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Why is there a diarrhea parasite outbreak in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to disease prevention and control.

Why is measles back in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including RFK Jr, cut vaccine and measles prevention funding and programs.

Why is the New World Screwworm infecting cattle in Texas, when it had previously been eliminated from the area?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Elon Musk, cut USAID funding, which in part worked to monitor and prevent screwworm outbreaks.

Why was there a flu outbreak in our armed forces?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Pete Hegseth, cut vaccination requirements for our armed forces, putting all of them at risk alongside our military readiness.

What contributed to the Covid outbreak?

Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to a pandemic prevention program in his first term because Barack Obama had created it.

“America first” sends its regards. Trump voters, please learn your lesson. And if you don’t, it’ll be taught to you again with yet another diarrhea outbreak.

bigboysdrinkmilk

vaspider

Please give credit to Matthew Cortland, the disabled lawyer and activist whose work is reflected in that last screenshot. They work hard on documenting what Trump and his cronies have been doing & they deserve credit.

cornistasiathecoblinking

The midterms are right about the corner! Please get involved and vote!

#u.s. politics

blumineck

I’ve got a lot of Thoughts(tm) about The Odyssey at the moment, but damnit Blum I’m an archer, not a film critic, so here’s something in my lane!

#the odyssey #archery #oh that's why

astriiformes

Incredible book alert for you all, since I know how many of my friends and followers are also neurodivergent. I've been requesting that our local library buy more ADHD and autism-friendly cookbooks aimed at adults, in an effort to find one that might help me with fixing my extremely broken relationship with food. And for a while it was a bit demoralizing because a lot of them are more recipe-focused, so I'd read them and go "Wow, this book is aimed at people like me and I can't eat any of this stuff, I must be even more broken than I thought"

Enter "How to Eat Well for Adults With ADHD" by Rebecca King.

I am about to sound like a sponsored ad, but this book is absolutely incredible. It's written by a nutritionist with ADHD, and does include some recipes, but they only make up a part of the third section of the book. The rest of it is focused on practical, broadly applicable advice for neurodivergent folks (and frankly, other disabled people) on unlearning internalized ableism around food, how to best organize your kitchen and meal plan (and what to do when meal plans fail), the connections between food and dopamine and how best to use food for stimulation in a healthy way, how hyperfocus and time blindness can get in the way of eating well, how to make sure you're eating enough while on stimulants, the fact that many ADHD people also have ARFID (and the book even emphasizes that ARFID is an eating disorder, not just "picky eating"!!), and takes the strong stance that we should do away with the idea of "picky eaters" altogether in favor of a more compassionate stance on people's complicated relationships with food and eating.

It is strongly anti-diet culture while still emphasizing that good nutrition is important. It has extremely specific tips that make my ADHD heart sing a little, like how best to store specific vegetables so they last the maximum amount of time in your fridge (since we are all very good at forgetting they are there) and what tools can make doing the dishes more manageable. And perhaps most importantly, as someone with severe sensory sensitivities and some very real trauma from having them ignored as a kid and being shamed for them, it made me cry a little bit with how understanding and compassionate it is.

Anyway. I am going to buy a copy of my own immediately, and I cannot recommend it enough. If you, like me, are trying to unfuck your eating habits and neat someone to hold your hand a little in the process -- while still making you feel like an adult, and still offering actionable tips along the way -- this book could be a lifesaver.

(And for those of you who use Instagram, the author has an account that's equally helpful and affirming over there, too, that I followed immediately, @/adhd.nutritionist)

#cooking #to read #book recommendations #adhd life

espanolbot2

The Crown Prosecution Service says it has requested their extradition from the US, while their lawyer says they are innocent.

Again, their lawyer might say they're innocent, but innocent people generally don't leave voice mails gloating about their crimes on their victims' phones.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Full offence intended: if both of these oxygen thieving wastes of organs died a slow and utterly fucking AGONISING death of cancer it would be

A) Fucking hilarious

And

B) The first and only good thing either of these filthy fucking parasites upon the planets resources have ever done in their entire worthless existence

#NotAllLivesMatter

titans-thoughts

Yeah, their greatest achievement is an international pimp agency. Fuck that shit. I have no problem with prostitutes, but pimps are a whole other (frankly worthless) thing entirely.

And these guys are teaching our kids about gender?

espanolbot2

Nigel Farage seems to certainly think so.

Nigel Farage has called Tate an ‘important voice’ for young men and held back from criticising his misogynistic views

Farage, it should be noted, also can't have a simple interview with female journalist to save his life either.

