Jules (it/they)
@desert-magpie.bsky.social
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desperate for privacy in the age of digital surveillance
#LandBack
USAmerican
science is real
religion is not inherently harmful, but it can and does deeply hurt people
apostate
desperate for privacy in the age of digital surveillance
#LandBack
USAmerican
science is real
religion is not inherently harmful, but it can and does deeply hurt people
apostate
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one of our most favorite vimes quotes:
December 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
one of our most favorite vimes quotes:
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Read The Recloseted Lesbian for free on:
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Read on Kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSRVWG2Y
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- Tapas: tapas.io/series/The-R...
- Namicomi: www.patreon.com/c/obelis
Early access and extra content: www.patreon.com/c/obelis
Read on Kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSRVWG2Y
The Recloseted Lesbian
I tried coming out as a lesbian. My abusive, ultra-religious mother forced me back into the closet. Doing these little strips is one of my ways to cope.
www.webtoons.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Read The Recloseted Lesbian for free on:
- Webtoon: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/th...
- Tapas: tapas.io/series/The-R...
- Namicomi: www.patreon.com/c/obelis
Early access and extra content: www.patreon.com/c/obelis
Read on Kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSRVWG2Y
- Webtoon: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/th...
- Tapas: tapas.io/series/The-R...
- Namicomi: www.patreon.com/c/obelis
Early access and extra content: www.patreon.com/c/obelis
Read on Kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSRVWG2Y
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is convincing us that virtually every place in America "doesn't work" with transit.
It's not as hard as we would all be led to believe. Even a single bus line can make a huge difference. We don't have to do housing first -- in fact doing transit first works way better. climatecabineteducation.org/wp-content/u...
climatecabineteducation.org
December 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is convincing us that virtually every place in America "doesn't work" with transit.
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Do I have things to do?
Yes.
Am I doing any of those things?
Absolutely not.
Yes.
Am I doing any of those things?
Absolutely not.
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Do I have things to do?
Yes.
Am I doing any of those things?
Absolutely not.
Yes.
Am I doing any of those things?
Absolutely not.
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Demand based solutions: ban all fossil fuel motors from Lake Tahoe.
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Demand based solutions: ban all fossil fuel motors from Lake Tahoe.
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In other words, there’s less of a soil carbon differential between “business as usual farming” and “better farming” than there is between “farming” and “not farming.”
#WorldSoilDay
#WorldSoilDay
December 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
In other words, there’s less of a soil carbon differential between “business as usual farming” and “better farming” than there is between “farming” and “not farming.”
#WorldSoilDay
#WorldSoilDay
the funniest ongoing discussion in my social group is whether certain things are kibty or ouppy. mostly animals but there have been some others (naps, sniffing, the sun, etc)
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
the funniest ongoing discussion in my social group is whether certain things are kibty or ouppy. mostly animals but there have been some others (naps, sniffing, the sun, etc)
decided to join in lexember! im a bit late so ill post the first 4 days all right now
this is Fènēn, my first conlang project. it's tonal, but IPA cant really reflect that, it's close enough though. these are all core words and require additional particles to be grammatically correct
this is Fènēn, my first conlang project. it's tonal, but IPA cant really reflect that, it's close enough though. these are all core words and require additional particles to be grammatically correct
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
decided to join in lexember! im a bit late so ill post the first 4 days all right now
this is Fènēn, my first conlang project. it's tonal, but IPA cant really reflect that, it's close enough though. these are all core words and require additional particles to be grammatically correct
this is Fènēn, my first conlang project. it's tonal, but IPA cant really reflect that, it's close enough though. these are all core words and require additional particles to be grammatically correct
read Night Watch in less than 24 hours yesterday cause i had commute time and also it's just that good
December 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
read Night Watch in less than 24 hours yesterday cause i had commute time and also it's just that good
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My wife's a huge Discworld fan.
