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I do actually care marginally about the guy in that reddit screenshot who voted for Trump and is now worried that he might lose his medicaid funding because I did not fucking stutter when I said healthcare is a human right but the people losing their internships and job offers to the hiring freeze are straight up hilarious.

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Superman's another fun option, see how long you can go before you have to give a name.

New ICE tip line: 866-347-2423

Hope nobody abuses that. It would be a terrible shame if space aliens were reported to that number, or if they got added to spam caller registries.

Please don't waste our tax dollars by calling that number and reporting an illegal South African immigrant throwing Nazi salutes in Washington DC on January 20th, 2025.

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THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊

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some buds act like it is so hard to love but it is so easy. you just do nothing. in the absence of all things, we just love. it is what we are built to do. just strip off everything else, all the baggage, and love is underneath

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I still ship Doge & Moon-Moon, also my werewolf name (according to that stupid fucking chart this meme originates from) was White Wolf, which also sucks.

Keep up the great work, lads

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Honestly though if you read Sourcery and didn’t end up loving Rincewind I genuinely don’t understand why not.

The dude has zero magical ability despite being sure to his bones that he’s a wizard.  He is a wizard, but he’s basically the worst at actual magic.  And he comes back to Ankh-Morpork and sees what’s happened to the city, and he goes over to the blinding white tower of pure magical energy…  And he grabs a half-brick, puts it in his sock, and prepares to go try his best to defeat the sourcerer.  A being he knows full well is more powerful than anything else on the Disc.  He saw in Al Khali what sourcerer-upgraded wizardry could do.  He’s seen the beams of magic flashing across the sky all the way back home.  But he goes anyway, because someone needs to stop this.

And then he sees the sourcerer is a little boy, and even has a semi-normal conversation with Coin before the Ipslore-staff interrupts and tries to make Coin kill him.  Sure, Rincewind’s first statement of ‘You don’t have to do that’ is self-serving.  But the instant the staff lashes out at Coin for disobeying, physically hurting the child and calling him bad, the least powerful wizard on the Disc does what no other wizard had the guts or inclination to do–he attacks the staff.  Doesn’t even really think about it, just straight up smashes his half-brick into it.  Because it hurt Coin. 

Moments later, when Coin is battling the staff himself and the two are drawing on everything magical in the vicinity to try to out-power each other, and while knowing that the tower everyone is standing on is itself made of magic, Rincewind hesitates to join the other wizards in running away.  He says, ‘Aren’t we going to help him?’ and calls the others out for using Coin to power themselves up but not helping him when he–again, a child–needs it.  Rincewind is the only person who intervenes.  Knowing, again, full well how dangerous that will be. 

And he ends up pulled into the Dungeon Dimensions for it.  And sitting there, with Coin, he actually tries to make things less scary for the boy.  And then he fills his remaining sock with otherworldly sand and says, ‘When I shout, you make a run for the light. Do you understand? No looking back or anything. No matter what happens.’  And he tells Coin to remember who and what he is and not let anyone ever tell him different.  And then this self-described ‘coward’ distracts the Demon Things of the Dungeon Dimensions so Coin can escape alone.  Just attacks them and runs away–after all, running is the thing he’s best at–hoping the creatures will follow him and leave the child alone.  That’s the last you see of him in the book.  He doesn’t get out at the last second.  He stays.

So yeah, Rincewind is a comedic character a lot of the time and yeah, many Disc fans tend to sleep on his books and tell others not to bother reading them (apart from his relationship with Twoflower which is always somewhat popular), BUT.  Dude saw an abused child, immediately recognized that what was being done to the kiddo was wrong, and risked his very existence to save a boy he didn’t even know.  So…yes if you don’t love Rincewind after reading Sourcery I really just don’t know why!

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Please, for the love of your fellow worker, arrange a picket and protest pricing/shit quality product/lack of community investment, maybe pull a Robin Hood and do some real fucking praxis.

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As someone who was hit by an SUV while riding my bicycle on the sidewalk in full reflective gear and thrown over 10', breaking multiple bones (seriously, wear your fucking helmets, I would've died without it):

Sometimes even doing everything correctly and being in the place pedestrians are supposed to be in won't fucking save you, never assume that the person operating the vehicle will care about your presence at all.