#tate brothers

utah-mountain-drifter-deactivat

At face value, this is a ridiculous headline. But the article then says his managers berated and insulted him for leaving the party after an anxiety attack, and the company then fired him for taking days off work for “unsafe work practices,” due to having anxiety?

ivan-fyodorovich-k

Seems like pretty often headlines that paint a lawsuit as frivolous and ridiculous seem a little more rational after some digging

clockworkrobotic

There’s so much more to it as well. He repeatedly asked the company not to throw a party for him due to his anxiety (apparently this is standard practise for their office and he knew it would be triggering for him) and they “forgot” about his request. On the day in question, he predictably had a panic attack and went to his car to do breathing exercises.

The next day he was called into a meeting where he was insulted and grilled about “ruining the party” and “stealing his co-workers’ joy”, which caused him to have another panic attack and start doing coping behaviours like hugging himself, at which point his employers decided he must be angry and was going to turn violent. They then suspended him for days and later told him he’d been fired.

So yeah, it’s not over an “unwanted birthday party”, it’s over employers repeatedly failing to accommodate someone’s disability, trying to frame them as the villain for having accessibility needs, and firing them for not conforming to some stupid office politics.

Source with the court documents

puttingherinhistory

I am completely pro-lawsuit. Lawsuits are often the only tool that otherwise powerless individuals have to demand some accountability from large corporations and institutions, and historically lawsuits have been a very important tool for civil rights, women’s rights, LGBT+ rights, and disability rights. But this is exactly why the media is always depicting lawsuits as something frivolous and silly that only uptight spoiled crybabies who want easy money do, and people just eat up that propaganda without doing any research or critical thinking.

cryoverkiltmilk

REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA AND THAT SENSATIONALIZED JOURNALISM FALLS UNDER THAT

stellanslashgeode

Never forget that McDonald’s coffee gave that lady 3rd degree burns and she just wanted money to cover her medical bills.

#lawsuit #not frivolous #misleading headline

bisexualbaker

Happy Moon Landing Eve! Remember to leave out milk and cookies for Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, and don’t let Michael Collins convince you to prank NASA!

bisexualbaker

If Tumblr is still here next July 19th, I fully expect this post to obliterate my activity feed.

#moon day eve

greseadraws

dungeon meshi but they end up in the back rooms, a cursed idea that was eating away at my brain

nitewrighter

Peer-reviewing @monikoishi's tags because they're banger.

#lol #backrooms

auxryn

Many people are aware that copyright originated as and remains a protection for publishers, not authors.

However, there are longstanding rights intended to protect authors. These are legally called 'the moral rights of authors.' Good naming.

These rights include:

The right to attribution. To have your name on your work. Don't repost peoples work without attribution.

The right to use a pen name or to publish anonymously. Publishers should protect the privacy of authors. Service providers shouldn't require posters to provide ID.

The right to integrity. Editors should not cut up your work to make it say something you do not endorse.

So let's review:

❌ AI harms authors because it violates copyright.

✅ AI harms authors because it violates their rights to attribution and integrity.

#anti ai

modelsof-color

Chol Mabior at Robert Wun Couture FW 2026

#fashion!

vintagewildlife

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

#humanity doing good

hometoursandotherstuff

The odd Oregon castle was the dream of the owners who had it custom-built. The 1975 home in Eugene, OR is currently being used as a short-term rental property. It could be the high price tag that keeps it on the market. 4bds. 3ba. 2,552sqft, Reduced $50k to $1.149m. (Zillow's est.: $1,119,100)

#castle houses OR #unusual homes OR #airbnb OR #houses OR #house tours OR #home tour OR

July 2026: How Is It Going?

Halfway through 2026 and I need an accountability post. This year has been a crazy ride already and if I put off tracking things until December that is a guarantee for forgetting.

WIP Progress

January and February started me off in my Biker Mice From Mars Works In Progress. I outlined Evil Jack: Perseverance, posted Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Sacrifice of Happiness on Ao3 and the BookWorm's Library, and then added 7409 words to the first draft of Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler. Perseverance took some time to figure out the details since my muse was convinced we had given away everything in Three of a Kind (Ao3 | BookWorm's Library) last year. We figured out a way to surprise the readers when I actually get to write it. Rouler is now in between the first pinch point and the mid-point shift, which is a pretty decent chunk.

March and April were for Star Wars WIPs, but March is also when my therapist officially put me in burnout. I finished Sororal Lineality: Kyber so I could post it on May the Fourth (Ao3 | BookWorm's Library). Then I tried to start on Rescue the Farmboy: Extrication but burnout sapped all my energy for that one. And since I'm still unsure what lessons Yoda will be teaching and I needed to do more reading, I ended up reading two books on Zen Buddhism and one book on Taoism.

