Advocate. Bi. Genderqueer. Green thumb.
AI Hater. Disabled. Vaxxed. Masked.
Editor. Journalist. Producer. Writer.
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PFP: purple-tinted pic of me with hair down, wearing glasses, and smiling.
Banner: The shore of gichi-gami
At this point, I genuinely believe the entire public is being actively gaslit by both the media, and Esther Ghey herself, into forgetting that Brianna Ghey was murdered, by people she knew from school, in real life, who were partly influenced by transphobia, fuelled by the media and politicians.
A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope β the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-reliance
That's right.
OK, you *know* your neighbor is having a bad day when they're blasting Coldplay in the back yard.
Is this a cry for help? Should I be concerned?
Great. Guess I get to have Migraine Monday because the sports freaks still don't care that strobing lights are a hazard and never label their flashing videos.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
I wrote a poem, "A Pepper Spray Republic" back in 2012.
If the government is empowered to do illegal things to people protesting the illegal things gov't is doing to violate people's rights... and the people aren't allowed basic defensive measures... there's no reasonable claim it's a democracy.
When you see it like this, it's hard not to conclude the direction is 'children should not be allowed access to original thought'.
I wanna make it clear that Minnesotans wonβt stand for ICE at polls. I will take the day off and stand at a polling place escorting people in, and there are thousands others like me
What they're doing to Palestine Action is truly wretched stuff man.
Principled direct action against a Genocide is what leads to endless punishment and imprisonment while the bastards that fund, enable, defend, justify, and enact the genocide are all protected and coddled.