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Oldest kid took us to the Lululemon store. Horrified to see an all-crocheted hat for $44 ("on clearance" 🙄 from $58), marked as "made in China." Absolutely NO machine can create crocheted items, so that means there's likely a sweatshop of ppl making like 50 cents for HOURS of work on just ONE hat. 😡
July 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Oldest kid took us to the Lululemon store. Horrified to see an all-crocheted hat for $44 ("on clearance" 🙄 from $58), marked as "made in China." Absolutely NO machine can create crocheted items, so that means there's likely a sweatshop of ppl making like 50 cents for HOURS of work on just ONE hat. 😡
The obsession with the birth rate being so low in the U.S. is so weird & tone deaf af. It's really frustrating to hear such brain-dead takes from hand-wringing morons who ignored (& continue to ignore) the alarm bells. Trash.
July 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The obsession with the birth rate being so low in the U.S. is so weird & tone deaf af. It's really frustrating to hear such brain-dead takes from hand-wringing morons who ignored (& continue to ignore) the alarm bells. Trash.
Lmfao never thought I'd hear a heavily edited version of Dance Dance by Fall Out Boy. First time for everything. Thanks, Parrot Island water park's "best music" radio station 🙄😂 (followed by "Today" by Smashing Pumpkins 🫠)
June 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Lmfao never thought I'd hear a heavily edited version of Dance Dance by Fall Out Boy. First time for everything. Thanks, Parrot Island water park's "best music" radio station 🙄😂 (followed by "Today" by Smashing Pumpkins 🫠)
How do ppl handle giving away their dog's puppies when it's time?! It aint even my dog, it's my sister's dog had puppies and I love *ALL 7* of them and it will break my heart when she has to give them away 😭
June 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
How do ppl handle giving away their dog's puppies when it's time?! It aint even my dog, it's my sister's dog had puppies and I love *ALL 7* of them and it will break my heart when she has to give them away 😭
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“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.
May 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.
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Yes. And frankly, I am utterly exhausted with these gremlins who expect everything to turn endless profits.
Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Yes. And frankly, I am utterly exhausted with these gremlins who expect everything to turn endless profits.
What are you wearing to bluesky prom?
May 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
What are you wearing to bluesky prom?
Ballet to "Jesus music" is a choice. 😬
May 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Ballet to "Jesus music" is a choice. 😬
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THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
May 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
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Science fiction writers have warned us about so much we've ignored... and now this.
May 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Science fiction writers have warned us about so much we've ignored... and now this.
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The "brutality" is young men are being told that they have to be decent people and that no one owes them attention (especially sexual attention) just because they want it. They're being told that in order to get a good partner they have to be a good partner. The horrors of being treated like women
It's a brutal time for young men, and to be raising one. The primary message they now is get is "YOU'RE BAD" without any meaningful attempt to offer healthy pathways beyond "Don't be a boy."
Absolutely perfect time for right wing monsters to sweep in with shitty answers.
Absolutely perfect time for right wing monsters to sweep in with shitty answers.
May 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The "brutality" is young men are being told that they have to be decent people and that no one owes them attention (especially sexual attention) just because they want it. They're being told that in order to get a good partner they have to be a good partner. The horrors of being treated like women
The discussions about fertility rates are so infuriating because they're just focusing on the numbers & how they need to go up. (Sounds very capitalistic, "Number go up!" type shit) and not about why this is happening and ACTUAL ways to prevent it. Forced births are not the answer. 😡
bit.ly/3Z6YkJl
bit.ly/3Z6YkJl
Our current fertility rate isn't high enough for humanity to survive
A new study finds that a fertility rate of 2.7 children per woman, not 2.1, may be needed to avoid long-term population extinction.
bit.ly
May 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The discussions about fertility rates are so infuriating because they're just focusing on the numbers & how they need to go up. (Sounds very capitalistic, "Number go up!" type shit) and not about why this is happening and ACTUAL ways to prevent it. Forced births are not the answer. 😡
bit.ly/3Z6YkJl
bit.ly/3Z6YkJl
Browsing Ravelry to find crochet inspiration for things to make my SIL's soon-to-be-born baby girl and I keep finding super old patterns where the poor baby models look on the brink of blinking twice for help lol
May 1, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Browsing Ravelry to find crochet inspiration for things to make my SIL's soon-to-be-born baby girl and I keep finding super old patterns where the poor baby models look on the brink of blinking twice for help lol
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A better copy!
April 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
A better copy!
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@npr.org for every minute spent talking to a non-autistic person about autistic people's needs, you should be giving at least 2x that amount to actually autistic people— & not just in written stories, but on-air.
Apply said rubric to any other group under attack right now for their lived realities.
Apply said rubric to any other group under attack right now for their lived realities.
April 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
@npr.org for every minute spent talking to a non-autistic person about autistic people's needs, you should be giving at least 2x that amount to actually autistic people— & not just in written stories, but on-air.
Apply said rubric to any other group under attack right now for their lived realities.
Apply said rubric to any other group under attack right now for their lived realities.
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Undiagnosed autism is spending your whole life doing things that make you uncomfortable or that are just not "you" (conforming) to avoid being mistreated (bullied) until you're so good at it that when you finally do get diagnosed, people around you don't believe you.
April 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Undiagnosed autism is spending your whole life doing things that make you uncomfortable or that are just not "you" (conforming) to avoid being mistreated (bullied) until you're so good at it that when you finally do get diagnosed, people around you don't believe you.
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doing the therapy my parents should have done is trickle down therapy
April 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
doing the therapy my parents should have done is trickle down therapy
Dog sitting at my sister's. It's 4 am and there's some haunting music coming from somewhere down the hallway of the kids' rooms. Investigating it would be the absolute whitest thing I could do but I'll be honest, I am SO TEMPTED bc wtf is it?! One of the kids' toys? And why at 4 am?!
April 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dog sitting at my sister's. It's 4 am and there's some haunting music coming from somewhere down the hallway of the kids' rooms. Investigating it would be the absolute whitest thing I could do but I'll be honest, I am SO TEMPTED bc wtf is it?! One of the kids' toys? And why at 4 am?!
Today I'm contemplating how much nicer life would be if asshole people were just automatically turned into sweet, friendly, fluffy dogs everything they acted like an asshole. Just imagine!
a dog with its mouth open is being held by a person
Alt: a dog looking happy is being petted by a person
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April 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Today I'm contemplating how much nicer life would be if asshole people were just automatically turned into sweet, friendly, fluffy dogs everything they acted like an asshole. Just imagine!
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I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.
March 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.
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For me, fighting fascism has nothing to do with thinking I’ll win. I don’t fight because there’s an inevitable outcome, I fight because I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do something.
March 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
For me, fighting fascism has nothing to do with thinking I’ll win. I don’t fight because there’s an inevitable outcome, I fight because I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do something.
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Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
March 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished