til chitin isn’t just a bug thing, and i am disturbed. somehow eating mushrooms is now akin to eating bugs at this moment. 😩

some agencies have tried to fight back.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/united-states-african-development-foudation-doge-lawsuit/

anyway

be me, sneaking outside at work to vape while my coworker brings a literal gallon of coffee everyday.

nicotine certainly has been demonized in the last few decades.

you’re either terribly uninformed or willfully ignorant. lack of transportation, accommodation, childcare, time off work, current identification all contribute. gerrymandering minimizes the effects of successfully voting as well.

also, you’re not helping anything.

i don’t give them money but i’m on their email list. i just saw a request to donate that i dismissed and it went right to the article.

i have never known the intercept to paywall stuff?

honestly, that’s bullshit. i dunno if i’m just taking something too literally here, but no.

except that it suggests bipoc people have value and contribute meaningfully to our country.

why not? serious question, i don’t really know a lot about military leadership.

to me, it seems like a good thing if lots of people refuse to cooperate, refuse to be made instruments of this regime. enough people refuse and the regime is disempowered.

maybe, i’m not sure. but those stats up there suggest maybe they are not willing to sacrifice themselves after all. i hope we can help them understand that society doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game, which is what i think many of them have believed.

at some point, people have nothing left to lose. enough people like that and i’m sure it will happen.

omg i have been trying to forget this since the last time i saw it 😢

they were also children, presumably echoing the narratives of their parents. it is not a foregone conclusion that they are incapable of empathy.

nah, i also enjoy pointing and laughing when i see a cybertruck on the highway

edit (and at the people driving them)

i gotta be honest, i’m not entirely sure what is intended. this decision doesn’t make sense to me!

my tamagotchi 😢

i know at least three meth addicts right now. two told me they used because they can’t/couldn’t access their mental health medication. one told me that many people don’t start until they are already on the street, and the misery plus being forced by cops to move over and over instead of sleeping encourages use. one told me it was the only way they could stay awake to work enough to support their family.

addicts need real help, like medical/mental health care, housing, a living wage.

but yeah, desperate people will do desperate things.

my stepdad had a round tuit. you can buy them!