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Join us! We’re going to visit four different sites all very near us. Still practicing our filming skills, but I hope to get some pics. There are protests happening all over Colorado, though I’m sure Denver will have the largest. You can probably find one near you.
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Republicans decide to set the US on fire
Cutting healthcare for millions while creating the largest immmigration enforcement body that ever existed. Bigger than the Marines. Mayor Pete has some useful words. This is going to be a very hard time though. Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit. [image or embed] — Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg.bsky.social) July…
January 6, 2021
Four years ago today. Never forget. Trump and the Republicans will try to gaslight you about what happened. I know it is terrifying that he’s been re-elected, but the least we can do is hold onto the truth. This was an attempted coup, an insurrection, and all their lies can’t change that. The incoming administration is going to be one of the most corrupt in history. Pay attention!
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Country before self
Thank you, President Biden, for being the extraordinary President you have been. Now let’s get behind Kamala Harris. Let’s make history.
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Colorado has a good spring snowstorm
And I am so happy to see it. I amused myself by making snow ducks as you can see below. Then there was so much snow overnight that my Ducktans were buried and vanished. Also, the top of one of our trees broke off and fell into the streets. There’s a lot of that around town; the arborist services will be busy for some time. News reports say Nederland, up in the foothills above Boulder, got 53″ (!)…
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To any Baby ARMYs, know that BTS ARMY were the ones who started the "trend" of Korean fans and international fans respecting, liking and getting along with one another.
So, know that when you see open slander on the TL, it's very likely coming from the "kpop" mentality, which we, BTS & ARMY, have worked towards breaking for many years. This is a major aspect of why we are what we are and how we conduct ourselves.
I love, respect and appreciate our K-Diamonds 💎
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Video source: Koreans React To BTS' Success In America | ASIAN BOSS 🔗https://youtube.com/watch?v=RuFjcKlRcIY
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What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?
An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:
I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.
Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.
A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)
So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.
And I just got confirmation from a second ex-colleague that a deal with midjourney has been brewing since months ago. Not any extra details, just that's a real thing.
Shit, I don't see any way for this to happen that doesn't make it an apocalyptic event the size of the porn ban. Fuck.
Shit. This may be pure chance and coincidence, and it's not he is in a position to be able to talk about anything, but seeing prominent staff members announcing they are moving their original photography out of tumblr just two weeks ago seems a pretty significant cue of shit to be about to hit the fan.
Advice for trans people
Thoughtful advice for trans folks on one way to help protect your true gender identity, in the face of some states trying to erase you. Provided by Anna on Mastodon. Anna @[email protected] If you are #trans and a US citizen, you should absolutely, 100% apply for a passport this year, whether you plan to travel or not. Yes, it costs $$, but you can self-select your gender without bureaucratic BS…
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50 years of abortion rights, rescinded
Yesterday was the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade that granted abortion rights to women. Last year in their Dobbs decision, the Supreme Court reversed itself and took those rights away. In every election since, women have turned out to restore those rights, including elections in very red states. It’s very clear that this will be a primary issue for all Democrats…
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About NATO
As I pointed out in the previous post, Trump never liked NATO and did not want to be tied down by those strategic alliances. This article from Politico shows it clearly, reporting on a time Trump said exactly that to world leaders while he was President. Trump vowed he’d ‘never’ help Europe if it’s attacked, top EU official says ‘By the way NATO is dead,’ the former (and potential future) US…
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Thinking about the Korean Peninsula
If you’re not familiar with Pod Save the World from Crooked Media, it is where Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes, both of whom worked in the Obama administration, discuss world politics and all sorts of other affairs. It’s consistently interesting and informative, one of my favorite podcasts and I recommend it to you without reservation. Embedded below is the episode from January 10, 2024. If I’ve done…
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Three years ago today
Never forget, and don’t let the Repulicans gaslight you about the truth of what happened. The New York Times put together a visual timeline of the assault. You’ll have to click through to see it on YouTube. Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol
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Many of the states that are moving to ban abortion tend to have less access to health care, worse maternal and infant health care outcomes a
It's intentional.
