arisa
@blunderbunnie.bsky.social
She/They. Black 🇺🇸 in 🇯🇵. Leftist and social progressive. JP to EN game localizer. Chronically ill, disabled, neurodivergent. Way too online and a gacha game whore
Profile Pic Alt Text: dark-skinned bunny girl making a peace sign in front of asexual flag
Profile Pic Alt Text: dark-skinned bunny girl making a peace sign in front of asexual flag
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If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.
Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
www.reddit.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.
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Alternatives to calling someone or something "crazy" when they're doing fascism.
instead of "crazy" → fascist
instead of "lunatic" → fascist
instead of "schizo" → fascist
instead of "psycho" → fascist
instead of "bipolar" → fascist
instead of "schizo" → fascist
instead of "insane" → fascist
instead of "crazy" → fascist
instead of "lunatic" → fascist
instead of "schizo" → fascist
instead of "psycho" → fascist
instead of "bipolar" → fascist
instead of "schizo" → fascist
instead of "insane" → fascist
February 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Alternatives to calling someone or something "crazy" when they're doing fascism.
instead of "crazy" → fascist
instead of "lunatic" → fascist
instead of "schizo" → fascist
instead of "psycho" → fascist
instead of "bipolar" → fascist
instead of "schizo" → fascist
instead of "insane" → fascist
instead of "crazy" → fascist
instead of "lunatic" → fascist
instead of "schizo" → fascist
instead of "psycho" → fascist
instead of "bipolar" → fascist
instead of "schizo" → fascist
instead of "insane" → fascist
I need to renew my US passport like yesterday, but recent happenings have me reluctant to do so 😑
February 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I need to renew my US passport like yesterday, but recent happenings have me reluctant to do so 😑
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People need to understand how bad this is.
February 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
People need to understand how bad this is.
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Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
February 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.
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HEADLINE: CDC posts, then deletes, data on bird flu spread between cats and people. The data which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households.
It is evident the CDC is being muzzled SO let’s talk about what YOU can do to PROTECT yourself AND your pets. 🧪🧵 ⬇️
It is evident the CDC is being muzzled SO let’s talk about what YOU can do to PROTECT yourself AND your pets. 🧪🧵 ⬇️
February 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
HEADLINE: CDC posts, then deletes, data on bird flu spread between cats and people. The data which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households.
It is evident the CDC is being muzzled SO let’s talk about what YOU can do to PROTECT yourself AND your pets. 🧪🧵 ⬇️
It is evident the CDC is being muzzled SO let’s talk about what YOU can do to PROTECT yourself AND your pets. 🧪🧵 ⬇️
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My best friend just said “there are now people who have lived before and after civil rights. There are people who were born before civil rights, they obtained rights, and now they are losing them.”
Im speechless.
Im speechless.
February 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My best friend just said “there are now people who have lived before and after civil rights. There are people who were born before civil rights, they obtained rights, and now they are losing them.”
Im speechless.
Im speechless.
Like if they really start fiddling with people’s Medicare I s2g. But it wouldn’t surprise me at this point
February 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Like if they really start fiddling with people’s Medicare I s2g. But it wouldn’t surprise me at this point
It is WILD to me that every day I read another account of these dorks (derogatory) just waltzing into another federal building to illegally access data. By now there should be some plans for resistance or something right?
Musk’s staffers fanned out across several agencies today, sending representatives to the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and meeting with the Labor Department to seek access to sensitive data.
February 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It is WILD to me that every day I read another account of these dorks (derogatory) just waltzing into another federal building to illegally access data. By now there should be some plans for resistance or something right?
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Has anyone done a count of how many Trump’s appointees have been credibly accused of assaulting women? Apart from Trump himself, I mean.
Trump: "My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes. And it's gonna end, and it's ending right now, and nobody is gonna be able to do a damn thing about it, because when I speak, we speak with authority."
February 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Has anyone done a count of how many Trump’s appointees have been credibly accused of assaulting women? Apart from Trump himself, I mean.
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Is it just me, or is giving a shit about other people considered far left now?
February 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Is it just me, or is giving a shit about other people considered far left now?
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Just once during a crisis I'd like to be able to answer a work email like "hey man, I can't answer that, do you see what the fuck is going on??" Just once
February 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Just once during a crisis I'd like to be able to answer a work email like "hey man, I can't answer that, do you see what the fuck is going on??" Just once
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Musk's unelected, extremist online teenagers are messing with everyone's grandma's check.
Exclusive: DOGE aides have access to payment systems at the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid
Exclusive | DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud
Elon Musk’s allies have been on site at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offices this week.
www.wsj.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Musk's unelected, extremist online teenagers are messing with everyone's grandma's check.
