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I said this would be the Republican justices play. Let Texas use the racist maps now. Later they’ll say it’s “too late” to change them.
Supreme Court Clears the Way for Republican-Friendly Texas Voting Maps
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I said this would be the Republican justices play. Let Texas use the racist maps now. Later they’ll say it’s “too late” to change them.
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In addition to, you know, the suffering and death, the impending skyrocketing cost of health insurance premiums for many Americans is also going to wreck the economy
December 4, 2025 at 4:23 AM
In addition to, you know, the suffering and death, the impending skyrocketing cost of health insurance premiums for many Americans is also going to wreck the economy
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I will never forgive the ayahuaca aunties for calling COVID restrictions and vaccine mandates “1984” and “Soviet Russia” then voting for a guy who names the Institute of Peace after himself in the middle of explaining his war crimes
December 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I will never forgive the ayahuaca aunties for calling COVID restrictions and vaccine mandates “1984” and “Soviet Russia” then voting for a guy who names the Institute of Peace after himself in the middle of explaining his war crimes
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And the hits keep coming for disabled folks, though this one has been a long time coming: #CDC employees are forbidden to WFH. There's no real reason for this, and it's especially cruel given that CDC offices were subject to gunfire just months ago.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/02/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/02/c...
CDC staff with disabilities feel stranded as HHS implements new policy
CDC is asking employees seeking telework as a reasonable accommodation to return to the office until their requests can be processed under a new HHS policy.
www.statnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
And the hits keep coming for disabled folks, though this one has been a long time coming: #CDC employees are forbidden to WFH. There's no real reason for this, and it's especially cruel given that CDC offices were subject to gunfire just months ago.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/02/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/02/c...
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I realize everyone knows this, but you'll note that what he saw was two survivors trying to flip a boat over.
Which is a thing literally fucking anyone in a shipwreck would do.
The other stuff he said was fanfic he made up about them.
Which is a thing literally fucking anyone in a shipwreck would do.
The other stuff he said was fanfic he made up about them.
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I realize everyone knows this, but you'll note that what he saw was two survivors trying to flip a boat over.
Which is a thing literally fucking anyone in a shipwreck would do.
The other stuff he said was fanfic he made up about them.
Which is a thing literally fucking anyone in a shipwreck would do.
The other stuff he said was fanfic he made up about them.
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Tldr: kids, when I say don’t get long covid, I really really mean it.
Now excuse me I have half an unseasoned cauliflower left and I might pour melted chocolate chips on it.
Now excuse me I have half an unseasoned cauliflower left and I might pour melted chocolate chips on it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Tldr: kids, when I say don’t get long covid, I really really mean it.
Now excuse me I have half an unseasoned cauliflower left and I might pour melted chocolate chips on it.
Now excuse me I have half an unseasoned cauliflower left and I might pour melted chocolate chips on it.
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The ABraThatFits subreddit has a *wealth* of information on how different bra styles combine with different distributions of breast tissue and what parameters you can tweak for which purposes: www.reddit.com/r/ABraThatFi...
A Bra That Fits
Because everyone who wants one deserves A Bra That Fits!
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December 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The ABraThatFits subreddit has a *wealth* of information on how different bra styles combine with different distributions of breast tissue and what parameters you can tweak for which purposes: www.reddit.com/r/ABraThatFi...
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Intrusive regret, the feeling when you cringe and overanalyze something that happened years ago, is an intrusive thought like any other.
It can be distressing, disturbing or even negatively impact our ability to function, but it isn't something we're choosing or doing to ourselves
It can be distressing, disturbing or even negatively impact our ability to function, but it isn't something we're choosing or doing to ourselves
December 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Intrusive regret, the feeling when you cringe and overanalyze something that happened years ago, is an intrusive thought like any other.
It can be distressing, disturbing or even negatively impact our ability to function, but it isn't something we're choosing or doing to ourselves
It can be distressing, disturbing or even negatively impact our ability to function, but it isn't something we're choosing or doing to ourselves
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TRYING TO FLIP” THE BOAT MEANS THE BOAT WAS CAPSIZED AND THEY WERE SHIPWRECKED IN THE WATER.
