austerity measures of the late aughts to now, where we were austerity-ied straight out of the labor force, and into a permanent under class

Look do you think anyone asking for mutual aid that you're telling to get a job would not prefer to have a job rather than submit themselves daily to your abuse for their survival?

every homeless person you see (and some whom you do not clock as homeless but nevertheless are) is walking around with a broken heart and it gets broken again several times a day

i live in a car. my body cannot effectively thermoregulate bc autoimmune illness & meds. must run car A/C. 3/4 tank filled cost $51—2 days ago, now at 1/2 tank. i use raised $ as soon as i receive it. job-hunting since Feb ‘25. i need help. please help me stay alive. V SNDesiree C $SNDesiree

SN Désirée Cha@sndesireecha.bsky.social · 2mo ago

disabled crip bodies are not built for living in cars. no bodies are.

this violence happens daily. “And it turned out to be a man who pulled a woman out of her sleep while she was experiencing homelessness on the monument & dragged her towards the bushes right by the water.” “She had her license stolen. So she was an injured woman who was experiencing a hard time.”

Good Samaritan describes helping stop Georgetown attempted sexual assault

A man leaving an early morning showing of the new Spider-Man movie at the AMC Georgetown sprang into action to help a woman yelling for help from the bushes in the nearby waterfront park.

nbcwashington.com

architecture and spatial design affect body and possibility a body living in a tin car requires constant reminders of possibility to not disappear completely

every day i wake up in a car and wonder why the world is so hostile to my existence