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trot on

yes this timeline is a rough route. yes there are waves of strife. but behind it all lies the inertia of all things which prompted fish to trot out of the ocean and humans to gather in commune. we are driven to fill the nothing with ourselves, with LOVE. its the unconquerable wind behind our sails

eventually--darling

The zipper merge requires a level of cooperation and goodwill that the citizens of this great country have never once displayed

haverwood

The Alabama Solution Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman USA, 2025 ★★★★

inthe-hollow

The corporatization of public institutions leads to abuses of the public.

thoughtportal

Who is Larry Ellison? Here's everything you need to know about the billionaire IDF donor who may soon have the keys to the TikTok algorithm in the US.

Who is Larry Ellison? A Deep Dive into the Billionaire Donor

Explore the life and influence of billionaire Larry Ellison, including his involvement as an IDF donor and potential impact on TikTok's algorithm. via NovaMedia

ghostpalmtechnique

moniquill

shdwsilk

Oh, THIS motherfucker. THIS motherfucker is going to accuse indigenous Americans during the colonial era of child sacrifice???? Let's talk about child sacrifice, you steaming pile of rancid shit.

Choosing to tie SNAP benefits to the government shutdown when there was explicitly a carve-out to let them continue.

Trying to ban life saving gender-affirming healthcare for trans kids.

All of the bullshit they're trying to pull about vaccines.

Gutting environmental protections.

Among other terrible things, the cuts to Medicaid and SNAP as part of that terrible and terribly named big bill.

All of the harms to children of immigrants in the contact of sadistic and overreaching ICE raids.

Not to mention all the other children getting tear gassed and terrorized in Chicago.

(and it's worth noting that all of these policies are impacting indigenous children as well as children in a range of other demographic groups. I have no doubt there are also policies and actions coming down from this admin that are also specifically targeting indigenous children in the US.)

And this is just a sample. Go to hell, and take the rest of the whole administration of child sacrificers with you. We'll all be safer without the sacrifices you're willing to make at the altars of greed, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism.

snazzy-hats-and-adhd

They think that fear is the same thing as respect.

teaboot

So much of this shit feels over and over and over again like a gigantic racist idiot with a Dunce cap on his head is standing on a stage going “eating poop is delicious and good for you” and 500,000 doctors go “NO! Here is every piece of evidence in existence definitively proving beyond reasonable doubt that we are NOT supposed to eat poop EVER” and yet there’s still a crowd full of people below the stage going “:) Yay! Poop :)” and then months later you’re at a gathering and someone asks you “hey are you eating enough poop” and you tell them “no and nobody should be doing that” and the nearest ten people go “why are you being so aggressive about this everybody is entitled to their opinion and actually government officials agree and support eating poop so maybe you should do some looking into that I’ve heard there’s studies being done on the benefits of poop” and it feels like you’re going insane

alma-de-naturaleza

stumblngrumbl

wth

"tens of thousands"

these ones are likely Mobula Munkiana

up to about 1.1m width

Tens of thousands of mobula rays come together off the coast of Baja California in a brilliant display of their massive numbers underwater.

reasonsforhope

A new guaranteed income pilot program in Boston aims to set an example for future policies.

"According to the Stanford Basic Income Lab, universal basic income is a periodic cash payment that is given to individuals unconditionally, requiring no work requirement or sanctions to access.

And as various nonprofits and cities across the country experiment with basic income programs, most have found that the money received is largely used to pay for the basic essentials many Americans struggle to afford.

A new pilot program in Boston, Massachusetts wants to find out if the same trend applies for a specific demographic: young adults facing homelessness.

The program is called BAY-CASH, or Boston Area Youth Cash Assistance for Stable Housing. Their plan is to offer a select group of 15 young adults ages 18 to 24 $1,200 per month for 24 months.

Each month, they will receive two $600 payments, and they will each have access to a one-time drawdown amount of $3,000, used to pay for things like a security deposit, a car repair, a medical expense, or other crisis.

“BAY-CASH is what we call a demonstration program,” the program’s director Matt Aronson told GBH, the local NPR affiliate.

Aronson has been working on developing a model for direct cash transfers to address young adult homelessness since 2017, when he also co-led the development of the City of Boston’s plan to prevent and end homelessness among young adults. Finally, his vision has reached a crucial next step.

“We’re trying to demonstrate to the state of Massachusetts that this kind of programming, a guaranteed-income program with supportive services, should be part of our toolkit that we use to prevent and end homelessness for young adults,” he continued to GBH.

Program participants will also receive two and a half years of supportive services, like a navigator who helps young people identify and access the resources they need, as well as financial coaching.

Aronson added that there is no penalty if a participant doesn’t use them, but they were built into the program based on the services young people asked for.