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
TRYING TO FLIP” THE BOAT MEANS THE BOAT WAS CAPSIZED AND THEY WERE SHIPWRECKED IN THE WATER.
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You're going to see a lot of pixels about today's CDC ACIP meeting. The most important thing to keep in mind is that it's all a sham, it's not on the level. CDC no longer works for the American people. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is stocked with snake oil sellers and quacks.
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
You're going to see a lot of pixels about today's CDC ACIP meeting. The most important thing to keep in mind is that it's all a sham, it's not on the level. CDC no longer works for the American people. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is stocked with snake oil sellers and quacks.
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free advice: don't get mad at a sick person w/ an unreliable body for not being able to do something
the sick person is probs already pretty mad at themselves (really at their body, but internalized ableism is a helluva drug) and managing a mountain of grief from all the other things they can't do
the sick person is probs already pretty mad at themselves (really at their body, but internalized ableism is a helluva drug) and managing a mountain of grief from all the other things they can't do
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
free advice: don't get mad at a sick person w/ an unreliable body for not being able to do something
the sick person is probs already pretty mad at themselves (really at their body, but internalized ableism is a helluva drug) and managing a mountain of grief from all the other things they can't do
the sick person is probs already pretty mad at themselves (really at their body, but internalized ableism is a helluva drug) and managing a mountain of grief from all the other things they can't do
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I feel like the world would be a much better place if everyone had to experience a terrible and socially-neglected illness like ME/CFS or Long COVID or Lyme for say 6 months
A lot of people don't seem interested in fixing their hearts, and I don't know how we build a better world w/o that changing
A lot of people don't seem interested in fixing their hearts, and I don't know how we build a better world w/o that changing
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I feel like the world would be a much better place if everyone had to experience a terrible and socially-neglected illness like ME/CFS or Long COVID or Lyme for say 6 months
A lot of people don't seem interested in fixing their hearts, and I don't know how we build a better world w/o that changing
A lot of people don't seem interested in fixing their hearts, and I don't know how we build a better world w/o that changing
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“Trans people? I’m sorry? Say again? No, I’ve never heard the term. They’re what? Mad? Ah, well, aren’t we all.”
Once again thinking about every actor trying to justify taking the money for the new HP series.
December 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Trans people? I’m sorry? Say again? No, I’ve never heard the term. They’re what? Mad? Ah, well, aren’t we all.”
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I’m starting to think we need a test showing nondisabled people they are overconfident in their own abilities to realistically identify problems related to ableism, because they sure don’t listen to us when we explain.
“Yes, you saw a sensationalist story about someone with a peacock ESA.”
“Yes, you saw a sensationalist story about someone with a peacock ESA.”
December 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I’m starting to think we need a test showing nondisabled people they are overconfident in their own abilities to realistically identify problems related to ableism, because they sure don’t listen to us when we explain.
“Yes, you saw a sensationalist story about someone with a peacock ESA.”
“Yes, you saw a sensationalist story about someone with a peacock ESA.”
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I do not know how much clearer it can be that they want to completely remove disabled people from society.
They want to return to the time where we wasted away at home or in institutions.
I know, you don’t see it in “accommodations have gone too far”, but that’s where this goes.
They want to return to the time where we wasted away at home or in institutions.
I know, you don’t see it in “accommodations have gone too far”, but that’s where this goes.
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I do not know how much clearer it can be that they want to completely remove disabled people from society.
They want to return to the time where we wasted away at home or in institutions.
I know, you don’t see it in “accommodations have gone too far”, but that’s where this goes.
They want to return to the time where we wasted away at home or in institutions.
I know, you don’t see it in “accommodations have gone too far”, but that’s where this goes.
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your kind of suspicion (is that really a service dog) has routinely impacted actual disabled people with service animals. I have a seizure alert dog who does not look like a service dog (a lab or shepherd) and have routinely experienced suspicion and distress as a consequence.
My case would be that it’s enough that you’re regularly seeing it (ie people with their dogs in the store/on planes), and that it going unchecked is damaging to the proverbial social contract.