December 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My wife's a huge Discworld fan.
my transgender ass believes in Cheery Littlebottom supremacy
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
my transgender ass believes in Cheery Littlebottom supremacy
tragically, i saw not one but two cybertrucks today. i still cant believe that those are allowed on the streets (and that multiple people in my relatively small city own one)
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
tragically, i saw not one but two cybertrucks today. i still cant believe that those are allowed on the streets (and that multiple people in my relatively small city own one)
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US americans might be the only people in the world so boldly lacking in moral fiber that they will proudly self-declare as having made the decision that their college education is worth murdering foreign children about
August 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
US americans might be the only people in the world so boldly lacking in moral fiber that they will proudly self-declare as having made the decision that their college education is worth murdering foreign children about
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(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?
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Rats get such a bad rep when they are so awesome. So do snakes lizard and bugs. Okay bugs make me nervous sometimes but I can appreciate that they have awesome things about them and have built tolerance over the years. Like we dont give them enough credit. Critters are so awesome
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Rats get such a bad rep when they are so awesome. So do snakes lizard and bugs. Okay bugs make me nervous sometimes but I can appreciate that they have awesome things about them and have built tolerance over the years. Like we dont give them enough credit. Critters are so awesome
spoken like a true tumblrina
Why is this website so functional
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
spoken like a true tumblrina
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One of my favorite passages, especially the bit at the end where she tells Carrot there's something wrong with his head and what it is.
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
One of my favorite passages, especially the bit at the end where she tells Carrot there's something wrong with his head and what it is.
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And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?
Transportation costs are the second largest burden on American family budgets (17%), after housing (33%)!
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?
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Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
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Their goal is to kill transit because transit helps poor people and cuts into oil sales and people who ride transit vote blue.
Trump Administration is to propose a massive cut in federal transit funding as part of 2026 transport legislation.
This proposal would decimate the nation's transit systems, while not actually solving the revenue problem federal transportation funding faces.
Evidence @urbaninstitute.bsky.social ⏬
This proposal would decimate the nation's transit systems, while not actually solving the revenue problem federal transportation funding faces.
Evidence @urbaninstitute.bsky.social ⏬
Cutting Federal Transit Funding Won’t Fix Budget Shortfalls. But It Would Make Transportation Less Affordable for Americans.
A proposal to eliminate federal public transit funding would not only fail to address the existing funding gap but would also leave millions of Americans, pa…
www.urban.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Their goal is to kill transit because transit helps poor people and cuts into oil sales and people who ride transit vote blue.
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There is no path to decarbonization without transit.
There is no path to abundant housing without transit.
There is no path to restoring democracy without transit.
There is no "affordability" without transit.
There is no clean energy transition without transit.
There is no path to abundant housing without transit.
There is no path to restoring democracy without transit.
There is no "affordability" without transit.
There is no clean energy transition without transit.
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
There is no path to decarbonization without transit.
There is no path to abundant housing without transit.
There is no path to restoring democracy without transit.
There is no "affordability" without transit.
There is no clean energy transition without transit.
There is no path to abundant housing without transit.
There is no path to restoring democracy without transit.
There is no "affordability" without transit.
There is no clean energy transition without transit.
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i know im preaching to the choir here but yall know the violence done to trans women specifically is demonstrative, theyre making an example out of us to keep everyone in line, right ? theyre saying "this is what will happen to you if you break our gender rules"
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
i know im preaching to the choir here but yall know the violence done to trans women specifically is demonstrative, theyre making an example out of us to keep everyone in line, right ? theyre saying "this is what will happen to you if you break our gender rules"
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Many totalitarian regimes have targeted disabled people. The Trump admin wants to start denying visas to people with certain health conditions.
Immigrants with obesity, diabetes and other health problems may be denied visas
New guidance from the Trump administration directs visa officers to consider common health ailments, including obesity and diabetes, when would-be immigrants seek to enter the U.S.
www.npr.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Many totalitarian regimes have targeted disabled people. The Trump admin wants to start denying visas to people with certain health conditions.