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The stock market is a wild thing. Imagine someone loans you money and then they expect you to make constantly increasing amounts of money for them. You’re in debt with them forever or until they decide you’re not and also you have to consistently make more money appear for them every quarter, far beyond paying them back, even though they only gave you money once. Also if they don’t like what you’re doing with the company they can get together and either force you to change your direction or straight up take it from you.

Can you imagine the first person who made that deal selling it? What a joke

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1. People are seriously considering letting Elon Musk, (a billionaire who just killed a budget because it included “too much” funding for research to cure childhood cancer) become the first speaker of the House who isn’t a member of the House, or an elected official at all.

2. The speaker of the House is second in the line of succession, after the vice president.

So if something were to happen to the incoming president, who is old, in poor health, a convicted felon who’s already been impeached twice and had one assassination attempt on the campaign trail, the only thing between us and Elon as president would be… Vance.

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i feel like if we stopped forcing such a strict gender binary for both cis and trans people we would all be free and happy

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openin’ the door to the microwave one second early because you don’t need all the hootin’ and hollerin’

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I read this post out loud to my partner and their response was “sort of like with humans except that you don’t have to use a knife” 💀

Malice and Vice were in my dreams last night.

They were exceedingly difficult to pack in my luggage for airplane travel

Ironic, since I generally have to remove them from my suitcases several times while packing.

Last night I dreamed that I fed Vice a poison that was supposed to kill him in five seconds but instead it just turned his eyes purple, and he sat there watching like this while I fought an ostrich all by myself

But then I woke up and needed to know if I'd fought the ostrich believably so I texted an avian zoologist

Huh. I'll remember the sock thing next time

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A sitting Congresswoman got a gay man arrested for shaking her hand. If you’re wondering what the state of the Republican Party is right now.

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AMAZING WORK, EVERYONE!

AUTISM SPEAKS IS SHUTTING DOWN IN CANADA!

When I started as an autism advocate in 2010, A$ dominated the narrative. They were everywhere and they regularly shouted advocates down and buried our voices. To see that they've made the decision to no longer operate in Canada is HUGE. It means our voices are getting louder and louder, and that our movement has made tangible progress!

My guess is that it's no longer financially feasible for them to have a Canadian arm of the organization, and that's such a massive shift given how dominant they were when I got my diagnosis 15 years ago and officially joined the autism advocacy movement 14 years ago. I'm so proud to see these changes happening - we've made progress, and I can't wait to make even more with all of you!

For now, though, it's okay to celebrate this victory. We all earned it together!

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Fun story. When I was actively being stalked (both online and IRL), I contacted the police exactly one time. I showed them the physical notes that had been left under the wiper blade on my car after I blocked the man on social media. I showed them the previous Facebook messages this man had sent me that described, in detail, what he wanted to do to me.

The police said they couldn’t help me because the man had not actually physically done any of those things to me. He’d just talked about his desires. They even made excuses for him. He’s awkward. He’s lonely. You’re pretty. It’s a compliment.

So friendly reminder that when a man with a record and weapons makes verbal/written threats against a woman, there’s nothing police can do.

But when a frustrated woman being denied medical coverage with no record and no weapons makes a “verbal threat” against a corporation, she’s arrested immediately.

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I’ve got my tumblr inbox turned off so I really have to commend the person who actually emailed me to let me know they don’t like the things I’ve posted about the UnitedHealth CEO being murdered on their commitment to their beliefs.

But seen as how you emailed me from a dud email that appears to be bouncing back replies and I really wanted to address something you said to me about violence begetting violence:

My migraine medication, the medication I was given for my debilitating neurological disease that has gotten so bad I spent most of this year actively suicidal, costs $1300 a month.

My insurance covered it. But only because my doctors office went to fucking war for me because I’m a high anaphylaxis risk for the drugs the insurance wanted me to try.

Because that’s the thing.

My doctors knew, based on my documented medical history, I likely wouldn’t be a good fit for the “first line” of preventative migraine drugs, but because of insurance, I had to be given drugs that were contradictory to my other life threatening conditions, because otherwise insurance wouldn’t cover anything else.

I failed them. Spectacularly and with an anaphylactic reaction to one of them. And I was still warned insurance would fight me because I hadn’t tried the remaining drug they wanted me to try.

A drug which I would have to take in an ER waiting room because my mast cell disease is unpredictable but insurance wouldn’t cover in-patient treatment to let me try it safely under medical supervision.

Is that not violence?

Were all the times I was denied coverage for vital and necessary procedures that could have prevented my disabilities from worsening not violence?

Maybe not in the sense you mean. But I assure you it felt very much like violence to me.

Do I condone murder? No, obviously. But I’m also sick and tired of people pretending that what is happening to the American people every day isn’t eugenics through class warfare.

Violence begets violence.

It sure fucking does.

Maybe these insurance companies should have thought of that first.

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It’s that time of the year again :)

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i think im getting better! :) [another event occurs]

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the prominence of AI in art and writing right now actually has a lot in common with the old WASPy 1950s cooking trends we now all scoff at, specifically the over-reliance on what is perceived as high-tech and futuristic, the belief that anything that comes "from science" must inherently have value and be superior to the more organic older methods, the leveraging of a supply chain that is all geared up to destroy the earth, and also an end result so uncanny it is bordering on surreal.

what gets called AI today truly is the shrimp jello of tomorrow.