>censors all existing data on trans healthcare
>orders a study
I'm sure this will be completely unbiased
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
They are targeting adults.
US people:
Prepare in advance, stockpile what you legally (or in minecraft) can, find diy that you trust.
They are going to take your medically required medication from you. This study is expected to start in about six months, and will likely be bullshit that only takes a couple months after that. There is still time.
However, I would predict an almost guarantee of a major federal legal restriction on adult HRT access in the 6mo-1yr from now range. I don't want any of the bullshit I got at the time of the election about "fearmongering". I stand by everything I said then.
here's the updated version of diyhrt.wiki, diyhrt.info. the old one is no longer kept up with. please spread this site instead. also, check out r/TransDIY and r/estrogel on reddit for info on homebrewing hormones.
On a day like this, April 9th, 2003, Baghdad Museum was destroyed by US forces. they opened the gates of the museum to looting
"Although the U.S. has been actively repatriating artifactsโImmigration and Customs Enforcement returned more than 1,200 items between 2008 and 2015 aloneโit has also let some things slide. โIt is worth noting that there were no follow-up congressional hearings or independent investigations to pinpoint the parties responsible for the negligence connected to the museum debacle,โ Archeology Magazine reported in 2013. Whatโs more, as the Chicago Tribune reported in 2015, โAmerican military members, contractors, and others caught with culturally significant artifacts they brought home from the war there largely arenโt prosecuted.โ Itโs not known how many Americans brought home artifacts as souvenirs or war trophies, but one expert suggested to the Tribune that the known casesโa defense contractor who brought back gold-plated items from Saddamโs palaces; a U.S. employee who shipped home an Iraq government seal; a Marine who bought eight ancient looted stone seals off the streetโare just โthe tiniest tip of the iceberg.โ"
"The looting, Al-Hamdani said, was clearly precipitated by the invasion. The war forced archeologists to stop work at their sites and leave behind hundreds of impoverished locals whom theyโd trained and employed as excavators. Desperate and out of work, these locals began to earn an income the only way they knew how: by excavatingโand selling their finds."
"But even aside from looting, some of the Iraqi artifacts that stayed in the country were badly damaged by the U.S. invasion. The Babyloniansโ famous Ishtar Gate, built in 575 BC south of Baghdad and excavated in the early 1900s, offers a stark example. In 2003, U.S. forces established a military camp right in the middle of the archeological site. A 2004 study by the British Museum documented the โextremely unfortunateโ damage this caused. About 300,000 square meters were covered with gravel, contaminating the site. Several dragon figures on the Ishtar Gate were damaged. Trenches were cut into ancient deposits, dispersing brick fragments bearing cuneiform inscriptions. One area was flattened to make a landing pad for helicopters; another made way for a parking lot; yet another, portable toilets.
โIt is regrettable that a military camp of this size should then have been established on one of the most important archaeological sites in the world,โ the study noted. โThis is tantamount to establishing a military camp around the Great Pyramid in Egypt or around Stonehenge in Britain.โ
To say itโs โregrettableโ is an understatement to someone like Al-Hamdani, who noted that because civilization got its start in Mesopotamia, its archeological heritage represents the origins not only of Iraqis, but of all people. Wrecking that, he said, amounts to โlooting the memory of humankind.โ"
i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service youโre organising" one of the tags responding said "this isnโt about proshippers in here youโre not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.
There's a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.
For anyone who still isn't getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There's a difference between whom you're helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you're choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don't have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don't like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you're serious about leftist organizing.
I saw a police body cam video today that pissed me way off. There were a few guys sitting in the bed of a truck parked on the shoulder of what looked like a small highway. They were white, probably in their forties, and presumably from the rural South. They were drinking beer, possibly because their car stalled out or maybe just for fun, and the cop immediately pulled over and called for backup. At one point he said "this is some hillbilly shit." They drove away, pelting the cop car with beer cans (illegal, I know), and the video was posted for laughs.
The comments were full of mockery, especially from leftists. They made fun of the mens' weight, clothing, and attempt at a getaway. A bunch of people presumed they were right-wing on the spot and slammed them for it. Nobody pointed out that the cop immediately assumed that they were intentionally breaking the law and radioed for backup to assist in a possible confrontation. Nobody considered why the men would be so immediately hostile to police involvement, drunk and law-breaking or no.
Now, I'm a young and relatively attractive queer woman. I don't have an easy-to-place accent, and I'm on the upper side of middle class. If I got drunk and threw beer cans at a cop car in some city, and one of my friends put a video of it online, I'd be criticized by conservatives and probably applauded by laughing leftists. But men doing the same thing in a rural area were mocked by those same leftists in that same online space.
I'm not saying that "the left is just as bad," but I am saying that we have a real problem with stereotyping and exclusionary behavior - especially online. We've seen it with the people saying Appalachia deserved to be hit by Hurricane Helene, we've seen it with the people saying veterans who voted for Trump deserve to lose access to healthcare, we've seen it with the people saying pro-life women deserve to be raped and forcibly impregnated. It's not radical, it's not productive, and it's not kind.
