Wait until those geniuses learn about the interdependent nature of the global supply chain built over the last several generations.
Without the Chinese market, there is no avenue for this country to have sizeable revenue growth. And without revenue growth, this country’s economy contracts.
So, no growth.
And no trust in our government, given that losses in both stocks AND bonds show [global] money flight out of the U.S.
Trump is literally bankrupting the country. Everything else they claim is total bullshit.
Today in “Animals that it didn’t occur to me might be able to go to the beach and enjoy it, but apparently do and now that I’m seeing it makes perfect sense”: Camel!
really is soooo sick that ppl think that overuse of the em dash is a marker of ai now. like why are you people sullying the reputation of my beautiful beautiful wife. if im not overusing em dashes im dead. im like that chuck tingle book thats like the sentient lesbian em dash makes sweet love to me or whatever
I have never used ChatGPT once in my life, and you can pry my beloved em dash from my cold, dead, unartificial hands.
the first paper I ever wrote in grad school came back with the comment “finally, watch those em dashes, girl!” and so I switched over to overuse of semicolons instead but allowed myself an em dash every page or two in my dissertation and I would just like to say that I have been offended by many trivial things in my life but NEVER quite so much as by this idea that em dash is a marker of the plagiarism machine.
Trans rights are still under attack in the United States. Please visit our website linked below to learn about your state and contact your reps. Here’s a thread of today’s updates:
Bathroom bills deny access to public restrooms by gender or trans identity.
They increase danger without making anyone any safer and have even prompted attacks on cis and trans people alike. Many national health and anti-sexual assault organizations oppose these bills.
Old Bills:
Arkansas passed bill SB486 through its House committee yesterday and sent it to the House floor.
Texas placed bill SB240 on the Senate floor calendar today.
Tennessee replaced bill HB0571 with its crossfiled version (bill SB0468) yesterday. After a successful final House vote, the bill will only need a successful Senate approval vote to pass and go to the governor.
North Dakota called a conference committee yesterday to reconcile the House and Senate versions of bill HB1144.
Healthcare bills go against professional and scientific consensus that gender-affirming care saves lives. Denying access will cause harm.
Providers are faced with criminal charges, parents are threatened with child abuse charges, and intersex children are typically exempted.
Old Bills:
Arkansas passed bill HB1916 yesterday and will send it to the governor soon.
Texas sent out the House committee report for bill HB778 yesterday and will schedule the bill for a House floor vote soon.
Missouri placed bill HJR54 on the House Informal Perfection Calendar yesterday. The bill will remain there for some time before going to a House floor vote.
Missouri took up the House committee version of bill HJR73 yesterday. The bill is currently awaiting fiscal review before getting a third vote in the House.
Montana scheduled a House approval vote for the Senate version of bill HB682 today.
Montana scheduled a Senate approval vote for the House version of bill SB218 today.
Educational Censorship and Student Suppression bills force schools to misgender or deadname students, ban instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, and make schools alert parents if they suspect a child is trans.
They remove life-saving affirmation and support for trans youth.
Old Bills:
Arkansas bill SB362 failed its third House reading yesterday.
Oklahoma passed bill SB796 through its House committee today and sent it to the House floor.
Trans Erasure bills create legal definitions of terms like “sex” designed to exclude or erase trans identity and insert them into various laws. This can have many different effects, depending on what laws are affected.
They can force a male or female designation based on sex assigned at birth.
Some target anti-discrimination statutes, legally empowering trans discrimination.
Old Bills:
Arizona’s governor vetoed bill HB2062 yesterday, though a veto override attempt may still occur.
Arizona’s Senate passed an amended bill HB2438 yesterday and sent it back to the House for approval.
Digital Censorship Bills describe any legislation that potentially targets Queer and Trans media/material for removal.
They typically do this by using vague and broad definitions of “Obscene” or “Harmful to Minors” and then banning such content from being accessible to minors, which often either removes the material entirely or requires age verification methods in order to view.
This includes online censorship bills, library book bans, and other such legislation.
Old Bill:
North Dakota’s House passed bill SB2307 yesterday and sent it back to the Senate for approval.
Most sports bills force schools to designate teams by sex assigned at birth.
They are often one-sided and ban trans girls from playing on teams consistent with their gender identity.
Some egregious bills even force invasive genital examinations on student athletes.
Old Bill:
Texas left bill SB2920 pending in the Senate Education K-16 Committee yesterday.
These are other anti-trans bills that either fit multiple categories or stand on their own.
Old Bill:
Montana passed bill HB638 yesterday and will send it to the governor soon.
It’s not too late to stop these and other hateful anti-trans bills from passing into law. YOU can go to http://transformationsproject.org/ to learn more and contact your representatives!
We’re at “traffic tickets are justification for disappearing people off the street and sending them to death camps with no due process” levels of fascism now.
