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birdplushie

fiction can be really dangerous there might be a deeply tragic woman in there who starts living in your head forever

glamrockmike

realizing that the online sphere and especially tumblr is NOT a good sample for ‘what everyone thinks’ is so, so, so good for your mental health and moral OCD. i swear to god. realizing that you don’t have to live your actual life like you’re being hunted for sport because the average tumblr user will hunt you for sport for wording something slightly weird or engaging in the wrong stuff or whatever is so incredible. like no you’re actually not fucked up and evil for not donating or for watching that one indie cartoon or questioning a post that everybody is agreeing with. that’s just tumblrs georg making you feel that way

estro-boi

bovid-beauty

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

junequeer

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

featherandstorm

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

genderkoolaid

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

cherrispryte

Some added 101-level context from someone (me) who’s worked in federal grantmaking for 20 years and is literally certified on this document - this is a document that governs all federal grantmaking. It’s been around for over a decade and is a mega-document that combine multiple previous smaller documents that have been around for ages. It is updated every few years and generally the updates are minor - a notable change in the previous update was raising the small procurement threshold from $10,000 to $15,000 for example. Deeply dry boring minutiae that no one outside of federal grantmakers need concern themselves with. It was also federal GUIDELINES, which means there was flexibility.

This year’s is different. They are now federal REQUIREMENTS, which means there’s no flexibility. As was said previously, the 400 pages are not singularly devoted to being absolute shitheads to trans people. Theres a lot of stuff in there, some of which is the standard dry boring grants stuff, some of which is the horrible ideological warfare outlined above.

This document is issued by the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, which is currently lead by fucking Russell Vought, the principal architect of Project 2025. This is how they’re going to implement all the horrible shit in there that wasn’t covered by Executive Order. Russell Vought is actively coming for my job, my marriage, and my kid, and most of my friends lost their jobs last year because of him. He is the fucking arch villain behind the heinous shit the current regime is doing.

So yes, please comment. You don’t have to read all 400 pages before doing so, it’s dry and dense as fuck, but I thought this information might be helpful. Also, while there is a public comment period, this isn’t voted on by Congress. The OMB just fucking issues it. Pressuring your elected officials into publicly saying “hey what the fuck are you doing here” is good, though.

mikkeneko

Please note the comment period is open through JULY 13th, not JUNE 13th. I saw a lot of relogs yesterday saying "last day!" and I just want to say it is very much not too late.

grison-in-space

As of today, 7/8/26, we have five days for public commentary on this to go through. I am begging y'all: if you care about independent science in the country that produces the most global science funding in the world, please leave a comment.

dangerousgiantlime

GOOD. GOOGLY. I DREW A LOT IN @pvtpunsart 's magma jam last week. Got fanart for @amevello-blue and @alicat54c 's universes Pawn's Gambit and Empathy is Learned, and Ghost in the Shell ALL OF WHICH YOU SHOULD READ ABSOLUTELY, @pvtpunsart 's most recent AU about futuristic racer guys, AND @boxfullaturtles ' Goreytello cause I will never NOT love them. The rest are SaiNW Raph, Rise!Donnie cosplaying as 2003's Don's cosplay of a sorcerer skin from the Superquest episode, Rise!Raph as 2003's Griddex, Rise!Raph as 2007's Nightwatcher, and my lil' Mr. Man, Miles! <3

sweeneydino

Behold Noodle Seal Zio. Bask in his and his siblings glory

@amevello-blue @alicat54c as promised 🫡

getindumdums

Donatellos on Their Ability to Lie

Rise Donatello— Absolutely horrible liar. [100% FAILURE]

12 D— Kind of bad. Obvious tells. Maybe talks loud about it alone in his lab to Tim. But can. [87% FAILURE]

03 Don— Sweet, quiet about it. He decides to lie and you cannot tell til it’s too late. You probably never even got a chance to ASK. [100% SUCCESS]

87 Donatello— Really good. Also a dramatic actor. This guy’s holding a small object in his hands and convincing you it’s a bomb and he’s NOT HESITATING. And the worst part. There’s a genuine chance it is.

