a weighted blanket isn't enough, I need whatever is happening here

I grew up there. I was there last summer with my daughter and nieces. Any beach goers attracting this reaction from sea lions are getting too close and not following both signage and common sense. This genre of news is stupid and harmful to sea life and conservation efforts.

Elon Musk just sabotaged one of the biggest markets for Twitter. Jakarta used to be Twitter's #1 city worldwide, is still in the top 3 (yes, really) and the city alone contributes to more than 2% of all global posts.

i'm in Teen Vogue this morning with a piece on AO3, fandom, and KOSA, which goes to committee vote in the next few minutes and is a censorship bill masquerading as a kids safety effort teenvogue.com/story/kids-onl…

WE GETTIN BLACK VAMPIRES AND VAMPIRE HUNTERS!!!!??

TURN OFF TIMES SQUARE

Ron Perlman says “the cruelty which comes from a statement like, ‘we’re not coming to the bargaining table until people start bleeding,’ that’s war. That’s not a negotiation. There’s nothing civil about that. It’s a threat to people’s wellbeing” (Source: thewrap.com/ron-perlman-ho…)

🎶UNIONS UNIONS UNIONS UNIONS UNIONS I LOVE YOU, OH

Medicare plans to negotiate down the price of life-saving drugs, but pharma companies are adding one ingredient to cancer medications to make them injectable and exempt from lower costs, protecting billions in profit. The people running pharmaceutical corporations have no shame.

Had some new headshots taken. I think 72 looks good on me. 😀

“They shouldn’t have taken on student loans!” Do people realize that this sentence effectively means they believe people from working class backgrounds shouldn’t have attended college? It’s classism.

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Liberty is being able to get an education without going into debt. Liberty is getting sick and not going into debt. Liberty is having a child and not going into debt.

People post things as real. But it's AI. When this is pointed out, other people jump in to proclaim, "I don't care, I still love it." This is one way people are being groomed to accept fake things. You SHOULD care when you are lied to.

And also books. I'm just. I'm just tired of "libraries are more than books" yeah sure but WE ALSO HAVE BOOKS, lots of them, more than anyone could afford, and providing them is a core service that is an equity issue and one of the things that makes the fascists maddest.

An older relative (63) showed me her Instagram feed today and over half of the posts were AI generated and she genuinely couldn’t see what I meant when I pointed out that the pictures weren’t real. I would point at the arms or hands and she didn’t see what I meant when I said it

The average student debt payment is $400+ and you cannot file for bankruptcy if you default.