Kid, When Life Gets You Down You Got Three Choices

When I was a very suicidal trans activist in Texas, Benjamin Sisko saying “sure, you would [die for your people]. Dying gets you off the hook. The question is: are you willing to live for your people?” changed and possibly saved my life. It’s up there with “if we are going to be damned, let us be damned for who we really are” from Picard. Star Trek not only shows us a better world, it teaches us how to make it there

“mumbo sleeps on the couch” “grian sleeps on the couch” turns out none of them do??? apparently they could be peak divorce but they STILL share a bed whats up with that??

society if women were seen as people

let's recap what we've learned about the United States in the last few days.

things that are terrorism:

allegedly shooting a healthcare CEO whose company generated more pure profit (not revenue, profit) in a year than the GDP of 94 countries, exclusively by denying coverage to people who pay for it

a 42-year-old mother of 2 using the wrong combination of 7 words during a heated conversation with a call center employee at a health insurance company who was in the process of denying her health coverage.

things that are not terrorism:

mass shooting in a Black church to incite a race war

going to a BLM protest specifically to kill protestors

a neo-nazi running over a crowd of people, killing a woman

targeting and killing 23 latinos in an el paso, texas walmart

killing 12 people in a theatre, shooting 58 others, rigging your apartment with explosives

a QAnon groyper killing 7 and shooting ~50 at a 4th of July parade

killing 3 people and shooting several others at a Planned Parenthood in defense of the unborn

stalking someone relentlessly and then killing them and their child despite months of the victim making police reports

any one of the 1,200 murders committed by US police yearly, the vast majority being minorities

tightening your border while ~100 immigrants (including children) drown every year in the Rio Grande

United Healthcare killing an unnknowable number of elderly people by using faulty AI to deny medically necessary coverage

Aetna killing a woman by refusing to cover her cancer care

Blue Cross killing a 6-year-old by denying her appendicitis surgery

Cigna killing a 17-year-old child by denying her liver transplant

the pharmaceutical industry killing half a million people with opioids in the name of producing revenues in 2023 that rivaled the GDPs of countries like Spain, Mexico, and Australia.

the United States killing 45,000 people a year because they can't access health coverage

make sure you keep this guide handy the next time you find yourself interacting with your insurance company or any other millionaire, billionaire, or an individual who is part of a protected class such as a CEO or president of a corporation.

Despite not finishing my current fic I have come up with another one!

A Gem isekai fic, where she's put into a fantasy world with creatures people make up!! If it gets enough attention I'll take requests from readers, but otherwise it'll be me and my friends making up the animals.

During the fic Gem figures out that there's a type of mold that's eating people and animals alive. It's transferred through the muscle of organisms, and likes to eat mainly fat! It also eats plant life, but only in situations where it's desperate.

I'm a big evolution nerd, so I've definitely made more lore than I'll need already, and continue to make more lol

If anyone wants to read it I can post some to Tumblr, but I'd like to get at least two chapters done before moving it to ao3!!

I've seen this on both Tumblr and Tiktok and I knew I had to do it!!

This is based off an AU I'm making :D, I did two versions because the court (my gf and I) couldn't decide which was better!

Recently I've been sick, and being sick I've taken NyQuil to help me nap and sleep. What NyQuil does to me though, is give me wild dreams I can remember. This usually isn't a problem, but during one of my naps I had a dream that Marty made a podcast, and it was called "Nighttime with Martyn" and the entire thing was Martyn reading bedtime stories requested by viewers. Most of it was traditional folk tales, occasionally a true story, and sometimes Martyn would tell stories of his childhood. The weirdest part, though (if this wasn't weird enough), was when during episode 7 he said "now let me bring on my oldest friend," and all of a sudden a mound of void and stars appeared on the video. It just meowed and then I woke up. That was the entire dream, and my next one was a flower field.

Rape allegations and charges do not ruin mens' lives because a rapist can run for president and win. An aggressively racist man can still have the support of numerous people of color, can run for president and win. A chauvinist that wants to enforce laws an restrictions on women's bodies and coined the term "grab 'em by the pussy" still has the support of women. A xenophobic man who wanted to build a wall to keep foreigners out of the country still has the support of immigrants. People still support and voted for a convicted felon, racist, rapist and scum of the earth. Despite it all, people still support and voted for Donald Trump.

Hello, this is a longshot saving life call, I am Verian from Gaza. I am here to request for your support to help get my insulin, just an injection for today to save my life please I beg. I was diagnosed with Latent Autoimmune Diabetes and due to the current situation in Gaza I'm unable to get my insulin injection as a result I'm here begging for little financial support to help me purchase insulin for this week. My donation link is attached in the pinned post, I might have sent this ask to you earlier but kindly consider donating and sharing. This is the only option I have at the moment to save my life from going into a coma.

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