[GUESS 50/50]???

sweeneydino

Behold more Seal bbs uvu

@amevello-blue @alicat54c

scribefindegil

I'm still thinking about the guy who saw me realize my wheelchair wouldn't fit in the elevator because he (also a wheelchair user) was already inside it and immediately quipped, "This elevator ain't accessible enough for the both of us."

mousidy

jax died before she could come out, and she died before she could become a better person and make any kind of amends with the people she hurt. I don't think the story was written that way by accident

mousidy

she's horribly repressed and comes from horrible circumstances including homelessness. she also pushed away every hand extended to her and every chance she could have taken to get better. there were a million better decisions she could have made and she did not make them, and she caused an incredible amount of harm along the way. and still the story wants us to believe her worthy of being understood and loved

mousidy

to come out would be to embody herself, to view herself as a real person, to start to leave the haze of dissociation that allows her to think of herself and everyone else as cartoon archetypes in a false world where nothing matters

she's desperate to stay in this world that she sees as false, where she's a funny cartoon character and she can still brush off the pain she causes as silly cartoon antics

it's exactly this dissociation that allows her not to take her own pain or the pain of others seriously. it was what ultimately led to her death. a jax that cannot come out is also a jax that cannot make amends

mousidy

something I love about a tragic story, where a character fails to complete the arc that might have satisfied us as the audience, is that it asks us what led to the tragedy

the despair it leaves us with, the satisfaction it denies us, leaves us to yearn for things to have turned out differently. it leaves us thinking about what could have been done, what decisions could have been made, what different circumstances could have prevented the tragedy? dissatisfaction drives us to act

you're not supposed to be satisfied when she dies

mousidy

I love, by the way, the matter-of-fact cut from her walking away to her already being gone. like many tragedies we experience in our lives, the news comes to us unceremoniously, undramatically, flatly. it arrives well after the moment where we could have been there. in one quiet moment the world shifts underneath our feet. at first it feels like nothing at all until the information percolates through us, manifesting first as a dull ache that feels inadequately small and insignificant

we don't get to ask "what could I have done if I were there," we can only ask "what could I have done before it got this bad?"

mousidy

when a trans woman in your life commits suicide, she is not going to have tied up all the loose ends first. a trans woman's suicide is not the last page of a full life well lived. it is an abrupt end in the middle of a story that deserved to keep going

mousidy

people who survive their lowest moments are the ones who get a chance to grow and make amends. far, far too many trans women do not survive

#tadc

shop5

let’s be real the pressure to use AI as an adult is exactly what they said the pressure the do drugs as a teenager would be like but the people that told us that caved immediately for the AI and definitely did not just say no

tmntrca

TMNT Fanfic RCA Voting Is Here!

2026 Reader's Choice Awards has arrived!

It's here! Time to vote for your favorites! You do not have to vote for every category. Please don't vote for fics you don't know just becau

The form will remain open until August 1st, 2026!

You can find a list of all the nominations >>HERE<<

#another reblog for this <333

bluepeachstudios

Ghost in the Shell Chapter 31

>> Read here! <<

Ghost grunted as he pulled his bo staff out from behind the wall of his half collapsed room. Only half came out, the faded fabric around it torn.

Ghost sighed, holding it firmly in his hands.

“You and me both, old friend,” he murmured, running his fingers along it.

It had served him well, even just as wall decor after it had cracked. His final unbroken piece from his first family.

He tucked it into his belt on his shell. He would do something with it later, if they survived this.

skcirthinq

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!

Read the chapter first guys, please, you will not regret it!

hey @amevello-blue .

what the hell???

AMEVELLO-BLUE.

WHAT

THE

ACTUAL

LITERAL

HELL????

And fuck!!!

Did I need to be absolutely obliterated by a missile with Casey Jones 03's name on it??? Did I really????

After the first hit from 03 Splinter??????

(legitimately, this was so well done and as always, your writing is amazing!)

amevello-blue

IN MY DEFENSE...

The SAINW episode killed him first. He looks like he hasn't aged at all from the Casey we know while April definitely has, which would imply Casey. Died pretty young. I'm pushing it imo just by making it more than 10 years after Donny disappeared.

#SAINW has so many little things in it that hint at its past #it has been delightfully fun picking it all apart

ofhoovesandheart

absolutely stunning akhal-teke stud… such a pretty man

elodieunderglass

Weird greyhound

stahsm

Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy

thatisuseful

Damn, that's useful

fluidstatick

Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!