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Melissa Gira Grant's avatar Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com
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If you hear next week that the RNC has "moderated" on abortion by dropping a 20-week-ban from the platform or somesuch, here's me telling you now that it doesn't mean anything close to "moderation" when it's these guys running the show.

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yeah, my closet is the quietest place in the house other than being right next to the A/C unit! a downside of having a pretty good mic is that it picks up the sound

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yesterday i spent three hours in my closet with the a/c off so i could record a few of my little horror fiction stories to release as an audio package and i'm so excited but also absolutely petrified by imposter syndrome but dangit i didn't turn the a/c off for three hours to bail on this

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so great that Europe's doing this again with the diseases

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If people don't understand how crucial local abortion funds are to folks actually getting their procedures or pills, here's the latest example: National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood are slashing patient grants from 50% to 30% of what callers need. Thirty percent.

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on the upside, this happened on the way home from world market so i have a bottle of rosé chilling and I bought myself a tin of that good Hapi sesame treat mix and a little bowl patterend with rainbow-colored jaguars to eat it out of, so come 4pm today i'm gonna be having A NICE LITTLE TIME

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this was up at 183 and Mopac, it's nightmarish on a good day anyway

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i managed to lose him on the highway but i was really worried he was gonna follow me!!

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today, a guy driving an SUV with a thin blue line sticker + "LGB" on his back window nearly ran me off the road b/c he didn't look before changing lanes. He then cut me off, rolled down his window, made a gun sign with his hands and pretended to shoot at me. i'm pretty done with this week

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can't believe I'm allowed to go into World Market without a chaperone

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Planned Parenthood: Don't worry everybody, we're gonna spend $100m on restoring abortion rights! Just bear with us for 10 short years Also Planned Parenthood:

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Sarah W(rath 🌈🍉)'s avatar Sarah W(rath 🌈🍉) @toasterposey.art
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Fuck.

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yeah!!! the outrage fungibility pipeline is so weird

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BREAKING: Advocates submit double the amount of signatures needed to put a constitutional right to abortion on the ballot in Arizona.

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right, like whyyy? absolute terrible vibes over there. blending the polemic posturing of LinkedIn with the belligerent, bad faith attitudes of Twitter

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What happens when engagement junkies have to pivot from posting pretty pictures to writing essays: what's going to get me that sweet, sweet engagement?

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The vibe I got from threads was that all these instagram influencers found themselves auto-enrolled in threads, thought "Holy shit, we have to TYPE WORDS on this platform?!" and launched into long-form(ish) blogging without being at all cut out for it Hence the reversion to the very low mean

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and they're just putting it all out there on the internet!!!

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i do have to hand it to them, "why are so many small children wearing glasses now" is one of the funniest things i've read in a long time, like can you imagine being so deeply concerned about this incredible new trend

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right?? like isn't threads (and facebook and IG) famously for like 50 year olds???? isn't that the joke??? that it's full of olds????

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i didn't have to go looking for this, it was all in the first four or five scrolls on my "for you" algorithm!! this is what people go on the internet to do??? rehash 50-year-old arguments about wedding gift etiquette????

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the stuff people post on Threads (I still drop in over there, despite myself) amazes me, like is this kind of argumentative, engagement-farming shit what normals have always used social media for?? and I'm the weirdo who uses social media to read the news and do activism and learn stuff?

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The comfort of knowing their actions won't be adequately covered in the mainstream press is precisely why the far right crazies placed in charge of our judiciary feel empowered to go balls to the wall.

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i said this before and i'll say it again gen z is gonna be the last generation that remembers what it was like to experience reality as a collectively shared public concept

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Katie Clark Gray 's avatar Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social
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Wild how many people are like "all the doctors should leave" and not "all the civil rights lawyers should come"

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Love this little treat for all of us!

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the times continues its vigorous campaign to end democracy. literally the same playbook they ran in 2016 with the emails. we're so fucked. i'm existentially depressed.

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Alisha Grauso's avatar Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
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When you're a little gremblin who doesn't understand "I have to work"

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Shani 🫧🍉's avatar Shani 🫧🍉 @blerdmommy.bsky.social
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Highly recommend Doc Martin! It’s free on ROKU (through S6) and I’ve been re-watching it for months.

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Thanks to everyone who recommended comfort reads, watches, and listens. I assembled a whole bunch of your suggestions in a big-ass blog post! If you're looking for something nice to put your brain, there are a ton of great ideas here:

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Now I eat a big-ass anything (this morning I'm having italian sausage and peppers with pasta) between like 9:30-11am and I'm not worried about meal planning for the rest of the day. I have a solid 6-hour stretch of not being interrupted by food tasks. And best of all, I'm not fucking hungry!

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My latest ADHD ~ hack ~ is eating a big brunch instead of lunch on work days. I'm always hungry before "regular" lunch time anyway and struggle to make it through until it's "okay" to eat lunch, at which point I have to stop everything, lose focus, and eat. So i decided to not do that any more.

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Thanks to everyone who recommended comfort reads, watches, and listens. I assembled a whole bunch of your suggestions in a big-ass blog post! If you're looking for something nice to put your brain, there are a ton of great ideas here:

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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This isn’t “hypocrisy,” he was lying about what he believes so they would confirm him

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