How the hell we making ethnic cleansing sound like a wacky yet noble plot
I'm not a person to knee-jerk bash the Times, but fucking hell, this is basically "With 'Final Solution,' an Unbound Hitler Pushes an Improbable Idea"
February 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
How the hell we making ethnic cleansing sound like a wacky yet noble plot
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The genocide in Gaza hasn’t stopped—it’s just slowed. Internet access remains life-saving, but funding for eSIMs has taken a hit. With costs rising and donations dropping, Crips for eSIMs for Gaza needs to raise at least $42K CAD to keep folks connected. Help if you can!
January 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The genocide in Gaza hasn’t stopped—it’s just slowed. Internet access remains life-saving, but funding for eSIMs has taken a hit. With costs rising and donations dropping, Crips for eSIMs for Gaza needs to raise at least $42K CAD to keep folks connected. Help if you can!
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Can we stop saying “he can’t do that, it’s illegal!”
The man was convicted of 34 felonies and then rewarded with a second Presidential term
He’s pardoned people who were involved in a violent insurrection
He doesn’t care about the rule of law. You put a criminal in charge, they commit more crimes
The man was convicted of 34 felonies and then rewarded with a second Presidential term
He’s pardoned people who were involved in a violent insurrection
He doesn’t care about the rule of law. You put a criminal in charge, they commit more crimes
February 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Can we stop saying “he can’t do that, it’s illegal!”
The man was convicted of 34 felonies and then rewarded with a second Presidential term
He’s pardoned people who were involved in a violent insurrection
He doesn’t care about the rule of law. You put a criminal in charge, they commit more crimes
The man was convicted of 34 felonies and then rewarded with a second Presidential term
He’s pardoned people who were involved in a violent insurrection
He doesn’t care about the rule of law. You put a criminal in charge, they commit more crimes
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Application fees for some of Japan's required immigration procedures will rise by as much as 50% starting April 1, the first price hikes in over four decades.
Japan's immigration processing fees to rise starting April 1
The Immigration Services Agency has cited rising prices and personnel costs for its first price hikes — of as much as 50% — in over four decades.
buff.ly
January 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Application fees for some of Japan's required immigration procedures will rise by as much as 50% starting April 1, the first price hikes in over four decades.
Going online’s been kind of exhausting recently with all the news. I’ve also been struggling trying to communicate my upset to the Japanese partner without him thinking I’m overreacting or a conspiracy nut… Japan’s done such a great job “sanewashing” the news coming out of the US, even now…
January 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Going online’s been kind of exhausting recently with all the news. I’ve also been struggling trying to communicate my upset to the Japanese partner without him thinking I’m overreacting or a conspiracy nut… Japan’s done such a great job “sanewashing” the news coming out of the US, even now…
It's exciting to see things finally pick up here. Kinda bummed since I've only been signing in at the end of the day when all my spoons are spent, so I haven't been posting much. Also, I've never been such a Discourse Beast and don't wanna trip up on some half-baked take lol
November 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM
It's exciting to see things finally pick up here. Kinda bummed since I've only been signing in at the end of the day when all my spoons are spent, so I haven't been posting much. Also, I've never been such a Discourse Beast and don't wanna trip up on some half-baked take lol
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I ask my undergrads what percentage of Americans they think are Muslim, then show them how off they are. Same with Jews, same with immigrants. That we are terrible at perceiving demographic contexts means we can be easily manipulated.
“In 2022, YouGov asked “What percentage of Americans do you think are ___?”
The results were hilarious.
Trans: 21%
Muslim: 27%
Jewish: 30%
Black: 41%
Live in NYC: 30%
Gay or lesbian: 30%
The errors are off by orders of magnitude. The trans estimation by 2,000%.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-...
The results were hilarious.
Trans: 21%
Muslim: 27%
Jewish: 30%
Black: 41%
Live in NYC: 30%
Gay or lesbian: 30%
The errors are off by orders of magnitude. The trans estimation by 2,000%.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-...
Americans Have One Very Strange Cognitive Bias
Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love The People.
www.thebulwark.com
November 24, 2024 at 4:23 PM
I ask my undergrads what percentage of Americans they think are Muslim, then show them how off they are. Same with Jews, same with immigrants. That we are terrible at perceiving demographic contexts means we can be easily manipulated.
In the year of our lord 2024, someone (a bot?) messaged me about making art for “enhancing” a fanfic I abandoned over ten years ago on Fanfiction.net. Is this a thing? Anyhow their profile is new and barren and the whole situation screams sus af so I’m ignoring it
November 17, 2024 at 5:31 AM
In the year of our lord 2024, someone (a bot?) messaged me about making art for “enhancing” a fanfic I abandoned over ten years ago on Fanfiction.net. Is this a thing? Anyhow their profile is new and barren and the whole situation screams sus af so I’m ignoring it
I want this site to add a bookmarks feature with the quickness; I have too much social anxiety to be the only one to post the thumbtack emoji under an account I don’t know
November 13, 2024 at 3:05 PM
I want this site to add a bookmarks feature with the quickness; I have too much social anxiety to be the only one to post the thumbtack emoji under an account I don’t know