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So I just found out that Mikayla killed herself because of online harassment. Wtf people, what is wrong with you? This lovely women, a wife and new mother, who devoted herself to saving animals was made to feel so horrible and unloved she killed herself. I can't believe people sometimes. Or maybe I can, and that's what really hurts.

So I recently found out about SaveAFox, and there seems to be a lot of discourse about them? The problems seems to be:

A) They are registered as a "fur farm" and regularly buy foxes from fur farms, they even have a fox fur.

B) They don't euthanize foxes with injuries that cause them pain.

C) They aren't doing enough, they only help a few individual foxes.

My personal opinion:

A) Seems like a very clever loophole to me. They don't have the ability to register as a sanctuary, so they register as a fur farm. Yes, they are buying foxes from fur farms, but would you rather they just leave the foxes to die??? It would be illegal and unhelpful in the long run to just break out these foxes and let them loose in the wild, especially when most are injured or too over-bred and domesticated to be let free. The fur mount is sad, but it may be what they are using to register as a fur farm. It is not like they killed a fox specifically to harvest the fur.

B) They try to make the foxes happy and comfortable. It is obvious from the video that these guys love the foxes and have devoted all of their time to them. The bake them special treats, build them houses and give them the best possible life they can, short of releasing them into the wild.

C) They aren't doing enough??? They rescue foxes slated for death, completely restructure their home for them, spend 24/7 caring for them. The videos they produce raise awareness and make people want to save foxes and go against fur farms. Maybe Mikayala isn't "doing more" but she is doing what she can to save the foxes in front of her. What are you doing to save foxes, other than sit on your phones and critize others for trying to help?

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The EPA 2026 Budget Justification just came out, and while its very long, just the mission statement at the beginning is very disturbing. It has lot of phrases like "The Great American Comeback" and "common sense regulations" and "regulations throttling industry." Which seem fine on their own, but combined with the overall plan of lowering regulations in favor of industry and eliminating clean energy grants, does not paint a good picture.

There is an entire section on making the EPA use AI, which makes me wonder who will be in control of that AI. And the document said it would "remove unnecessary regulatory barriers to foster growth in the American AI industry." They want to make sure AI won't have any environmental regulations that will keep it from hurting people.

The document is very scary and very informative, and I recommend reading the "EPA Mission", which covers about 12 pages. Read it and call your representatives because the EPA, which was created to protect public health from industry, is now taking away those protections to further "economic growth." I'm sorry, but I would prefer clean drinking water and soil and air over a new factory next door.

Another Kremlin policy to kill Americans put in place by MAGA traitors.

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Guys all fluids produced by your body are filtered blood. Tears, saliva, pee, sweat... Blood is how fluid moves around in your body.

…THEY’RE CALLED T-SHIRTS BECAUSE THEY RESEMBLE THE LETTER T

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The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s protested against the legal discrimination of black people. The government's legal actions against black people violated their human rights, so they protested and fought and finally gained those rights.

The legal actions of ICE and the government are violating the human rights of immigrants. We are protesting those legal actions because they are wrong. This is the beginning of a new Civil Rights Movement. It may take years and years of protesting and fighting, but one day, immigrants will be treated like human beings. One day, not being born on American soil will not be a crime. And 20, 30 years from now, children will learn about all those pathetic racist politicians that tried to stop people from being treated like human beings. Who declared that a human was illegal.

What side of history are you on?

Undocumented immigration is not a violent crime. It is a misdemeanor.

Capitalism is the violent criminal.

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I can only imagine how fucking funny Ianthe's pov of Gideon the Ninth is. And how hilarious it would be to see her reactions to Harrow and Palamedes. Because Ianthe had always been both the top dog and the overlooked twin. She is the greatest necromancer on her very rich and influential planet. She is the greatest necromancer she has ever met. No one else is better than she is. She spends time among the 5th and 2nd houses, and they pale in comparison to her. She arrives at the First House absolutely sure that she will be the greatest necromancer there. And then finds out that she is overshadowed by a random scholar from a House famous for oblivious nerds and a cultist bone nun from a tiny rock in the depths of space.

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For Pride month, some of my favorite books that focus around a queer main relationship. Some new, some older, some I adore with all my heart, some are interesting ideas I enjoyed reading.

🏳️‍🌈 The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards - Urban Fantasy with gay mc, platonic soulbond, fascinating worldbuilding. Magic and mystery in modern day Atlantis. Also, very very cool tarot card based culture. (TW - Violent SA with male victim. Never fully described but referenced)

🏳️‍🌈 Santa Olivia by Jaqueline Carrey - Adorable lesbian relationship with genetically engineered main character with spy thriller vibes. Questions what it takes to be defined as human.

