banjo

i play the banjo. He/him. 20s. 

[phantomofthehoepera]

I want the record to state I have never been this hard in my entire life

[oneheadtoanother]

[stinkybrowndogs]

Ernie and his feather for @ban-joey 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

[cryptotheism]

I just felt someone Z-target me

[search-queery]

[clearly circle-strafing you] don't be ridiculous

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

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.

[xenosagaepisodeone]

hey man i see the projector in your mind's eye casting the image of a beautiful self indulgent fantasy over my silhouette so i just wanted to remind you before you try any funny business that when its battery dies it's just going to be me here

[tragicburnout]

i’m a lover, a yearner, and a freak

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

[ban-joey]

google search changes (elimination) made the "death of the internet" clock move forward several hours

[ban-joey]

working in a hospital on the admin side of things is honestly working out great bc the medical system is one huge insane puzzle of absolute nonsense that I am having a fantastic & frustrating time untangling. fuck united health getting the one guy was Not Enough

[flock-talk]

The sudden realization that the water he is standing in is wet

[ban-joey]

project hail mary 3rd viewing this weekend

[ban-joey]

no matter how small it is planning a wedding is still pretty dang difficult

[fourteenth-ascian]

happy 4/20

[materialistses]

‘Project Hail Mary’ Cinematographer Greig Fraser on How He Created the Sun Effect to Light the Tunnel Scene The tunnel where Grace and Rocky meet in ‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’ was built practically. The tunnel was 70-feet long and contained a huge rig of old-school tungsten lights that were then pixel-mapped to create a controllable, moving “sun” inside the tunnel.

[saucefunk]

dirty dirty dirty

[ban-joey]

when people are talking about the artemis ii mission it is extremely hard to resist telling them how unequivocally fucked it is. those people aren't coming back alive. I will gladly be a killjoy about this because it is Not Good.

[stinkybrowndogs]

Mouse and Ernie for @ban-joey