birdsite link, hydra snek friends
https://twitter.com/VaderSan/status/1325510901064224771
look at this/these beautiful hydra friend(s) :3
GFM for Indigenous Mom
Please boost or donate some funds for the homie Dani, who's been a target of harassment and could use community help. Thank you
uspol take
In the days to come, offer this man no respect. He is a bully, a pathetic pile of excuses and bluster with nothing of substance beneath him. There is nothing to honor there. But fascists are dangerous, so when you make of him a laughingstock be sure to do mercilessly.
Nothing cool, nothing positive, nothing that paints him with any kind of honor or redeeming qualities. A squalling manchild whom even Nixon would sneer at and steal candy from.
Also, sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc, motherfucker.
This seems to be fitting the mood on Masto tonight (cw: Possibly Proper Death Litany)
"Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to ensure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen."
Creatures of Light and Darkness, Roger Zelazny.
With everybody staying in because of the quarantimes, this year may be the easiest year ever for the Little Drummer Boy game.
stress coping joke
Comforting thoughts:
It's always true that somewhere in the world, right at this very moment,
* The sun is shining bright and warm
* A tender green shoot is just emerging from the soil
* There's a rainbow forming
* It's Friday
* A baby airplane is practicing its first flight
* You can buy cookies real cheap and eating just one probably doesn't count as stress-eating
Uspol, victories, birdsite links
Here are some victories from last night.
Sarah McBride became the first openly transgender Senator for Delaware.
https://twitter.com/SikhProf/status/1323800304496816129
Florida overwhelmingly passed the $15 minimum wage law.
https://twitter.com/fightfor15/status/1323814886653128704
Arizona, New Jersey, Montana and South Dakota legalized recreational marijuana.
Oregon just passed Measure 109, which legalizes psilocybin mushrooms. As well as Measure 110, which reclassifies drug possession offenses to lesser violations resulting in a $100 fine or a completed health assessment.
uspol, video game analogy
We're voting for midbosses here. If you're a US citizen, please vote for the one that's gonna be an easier fight.
The vote isn't the fight, but the vote can make the fight easier. The struggle still has to happen whoever wins. But one's harder, and there aren't many powerups or healing items showing up in this stage.
Whoever we elect is gonna be an obstacle, but for heaven's sake let's pick the obstacle that'll be less of an impediment to our progress. We don't want to waste all our firepower and hp fighting the fucking cheeto while the stage falls apart around us.
Let's please lower the difficulty level.
Request for housing help for a trans woman in western Washington State
Figured I'd share this here because there's a lot of folks from the PNW:
Twitter user @/EllyChelley says: "I need a room in western Washington State. I am an immunocompromised trans woman and I cant be homeless. If anyone can help please get in touch with me and please spread this if you can't. Thank you."
pandemic life, link
'Hearts Starve as Well as Bodies'
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1671556.html
'[E]verywhere I look, I see this sadness, deep-etched in peoples' bewildered faces and voices. "I think the pandemic is getting to me," a patient says, "But I don't know why – I'm okay, my family's okay....?"
This is why. No matter how safe from physical peril you are, no matter how financially secure, you, too, have lost something. You may have lost, in fact, very, very much. You are bereft. Even if your society, your upbringing, taught you that what you lost was worthless, it was not. It was of near-infinite preciousness. You are not wrong to grieve it all the way to the bottom of your heart.
Your choices aren't between being sad about this and not being sad about this. I don't expect its possible not to be sad about this: your choices are only between knowing or not knowing why.
Knowing why is always easier. I promise.'
uspol, self-care check
ok real talk...
if you're likely to be fretting nonstop on Tuesday or all week, or if you're doing it already...
Do you have food for this week? Would it be helpful to do some shopping for easy or nutritious things today? Maybe trial a streaming service, or rent a game or pick up a couple books? Is there a friend you'd like to schedule a phone call with?
I'm already a mess, myself. But we don't need to make this worse than it is... take care of you.
Rare coastal dragoness, often found by sunny sea cliffs. Nonbinary but fairly femme-leaning. If you're under 18 don't follow.