You know what to do ๐ Snitch form link: https://www.ice.gov/webform/ice-tip-form
Incase they make filters against common types of spam, remember that one of the best ways you can do this through is making up realistic fake tips ๐
always so touching and vibrant when you remember people a hundred years ago had profound lives full of fun and love
my great grandparents met because they were both telephonist-telegraphists and they used to communicate in spoken morse code so that their kids wouldnโt understand the dirty jokes they were saying. And my great-aunt was telling me the other day about how her father would sit with his kids during stormy nights and hug them as they looked out the window and he pointed out how beautiful the lightning was. Because he didnโt want them to be afraid. It isnโt far away but itโs easy to forget that people are people are people
isnโt it cool that we still take silly pictures where we pretend to put our baby niece for sale or where we pretend to officiate a funeral on the beach? I think thatโs neat
In one of my familyโs old photo albums from around the 1910โs-20โs thereโs a picture of a dog sitting on a chair and wearing a hat.
This is my great grandma and her friends on a beach in Connecticut in 1918.
some of my faves are the ones where people have a new outfit or car, maybe even a hot date or the squadโs looking good tonight and they just had to capture their own coolness on film
Thinking about Lilo & Stitch makes me really appreciate certain things about the original + the series. Almost every single named [human] character in the movie isnโt white: the only exception being Mertle, yโknow, the bratty little girl weโre not supposed to like.
Besides all of the racial representation, Lilo herself is very much a neurodivergent icon, and her portrayal as the protagonist is amazing considering how characters like her are typically either sidelined or depicted in ways to make them less sympathetic/human (modern media does at least a slightly better job at adressing that kind of thing tho).
So all of that is great, but to anyone that hasnโt seen Lilo & Stitch: The Series, it also does some extremely refreshing stuff.
Pleakley gets tons of validation to dress in drag, everyone always referring to Pleakley as โsheโ when dressed up as โaunt Pleakley.โ Thereโs even an episode that tackles Pleakley dealing with the pressures of his family that wants him to marry a girl and settle down to have a โnormal life.โ After the episode's shenanigans, there's a realistic depiction of the misunderstanding of a heteronormative/traditional parent with their non-traditional child: Pleakley's mom says that she just wants her children to be happy, but when Pleakley says that he is happy, she thinks he's only trying to console her as she insists, "How can you be happy? You aren't even married." But Pleakley finally gets it through to his mom when he says, "I don't want to be married, mother! I'm happy just as I am."
After getting to meet all of Pleakley's ohana throughout the episode and hearing from Pleakley himself -after all of the previous misunderstandings- that he really, truly, is happy, she's finally starting to understand.
Even though his mom comments as they leave that she wants him to โtry wearing menโs clothes more often,โ she still does walk away accepting that she simply doesnโt understand her son's way of thinking. Itโll definitely be hard for her since sheโs so much more โtraditional,โ but sheโs finally coming to grips with the fact that her son is who he is, and likes being that way, so sheโll love him regardless. She's trying her best.
The portrayal of people with physical disabilities is also great. Itโs not because thereโs one recurring character with some condition, but almost because there are non-recurring characters. It isnโt in every episode, but hereโs an example: they want to show someone at the park playing fetch with their dog for just one shot. They could very easily have it be any a random person, but they decided to make it a lady in a wheelchair. There's another episode where Nani's friends from highschool show up and one has forearm crutches, but not just because she had some recent accident. No one in the episode questions her condition or feels the need to point it out, the only comment on it being that the friend will use the crutches to lightly bonk the others' arms, and Nani jokes, "You are still deadly with that thing."
The fact that they include characters with disabilities when they "don't have to" makes it that much more normal. These people aren't some special case or the main highlight of the episode, they're just another person. They're normal.
There's so much that all of the original Lilo & Stitch media did right, but now the name will forever be tainted with the association of the remake, which I'm sure will have absolutely none of the tasteful writing and ideas of anything prior to it.
The wedding episode is also great because Nani is set up as his wife to be, to both of their horror.
And when Jumba attempts to take one for the team as the bride, Pleakly is delighted to see him instead of Nani
ASAN is deeply concerned about the Executive Order (EO) โPreserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections." This explainer from AAPD talks about the EO, what's going on with voting right now, and how this impacts disabled voters.
if USPS has a million fans, I'm one of them
if USPS has 5 fans, I'm one of them
if USPS has 1 fan, that is me
if USPS has no fans, I'm no longer alive
if the world is against USPS I'm against the entire world
till my last breath I support USPS
I joke but actually USPS is the literal lifeline for so many housebound disabled people who receive lifesaving medications through it- especially housebound people in rural areas. so many private shipping companies do not serve rural areas. try getting anyone else to drive hours into the middle of nowhere to deliver. try it. not all disabled people live in urban areas. USPS saves disabled lives โผ๏ธ without USPS many housebound disabled people will die.
USPS is a disability rights issue
okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the "personal life" part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you'll either find a major tragedy he didn't recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she's not there anymore.
I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he's done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.
so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn't work in history, or, women aren't auteurs, or, there just aren't as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.
Hell yeah
Adding here that everyone should thank Mrs. Lucas for making sure that Star Wars wasn't COMPLETE dogshit.
Thank you Derek, menswear guide, for reminding me why paying more to be free advertising for brands is dumb.
