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Dick Grayson by Dan Mora you will always be famous.

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Tonight, the night before Election Day 2024 in the US, I am thinking about my stepkid.

I am thinking about the phone call they made to us earlier this year, the one where they told us they'd gone to the hospital thinking they had appendicitis and found out, instead, that a zygote - a tiny splodge of cells - had taken up residence not in their uterus but in a fallopian tube. The one where our kid said they were waiting for their partner to arrive, hoped that said partner would get there before the docs took our kid back to terminate that pregnancy, & assured us that they'd be okay.

After all, our kid lives in a state with choice measures embedded in state law. That pea-sized blot of tissue doesn't have more right to their health than they do. Nobody is standing between them and their doctors. They made a decision, and that was that.

In this tiny tragedy, the kind that plays out dozens of times a day at minimum across the country, we only had to worry about the small risk of surgery complications. We didn't have to worry about Ken Paxton threatening to charge their doctors with felonies. We didn't have to think, "What if the hospital's legal team doesn't think an ectopic pregnancy - which is never ever viable and must be terminated before it kills our kid - is really that big of a deal?" We didn't have to worry that they live in a state where ob-gyns are fleeing, leaving few experts behind, as has happened in Idaho.

We didn't have to watch our kid vomit up black blood before dying the day after their baby shower the way Neveah's mom did. We didn't have to pray in a waiting room (while doctors took our kid apart until their heart stopped because the doctors waited too long out of fear of anti-choice laws) until a doctor came to tell us we'd have to bury them the way that Amber's mom did. We aren't having to pick up our lives after fully treatable miscarriage-related sepsis took them from us the way that Josseli's husband and daughter must.

I could go on for far, far too long.

Listen. If you are a single-issue non-voter and have already decided that "both parties are the same" or whatever other thing you've told yourself so you can sleep at night, smug and secure, then I can't reach you and I can't help you. But if you genuinely think that your votes don't matter, if you're just suffering from a bout of overwhelm or apathy, if you're too young to remember the 2000 election and can't see that Dobbs is a direct result of that election and every one that's followed, please, I am fucking begging you.

I didn't really talk about this when it happened. I mentioned something briefly, maybe. The posts I've started writing about it are still in my drafts. It was too fresh, too frightening. It's not any less frightening now, honestly - because if this week doesn't end with President Kamala Harris, we're headed for a national abortion ban, at the minimum - but it's not about how fucking frightened I was or how sad and bewildered I was to realize that my kid was going through this crisis in a nation more hostile to them than when I needed a D&C for an abortion at 21, in 1998.

It's about stopping this chapter of this fucking bullshit and at least finding some new fucking bullshit.

Vote, dammit.

Do the other work on Wednesday. Tomorrow, the work is to vote.

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Please don’t fuck this up, America 🔹🙏😬🔹

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all of finland seems to be out of my usual antidepressant. i was off of it cold turkey for about a week before i got a replacement. its pnly been two days but i hope these side effect things will go away soon cuz i hate nausea and i need to finish my thesis in like three weeks and find a job so i don't have to go back to the us

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okay cowgirl

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Kris' face journey during Bojan's Italian speech

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A few people were wondering if there is a possibility of maybe making a song with Käärijä. What do you say?

"tHeRe Is AlWaYs A pOsSiBiLiTy"

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got approval to be a volunteer at ruisrock this year 🎉🎉🎉 now i have extra extra motivation to get my fcking thesis done by july cuz if i get it done and to my professor by the end of july, ill graduate in august and get to then face the dark abyss of the future unknown

but now at least i can look forward to seeing käärijä, joker out, kuumaa, windows95man, blind channel and idk who else but im sure it'll be fun 😊😊

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There was a school shooting in Vantaa today. Jere's heart story is his way of acknowledging and saying his condolences. Please be respectful.

