Covid is not over.

People are still dying and becoming disabled every day.

We rushed “back to normal” for the economy, not because the threat had passed.

When you wear a mask, you’re not only protecting your health, you’re saying you don’t believe anyone is expendable.

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

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Time to update the scoreboards so everyone knows what's up before JK Rowling drops another few hundred grand on being a bigot loser

Money wasted on being a dick to trans people: literally millions upon millions.

Women saved from harm or even vaguely supported by being a dick to trans people: 0

TIDAL!!! FOR *FUCKS* SAKE!!! I MOVED TO YOU FROM SPOTIFY *BECAUSE YOU WEREN'T DOING AI HORSESHIT*. WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE EVEN DOING HERE?????

I had no idea this was Link's day job. Imagine being a space lawyer and a legendary shitposter

Tattoos 🤝 piercings 🤝 vaccines

STICK! ME! WITH! NEEDLES!!!!!!

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.

I joined Bluesky because I thought it was going to be a safe place for me as a trans woman. There was so much promise of it being a permanent social media home.

We all deserve a straightforward answer from management if they'll protect their users from harm, or if they'll protect abusers instead.

Alt text your fucking god damn images, people.

Fascism feeds on and is built upon eugenics.

Cutting disabled people out of information only helps it grow.

Stop being both inaccessible AND complict.

Add Alt Text.

Electric bicycles, and shared electric bicycles in particular, are a revolutionary transportation technology. Forward-looking cities should be building out the infrastructure necessary to make cycling safe and convenient for everyone who wants to do it.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

“Going to Princeton” makes a case for best @themountaingoats.bsky.social album. Not just best live album either.

The mastering and pressing are fantastic. The energy comes through the recordings. The setlist will please just about any fan, new and old. Vibrant versions of old favs.

For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

CALIFORNIANS!

you can help make our state better and safer for trans people RIGHT NOW by telling Newsom he needs to sign these bills!

We need you!

the problem with getting piercings and tattoos is that when i get one it makes me want. More of them. always more of them always. gotta get more piercings and tattoos right NOW

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

Reminder that while bookshop.org is amazing and you should be directing your online book sales there, I'll echo others and say that for small publishers, one of the most impactful things you can do is buy directly from our website, putting money in our bank account today for operations.

My pediatrician stopped doing COVID shots about two months before the government really announced anything. I ended up taking my daughter to a travel clinic and paying $150 out of pocket for her first shot.

I still don’t know if/when the second one in the initial series will even happen.

hi i have a collection of resources, including layout templates requiring minimal html knowledge + guides that will teach you that minimum, on my own indie web page. god please make an indie website

This is amazing; I very much agree with the how the report calculated value to society here:
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

But for people excited about a *literal* profit machine, note that the real net fiscal cost was almost €72M. It made €146M due to the estimated value of gains in mental wellbeing.

i love neocities :)

lrs MR JOHN GOATS TECHNICALLY CALLED ME COOL

really if we were all about our business we'd every one of us be over on neocities being cool

neocities.org/browse