sick duck

sam • she/her • 28

[nitewrighter]

Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

[catkora]

This is a reminder that march 7-14 is an amazon blackout. Don't buy from Amazon during this time. Your money has power. YOU have power. When we work together we can show that the actions of this government and companies supporting it are unacceptable.

We demand change.

Tell everyone you know. Support local and small businesses where you can. Support minority businesses. We CAN make a difference.

This is organized by the people's union usa.

[boymiffy]

and when will there be a friday when i AM in love? When.

[mapofyourstars]

Magneto was Right, X-Men: The Last Stand

[nathanielthecurious]

i think you should be allowed to cite scholars who are bad people but only if you put the word (oof) or (yikes) after their name

like Parker (yikes, 1989) or Obbink (big oof, 2007)

[kaceycat]

Freud (derogatory, 1923)

[kalelraejepsen-deactivated20231]

#reminds me of the time a former grad student from my dept cited the unabomber in a math paper with the footnote ‘better known for other work‘ @sierpinskis-assket

[cappuccinoandglitter]

Lower Decks really missed a golden opportunity to travel back in time to not The Trouble With Tribbles, but to Trials and Tribble-ations, where live action Boimler and Mariner would've had to avoid not only Kirk's crew, but the copy-pasted crew from Deep Space 9.

Just keep seeing how many layers you can pile on top of the original episode.

[bensiskos]

Amazing Lower Decks art my sibling @rootbeer_rain on Instagram did!!

(ID - A fully colored digital drawing in a line less art style, of the four main Star Trek: Lower Decks characters. They are all drawn from the shoulders up, wearing their Starfleet uniforms. Tendi, a green skinned Orion woman, stands behind everyone, holding her arms up with a joyful expression. Boimler, a white human man, sits below everyone, looking up with a slight smile. Mariner, a black human woman, leans her arm on Boimlers head, she looks down at him with a content expression. Rutherford, a tan skinned human man with a cyborg implant on the left side of his face, stands next to Tendi, he has his tongue out with a happy look. The background is a light purple, with yellow stars. End ID)

[birdsareblooming]

sometimes i feel like im climing up this incline again alone but thankully sisypus and the itsy bitsy spider and here with me

[birdsareblooming]

holy shit is that kate bush

[teathattast]

💯🙏💛🟨👍

[teathattast]

Worst part about this is I've only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn't who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is

[teathattast]

Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis

[hundredsofsmallbirds]

attention joann's shoppers. there is a freak in the yarn aisle buildinf a nest

[hundredsofsmallbirds]

they're demolishing the natural habitat of the gentle freak..............

[noah-wyles]

come on americans, help a girl out

[penny-anna]

I think Seven of Nine would approach Tuvok like 'I am unaccustomed to being alone but the other crew members keep trying to socialise with me and I don't care for it. I've judged you the member of the crew least likely to engage in meaningless social interactions. I would like to spend some time with you.' And Tuvok is like 'that is logical. You may join me in my quarters this evening.'

She comes over and stands motionless by the wall while he sits and works on his reports and personal log. After 3 hours she's like 'that was satisfactory. I will join you again next week' and he's like 'acceptable'.

It's a major event in both of their social calendars.

[saywhat-politics]

Keep your messaging simple:

“Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.”

That’s it. That’s the messaging. Don’t get bogged down disputing Trump’s false claims. Just blame him, in short and repeatable sentences.

[queerculus]

Trump removed bird safety regulations in his first term and now bird flu is killing so many laying hens that eggs are $5 a carton

Trump removed food safety standards his first term and now we have recalls every few weeks

Trump cut the subsidies for the solar farms under construction so now electricity costs more

Trump disbanded the pandemic response team and we now we have bird flu and tuberculosis outbreaks

[dorothylarouge]

Joanne the plot of the book series which is the only reason you have any worth whatsoever hinges on the transformative power of unconditional love

[our-queer-experience]

[friendlyfrankenstein]

[cilceon]

Putting a highlight on this part specifically, teach children that they have the ability to fight back

[cikero]

did anyone else see that seal that just ended up on the street in connecticut

[cikero]

[bonyassfish]

No place for a little seal

[arielsojourner]

USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

[kasplode]

Organised by People’s Union, read more here:

Nationwide economic blackout on February 28: What to know about boycott

When Donald Trump reentered office, one of his first calls to action was to end several DEI initiatives in the federal government.

[dvasva]

'This won't work, this isn't widespread, nobody knows, we're in a bubble, blah blah blah' my mom, a 64 year old lady with no social media whose first language is spanish, told me about this before tumblr did, and said we are going to participate.

[librarychair]

I've seen flyers for this in real life. Do it.