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a major bridge in my home city practically disintegrated this morning when a cargo boat crashed into one of the legs and now im just sad and really homesick

i have a lot of thoughts and don't want to say too much on my facebook so

i hated driving on that bridge, i hated being on bridges at all but not because that particular one was unsafe or anything, however watching how fast it fell into the river makes me feel like it was in fact unsafe. baltimore is a historic port city, built on a huge bay thats fed into by an equally huge river, this bridge was one of two that are essential for traffic in and out of the city unless coming in by boat or something

besides, the thing was iconic. and named over a historic figure that we're actually quite proud of having as a local. a lot of cityscapes were taken with this bridge in it and i dont know a local who doesn't travel on it rather frequently.

baltimore is one of the most dangerous cities in the usa. i know a lot of people don't think too highly of it, many of my own family included. but i love baltimore

if you ask me, baltimore is one of the best places to go. there are awesome music and concert venues, the food made at local restaurants cant be beat, and the museums are absolutely everything. the last time i was there was last fall to see queen+adam lambert which was absolutely fucking amazing

im just feeling a little sad for my home city. i wasn't raised there, being a bit of a smalltown country brat, but i lived there as an adult before moving abroad and have so many good memories there

if you know me irl, i know i can talk shit about baltimore and tell people not to go there without a local or at least an itinerary (just don't look lost, okay? ppl everywhere prey on that shit) but most of us are good, nice people who'll give the shirt off their backs if you ask. but we all joke about it because its coping, you know? like, when trxmp called us a disgusting city of rats or whatever it was, we all leaned into that hard. you can still buy tshirts and misc souvenirs of baltimore rats. hell, one of my favorite shirts has baltimore under the reading rainbow with the tagline theres more than just m*rder here. that shits funny okay?

baltimore had enough struggles to deal with, we didn't need this too. and i know, other places are experiencing worse. but this sucks too. on top of a scary election year, a horrifying political landscape, and increasing christocentrism, antisemitism and all the other stupid ways we look to harm each other, now we have this "mass casualty event", six people still missing in the patapsco, and a hugely damaged local infrastructure, part of a national infrastructure that honestly should be upgraded everywhere, now and not when things actually collapse and people die.

baltimore is a nice place and i will die on this hill. i hope they can rescue the missing people safely and everyone can recover well, healthily, and safely.

keeping my baltimore in my heart, mind, and prayers and hoping we can get an answer to what exactly happened to cause this.

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Here I go, speed-translating KUUMAA lyrics instead of working. Just in case lovely peeps who don't speak Finnish wanted to understand the lyrics to the new song that are, once again, disgustingly bojere coded, excuse me.

Behold: Tuhoaisti - KUUMAA (English translation by me)

I want everything, I want your everything Even though I haven’t slept at all It’s the destructive sense that confounds Prevents the ignited from going out

We don’t speak with words We were coded to fall in love in a different way We’re somehow the same and the opposite But no one else has struck through me like this Come through the wall without asking for permission And every cell of mine aches But I want, I want

Yes, I want everything, I want your everything Even though I haven’t slept at all It’s the destructive sense that confounds Prevents the ignited from going out And you’re the exception, the only exception That can make me break down It’s the destructive sense that confounds Prevents the ignited from going out

When you’re not here Your shadow paints my walls I keep the lights on But your voice keeps moaning in my ears And you’ve won It’s no use trying to pretend I’m stronger What I ran from before Now I want it, I want it

Yes, I want everything, I want your everything Even though I haven’t slept at all It’s the destructive sense that confounds Prevents the ignited from going out And you’re the exception, the only exception That can make me break down It’s the destructive sense that confounds Prevents the ignited from going out

Original Finnish lyrics here

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genuinely one of the saddest parts of this new era of the internet is how hard it is to rick roll someone now. with people's attention spans shortening so much, they wouldn't even get through the first few bait seconds before clicking off the video. like i saw a comment that ended with "btw i made all of this up" and the replies kept treating it so seriously because none of them finished the entire 4 sentence comment. and We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I (do I) A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

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It's still kinda wild how Phineas and Ferb managed to completely hijack an idiom. Now whenever someone hears a sentence leading with "If I had a nickel for everytime [...]", odds are their brain auto fills with "I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice," rather than "I'd be rich," or "I could [action that requires purchasing something requiring an obscene amount of money]". Y'know, what the idiom originally was

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my heart aglow ❤️‍🔥 (very sketchy but i decided to keep it that way)

[available on kofi as sticker, card and art print]