One of those young people is Deandre (who chose to omit his last name for privacy). Having grown up in Boston, he was out on his own, but after coming on hard times, he found himself involved in a few youth homelessness programs. That’s where he found out about BAY-CASH.

“I heard about … potentially getting cash payments to help with all the necessary things I have to go through on a regular basis,” he told GBH. “I was absolutely ecstatic.”

He told GBH that he plans to use the money to access food, clean clothes, and rent and housing expenses when he eventually has a place of his own again. He also hopes to one day save up to buy a car so he doesn’t have to rely on the city’s bus system.

The flexibility for him to choose how to spend the money is a key component to what Aronson believes is the magic of guaranteed income.

“Current homelessness resources for young adults in Massachusetts are scarce, can be slow to deploy and inflexible, and often lead to inequitable outcomes for historically and systemically oppressed populations,” BAY-CASH shares on its website.

“[We are] trusting that young people know their needs and communities better than anyone else.”

Aronson added that the pilot program will provide the state with more evidence to consider something “a little bit more flexible than what they’ve developed,” and ensure that a budget would be available to enact something similar in other regions of the state.

Right now, the pilot program is being funded by private donors and foundations, along with the city of Cambridge via a one-time cash infusion, and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services.

The hope, Aronson said, is that this program proves its efficacy for the long haul.

“There’s some skepticism around and moralizing why folks are poor, why folks who are experiencing homelessness that causes us to suspect, ‘Oh, they must be wasting their money,’” Aronson said. “Over and over, the evidence is consistent that folks use these to meet their basic needs.”

For Deandre, who has dreams of someday becoming an architect, the program represents something greater.

“Just because we’re experiencing homelessness doesn’t mean it has to be a barrier for us to stop living our lives and that we can’t escape it,” he told GBH.

“With more programs such as BAY-CASH and with more people spreading awareness about the issues that are going on in our community … it’s all about making sure that the next person doesn’t have to experience what you’ve had to experience. It’s about doing what you can to eradicate homelessness, and I think that should be everyone’s ultimate goal.”"

-via GoodGoodGood, August 11, 2025

bigfrozensix

“Ariel sold her voice for legs just because of a guy“

Meanwhile Ariel with legs;

Ariel already loved the human world long before meeting Eric (you don’t get a collection like hers overnight) and when she finally got a chance to explore it, she took it.

Ursula made it more about Eric than Ariel ever did.

gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe

atalana

and i mean hell this has been talked about before in more depth than i can, but when people complain about how the ending was changed (the original fairytale does not give ariel a happy ending, she dies trying to protect the prince), i think about the fact that this was written by a gay man in the 1980s

and i think it’s entirely valid (and gives her an extremely strong connection to the queer community) to change the story so she doesn’t die because of who she loves

starlitskvader

Triton made escape a necessity. Once someone goes to the point of destroying your possessions in a violent rampage, there is no staying and sticking it out, there’s no safety. (And Ariel, even in Ursula’s lair, gave Triton more thought than he deserved at the time.) Nowhere in the ocean she could go and be safe. Everyone’s always ‘why don’t they just leave :|’ in abusive situations until the leaving is not something they find 100% worthy of approval.

Ursula made it about Eric. She didn’t have to. Ariel had to get out from under Triton’s thumb, it could have been literally anything. Ursula took advantage of a desperate victim for her own agenda. Realistic predatory behavior toward a vulnerable person.

And also

There’s always the ‘Eric didn’t want her until she was silent and meek’ criticism - FIRST OF ALL he started out looking for a woman who wasn’t silent, and second of all what part of the carriage driving bit (or any of her other actions on land) is meek, exactly?

People above have noted the queer subtext. Now, on the subject of Ariel being willing to leave her family, aside from the baseline ‘this is an abusive environment and she was not safe there’ angle I already mentioned, consider: Ariel’s father made it clear he would stop at nothing to crush and tear down who she was and replace it with what he wanted her to be. Now - what demographic might that resonate with? And given Ashman’s involvement, do you think that was a coincidence?

tokidokifish

there has been scholarly discussion about the idea that the og little mermaid story, where she dies at the end, was written as a queer allegory.

so taking that into account… there is something very touching about taking this story from hans christian andersen from beyond the grave and being like “things are different now. they get to be happy. she gets to live.”

victusinveritas

depsidase

davidsfincher

"Burrow and snug to your heart's contentment. Use my high body temp to warm you." | Kelvin & Keefe in their matching PJs

antoniabishop

Drove to Colorado with my boyfriend and his dog

everythingfox

Embracing the moment

sleepyheadkl

Tornado

anthropologist-on-the-loose

I want every non-Midwesterner to know that we are drilled in tornado safety from a young age and know exactly what we should do to keep ourselves safe. And yet we do exactly as pictured in the bottom image every time a tornado comes around.