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JulyFlame@injulyflame.bsky.social |
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She/her. Navy vet. Invested in politics, civil rights, and books. The insomnia is terminal. Mask up.
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JulyFlame
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Yeah, businesses automatically make it a huge pain and a half; my folls have a family business so software is the default option for my dad. I'm extremely glad the pilot will be expanding, because if there's one thing people shouldn't need to do is pay money just to be able to file their taxes.
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JulyFlame
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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social listAncestries
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JulyFlame
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I was so excited to use the IRS's free filing software this year for basically the reason that TurboTax and the rest are all horrible. I wish I was unsurprised by this, but I'm glad that the IRS is finally able to offer its own tax filing options.
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JulyFlame
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That's absolutely illegal.
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JulyFlame
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Yeah, I learned later how common it is for states to make it difficult to vote as active duty. One of my friends from when I was in couldn't vote in 2018 because her postal address wasn't accepted as valid because she was living on the ship for deployment.
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Willow
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Preemptive hurricane reminder that just because Texas is a voter suppressed state whose vocal minority leadership wants the rest of us dead doesn’t mean the actual citizens of Texas don’t deserve to live/aid.
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JulyFlame
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There are plenty of younger and privileged folks here in Texas and elsewhere who think it's pointless, because they haven't specifically been targeted by these suppression efforts and don't realize how much work goes into trying to get people to not be able to vote or not want to.
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JulyFlame
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This is the first time I've admitted I didn't vote then in a 'public' space because for enough people, even the fact I couldn't figure out a purposefully difficult task and was discouraged is as bad as the people who "didn't bother". It's also why I try to encourage people to still vote.
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JulyFlame
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British media is extremely skilled at twisting anything into the answer they want, even assuming they contacted him in the first place. Their libel laws are only a danger if you're poor, as Rowling has shown them weaponized.
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JulyFlame
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Especially when their common go-to *besides* claiming trans people and allies are pedos is that they're rapists and wannabe rapists to begin with. I genuinely want an investigation into this that isn't from TERFs, because even their claim they questioned Gaiman is doubtful imo.
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JulyFlame
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That includes folks who are temporarily out of state or are military; I wasn't able to get a ballot for 2016 because of how confusing and difficult the system was along with how early it needed to be done. I don't think sister who was out of state 2022 and voted absentee had her ballot counted.
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JulyFlame
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Texas makes it *so* hard to do anything or succeed if you aren't middle class, white, and suburban or rural, and it's entirely on purpose to make it difficult to vote or have a voice. The GOP here is incredibly corrupt.
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JulyFlame
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Well, he *is* delicate...
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The Almighty Tallest
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Seems important idk
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JulyFlame
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I haven't seen them yet, which implies botting bullshit, yeah.
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JulyFlame
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I think that would outright kill Trump. I think Biden might have a better spice tolerance but he's possibly the wrong generation there.
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JulyFlame
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Because yes, it is important to believe people when it comes to claims of sexual assault and the like, but maybe it's a good idea to not outright believe it coming from the group of people who outright call a specific subset of people and anyone who supports them pedophiles.
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JulyFlame
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Waiting until there's confirmed information that isn't sourced from a TERF-riddled media site, considering what TERFs have been doing since getting called out by David Tennant.
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Faine Greenwood
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I started my career reporting on how people were using the Internet in dictatorships, and if there's one BIG thing I learned from talking to a bunch of people who literally had served jail time for political blogging, it was "choose your battles wisely, and don't say dumb things in dumb places."
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Tyler King
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This means romance authors. This means poets. This means screenwriters and playwrights and actors of anything remotely risqué. And eventually, anything secular. They have no point of satisfaction until they’ve erased all of non-Christian expression.
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Neer
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I'mma say this for all the people in the back. Don't vote for a person. Vote for your rights, for the rights of others. On page 5 of Project 2025's 180-day plan they openly call for outlawing porn, recommending imprisoning anyone who creates it. Are you an NSFW artist, or like the art? THIS IS YOU.
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Chantal James
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That is wack if white leftists think you get a revolution by running out into the streets & lighting things on fire. You don't practice abolition by pretending we don't currently live under a police state. You practice it by learning fascism well enough to survive it & built something in its place.
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cait
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i think before people are allowed to post online they should have to take an introductory course to ensure they understand basic concepts such as "a joke" and "hyperbole" and "metaphors" and "women are people also"
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JulyFlame
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For real. I just got one because someone couldn't even wait or were too illiterate to finish the sentence before trying to correct me with their gotcha.
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JulyFlame
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And anyone else who tries to be an obnoxious pedant going "But this isn't a CURE 🤓" is getting a block for not being able to read the whole fucking sentence where I just said that.
