Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan): Get this: Trump‘s “big beautiful bill” lowers the age of a “dependent child” from 18 years old to seven years old. That means assistance programs designed to help children will no longer include 8-, 9-, 10-, 11-, 12-, 13-year olds. So, a 7 year old in the 1st grade is not a dependent child? These people are SICK!
Quotes
Wednesday, June 4
lifeafterpsychiatry: Make sure you don’t accidentally punish people for communicating their needs and boundaries. When someone cares enough to have the uncomfortable conversation, that’s a compliment and a clear sign that they are invested in the relationship. Yes of course it’s uncomfortable to hear that something you’ve been doing has been upsetting someone you care about when that was never your intention, but people generally only bother to have these conversations with the people they want to keep around - the people they trust to care. If they just didn’t like you, they’d probably just try to avoid you. So make sure you don’t make it into a more punishing experience than it has to be. Try to see the care and the trust behind the criticism, even when it triggers uncomfortable emotions. It’s a good sign that they’re there telling you.
megannn_lynne: I don’t want to be in the loop or out of the loop. I want to be aware of the loop & its contents but free from any loop-related responsibilities.
“Don’t be afraid to call things by what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d’état figurehead. This isn’t an administration, this is a regime, and your country’s occupied.”
conkreetmonkey: After many years of selective breeding, they’ve finally developed a breed of phoenix that, rather than self-immolating itself into ash, instead roasts itself to a perfect internal 165° F while burning off all the feathers, resulting in an instant, ready-to-eat poultry dinner.
Eric Reinhart: ICE agents should not be permitted to wear masks. They should have their names and identification numbers clearly displayed. Protecting our rights depends upon public accountability. Masked agents of the state abusing and disappearing people is not exactly friendly to that.
Evan Urquhart: You don’t have to be that gung-ho on trans rights to realize that a world where girls’ genitals need to be inspected before they can play any sport is worse for girls than a world where once in a while there’s a trans girl on a girls’ team.
Everyone with even the slightest bit of morality understands that giving tax breaks to the super rich — while cutting Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP (food stamps) to the poor, the sick, and the starving — is an obscene act of cruelty.
Give love, but don’t exhaust yourself. Be peaceful, but don’t become passive. Have patience, but don’t settle for less. Trust yourself, but don’t develop arrogance. Be open to love, but don’t force a connection.
Someone’s daughter: I hope there’s an animal somewhere that nobody has ever seen. And I hope nobody ever sees it.
Oscar Wilde: “If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.”
Tuesday, June 3
If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing.
G. M Gilbent: I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining It: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.
DENY COMFORT TO THE OPPRESSOR. DEFEND THE POOR AND SICK. DEPOSE THE CAPITALIST OLIGARCHY.
Thursday, May 29
If treatment for gender dysphoria is not considered an essential health benefit, transgender people — including those in job-based private health insurance — could face higher out-of-pocket costs for care that would otherwise be covered.
Source: Experts warn GOP bill makes transgender care unaffordable
Monday, May 26
Sam W: So, Trump intends to visit Canada for the G7 meeting.
Here’s the thing, though — Canada has strict rules about felons entering the country. And the Presidency does not protect Trump, as former President Bush was once forced to request special permission to enter Canada over a DUI from years before.
I would desperately love to see Prime Minister Carney and our legal system stand firm and block Trump’s entry unless he applies for special permission.
I desperately want to see him grit his teeth and rage over being treated like the convicted criminal that he is, and have to face the law like every other person in my country.
Please, Canadian government. Don’t let us down. Remind this fucker that we know exactly who he is, and what he’s done.
jadabird: “Do you want to vent or do you want advice?” Just learning now, after 40 years on earth, that this might be the most important question to ask whenever a friend or loved one is upset.
“I have a lot to learn. I will change. I will grow. I will not stay the same.”
“If you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer, I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in, by any means necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear.”
LocalSoundWave: “Oh no, they hate the X-Men because they’re different. :(” That’s YOU, you dumbass motherfucker. LMAO. Imagine being a bigot and into nerdy shit. Bro, you’re the villain in every story, lmaoooooo.
brendelbored.bsky-social: Someone replied to me bringing up fast food by asking if| knew cooking exists and it’s a joke and totally fine but | want everyone to know that if you’re in a place in life where it’s cheaper to get food that way or if you’ve just worked two shifts, the idea of “cooking” holds no inherent nobility
tkingfisher.com: To reiterate a post from the Other Site, for most of the last four thousand+ years, the vast majority of people living in cities got takeout. Many apartments lacked kitchens due to space and fire risk. Cooking yourself 7 fresh, varied meals a week is a VERY recent expectation.
Communal meals were also standard in a huge number of societies. You are not failing at a normal human task, you are being held to a frankly bizarre new standard. If you eat tortilla chips and salsa while standing over the sink and follow it up with string cheese, you are doing at least as well as an ancient Egyptian laborer, who got flatbread, a beer and an onion every day.
“Field trips are wasted on kids. Imagine getting a whole day off of work and getting to learn how an old watermill from the 1800s works. That’s the dream.”
pugmane: Jedi accountant: “I see here Qui-gon purchased one … boy on Tatooine. Wait, that can’t be right.”
“I am the author of my own story. No matter how difficult life gets I will remember this is just one chapter and I will continue to keep going. I have so much good to do and beautiful places to see. My story isn’t over yet.”
This though: why would rapists bother to pretend to be trans in a culture that treats rapists better than trans women?
“The Trump admin deported three children this weekend who are legal U.S. citizens from an ICE facility in Louisiana. One of those children was a 2-year-old. Another has metastatic cancer and was deported without their medication. If you’re cheering for US.-born children with cancer being deported, ask yourself how it improves your life.”
"It has no greater purpose beyond LOOKING ruthless ... "
Monday, May 26, 2025
AverageSalt_Miner: “There’s something uniquely perverse about cruelty performed by people who will never experience the consequences of their own ideology. Unlike the Somali pirates or the Taliban—groups operating in extreme conditions, driven by survival, ideology, or desperation—the architects of modern American cruelty live in comfort. They do not suffer. They are not struggling for food or security. And yet, they choose cruelty, not as a necessity, but as a luxury.
xxclusionary: I have a mental illness that makes me think that people will change their minds if I present the correct arguments with the appropriate facts and data.
Sunday, May 11
Doctor, The Story and the Engine: “A story is a beating heart within a brain.” 🔗
Belinda (the Doctor’s current companion), The Story and the Engine: “Hurt people hurt people […] the difference between good and evil is what we do with that pain.” 🔗