They're weaponizing pregnancy- keeping us under constant threat of forced, unsafe, financially burdensome pregnancy is a great way to roll back lots of women's (and anyone who can get pregnant) ability to be independent and not be trapped in unhealthy relationships for the sake of survival.
I want to be clear- I don't think that every single boots-on-the-ground prolifer is a raging misogynist. I *know* that a lot of them are well meaning, but uninformed people who have not been exposed to or educated on this issue in a nuanced and fact based way.
But the politicians and preachers who stand up on their podiums and push for their laws?
They *resent* women's lib and feminism. They resent the way that divorce laws and birth control and Title IX and increased education and career opportunities for women have led to a culture where it is possible and common for a woman to live a comfortable life without being married, where marriage is a choice among equals rather than an obligation and survival necessity. Where a woman can leave a relationship if she wants to with relative ease. Where being a mother is an option, not a duty. It takes away so much social power that men used to wield as a weapon. It used to be that a man just needed to be a better choice than homelessness and they could get a built in cook and maid and nurse, rather than having to be an actual viable partner. And abortion access is a big part of that.
(And you better believe that they absolutely see forced pregnancy as a way to prove that anyone who CAN get pregnant is obviously a woman and should be treated, poorly, as such. Their transphobia, misogyny, and bioessentialism are deeply entwined.)
I say this often, but the ability to get pregnant makes us a uniquely vulnerable class of people. It opens us up to a lot of potential abuse and risk, physically, financially, in our careers, in our relationships. And the tools we have to control our reproduction, if it happens, when it happens, ways to make it safer when we want it- birth control and abortion and prenatal care and safe c sections, paid parental leave, protections against work discrimination over pregnancy- help us manage and mitigate that.
So of course states with the states with the most horrific anti-abortion laws also have the least support for pregnant people. The *goal* is for people who CAN become pregnant to be increasingly reliant on their husbands (and oh, you better have one of those) by making a potential pregnancy something that is nearly impossible to get through alone with your quality of life in tact.
The cruelty is a feature, not a bug.
Honestly, I want prolifers to read this, then read this again.
Yall don't know. You weren't alive in the pre-Roe world. You don't understand how pregnancy was used as a weapon. How at any time, an act of violence could ripple into 40 weeks of pregnancy and a lifetime of poverty. How a husband's demand for a son could leave you dead on a hospital bed. How a missed period could leave your children without a mother, or their mouths empty of food. How an indiscreet evening with a sweet boy could make you untouchable, could send any plans for your future off the tracks, How you better hope that boy will marry you, because you don't have any better options. And if he does marry you, pray he is kind and patient and stays away from the drink, because he legally owns your child and you have nowhere to run. And if he doesnt want to marry you and doesnt want a bastard with his face running around, you better pray you are faster than him or someone will protect you from the violence might be coming. What's the point of educating a woman when she'll inevitably get pregnant? What's the use in hiring one for anything more than maids work?
We have come so fucking far. We clawed so many rights out of the grip of men and laws written by men to make our futures wider than just housework and mothering. To give ourselves choices. Options. To be more than just one function of our biology. To be able to say that womanhood is not defined by motherhood, to decide when and if and with whom we will be mothers. To know that if a pregnancy fails, we can get help and try again, not just wait to see if the miscarriage ends in sepsis and infertility and death.
And the men who stand behind pulpits and podiums and scream about all the sluts using abortion as birth control for convenience- they want to take all that away again.
And even if you don't, even if you truly are only thinking about little innocent babies and their perfect little angel souls- if you support them, you are helping them.
And now I do have COVID
Thought I’d mention that. After three full years of careful isolation and masking, some time with family brought COVID to me. Mr Jnfr is fortunately still testing negative. We are quite lucky and quite privileged to have a home with plenty of space to divide the house for isolation purposes for a week or so. I also have had all the main vaccines and boosters, including the last variant…
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