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JulyFlame
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I'm aware it isn't a cure for AIDS or HIV thus the quotation marks. No need to be a pedant.
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JulyFlame
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The "cure for AIDS" as a concept has always been treated as a vague future thing in a ton of near-future and scifi things as an example of the world being different, so something like this, looking like we're reaching that point, is just fantastic.
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JulyFlame
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This really is immense on several levels. Not just for HIV, but when it comes to developing further protection from the negative effects of viruses in general, including COVID. Even PrEP was a huge step forward and still relatively new.
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rahaeli
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Oh my god, this is fucking huge. It was huge when we developed a daily PrEP pill that could prevent you from catching HIV; this is a successful phase III trial of a PrEP shot that will only need to be given *twice a year*. Still needs a confirmatory Phase III, but holy fuck.
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JulyFlame
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Seriously. They live there for the cultural aspects and/or their families and personal identities are so engrained in being from there and living there that the only way you'd get them to permanently move out is as corpses.
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
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Quick reminder not everything on the internet is about you or needs your commentary.
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Amy A
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twitter users stone age in 2023 hunter-gatherers 🤝 mastodon attempt failed, turned to sky worship for sustenance
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JulyFlame
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I'm so happy for everyone who like and are willing to wear their flag colors because that will rarely be me, even during Pride.
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the Mountain Goats
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Unrelated but if you are a publication of any kind please do not “partner with” AI chumps. The ONLY people who might buy yr publication will 100% hate it when you “partner with” some AI clown operation. Again, thank you
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JulyFlame
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Thanks for sharing this. I just finished my MLS this month and my whole time working in a grad student position has repeatedly solidified how alien I felt compared to my coworkers, the staff, and librarians- no first gen and few/if any working class.
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mx elle is eepy
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a nonexhaustive list of things i would like to stop needing to be: tough resilient strong resourceful self-sufficient adaptable formidable intimidating scrappy
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JulyFlame
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Yeah. And not just for cargo. The labor conditions are part of why I would never go on a cruise ship. The other is that things can go bad really fast in international or foreign waters and cruise ships only have incentives to cover things up.
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JulyFlame
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Yeah. It's really not helped that pretty much everything regarding maritime shipping and how we treat sailors in this sort of situation is based on things from over a century ago. So much related stuff to maritime activity is based on extremely old laws, internationally.
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JulyFlame
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Taking their phones should be related to the overall situation of the bridge for the investigation, rather than just for the sake of it. When maritime incidents happen *all* recording materials get taken for evidence gathering and determining everything. It sucks, but isn't for the sake of it.
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JulyFlame
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Yeah, this is an extremely common problem. It's part of why the vast majority of American sailors do *not* go into maritime commerce if they get out of the navy even if their skills are in demand because the conditions are so whack outside of a very small subset of options.
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Orcspiration
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YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.
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JulyFlame
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Gen X is going to be beginning to hit 60 in a couple years, so I think he's actually in the middle based on everything else, I was mostly just underscoring that even at the absolute youngest possibility, he'd be solidly into his adult years.
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JulyFlame
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Yeah. My comment was mostly to set down that even if we assume he was really young when Sinfest started online, 24 years means he's a solidly full grown adult and has been for a long while.
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JulyFlame
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Man, I feel weirdly vindicated, because I've been explaining the connection of second wave feminism to TERF ideology and how it's so easy for people who were in the first group to fall face first into TERFdom for years. Beyond that, he started off close to being a proto-MRA, too.
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JulyFlame
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Sinfest is one of the older webcomics still going, since it started in 2000. Even at the youngest reasonable age for starting, he'd be still be in his late 30s, early 40s at best if he started it as a young teen.
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the Mountain Goats
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You reach a point where a friend dies and you say: sixty-one! that so young. When you are in your twenties and struggling that point is hard to visualize - you feel like forty more years will be too much. May all who struggle today live in the hope of knowing that sixty-one is so young, so young.
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Gian D’Oh
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I hope this email finds you in an abandoned mineshaft
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Will “Looking for a job” Smith
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Another way to think about this is that every day ChatGPT uses a typical US family’s electrical consumption for 65 _years_. That’s the better part of a lifetime and they’re doing it to make computers less reliable.
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Kara Jorgensen
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A lot of people have already fixed this, but if you use fancy looking letters in your handle or posts, it comes out as inarticulate nonsense on screen readers. If you care about accessibility, please don't use those gothic or fancy font letters on social media posts.
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dk
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let my body do the chores let my body do the chores let my body do the chooooooooo
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