[afurioushawk]

[pmamtraveller]

Cats by Shou Xin

[pmamtraveller]

Cats by Shou Xin

[carriesthewind]

One of my colleagues won their client, a tenant, a large judgment against a landlord. The landlord has refused to pay the judgment, and yesterday filed a motion arguing that they shouldn't have to, because the don't have the money, and the court needs to consider their inability to pay :( :( :(

And I think, in a just world, every single tenant that property ever evicted for nonpayment of rent should be mailed a copy of that order and be given the opportunity to speak on the record in the upcoming hearing.

[whetstonefires]

easy to miss that one of the reasons maternal mortality is diminished so extremely by modern medicine is that modern medicine makes it so much more possible to identify the pregnancies that will die and take you with them, or are otherwise unacceptably high risk. and then discontinue those ones safely, before it's too late.

thought about this because it's so frustrating when people argue that 'dying in childbirth' is a historical sort of event that doesn't happen nowadays (false) and therefore is irrelevant to the legal status of abortion, since it's not a real danger.

except it super is, and i think a lot of people haven't noticed that this argument in addition to simply being incorrect is basically the same as when people say we don't need vaccines for deadly diseases because no one gets those now anyway.

like yeah one reason for that is we vaccinate everybody ffs.

[libraflyter]

Note: after the end of Roe v Wade in the US, the maternal mortality rate (and the infant mortality rate) are showing clear increases in the states with the strictest anti-abortion laws.

Forcing people to carry high risk or non viable pregnancies to term kills.

[tsulasgi]

Study: Higher Maternal Death Rate in States With Abortion Bans | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Findings point to potential 9% rise in pregnancy-associated and pregnancy-related mortality

[cheesenames]

if we can set aside attachment discourse for a moment (please) i think the jedi marriage prohibition makes sense in a “please don’t enter a complex legal, financial, social, and in some cases religious contract, the specifics of which vary wildly depending on planet and culture” way. the single jedi with a law degree does not have time to draft everyone’s prenups to prevent the whole order from getting sued

[the-fallen-blue]

#we could create so many interesting new problems if we ignore romance and make it about contracts generally#jedi prohibition on getting a loan. jedi prohibition on signing a waiver before bungee jumping. etc

"Qui-Gon didn't try to buy Anakin or the engine because there wasn't anyone in town who offered a credit exchange service" wrong. Qui-Gon gambled for Anakin under the table because after dealing with the Cyrkon Delinquency of 24850, Master Olobi, Esq, has personally promised to hang by the the toes from the highest tower of the Temple for one week any Jedi who generates any trackable legal transaction or obligation between the Order and the Hutts.

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[uncahier]

Since you don’t respect my opinion anyway, quit pestering me to fill out a survey after every single consumer experience. I keep wondering who looks at these surveys. Is the CEO sitting in his wood-paneled office, reading each individual response on an old-timey stock ticker? If so, you can keep doing this. If not, I rate this experience zero stars out of infinity.

[postapocalypticparenting]

I had to swipe @notjusthespongenextdoor’s tags too:

(In fact, we understand and that’s WHY we’re mad.)

[petulantpony]

i’ve said it before but i wish vaginas didn’t cost money

[petulantpony]

you literally can not have a vagina without paying for it. vaginoplasty for some, period products for others, if you want to stop buying period products that’s gonna be expensive medicine or an expensive procedure, recovery from surgery requires time off work and vaginoplasty specifically requires money spent on dilators. our bodies shouldnt cost us this much on baseline. having a vagina shouldnt have such a hefty tax on it. it makes me feel like i’m in a fictional dystopia written for middle school classrooms when i think about it.

[jaradraws]

let me crawl inside your ribcage and 😴 snork mimimimi

[stephenroot]

Rising costs of fuel, other goods squeeze already strained abortion funds • Stateline

The increasing costs of fuel for cars and airplanes is adding extra strain to abortion funds that help people pay to travel for care in othe

In the four years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case, abortion fund leaders say the need for assistance has exploded. Poonam Dreyfus-Pai, interim executive director of the National Network of Abortion Funds, said Monday that the funds supported more than 158,000 people in 2025, up from 82,000 in 2022. And the cost per person has doubled from less than $200 to nearly $400 on average nationwide.

[earendil-was-a-mariner]

Bilbo: wait I get it now. The dragon is a metaphor for greed and power. We need to ‘defeat’ it by being humble when we get the treasure.

Thorin: Bilbo, for the last time, it’s a real dragon and it has my gold

[the-august-one]

[penny-anna]

Ok u know that like. Period drama shirt. The white shirt men are always wearing in period dramas. The Colin Firth jumps into a lake shirt. Are you visualising this in your mind? Ok now imagine: a butch wearing the shirt. And she has tasteful cleavage. Do you see my vision.

[lauraharriers]

ADELINE RUDOLPH & TATI GABRIELLE ph. Celeste Sloman Vestal Magazine, Spring 2026

[air-so-sweet]

Pride 2026 with Queer Liberation Library!

smut with a side of theory

The queer liberation library (a free online library specifically geered toward queer literature) is doing their annual fundraising. Given the current state of censorship in many libraries around the US, I think something like this is extra important. Please donate if you can!

[queerliblib]

thank you thank you <3

[baraphalloplastyclinic]

I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?

Don't become a housewife.

[gaileyfrey]

Downright Scoundrels Needed

The Anarchist Cookbook meets Unforgiven in a story that is unapologetically about the means and methods one should use to interfere with the logistics and supply lines of those in power.

March 2027.

It’s not a crime if you don’t get caught.

Gunslinger Fletch and her ragtag crew of outlaws keep busy in the Southwest territory by dropping deputies and stealing liberating their horses. As the Administration’s tyranny stretches across the country, each job proves riskier than the last—just how Fletch likes it.

When the team is hired to pull off an elaborate and dangerous train heist of military materials, it could mean decades of hard labor—or death—if things go sideways. But Fletch never misses her mark, and this could be the score of a lifetime.

Principles are a liability, and as a rule, Fletch and her team are only there for the income, not the outcome. But as the plan evolves, they must soon reckon with questions of purpose. Will they join a greater resistance working covertly against the regime, or pursue the ultimate payday?

I am so psyched for this book to be in the world. Check out the full announcement here.

Preorder your copy here.

-gailey

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.