May and June put me back in the Zackverse WIPs and the first one I'm filing in is the first of the Legends of Hyrule series The Hyrueliana. I had steady writing progress most of the days of both months and will take the low word counts I got because it was steady.

Plans for July and August: these months are set aside for making updates to the BookWorm's Library and my Ao3 account so I decided to also catch up on the To Be Read fanfic list and comment on them too.

Burnout Progress

I am learning that Gen X/Xennial experience burnout differently than how it is typically described from medical professionals. Medically-speaking burnout is supposed to leave you unable to function, but we in this generation-cohort have been trained to just put up, shut up, and make sure everything gets done regardless. You have to earn that rest, earn that fun activity time, but there is always everything to do to a perfect standard that is not possible to achieve at all.

And I got a triple whammy of this by being born a girl (who has to maintain that standard or else), the oldest who was parentified to take care of younger sisters and the slack of the home-front while parents worked, and society on my generation.

Which is a long way of saying that I haven't been resting as much as I need to and I have let my projects creep up again. I did get 4-10s back at the paying job, which has given me energy for yoga again. I had about a month where I just couldn't deal with going to the studio. Unfortunately, work has informed me that the 4-10s schedule will only last until one of my coworkers retires this year and then it is back to the paying job five days a week. So I really need to rest more than I have been while I have the time.

House Progress

Oh, this is a biggy. Basically the appraiser refused to appraise my house until a contractor made repairs, so it turned into a complicated math problem and the HELOC loan was denied. I got a remodeling construction company to do a walk through to tell me if my dreams of a new addition and up-to-code electric and plumbing were possible. They very bluntly told me that my hypothetical $100k (because I haven't actually got a loan for that) wouldn't get me a new addition, much less the other issues, and I would be better off demolishing and starting over. Which is the same possibility the appraiser gave me.

On the plus side, I do have equity. I just need to get some comps and find out how much my land is worth and then get a construction loan to build a new house, which would recycle as much of the old house as I possibly can. My wooden walls are cypress, baby. My sisters don't care what I do as long as I'm happy. Dad understands I need new interior, but doesn't want the exterior to change that much. "It's Gram's house when I look at it." I'm not opposed to Creole Cottage look on the outside, and have been playing with Floorplanner.com to see what I can fit in what kind of footprint. I'm hoping to get that done this week and move onto the next steps. My home insurance wants something to happening by October to see if they will renew me, so I do have a deadline.

I think that's everything for the first half of this year.

#life update #writing life #house renovation #biker mice from mars #star wars

bitchesgetriches

Most major corporations — from airlines to social media platforms — now aspire to become unregulated banks. Bankification today accounts for

apatosaurus

This is a long read, but worth it. Some takeaways:

-Don’t use “buy now pay later.” The fine print isn’t what it seems.

-The fine print on medical financing, store credit cards, and contactless payment is also not what it seems.

-Payday loans are still predatory, even when offered by your employer

-Rewards programs are an income stream for the companies that run them. The points systems are manipulated so that the house always wins. They depend on people leaving money in rewards accounts and not in interest-bearing traditional bank accounts.

-Electronic payment apps like VenMo are not banks. You don’t earn interest. Your money is not protected.

-Your financial information is not private if your money is not kept in a regulated bank.

-None of this is regulated by the FDIC. Your money is not protected if it is held by a non-bank doing banking business. Our economy is not protected from the collapse of financial institutions that are not banks.

-The Biden administration was making progress in increasing accountability for non-banks operating as predatory financial services providers. The current administration is reversing those protections to favor corporations.

mierac

Oh boy.

A third of younger Americans hold their savings on nonbank tech platforms like Venmo

PEOPLE! DO NOT LEAVE YOUR MONEY IN VENMO OR APPLE PAY OR ANY OF THIS SHIT. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GO FIND A REAL BANK OR A CREDIT UNION.

If Venmo were to close tomorrow all your money would vanish. There's no insurance or guarantee on any of these things. I know banks aren't great but legit banks will have the "FDIC insured" logo on their doors and websites, which means if my bank goes under tomorrow I still get my money back. Also I guarantee you there is a credit union somewhere in your town, go find it.

