Ashley

There's probably something else I should be doing.

[devonia]

baseball is a sport with a long and storied history. to really get a grasp on that history, let's start at the beginning

approximately 540 million years ago, complex animal life rapidly diversified in an event called the Cambrian explosion. among this early animal life was a small worm-like animal called pikaia, a distant relative of famous baseball players like shohei ohtani, tarik skubal, and vladimir guerrero jr

[roguespeedster]

say what you will about the 90s but there were so so many women on TV with beautiful curly hair. we used to be a proper society

[progressivepower]

Roses are red, that comparison lacks sanity

[slipping-into-madness]

[montereybayaquarium]

They carry their pups on their chests and form rafts to stay safe and warm as they drift together on chilly, choppy waters. 🦦

We love all the adorable and unique ways southern sea otters rely on each other to stay afloat.

Like otters, love and community keep us afloat too—today and every day. Whether it’s your otter half or that group chat with the weird name, share this post with the pawsome people who buoy your spirits!

[montereybayaquarium]

🫶

[digitaldiscipline]

[fluffyblue-multifandommess]

[Image description: Screenshot of a series of posts by rahaeli on bluesky. Transcript below.

To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for:

the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;

copies of all materials they relied on to make their determination

proof the doctor making the determination has maintained registration in your specific state and documentation of their meeting all their continuin education requirements;

the aggregate rate at which similar treatments are denied vs approved by the specific doctor being used for peer review.

You are not entitled by law to *all* of these things in most states, but you're entitled to some of them, and you can always ask for them.

This is, she says, a wildly successful tactic, because if the insurance company answers them honestly, it gives you evidence that the quote doctors unquote making these determinations are practicing medicine out of scope, without proper licensing and qualifications, in areas they are not competent in.

Everyone knows this is true; it's not a secret in any way. But it's in violation of a number of regulations, and a LOT of times the company will just give up and pay the bill rather than handing you proof they're violating the regulations. It's a tactic that has worked for me many, many times.

/end ID]

[peoplegettingreallymadatghosts]

Brutal scenes playing out in real time

[kamari3]

[bigcheeseofficial]

[punkrock-bottom]

[deadgenerations]

as someone who remembers the patriot act and all the conversation surrounding it, it's a bit... of an experience being able to remember how many people pointed out that Terrorist was a politically convenient term which could be used to dehumanise and legally strip the rights from someone and that eventually all this would be used internally. and the response was 'nuh uh only browns with funny headgear are terrorists'. and then two decades of 'fighting age males' being blown to pieces at weddings because they might have, maybe, looked at a terrorist once. A week ago a head of state is black bagged in the middle of the night by the US for being a 'narcoterrorist'. And now an unarmed, random woman - white, citizen - is gunned down by jackboot thugs and before her body is cold she is, of course, a domestic terrorist.

If you are reading this, you need to know that the moment the US state needs to kidnap you, the moment a drone pilot decides you're in the wrong place, the moment you are bleeding to death on the sidewalk, you will be a Terrorist. Because anything can be done to a Terrorist.

[polyamorousmisanthrope]

We were warning ya'll decades ago...

[depsidase]

[phantomrose96]

That thing where milkmaids were often immunized against small pox because they'd already contracted the weaker cow pox earlier in their lives. That's Tumblr, to me, against whatever the hell social media landscape is happening in 2026.

[phantomrose96]

"TikTok Instagram Youtube-Shorts Share-Your-Whole-Life Influencer Social-Media Online Online Online" it cannot affect me. I was already a weird online 16-year-old all so many years ago. You cannot grab me raw and unfortified with these poisons. I inoculated myself when glomping was a thing. I am still on Tumblr making text poasts.

[myrandomstuffpage]

☝️This right here

[iww-gnv]

No war but class war. Solidarity with Venezuela and all people targeted by US imperialism.

[ladytuarach]

[cock-holliday]

People love to say things like “Hiding Anne Frank was illegal, turning her in would have been legal” without like fully grasping the modern implications properly. You have tons of folks like “if WW2 happened today id have __” that do not realize what is happening around them.

We have this idolized AND sanitized version of what happened then, and so we do not recognize it when it happens now.

Resistance fighters assassinated nazis and blew up weapons and infrastructure and destroyed records and forged paperwork and raised secret funds and smuggled people in vehicles and yes, hid them in their homes.

“Well it’s sad he got sent to an ICE camp but he faked his permit :/“

Whoever helped him fake his paperwork did what fighters in ww2 did. People who cut through chain link fences do what fighters in ww2 did, people who blow whistles chasing after ice cars do what fighters in ww2 did, people who destroy arms factories and cop city cranes do what fighters in ww2 did, people unmask agents do what fighters in ww2 did.

People are doing it now! They’ve been doing it now! You keep saying “oh if this happened here__” it HAS! It IS!

What are you doing about it?

[thelawfulchaotic]

As someone on the front lines of the court system, I’m confirming this. It’s easy to assume that people are being hyperbolic. They’re not. People in the courthouse for speeding tickets and child support are being strongarmed into locked rooms and arrested, loaded into vans under tents behind the courthouse, and they built a fence with netting over it to prevent reporters and court watchers from photographing faces.

One local jail contracted with ICE voluntarily. We were getting close to forcing them to actually follow the rules of ICE detainers and release people if ICE hadn’t come for them. That’s over now. If anyone gets bond on a pending criminal charge, they are arrested and deported without the chance to prove innocence or guilt.

Two of my clients were victims of severe domestic violence. Nearly all have dependent children. Some of the children are US citizens. There are no questions. No support. Give your kids to CPS — this is the only option.

You know undocumented people can get a driver’s license? They can file taxes and get a tax ID? Those, the ones who tried to obey the law, are being taken out one by one, because their names are in a database that they voluntarily joined. Because they want to be here. They want to be Americans.

The judge in a case of mine gave someone a two-day jail sentence. Gone. Case deferrals for dismissal are available for all Americans; if an undocumented person tries to take the same deal, they’re gone. A child client of mine had his father disappear to ICE. A woman had her husband disappear.

It’s now. Detainees kept in horrible conditions, unfed, unwashed, no lawyers, no doctors. It’s now. Shipped to countries where they’ve never been and left without papers. It’s now. It’s now. It’s happening now. It’s happening now.

[byjove]

While I’m on this topic: I think we need to stop automatically assuming that everyone who had to rehome or surrender a pet was a bad owner or simply got bored of the animal. Surrendering an animal you cannot care for is an extremely heavy and very responsible decision in most cases. There are many reasons a person may need to rehome an animal including their own declining health (extremely common with elderly owners), lack of a stable living situation, change in financial status, an inability to provide that pet’s needs due to a change in employment or personal stress or insurmountable behavioral issues. Most domestic violence and homeless shelters do not allow animals, these people are experiencing the worst time of their life and they are forced to part with someone they love. Even if it was just a shitty owner who got bored, surrendering is far more responsible than dumping the pet or neglecting it to death and stigmatizing owner surrender only makes assholes more likely to harm their pets instead of leaving them in the care of a shelter.

[oyasumire]

literally insane to me how you can shove military propaganda in a show for actual preschoolers and that's considered fine but god forbid you find it weird or sad or else someone will pen a whole article discrediting the horrors millions are going through because having dog soldiers in the cartoon for 3 year olds is more important