[Shaker] [&] [Mover]

Be Nice! Formerly AgentAsshole! 18+ Blog. Shitpost city.

[greattitmouse]

[sweet-sugar-maize]

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[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

[maimonideznuts]

Wait. So the Trump administration really cut funding to the program that would research and respond to the spread of New World Screwworm past the Darién Gap because they blamed it on climate change, and left the joint international program to Mexico and the Central American Countries... And are panicking now that it's reached Texas, and only now that the flies have already made it all the way from Panama to Texas are they building New facilities to produce the sterile male flies needed to eradicate the pest?

I'm sorry to everyone who lives on the entire continent.

America is Trump's pump and dump scheme. If he's not getting a third term then he'll break the country for whatever poor soul has to clean up his mess.

[wyf-of-bathe]

New World screwworm had been eradicated from the US since the 1960s, Elon Musk brought it back in a year.

Notably, DOGE cut the funding a few days before the US resumed imports of cattle from Mexico... the imports that had been suspended because of the screwworm outbreak in Mexico. So we've had a year of importing cattle from Mexico during a screwworm outbreak without monitoring the outbreak that we already knew about. Mexico's outbreak is pretty bad btw, and cases have been found not just in cattle and dogs but also humans. I assume the rest of Central America too. Not that many people seem to give a fuck about them ig.

[thatdisasterauthor]

In exactly the same vein, the department meant to deal with things like bedbugs...is now infested with bedbugs.

[hungwy]

guess my favorite rene descartes quote

[frqp-deactivated20200918]

who give a shit.

[hungwy]

[lamignonette]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[adorablegorilla]

Exactly my thoughts. At first I heard it was a spin-off staring a female character and I didn't realize it was a specific character so I was like, "okay people are being way too whiny about it but I can kind of see why there's Discourse" but then I learned that character was FAYE and any excuses for this behavior flew out the window. YALL ARE MAD?? YOU GET TO PLAY AS THE WOMAN THAT ORCHESTRATED THE ENTIRE FIRST NORSE GOW?? THAT HUMBLED KRATOS??? THAT WAS HYPED UP FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THE NORSE DUOLOGY??? IF YOU'RE MAD ABOUT THAT YOU CAN BE NOTHING BUT THE FAKEST OF FAKE FANS

[doberbutts]

I don't do the DNI thing because honestly if I catch you in my notes and I think you suck I'll just block you then and there.

But also chihuahua haters dni. I'm beefing with you directly if you hate chihuahuas. All my homies hate losers who hate chihuahuas.

[unwholesome-gay]

If you hate HER??? don't ever talk to me

[bennizone]

You could say he's... on the fence :-))

[sandmandaddy69]

[goslinggf]

"girl dinner" "boy kibble" can y'all just eat a meal gender neutrally

[goslinggf]

gender neutrients

[megaceros]

All of the canidae!

[status-quo-hater]

This version of the progress flag legitimately looks so nice

Gilbert baker rainbow, huge intersex circle, the design is cluttered but in a good way 10/10

[ID: A version of the progress pride flag with a large purple intersex ring outlined in gold, looping through pink, blue, brown, and black chevrons on the side, which have a base of white. The horizontal stripes are: pink, red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, and purple. End ID.]

[wawawawwawwawwwawwwawawwa]

the socially anxious little girl would like to silently observe your discord server

[wawawawwawwawwwawwwawawwa]

if she is feeling particularly brave she might emote react to one of the messages

[my-dailydreams]

[fuck-yeah-dylan]

You are breaking the law if I have to scroll past more than two phone screens to get past your post. What happened to read more?