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"porn brain" is a far right conspiracy theory, misogyny in porn is a result of structural societal misogyny and not the cause of it, the way to help sex workers is decriminalization and worker's rights, banning sexual expression is fascist. i will not be taking questions at the time.

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Took an edible (Valerian root sleep supplement) and am ready to party (early night with a podcast and my fan on).

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Oh same!!!

as a severely mentally ill 14 year old, I remember thinking “the medical system would treat me better if I was physically ill and not mentally ill” and then I coincidentally developed multiple chronic illnesses and found out that actually they dgaf even when you’re essentially bedridden

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"The UK requires a national adaptation budget, drawn together by central government but managed and transparently delivered locally. The Office for Budget Responsibility recognised during the pandemic that emergency spending on the climate was affordable. It still is. What’s coming is no mystery. What works is already known. What’s missing is the willingness at the heart of government to act in a purposeful way."

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I feel this daily

no one appreciates that i could be a million times worse

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Turns out conditions with suicidal tendancies as a diagnostic criteria (BPD for eg) are included in the Assisted Dying conditions list.

Fucking fantastic, next time I go Symptomatic I can just head to the hospital BEFORE hurting myself for no reason, and get dealt with nice and tidy.

Jesus Fucking Christ. Has anyone else here read The King In Yellow??? Cause yeah, those vibes be vibing 💀

the assisted dying debate is so crazy

because i do fundamentally believe everyone should have the right to die when they want.

BUT if they legalise assisted suicide in the UK right now i don't trust our ableist fucking government to not just start coercing disabled people into suicide to save money. they already won't give them enough money to live.

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Being an adult in this recession and being like wow I am totally "splurging" on 3 new sets of cotton underwear and 3 pairs of socks like whoaaaaa hold your horses duke of the land where's all this money gonna come from

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y'all know that whole left-brained/right-brained thing is fake right? and the "brain fully develops at age 25" thing? and the "we only use 10% of our brains" thing? yeah they're all complete horseshit please yell at anyone who says them

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“There’s some idiot camped out near the very center of Democratic strategy circles who has convinced the party that American voters are stupid, the Democratic base is malevolent, and that the party can and should brush off the vast sweep of authoritarian cruelties being inflicted on the country to focus instead on the real issue, which is whatever one thing the strategists have finally cobbled together talking points for. Everything else? Deploying the military to American cities to allegedly “liberate” them from the political opposition? Countless illegal impoundments of congressionally mandated funds? Mass deportations, and extralegal renditions to foreign prisons? White House corruption so vast that it now accounts for the majority of Trump’s wealth? All of that is a distraction, goes the party-issued talking points. Everything is a distraction from everything else, and you’re the fool for spreading your alarm around. Like a sucker.”

— Democratic leaders need to stop gaslighting voters with ridiculous ‘distraction’ claims

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"Climate change isn't real"

This is England in June.

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Reports of the Rallies: No Kings

I haven't been this nervous for a march since the Women's March (people forget now that we didn't know then how safe it would be, and how we were prepared for danger).

I woke to the news of the assassinations. I wrote a friend's number on my leg, packed water, a sign, a mask. On the train on the way in, I heard others talking about going to the protest, saw others holding signs.

Overall, this went very similar to the Hands Off protest, though it felt even more crowded (even though it was drizzling even more than before). At the start of the march, everyone could barely move.

People lined the steps to the New York Public Library, filled the street, and the march inched along from there to Madison Square, organizers helping to let through cross traffic as much as possible.

My protest buddy brought a bunch of American flags and handed them out (it was flag day, after all). Briefly we started up a small chant of "Whose flag? Our flag!"

Common chants included:

"No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here!"

"Hey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump Has Got To Go!"

"No ICE, no KKK, No fascist USA!"

"Whose streets? Our streets!"

"Show me what democracy looks like! This is what democracy looks like!"

"No kings! No kings!"

I saw a several signs that were variants of "No kings, YAAS Queens!", various references to the founding fathers, and a bunch saying "No one is illegal on stolen land."

Favorite sign I saw was a Wee Free Men poster--Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! I wanted to start up a chant of it, but figured not enough people would know it.

Another favorite sign was "Trump is the worst president since Trump."

