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I got to tell people this at a public workshop at one point and they were fucking SHOCKED. yes, please annoy me.

it being a forum on 'why are students having so many mental health issues'. which was open to public but almost no one else who did not have kids in school came to it. I was one of 2-3 out of 100+ attendees

but, but, but the teens roaming the downtown are annoying! and loud! In public!

SO ARE YOU SOMETIMES. And you both should have equal access to that space and be allowed to be vaguely annoying. That's how public spaces work. Stop trying to force kids out of the public and then wondering why they can't learn how to act in public. We've banned bicycles, why aren't teens using bicycles anymore? WONDER WHY.

I have a business downtown so I see the packs of teens every day. Good! The kids are walking with friends and laughing! excellent! Sometimes they're in my store and ten teenagers in a 600 square foot store is a lot, but they generally figure out how Indoor Voice works as soon as their peers are shushing them without me saying a word. They're learning how to do that on their own!

That unscheduled hang out time where they can determine who they spend time with, what they do, and are able to join or leave as they please while also having uninvolved bystander adults in the general vicinity is really important.

If they're forced OUT of public spaces to hang out in segregated groups in isolated areas, that increases chances of something bad happening simply because there are no bystanders who are not peers. And there's high reluctance to summon an adult then who could fix it (since the parent may be Mad about whatever happened, even accidents)

Being in spots with bystanders who are totally uninvolved and have no authority over them helps rein in truly egregious or risky behavior. They learn to sort out their disagreements in such a way so as to not escalate to a point where a bystander notices and intervenes. But if things have escalated to point that a teen wants OUT, there's an adult nearby to serve as a point of de-escalation. Physically going over toward them, even if nothing is said, will make the other party consider if they want to get an unknown adult involved or not.

"I want to live in a world in which teenagers can fulfil their natural purpose of being annoying" and "I do not always want to be annoyed by the teenagers" are compatible sentiments

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Brunheiffer's FTH 2025 Bookbinding

Here's a link to my 2025 Fandom Trumps Hate Auction Stall on dreamwidth, and here's crossing my fingers everything works. I'm offering your choice of a fandom binds with several caveats:

*If you’re not the author, you have to have the author’s permission!

You must have a screenshot of the fic author giving permission, or a screenshot of their blanket permission statement if they have one.

*It must have a happy ending, because I can’t typeset without reading and can’t handle a tragedy right now.

*Word count between 25,000-150,000

I’ll bind a series or collection of works so long as the total word count is <150,000

*It can be any rating, but if it is Explicit you must sign the age statement in the bidding form attesting that you are over 18.

*I will pay for shipping inside the USA. If it’s outside the US, I’ll split the cost 50/50 so please check rates first. It’s expensive.

Fandoms included: Good Omens, Star Trek (any iteration), Marvel (any iteration), Sherlock Holmes (any iteration), The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings

A few different items:

Good Omens fans, would you like your very own misprint edition of the fanfic series Lift Me Up, O Lord, by @copperplatebeech? Or Starstuff by @themoonmothwrites and @cassieoh? When I originally typeset Lift Me Up, it was as Lift Me Up, Oh Lord. Copper has graciously allowed me to auction it off, listed as Oh Lord Misprint Edition. Starstuff, the pages went a little off with the art, so there's an odd empty page and the_moonmoth was also gracious enough to allow an auction for it.

My other offerings are custom works you can bid on below. The highest bidder will donate directly to the charity and send me a screenshot of the receipt. Then I’ll make your book.

tl;dr I’ll make one fanbinding of one fanfic of your choice (with the author’s permission). There are three custom auctions, so three opportunities to bid on a book. And two ready-made, Lift Me Up, Oh Lord pictured here.

You can see examples of my work here on my tumblr under #my binds

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Carry On Auctions for Fandom Trumps Hate

Hi! The @fandomtrumpshate auction posts are now open for bidding, and I thought I’d make a post of everyone offering something for the Carry On fandom to make it easier to spread the word! I’m so proud of our little fandom for making 8 different offerings, and I’m definitely planning on bidding on some of these, and I hope you guys can join me 💗💗💗

Fan Art

Ciescen @ciescen

Subtype(s): Drawing/painting/etc., Icon(s) Highest rating: T Minimum Bid: $5 Audience: All ages Find out more info and bid here

Written Fanwork

Lark_ral  @larkral

Highest rating: E Minimum Bid: $30 Audience: All ages Length/scope: 5 -10k words Find out more info and bid here.