December 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
your kind of suspicion (is that really a service dog) has routinely impacted actual disabled people with service animals. I have a seizure alert dog who does not look like a service dog (a lab or shepherd) and have routinely experienced suspicion and distress as a consequence.
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It is incredibly fucking onerous, because some nondisabled asshole somewhere is like WAIT, what if someone who doesn’t deserve it gets help?!
Meanwhile, every disabled person: good on them! We all need to take care of ourselves and doctors don’t always understand our realities!
Meanwhile, every disabled person: good on them! We all need to take care of ourselves and doctors don’t always understand our realities!
December 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It is incredibly fucking onerous, because some nondisabled asshole somewhere is like WAIT, what if someone who doesn’t deserve it gets help?!
Meanwhile, every disabled person: good on them! We all need to take care of ourselves and doctors don’t always understand our realities!
Meanwhile, every disabled person: good on them! We all need to take care of ourselves and doctors don’t always understand our realities!
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The KITTEN is on a SWEATER 😭
December 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The KITTEN is on a SWEATER 😭
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Speak up fur endangered species! Proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act would severely weaken our most powerful tool for saving wildlife.
Make your voice heard before the public comment deadline on Dec. 22
Make your voice heard before the public comment deadline on Dec. 22
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Speak up fur endangered species! Proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act would severely weaken our most powerful tool for saving wildlife.
Make your voice heard before the public comment deadline on Dec. 22
Make your voice heard before the public comment deadline on Dec. 22
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...And if you ARE writing your tests as a huge time pressure squeeze?
Why are you doing that? Stop doing that. You aren't testing the material you taught. I don't care if some professional (and pre-professional) exams are time pressure crunches. They probably shouldn't be either...
Why are you doing that? Stop doing that. You aren't testing the material you taught. I don't care if some professional (and pre-professional) exams are time pressure crunches. They probably shouldn't be either...
December 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
...And if you ARE writing your tests as a huge time pressure squeeze?
Why are you doing that? Stop doing that. You aren't testing the material you taught. I don't care if some professional (and pre-professional) exams are time pressure crunches. They probably shouldn't be either...
Why are you doing that? Stop doing that. You aren't testing the material you taught. I don't care if some professional (and pre-professional) exams are time pressure crunches. They probably shouldn't be either...
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Regarding the accommodations discourse...
Unless you are writing your test to be a huge time pressure squeeze, giving somebody extra time isn't going to be a magical cheat code. If you don't know something in an hour, you aren't suddenly going to know it in 90 minutes...
Unless you are writing your test to be a huge time pressure squeeze, giving somebody extra time isn't going to be a magical cheat code. If you don't know something in an hour, you aren't suddenly going to know it in 90 minutes...
December 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Regarding the accommodations discourse...
Unless you are writing your test to be a huge time pressure squeeze, giving somebody extra time isn't going to be a magical cheat code. If you don't know something in an hour, you aren't suddenly going to know it in 90 minutes...
Unless you are writing your test to be a huge time pressure squeeze, giving somebody extra time isn't going to be a magical cheat code. If you don't know something in an hour, you aren't suddenly going to know it in 90 minutes...
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Does anyone have suggestions for SF & F in which the main character is a full time wheelchair user?
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Does anyone have suggestions for SF & F in which the main character is a full time wheelchair user?
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
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I *did* get accommodations in college, and quickly found out that:
- many professors are passive aggressive assholes about actually accommodating you
- Disability Services wants you to work this out directly with your professor, and rarely intervenes on your behalf
- many professors are passive aggressive assholes about actually accommodating you
- Disability Services wants you to work this out directly with your professor, and rarely intervenes on your behalf
anyway; I haven't ever dealt with the process of getting accommodations myself but every person I've talked to about it and everything I've read about it suggests it's a bureaucratic nightmare at best.
December 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I *did* get accommodations in college, and quickly found out that:
- many professors are passive aggressive assholes about actually accommodating you
- Disability Services wants you to work this out directly with your professor, and rarely intervenes on your behalf
- many professors are passive aggressive assholes about actually accommodating you
- Disability Services wants you to work this out directly with your professor, and rarely intervenes on your behalf