The 5 stages of grieving, UK edition

i’m here you fuckaas bitch

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom" in the state constitution, that would have been the end of the conversation.

Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen. This week, the court halted abortions.

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

The thing about destroying NIH is NIH’s scale in medical research just dwarfs everyone else.

For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right?
But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B.

Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.

See me personally I think having a machine that I can instruct on computational tasks that it executes exactly as specified is amazing. Having it access databases on other machines is incredible. I don't need it to also expend resources to talk like a human and be wrong more often.

conservatives aren’t actually afraid of subways and public transit, they have a very specific goal. they want big cities to seem scary so that less people to move to them / leave them so they’ll move conservative states instead, and so that they can privatize public transit

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors.

I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

advice to young writers:

- begin the first sentence of every paragraph with, "So basically the whole deal is, is that [...]"
- begin subsequent sentences with, "And plus, [...]"
- end every paragraph with, "So that basically wraps it up as far as all that goes."
- 4 blank lines between paragraphs

Behind every great man is a great woman. Behind every great woman is that same man back to back. Around them is a pack of wolves. The woman grips a knife, the first wolf attacks

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PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana.

For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5.

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This is also the political result of prosperity theology. If you’re good and virtuous, you’ll be rich and healthy. Poverty and disability are your own fault

This is fifty-plus years of Christians using the Republican party to legally impose their poisonous doctrine on everyone

white nationalist men are too emotional to be in charge

it’s incomprehensible to me that you can see even a fraction of what republicans are doing or believe and think working with them is remotely a possibility. you need to crush them, like republicans are currently doing to everyone else

I've long identified with the character of Doctor Manhattan in the sense of being overwhelmed by the loud and messy emotions of people and needing to go hang out nude on Mars about it

someone put their pronouns in their email signature in 2017 and now the world's most irksome Boer has my social security number