Okay yeah we’re like fucked, fucked.
yep. cannot overstate how bad this is, y'all.
so who’s going with me to protest again in force this weekend with your local 50501/Indivisible/Women’s March chapters? and/or start practicing for a general strike?
let’s go, chop chop, democracy sure as hell ain’t going to save itself without help from every one of y'all. those of you who refused to vote, you get to protest extra in remedial harm reduction studies, but you can ultimately catch up with the class as we move forward. here’s where that gets us! go on, anarchist crust punks, start organizing for a general strike and line up food sources, water sources, etc in case of a strike, this is like the thing y'all are best at. now’s your chance to shine.
that reminds me. it’s too much to be doing everything and knowing everything at once. that’s the point. so how do we make sure nothing gets lost in the shuffle?
we trust one another to be different and have different priorities, and everyone picks something and sticks with it. I am currently sitting here typing to you as someone who is involved in
artists, it’s a great time to think about getting into street art as a form of eyecatching resistance; viral moments spread across social media, and our visual artists and our textile artists have probably the collectively best chance to create that organic, all-present social buzz. we cannot sit down and let anything blow over from everyone right now, and y'all are our best defense against that. pick a topic that you care a lot about, get up and watch it and act for it when it needs you, and don’t worry too much if you come in on it a day late and a dollar short: that topic’s own people will be standing up for it first.
storytellers, comics, we could use you to help draw attention to the political fight for our rights and to shape the narratives that we use to hurl our fury at this bullshit. what images give people courage? what jokes hit the hardest, afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted? how can you best humanize the many people under attack from this occupation? what are the best things to shout? (singers and poets, we could really use some better things to shout. I was out at the stand up for science march and the slogans were dog shit, we can definitely do better than that.)
scientists, librarians, teachers, museum partisans and scholars, we need so much defense of our higher institutions of learning and of the value of honestly describing the natural world. truth has never been so devalued in American politics, and that is saying something. Make sure we are grounded in the natural world and reality itself. Teach people why we use citation trails to trace the history and the paths taken by ideas over time; not to protect ourselves from accusation of plagiarism, but in order to understand how ideas develop and exactly how a thing we know became known. Sometimes it should not have been. Defend the truth; there can be no justice without truth.
disabled and unemployed folks, stay at home moms, you might not have a lot of resources at your disposal, but many of you have time to spare. this therefore makes you often invaluable to local organizing efforts, because time can be a resource that many other people find difficult to apply.
fellow internet yappers, now is a good time to talk to people and listen during the pauses we aren’t talking, because we as chronic yappers are bad at doing that but it is vastly necessary if you’re going to put weight on your organizing. if people have concerns when they talk to you, listen and think about them. you will do the best work with people who know, like, and trust you. think about how to foster more connection in your community. also, please get yourself yapping in meatspace at a protest near you soon. protests are invaluable ways to connect to other people in your geographic region who are also spitting mad about this bullshit. make friends and resolve your alienation a little bit by yelling furiously in a group.
our shattering is not fore-ordained. we live in interesting times. who knows what the outcome of this battle will be?
I need you all to be extremely clear about something, when Trump uses shit like Title IX incorrectly, hes trying to also scapegoat it for his actions, taint by association and all that, do not fall for it, Title IX is one of the most important pieces of legislation for equal rights in this country, do not rebrand it in your mind as “the thing trump is using to be transphobic” do NOT, because hes egregiously misusing it and twisting it to be something it was never meant to be, start to believe that Title IX is the problem.
I had to study it in college it’s so fucking vital you don’t even want to know what schools look like without it. You don’t even know half of the horrors faced by those who were black, disabled, women, and or not English speakers of the past before they used it to earn their right to education. Do not let him make you think it’s something it’s not, im begging, you can’t make it harder to try and defend and protect it if you care at all about any minority group in this country of any kind. Do not let him fool you.
Ive seen so many people like, try to control in a way what issues people can write and how they can right them???? Its with the threat of if you write any of these things in a certian way, you can be labled so many awful things. its honestly worrying. and i have story lines that i would like to write! i just worry so much i would be labled as something
You’re gonna be labelled as something to all these fandom/purist wankers
Literally they get off to the idea that “everything is pretty perfect when things are bland and align within my view”
But nothing ever works like that. Not life, not fiction. Not even me and you
So that is why we rebel by just existing, by doing what we do. We keep going because nothing we’re doing is wrong. We’re just writers telling a story, and these stories weren’t meant for these people.
You’re going to be labeled something by literally everybody, unfortunately that’s a reality of life.
Are you going to let them make you believe their labels? Are you going to let those labels tear you down and define who you are as a person?
❤️ creating is supposed to be fun and some people just forget that so is consuming said creations.
Write what you want. Seriously. Don’t waste your magic trying to mold your creativity into something that feels acceptable or palatable to others because the truth is, no matter what you create, someone out there is going to judge it. People love to slap labels on things they don’t understand or things that don’t fit neatly into a box. But trying to please everyone only leads to watering down your voice, and you deserve better than that. Your ideas, your stories, your characters? They all matter, and they deserve the space to exist exactly as you imagine them and not a weakened version of them.
To stifle your creativity is to stifle yourself. Art is one of the few places in this world where you can be wildly, unapologetically free. So take advantage of it. Make things that thrill you, unsettle you, comfort you, and challenge you. Write with abandon. The people who get it will find you. And most importantly, you’ll find yourself in the process.