🏳️‍🌈 Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - The entire series is stunningly queer, and redefines love, grief, duty and sacrifice.

🏳️‍🌈 Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab - Very new, a dark book featuring toxic lesbian vampires and how far hunger for freedom can drive you.

🏳️‍🌈 This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar - very famous since last year, but my favorite book. Time traveling lesbian spies fall in love through letters. Stunning in every way.

🏳️‍🌈 Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu - a very popular Chinese anime and novel, now translated into English. Gay main couple in fantasy China, their love surviving war and death.

🏳️‍🌈 Heaven Official's Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu - another fantasy China book recently translated into English. An exiled god meets a ghost/demon king who has loved him for centuries.

🏳️‍⚧️ Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White - extremely dark apocalyptic setting with trans mc trying to gain freedom from a religious cult by joining a group of queer kids, all while undergoing a horrifying transformation. (TW - extreme body horror and gore. Also transphobic behavior and deadnaming)

🏳️‍🌈 The Pheonix Empress by K Arsenault Rivera - Destined lesbian lovers fight a horrifying evil in fantasy ancient China and Mongolia. Both women are leaders of their own empire and have to balance duty to their people and their love for each other.

🏳️‍🌈 Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba - bisexual love triangle in a colonized Philippines featuring magic, love and the rage of a colonized people whose culture has been stolen from them.

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Just because what ICE and Trump are doing is legal doesn't mean we shouldn't protest against it. Legal does not mean moral.

Slavery was legal. Discrimination against black people was legal. Not letting women or blacks vote was legal. Deporting people who have done nothing wrong but live and work peacefully is legal. For now.

Freeing slaves was illegal. Rosa Parks sitting in the front of the bus was illegal. Being gay was illegal. Stalling ICE and trying to help migrants is illegal. For now.

The Civil Rights Movement was not about illegal discrimination and actions towards blacks and poc. It was about protesting and trying to change the government's legal actions. It was about protecting human rights, even if, at that moment, those rights were not legal.

These protests in LA, the anti-ICE protests are the beginning of a new Civil Rights Movement. Civil rights for immigrants. Just because a person is not from America does not mean they are not people. It does not mean the government should violate their basic human rights. That is what these protests are about.

Remember the Pledge of Allegiance? That super creepy chant every child in America did every morning? Well, it seems that politicians and a good number of Americans have forgotten the last words of it.

"Liberty and justice for ALL."

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Spider eating a fly on a rose

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i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

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Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]

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Looks like home

I just love snow. - Author: NinaaBabee

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The pain of living alone on your period: horrifying cramps, curled up in bed, but craving food i don't have so now I need to drag myself to the store to get it. Ow ow ow ow ow

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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Posted at a city park in Davis, California

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We are all wondering what style Alecto the Ninth will be written in. And who the pov is from.

My guess is that the pov will be Alecto. And the style will, at first, be that Old Testament old English confusing stuff we got at the end of Nona.

But. I think that the style of the writing will slowly change. I don't think Nona is completely gone, and I believe she will start to shine through Alecto. And when she does, it will be subtle and seen through the writing style. This will be from Alecto's pov, so it's not like she will notice when Nona shines through. But the writing will change. A phrase, a sentence, maybe the way she thinks about someone who was once important to Nona, like Pyyrha or Crown or Paul or even Noodle.

And slowly, as Alecto starts to be more like Nona, the writing style will change to more of what we are familiar with in Nona the Ninth.

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genuinely wild to me when I go to someone's house and we watch TV or listen to music or something and there are ads. I haven't seen an ad in my home since 2005. what do you mean you haven't set up multiple layers of digital infrastructure to banish corporate messaging to oblivion before it manifests? listen, this is important. this is the 21st century version of carving sigils on the wall to deny entry to demons or wearing bells to ward off the Unseelie. come on give me your router admin password and I'll show you how to cast a protective spell of Get Thee Tae Fuck, Capital

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/65001049

Dude

The Degasi story makes me laugh and cry cause first off, Bart's last message. "We went too deep, they do not want us here." Was super creepy and definitely gave me chills my first playthrough. But then once I'm done with the game, I'm like... too deep? Boi, you literally stopped at the Grand Reef. All you had to deal with were crabsquids and warpers.

But then it makes me want to cry cause they were so close! The Lost River entrance is literally right behind their base! All they had to do was look a little closer at the caves behind them! And they would've found an entirely new biome! A little bit of exploring in there and you find all the bones and alien shit everywhere! Giant clues that there is more down here! They were so close to discovering the cure! Ahhhhhh