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We absolutely need to have a federally mandated minimum of one year of coursework (divided by semester) in Civics, Law/Policy, & Citizenship be a requirement of graduating middle school so that nobody misses it if they drop out of highschool.

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With metas new tos stuff for their platforms I’m finally leaving instagram. They’ve officially stated that transphobia and homophobia isn’t against tos. Never thought I’d see the word ‘transgenderism’ in the tos of a major social media.

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it is absolutely BONKERS to me, the number of people in the united states i have talked to who have never even heard of the battle of blair mountain. how the largest labor uprising in our history manages to skirt by so many leftists unknown is just downright astonishing. the largest labor uprising, and the largest armed uprising, period, since the civil war.

did yall even hear me?

THE LARGEST ARMED UPRISING!! besides the civil!!! fucking!! war!!! was fought in 1921 in the name of LABOR RIGHTS AND UNIONS by TEN THOUSAND RIGHTEOUSLY PISSED, STRIKING COAL MINERS

these absolute fucking LEGENDS marching out the hollers of west virginia, wearing their red bandanas and wielding their papaw's shotguns pointed at the lawmen. waging war against the fucking UNITED. STATES. MILITARY!!! for their right to work safely and be paid fairly!!!

and people just like. don't know about that? put some fucking respect on west virginia!!! and fellow appalachians, yall best just own it when ignorant people call you a fucking redneck cause our ancestors did that shit and they did it for us

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Key Key Karimba by Baltimora because the Pandora station I based on my dad's (the not dead one's) music taste be like that.

Last song of 2024 was Up by Sub Radio.

what was the first song you listened to in 2025?

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Do not quit alcohol cold turkey

Do not suddenly stop drinking alcohol as a new years resolution if you have been consistently using alcohol most days

Your body gets used to the presence of the alcohol as a sedative in your system

Suddenly removing the sedative you are chemically accustomed to is like suddenly removing the wall you are leaning on - you will topple over

You brain electricity gets overexcited

This causes seizures

This causes sudden onset dementia (Wernicke's encephalopathy)

This causes brain damage

If you use alcohol often (even in moderate amounts)

Or in large amounts

Or you have ever noticed you get shakey tremors and anxious when you stop drinking

Then your body is chemically dependant and you need to be very careful coming off alcohol otherwise you will cause brain damage

Slowly wean down the amount you drink over days or weeks

Talk to a doctor about your goals to quit and ask about support options

Medically supported withdrawal is a lot safer

If alcohol withdrawal goes badly there is a 15% chance it will kill you.

Do not go this alone

You deserve to be safe

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Every person need to be taught disability history

Not the “oh Einstein was probably autistic” or the sanitized Helen Keller story. but this history disabled people have made and has been made for us.

Teach them about Carrie Buck, who was sterilized against her will, sued in 1927, and lost because “Three generations of imbeciles [were] enough.”

Teach them about Judith Heumann and her associates, who in 1977, held the longest sit in a government building for the enactment of 504 protection passed three years earlier.

Teach them about all the Baby Does, newborns in 1980s who were born disabled and who doctors left to die without treatment, who’s deaths lead to the passing of The Baby Doe amendment to the child abuse law in 1984.

Teach them about the deaf students at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts school for the deaf, who in 1988, protested the appointment of yet another hearing president and successfully elected I. King Jordan as their first deaf president.

Teach them about Jim Sinclair, who at the 1993 international Autism Conference stood and said “don’t mourn for us. We are alive. We are real. And we’re here waiting for you.”

Teach about the disability activists who laid down in front of buses for accessible transit in 1978, crawled up the steps of congress in 1990 for the ADA, and fight against police brutality, poverty, restricted access to medical care, and abuse today.

Teach about us.

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Referred to as “the Dusseldorf patient” to protect his privacy, researchers said he is the fifth confirmed case of an HIV cure. Although the details of his successful treatment were first announced at a conference in 2019, researchers could not confirm he had been officially cured at that time.

Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.

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