Facewithoutheart @facewithoutheart

Highest rating: E Minimum Bid: $5 Audience: All ages Length/scope: 5 -10k words Find out more info and bid here

Ciescen @ciescen

Highest rating: M Minimum Bid: $5 Audience: 18+ only Length/scope: 10 - 20k words Find out more info and bid here

Podfic

Speakwithmagic

Highest rating: M Minimum Bid: $10 Audience: All ages Length/scope: 15 - 20k words Find out more info and bid here

Denticles

Highest rating: T Minimum Bid: $5 Audience: All ages Length/scope: 1 - 5k words Find out more info and bid here

Lark_ral  @larkral

Highest rating: E Minimum Bid: $5 Audience: All ages Length/scope: 1 - 5k words Find out more info and bid here

Youarenevertooold @youarenevertooold

Highest rating: T Minimum Bid: $5 Audience: All ages Length/scope: 15 - 20k words Find out more info and bid here

Again I think it's so cool that we have so many offerings, and I hope everyone will join me in bidding on them!

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Who else up thinking about bjj black belt craig jones saying You can give anyone steroids. Despite our best efforts we are yet to give anyone autism.

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absolutely losing my mind that a bunch of nimby assholes spent $500k to build a sandcastle that was promptly wiped away

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I can’t stop thinking about this.

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Black history.... history as in about five minutes ago. Alive and well and tweeting about being the first Black girl at a school after desegregation.

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You know, it occurred to me the other day that I've been the editor-in-chief of The Verge for over 10 years now, and a tech journalist for about 15.

And until just recently, it felt pretty safe to assume that there was a 0% chance the United States government would punish me for doing my job. There's a whole First Amendment, after all. We don't usually tolerate government interference with speech, and we have a high bar for how public figures like politicians and celebrities can use defamation law to shut down reporting that they don't like.

So it's been fairly disconcerting in these first few weeks of the second Trump administration to realize that there's suddenly a non-zero chance the government will punish our work. That all that talk about the media being the enemy of the people is turning into concrete legal action against publishers, broadcasters, and platforms that don't do what the Trump White House wants. There are new examples, big and small, popping up basically every day.

Just this week, the Associated Press was barred from a White House event because the AP Style Guide says reporters should still call it the Gulf of Mexico and not the Gulf of America like Trump wants. It sounds silly, but as AP Executive Editor Julie Pace says, it plainly violates the First Amendment. It's a clear example of the government punishing a company for speech it doesn't like.

And there are bigger, deeper attacks on free speech coming from Brendan Carr, the new Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC is pretty much the only government agency with some authority to directly regulate speech in America because it controls the spectrum that's used to broadcast radio and television. And Carr has started to use that authority to punish broadcasters for speech Trump doesn't like and even internal business practices that don't align with the administration.

He's opened investigations into ABC, CBS, and NBC in a way that no previous FCC would have ever done, and he's even launched an investigation into NBC parent company Comcast over DEI policies. By the way, this is where I should mention our standard disclosure that Comcast and NBCUniversal are investors in our parent company Vox Media, but it doesn't really matter in this context since Carr is hell-bent on punishing every media company unless they fall in line. I've talked to virtually everyone who's been FCC chair going back to the Bush administration, and Carr's interpretation of what the FCC is for and what authority it has over speech is about as autocratic as it gets.

Brendan Carr wants to be America's chief censor, and so far he is getting his way. This is really serious stuff, and it could have far-reaching consequences for how journalists try to report on the Trump administration, primarily by creating a real and sustained culture of fear, one that's already ripping through the corporate parent companies of major news organizations. They've begun rolling over and settling various lawsuits instead of fighting for our First Amendment rights.

There's a lot of pressure on that from a lot of different directions right now, but the thing that is most striking to me is that after many years of bipartisan universal consensus that the First Amendment is pretty sacrosanct and should be expanded, the Trump administration in particular is putting an enormous amount of pressure on speech. They're doing it while saying they are supporting free speech, but if you look at their moves, there's actually a lot of pressure on who gets to say what and when. And it seems like that is under remarked upon in this whole blitz of Trump executive orders, but it's very real.

Like they say one thing and they mean exactly the opposite. So when Donald Trump appoints Brendan Carr to be chair of the FCC, he calls him a warrior for free speech, I believe. And we see lots of this cult around Elon Musk as well, right?

Free speech, free speech. What they've done is they basically completely subverted it and reversed it, and they say, okay, here's what free speech means to us. It means not just any private individual or private company can say literally anything they want no matter how hateful, no matter how harmful.

And we, other private citizens, companies, we have to not only listen to that but amplify it, right? It's this notion that if I get kicked off of social media, that's my free speech being violated, even for public figures.

That idea of amplification is a big one. Private individuals and private companies are supposed to be able to say whatever they want in America without government interference. And part of that is also the freedom to not say what they don't want to.

The government can't compel someone into speech they don't agree with. And for the same reasons, the government can't force a private entity, like a social media platform, to host lies or speech the platform thinks is offensive. But the Trump administration isn't happy unless you're not only permitting but also amplifying their messages.