You can leave some money in Venmo or Apple pay or whatever, but NOT ALL OF IT for the love of God.

jenniferdub

FYI this is what the logo looks like and Apple Cash is FDIC insured.

idroolinmysleep

No, it's misleading. Go to Green Dot's T&Cs, search for "FDIC," and you'll come across this:

your funds are insured up to $250,000 by the FDIC in the event Green Dot Bank fails

In the event Green Dot Bank fails. Meaning the only time your money is protected is if Green Dot goes under. Not if Apple goes under (unlikely, granted). Or if Apple changes its terms (entirely possible). Or if you got scammed. Or if Apple freezes your account because they think you're the one scamming. Or any of the other countless mishaps your money could suffer. Green Dot is insured, but Apple Cash is not.

This is the disclaimer (highlighted) you see before you set up Apple Cash:

heywriters

I really need my followers, especially younger ones, to read this.

And DO NOT get store credit cards, they are money sucks and difficult to cancel.

julevanwilde

As someone who's worked in the industry for a decade now, here's a quick rundown (US specific,) of what your schools and parents didn't teach you:

For the love of god get an account at a federally insured institution. Look for FDIC (banks) or NCUA (credit unions) insured and regulated financial institution. They are legally required to have this status publicly available and accessible so it's not hard to find.

The FDIC and/or NCUA will insure your accounts up to $250,000 PER AUTHORIZED SIGNER and per account type. These are factors to max your coverage to even higher than $250k but the key point is that if something happens to your bank or accounts there, that first $250k of your money is secured anyway.

Banks are for profit. Credit Unions are exactly what it sounds like: unions. They are not for profit and member owned.

Bigger institutions have more money and resources at their disposal; they have the fancier apps, 24/7 phone banking and more locations. But watch out! They are no different than any other large corporation you've heard of when it comes to ethics. Smaller institutions have more limitations, and lesser size is not an indicator of morality, but it's something to consider when choosing where to keep your money.

These institutions, regardless of what kind you choose, will offer interest bearing accounts. Money Market Savings and Time Accounts (also called Certificates of Deposit,) are popular choices to put the money you already have to work for you. You can earn money just for having your money in an interest bearing account type.

All financial institutions charge fees of one sort or another. They are offering products and services, after all. Nothing is free! They will also disclose options to avoid paying those fees, usually based around meeting specific criteria such as minimum balances or direct deposits.

Take this information and do your own research so that you can make an informed decision. Now you know what to look for! Don't be taken advantage of!

iverna

I have seen several artists over the years panic because they did business via PayPal, and PayPal randomly froze their accounts or locked them out. In some cases it got resolved, in some it didn't, and even in cases where they ended up getting their money back, it took so long that it meant missed rent payments etc.

It's fine to keep some money in non-bank accounts for online purchases etc. BUT. If you NEED the money, do not keep it in PayPal or Apple or VenMo or any of that. If losing it would be a disaster, put it in a bank account that's protected. That's not just for US folks either, that's for everyone.

#psa #usa banking #usa economics

espanolbot2

The Crown Prosecution Service says it has requested their extradition from the US, while their lawyer says they are innocent.

Again, their lawyer might say they're innocent, but innocent people generally don't leave voice mails gloating about their crimes on their victims' phones.

#tate brothers

depsidase

#fuck trump #i want them charged with war crimes

injuries-in-dust

I disabled this feature and was actually surprised by how much faster my laptop became. My computer is only a couple of years old but this one feature was just sucking so much life out of it behind the scenes. I'd hate to see how much an older computer would be affected. AI features that we don't want are just the absolute worst. They don't make anything better. It was actively making my computer run slower and hotter.

#windows 11

whitepeopletwitter

swan2swan

We really don’t talk enough about how Artoo went into the desert to find Obi-Wan because no kid would be stupid enough to follow him into Tusken territory and then this kid chases him down and gets beaten up and his unconscious body is dragged back to his landspeeder and Artoo looked down and went “This one. This one knows how to have a good time.”

sniperct

#he’d had adventures but really all those rebels were too cautious for him#he’d served Anakin Skywalker there was just no coming back#and then there’s this nerdy kid who kinda sorta reminds him of that guy#and then Obi-Wan says “your father wanted you to have this” and pulls out ANAKIN’S KRIFFING LIGHTSABER#and Artoo just EXPLODES because NO WAY THIS IS THAT KID??!#and he cross-references his old memory banks and THERE’S PADME NAMING THE KID “LUKE” THIS IS THE KID#THE WHOLE TIME HE WAS TRYING TO RUN AWAY FROM ANAKIN’S SON#NO WONDER HE COULDN’T ESCAPE#also no wonder he could fool this idiot to take off the restraining bolt#HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN#and he was ride or die forever#and about two days later he DID die#but he got better#so really WOW this guy IS the best#artoo detoo

nervousspacerobot

#star wars #r2d2

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