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frog enclosure is mostly done. just need to save up for more live plants 👍

#marrow talks #just hoping the majority of pothos cuttings take well enough. we'll see #gonna play it safe and let the silicone from the other day cure past the 24hr mark. the frogs will be going in later TONITE

midiport

#this again. i love it #mega fave

graveyardp1aygr0und

𝔇𝔬𝔫’𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔰 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔣𝔲𝔫? 🥀

#silent hill #silent hill 2 #silent hill 3 #FAVE #good art #these are so good omfg

kit you saucy bitch. you got me BACK into warframe

#my art / wip #warframe /#i fucking love you oraxia THANK YOU AVAE FOR GIVING HER TO ME #idk when i'll manage to finish this. all my little amounts of free time is spent grinding for dagath and citrine

day 5 or something building this tank for four whites tree frogs we got for free

feat. the wee beast

#marrow talks #hoping to put the frogs in by saturday. it's the pond/mini waterfall that's gonna take a minute now

never really liked mentioning compliments i've gotten but on the weekly people in my checkout line say i've got a voice for radio or a yt commentator if they're customers more my age and it's like 😭 what am i doing in retail then. fuck it i'm starting a minecraft channel

#marrow talks

bovid-beauty

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

featherandstorm

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

genderkoolaid

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

cherrispryte

Some added 101-level context from someone (me) who’s worked in federal grantmaking for 20 years and is literally certified on this document - this is a document that governs all federal grantmaking. It’s been around for over a decade and is a mega-document that combine multiple previous smaller documents that have been around for ages. It is updated every few years and generally the updates are minor - a notable change in the previous update was raising the small procurement threshold from $10,000 to $15,000 for example. Deeply dry boring minutiae that no one outside of federal grantmakers need concern themselves with. It was also federal GUIDELINES, which means there was flexibility.

This year’s is different. They are now federal REQUIREMENTS, which means there’s no flexibility. As was said previously, the 400 pages are not singularly devoted to being absolute shitheads to trans people. Theres a lot of stuff in there, some of which is the standard dry boring grants stuff, some of which is the horrible ideological warfare outlined above.

This document is issued by the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, which is currently lead by fucking Russell Vought, the principal architect of Project 2025. This is how they’re going to implement all the horrible shit in there that wasn’t covered by Executive Order. Russell Vought is actively coming for my job, my marriage, and my kid, and most of my friends lost their jobs last year because of him. He is the fucking arch villain behind the heinous shit the current regime is doing.

So yes, please comment. You don’t have to read all 400 pages before doing so, it’s dry and dense as fuck, but I thought this information might be helpful. Also, while there is a public comment period, this isn’t voted on by Congress. The OMB just fucking issues it. Pressuring your elected officials into publicly saying “hey what the fuck are you doing here” is good, though.

mikkeneko

Please note the comment period is open through JULY 13th, not JUNE 13th. I saw a lot of relogs yesterday saying "last day!" and I just want to say it is very much not too late.

grison-in-space

As of today, 7/8/26, we have five days for public commentary on this to go through. I am begging y'all: if you care about independent science in the country that produces the most global science funding in the world, please leave a comment.

plastiboo

#fave #good art #body horror

well i've retold this to so many people i've lost count. my dad, as of yesterday last night, is doing okay. doctors in the ICU preformed an angiogram and found a blockage in my dad's heart that likely caused everything that happened wednesday. aside from an MRI to see what's going on with his short term memory loss, dad shouldn't have too many more tests to go through

thank you to everyone's well wishes. this was a hard and very unexpected week for me and my family

#marrow talks

only a few weeks ago my dad was here helping us with the basement remodel. the last couple of phone calls i've had with him, he kept talking about the next trip down here, how he wants to stay for a couple weeks and go camping and all sorts of things. he's going to be 68 next month and he's in the fucking hospital for a severe head injury. i haven't had time to process the transmission in my car blowing last friday and now i might lose my father

my dad is in the icu. earlier today at a job, he had a fall and hit his head. my mom told me the parametics found him unconscious and in cardiac arrest once arriving. we were on the phone the entire time until she arrvied to my dad's jobsite, he'd already been taken to the hospital so i don't know if my mom even got to see dad awake at all before they sedated and intubated him