Twitter is not what it once was, as we all know, but I used to have to say when Trump was doing this in his first administration, the First Amendment exists to protect Twitter from Trump, not to protect Trump from Twitter, right? So the First Amendment and free speech should mean and does mean, if we're in any kind of reality, that the government can't interfere with speech. And yet, that's what these people are doing right now, is in the name of free speech, because what they're really trying to do is amplify their own voices and viewpoints.

They're doing stuff that would have been unimaginable just a few short years ago. Threatening reporters with jail time, threatening CEOs with jail time, threatening to pull broadcast licenses when they don't like how coverage goes.

Carr’s emerging agenda and its dangerous effects | Tech Policy Press

Trump’s MAGA enforcer is having ‘the time of his life’ | The Daily Beast

FCC to investigate Comcast for having DEI programs | The Verge

Trump amends CBS ’60 Minutes’ lawsuit & demands $20 billion | LA Times

No Apology Over Trump Lawsuit, ‘60 Minutes’ Top Producer Says | New York Times

The FCC is investigating NPR and PBS | The Verge

ABC News to pay $15 million to settle Trump defamation suit | Wall Street Journal

Top Trump donor wants SCOTUS to reverse press protection | The New Republic

Brendan Carr himself, a short three years ago, was saying things like newsroom decisions should be beyond the purview of any kind of government investigation or interference.

And now, what do you know? Now that his president has power again, he's doing exactly the opposite and threatening everybody he can find on all sorts of fronts and basically threatening them for the viewpoints and the content that they've included in their broadcasts.

So let's talk about Brendan Carr, who in many ways is the face of this administration's campaign against the First Amendment. Being the chairman of the FCC gives Carr power over speech, although not nearly as much as he wants. He's posted on X that he's having enormous fun threatening media companies over their speech, which is really not something you want unelected government bureaucrats doing in a functional democracy.

Since last year, Carr has put targets on ABC, CBS, and NBC over election-related coverage that Trump didn't like, and the letters he sent those broadcasters are basically extortionate, saying that these companies could lose broadcast licenses for their network affiliates if they don't fall in line. He also sent threatening letters to social media platforms last year about their fact-checking programs, even though the FCC doesn't have any power to regulate speech on the Internet. This is a straightforward power grab and a big one.

Brendan Carr wants to be the government speech police, and right now it feels like a lot of big companies are going to let him. So let's talk about Brendan and how he turned into such a free speech nightmare.

—The FCC is a now a weapon in Trump’s war on free speech

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Finally started glazing this lion! 🦁 WIP

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I would like to see more people talk about how jobs treat disabled employees.

I used to prep, wash dishes, and cook at mellow mushroom. I had chronic pain that wasn't NEARLY as bad as it is today, but it was still very debilitating. I told my employer "i cannot stand more than 4 to 6 hours. I CANNOT do shifts longer than this due to my illness." And even though i made my boundaries VERY clear, everyday i worked it was 8 hours at the least and 10 or 12 at the most. I would go up to my manager and say "look i really need to leave, my shift is over, my chronic pain is killing me." And he'd say "we really need to here, you HAVE to push through." And so i did, and after one, ONE month of that job my crps got incredibly worse to the point where i could no longer walk my dog around the block which was .5 miles. I quit, and that was FOUR years ago, and ever since that day I HAVE BEEN BEDRIDDEN AND HAVE TO USE A WHEELCHAIR. It is my biggest regret in life.

My best friend who has seen my whole journey has recently developed undiagnosed chronic pain, and she is in the EXACT same scenario i was 4 years ago. Busting her ass at a pizza place with extreme pain that hurts her so much she tells me "im in so much pain i don't even feel like a person." She doesn't feel LUCID. And her manager and coworkers are saying the same thing "if you don't help us you will let us down, we'll be in the shit."

That job thats hurting you isn't fucking worth it. I promise you no money is worth losing all your physical abilities and never getting them back. Your coworkers and boss do not give a shit about you, so don't you dare suffer for them. They will never understand your struggle and they will never try. They truly think being understaffed is worse than whatever pain you experience. They would rather you permanently damage yourself than inconvenience them. FUCK THEM. DON'T FUCKING DO IT!

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Is there a word for that like, “bright darkness” you get in winter?? When it’s been snowing or it’s supposed to snow past sunset and the sky isn’t Dark Enough. One of my favorite things

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The Year of the Snake - (2025)

"No, I'm not sharing my tangyuan with you... NO!!! *sigh* Fine... FINE! Go on, help yourself. It's your year, after all!"

A bit late celebrating the beginning of the Year of the Snake. 😳

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the moment he decides to binky

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We know that Facebook is brainscorching your parents and tiktok is brainscorching your cousins, but some of you refuse to admit that you got your brain scorched here. However unlike those sites there isn't an algorithm here you just make bad choices.