aaah I can't wait till it comes out!
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aaah I can't wait till it comes out!
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.
Bluesky has killed the outrage marketer grift. When everyone was confined to one place, plausible deniability existed. One could have happened across a comment from a usual target. But to carry comments from Bluesky over to Twitter to enrage one's audience makes one look like a stalker or weirdo.
they’re all this guy
Like you can just say it’s egregious for political leaders in the south to invest in a bunch of bullshit instead of improving conditions for humans. But they cannot resist a chance to reference trailer parks or imply that lower income people are dirty. It sickens me.
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Jesus Christ.
i’m so tired of this. same jerks who call us dumb because we have southern accents. i’ve got a lot of mutuals who follow this person and it would probably make them mad if you unfollowed
Despite a persistent belief that Gen Z isn’t politically active, young people are finding and creating ways to fight for a better future.
::eyetwitch::
he's absolutely obsessed with chicago. literally begging pritzker to call him and invite him to illinois.
Imagine how strong the mainstream media incentives to normalize and equivocate must be if they result in a piece that looks at a deranged, anti-science conspiracy theorist devastating public health and goes: "Good questions, just going about it the wrong way... just like Michelle Obama!"
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
Today is Tuesday, Sept ✨TWO, THE SECOND, NOT THE FIRST✨ Good morning ❤️ 🤦♀️ eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.
There’s been a lot of wishful thinking and outright misinformation about the Texas GOP’s new gerrymander. The bottom line: The map may disappoint the GOP, but it won't backfire on them. Our new piece explains why the map is *not* a dummymander.
Social media is the “We Love To Dogpile” thing, it’s also the “We Don’t Read Context Well” and the “Guilty Until Proven Innocent” thing. By curbing this “DUNK ON PERSON FOR CLOUT” problem we as a social media existing world have, we can hopefully change that for the better.
::sending hugs and come-home vibes for kitty::
i cannot imagine being this mad about a website i claim i don't care about and don't want to use
On TikTok (and probably elsewhere) they call this Bean Souping, from an infamous moment where someone did a video for a bean soup recipe, and the comments were full of "BUT WHAT IF I DON'T LIKE BEANS?"
It would be great if obscene wealth inspired people to help their communities where it's hurting most. Solve the housing crisis, get kids free school lunch, end food deserts, lower the barrier to entry to gainful employment, etc. Instead, we get "everyone I don't like MUST BE WATCHED"
i just don't think it's at all mysterious why the website that's massively dominated by the exact kind of people that Trump 2.0 is actively persecuting might have more depressing vibes in 2025 than it did in 2024
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Related to that last post, y’all gotta stop “Quote Posting To Dunk On Someone” in general. It’s never been useful. It’s always been a bad idea. And all it does is focus more eyes on a singular asshole or hateful ideologies giving that person/thing more exposure and reach.
good evening, same to you!
i think some of what’s happening here is many cishet white leftists inadvertently revealing their belief that LGBTQ people only care about ourselves and that progressive policy is a zero-sum game. marginalized people who are accustomed to banding together for survival often don’t see it that way
WE HAVE THREE YEARS TO PICK A CANDIDATE THAT DOESN’T SUCK. This is the time for people to be loud about what they want and don’t want in one. Start thinning the herd before the real money gets spent.
Every time somebody says that stupid “purity test” thing about Newsom, I ask if we can have it be their life we throw away instead of trans kids and the unhoused and somehow none of the people who complain have decided that they should be sacrificed instead? Strange. Suddenly we’re picky.
the fancam meme song officially has a live action music video www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yy7...
I’ve polled 40 students at my liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest. 60% report that they avoid AI chat bots like the plague. 75% report having a generally or strongly negative opinion about how AI will impact the future.
They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning
actually that last outfit doesn't look too bad--solid colors are way easier to deal with, and I bet he prefers neutrals, too.
WAKANA SAYING "I likey" WHILE HE LOOKS LIKE HE WANTS TO DIE
Wakana if you went to an American high school in the early '00s a lot of boys would be dressed the way you are
how did Marin manage to jump back 25 years and find a shirt that would totally fit in with the boys in my high school
WHY DOES WAKANA LOOK LIKE HE'S GONNA CRY WITH THE NICER SHIRT ON
of COURSE Marin reaches for the loudest shirt for Wakana to try on (I would have chosen the one to the right to start him off)
anyway colorface is bad, thanks for coming to my TED Talk ONWARD
Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
aaaah yes, this is the Colorism Episode. Mmph.
on the one hand the sexualizing is kinda a lot, on the other, I am here for Marin being unapologetic about her underboob appreciation
I was initially in disbelief about Wakana picking up makeup skills for dudes that fast, but then I remembered that he paints Hina dolls, so that actually tracks
Wakana appears to have 12th house energy here--if he'd had a chart it would have been cool to see whether or not he had a stellium (/astrology dabbler)
crossing streams for a bit--Sajuna might have a bit of Marilla energy
They will continue his work. Because this is not just his project. It is literally a Project with a plan and a process laid out. Not that the project wouldn’t be dealt a blow. But Republicans are a fascist party now. The fight is against fascism and for democracy, not (just) against Trump.
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I hope you're staying safe!