A couple folks on a corner were holding signs for freeing Dylan, a student kidnapped by ICE, and a few marchers saw and chanted "Free Dylan."

The most arresting signs were a series of cardboard tombstones standing alone on the sidewalk with legends like "Age 3, no measles vax" and "Trump closed my dialysis center" and one referencing an AIDS spike after DOGE's cuts.

There were people of all ages. We gave flags to small children, and saw a grey haired man climb a tree, and two very old folks start up a chant. There was someone sitting on a truck, and an empty bus with signs pasted on the windows. Someone dressed as a handmaid, another as Luigi (the character), and others carried liberty torches or wore plastic crowns. I saw and heard a lot of pro-immigrant signs and chants, quite a few pro-Palestinian signs and chants, a handful of pride signs and flags, lots of American flags--some upside down or tattered. I carried a trans rights sign. I didn't see any counter protestors, and I only caught glimpses of cops. There were lots of people with cameras, some media and press people, and a drone above.

The march was peaceful, and dispersed near the flatiron building, damp protestors with signs and masks and crowns filtering into the city. A small group stayed on a side street singing "We Shall Not Be Moved."

Again I took no pictures till the end, where protestors had left signs in an impromptu monument to freedom:

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From Joe Haldeman, author of The Forever War:

"I’m putting a flag out front for No Kings Day.

If I can find an Army Corps of Engineers flag at the VA store, maybe I’ll put that out, too. That was my outfit. I didn’t “join” it any more than I “joined” COVID; I was just infected by it.

The process went like this:

1. I turned 24 and was drafted.

(1.5 I tried to be a conscientious objector, but that required a letter from from my minister, priest, or rabbi – and atheists don’t have those authorities.)

2. Brilliantly, I asked the Army what I could do. They said “volunteer for the draft.” That was still two years’ service, and you’ll probably get a low-echelon science job, cleaning test tubes or something.

(2.5 They threw away all that paperwork and just sent me to Vietnam.)

3. In Vietnam, they gave me a rifle.

4. I told the sergeant that I couldn’t kill anybody.

5. Oddly enough, the sergeant said “A lot of people say that. But you have to carry the rifle anyhow. You can decide whether to shoot it or not.”

6. I was issued an M16 that had THIS MACHINE DOESN’T WORK! Scratched into the stock. It indeed didn’t work.

7. Then I was issued an M14 rifle, but never fired it. As a combat engineer, that really wasn’t in my job description. I just blew shit up and tried not to stop a bullet.

8. About four months in, I did stop a bullet, and more: seriously injured by a booby trap.

8.5 My paperwork in Pleiku got screwed up, and instead of going to relatively safe hospitals in Japan and stateside, I stayed in South Vietnam.

9. I wound up in a relatively safe spot in the 6th Convalescent Center in Cam Ranh Bay, a large well-defended base, where I finished out my year (weirdly!) working as a volunteer for the Red Cross. I didn’t even have a gun, though I’d be issued one if the enemy broke through. We had to run for cover during frequent rocket and mortar attacks, but injuries were minor, and fatalities rare.

10. I personally suffered nothing but a few decades of anxiety attacks.

I guess that’s my unexciting biography as a ���citizen soldier,” or semi-voluntary prisoner of wartime. Any objective observer would have to point out that although my injuries were fairly serious, I’ve wound up only slightly handicapped, and in about a year, I did get material for a lifetime of books and stories.

I may have wound up a science-fiction writer anyhow. If I hadn’t been drafted, I was slated to take a job with the Naval Observatory, doing bachelor-level astrometrics down in South America. (My main qualification for that, other than a weak B.S. in astronomy, was that my wife spoke Spanish.)

Anyhow, it’s No Kings Day, and I have the right to wear a little Purple Heart medal in my lapel. Lost it years ago, though.

Instead, I shall try not to vote for people who would send other people’s children into the furnace. "

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I know for a fact that this has been posted elsewhere on Tumblr, but I wanted to share this:

This is a document ful of resources about things you can do politically that are not voting or going to protests. As a disabled person who struggles at protests, this is incredibly valuable. It has tons of resources about mutual aid, political education, migrant justice, disability justice, and much much more.

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