💯validating to see Sajuna and Marin seeing Shinju's cosplay and bouncing up and down going FUCK YEAH THIS IS AWESOME* over and over *not meant to be a translation
IDK if it's just the way she's drawn but I kind of think Shinju might feel better about herself if she had a properly fitting bra (granted, she's in middle school and these things are hard to figure out, but)
WHO HAS BEEN GIVING SHINJU CRAP ABOUT HER BODY
post-credits scene where the camera pans back to reveal the mastermind who is slowly bringing all these people together to build the league of justice and it's Monica Lewinsky
People really do struggle with the concept of “not all conversations held in a public place are for me to butt into without social consequence.”
If you've been wondering how this turned out, I'm doing better. We do need a lot for my care going forward. But in a horrible twist of fate, we were victims of the sudden downpour-turned-flood in Quezon City yesterday—specifically, our house's first floor. Grateful for anything you can spare.
I've concluded that Wakana is the Cosplay Whisperer and I will accept no questions at this time
somebody please tell poor Shinju that everyone starts somewhere with cosplay because this sort of thing involves multiple skills you have to train like muscles
"please study like normal people" THAT'S RIGHT, SAJUNA
TIL food pics usually don't get many likes on social media courtesy of this show
this woman is a badass
I wonder how much business Swallowtail got after season 1 of this show aired
I am never ever ever EVER going to get tired of how detail-oriented Wakana is when he makes his costumes.
love how Marin's like "OMG THIS ISN'T THE BRA I WANTED TO SHOW OFF" while Wakana's dying inside
::cries about how getting imported stuff now is going to be that much harder::
There's no getting around the fact that this is very bad and people are going to die. People are already dying. But the people doom-posting need to realize we are talking about a 50% increase in the number of ICE agents, which is not remotely enough to impose dictatorship on 340 million. LFG.
I've had to block a startling amount of assholes this August, so this is good to know.
MORE: Sparkle Sooknanan is still awake -- and she wants a fourth status report from DOJ. The judge orders the government to update her when all putative class members have been returned to ORR custody.
::tries very much to tolerate the sexualizing of Marin because things apparently improve in season 2:: 🫠
oh, wow, the subtitles don't pop on for the first thirty seconds of My Dress-Up Darling ep 9, just FYI.
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
"It's not alarmist to say that these are goons, this is a secret police that is going into our cities to kidnap people, abduct people off the streets" @katmabu.bsky.social on the dangers of ICE agents and potentially troops roaming the streets of Chicago.
considering I've always felt bad for going straight to blocking vs. ripping the assholes to shreds, it's reassuring to know that starving them of attention hurts way, way more.
next week: Phil meets a tall blond preacher man in the meadow! Anne meets Roy Gardner, his violet eyes, and his impossibly long lashes!
also, nobody died, so I guess that's better
that said, Honoka Inoue and Naoya Miyase voice acted the hell out of this episode and deserve all the awards
oh Jesus Roy Gardner's disembarking from the ship HERE WE FUCKING GO
Anne: why does everyone want me to marry Gilbert me:
my God everyone and their dog is asking Anne about Gilbert
I love how after the wedding Lavendar still keeps on with her eccentric ways of leaving her hair down and wearing old-timey dresses
kudos to this show for depicting proper crochet work also, it will always be nice to see Marilla overjoyed whenever she sees Anne
I've had to hold off on reposting awesome posts because of the lack of alt text and it's frustrating!
JoshTPM don’t block people for asking for alt text challenge (impossible since he blocked me for asking for alt text)
omg Anne you're so close to getting it
I'm frustrated as hell, but at the same time, I *really* can't judge Anne for this because I, too, was once a college student with poor judgment.
I hope people read these stories and are encouraged to take their own action: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/la-u...
Unemployment for Black Americans has surged to 7.2%, the highest level since October 2021, when the job market was still recovering from the pandemic. The drop in employment is a warning sign. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
smell their fear. savor it.
Man, Phil's right about Anne: she's still all in her imagination about what love is. To be fair, Anne's only 20, so this is to be expected, but in the meantime the show's gonna crank up the suspense until ep 24, won't it
Anne you can't actually demand that you stay friends with Gilbert after turning him down like that JFC (decades later Gilbert will be telling his grandkids about how hard it was to get Anne to talk to him, let alone marry him, and Anne will simply go "oh, that old story again?")
look I KNOW that by the series finale at the end of September things will be all sorted but this is so FRUSTRATING that ep better be entirely devoted to Anne going "I am such a goose, OF COURSE I LOVE HIM" to make up for this
OMG Gilbert used 愛してる I am DYINGGGGGG
oh no Anne KNOWS what Gilbert's here for and she's trying so hard not to run for her life that knuckle cracking from Gilbert is very keyboard-smash worthy
Gavin Newsom overturned a UNANIMOUS bill to stop a cap on insulin pricing FOR EVERYBODY IN CA, but you're saying that's good actually, as long as medicare, which the fed is gutting, price caps it. We could get what we wanted without, in this case, ONE PERSON deciding nobody can have nice things.
what in God's name, how has their sophomore year passed in ONE EPISODE
headcanon: Phil is definitely a Libra
Phil IDK if making yourself a decoy rival's gonna work here, you need to push Anne toward Gilbert at this rate
is Phil's indecision about Alec and Alonzo her way of saying she's probably got some Libra in her chart
was 99% sure with him staring forlornly out the window and the piano music that he was about to break out into song
SURPRISE PINING GILBERT SCENE
Aunt Jamesina laughing as Rusty and Sarah-cat fight for domination and Anne looks on in horror
well, I'm glad they cut the scene where Phil suggests using chloroform on Rusty
JB Pritzker calls for ‘all to stand up’ to Trump’s immigration crackdown in Chicago