QuiltedMess

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One day, I shall sew the family heirloom. In the meantime, I'm practicing.

24/7 caregiver of adult special needs son. Epilepsy sucks.

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This should terrify people in terms of what it means not only for teachers and librarians, but for parents. Once exposure to queer content gets classified as child abuse, that will be the excuse they use to remove kids from queer homes, or even just homes that teach acceptance.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Once again, Teen Vogue and People Magazine doing the work that the Washington Post and NY Times refuses to do.

Vance is a Theil-backed bag of shit in a man suit. But Teen Vogue went ahead and did an explainer on all the reasons why. (And is it just me or does he look like a colorized Bela Lugosi character here?)

Every Gen Z Issue JD Vance Is Againstwww.teenvogue.com From guns, and climate change to abortion and LGBTQ rights, the Republican VP is being called “Anti-Gen Z.”

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I keep remembering that the official Republican solution to gun violence is just... more gun violence. "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" means the plan -- the only plan -- is that AFTER the shooting starts, there's more shooting. Prevention isn't even considered.

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I don’t want the rapist murdered because too many innocent people would suffer in the aftermath. If the rapist doesn’t want to be on the business end of political violence, he should stop trying to cause it. Otherwise nobody is safe, including him. Especially him.

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Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

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Tell any Scouting family you meet: Donald Trump will bulldoze the Northern Tier High Adventure camp.

Very unfun fact: Project 2025 specifically names Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area and wants to remove its protected status and open it up to mining. This is the future Donald John Trump wants.

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i made this shareable version of my one sentence project 2025 summary so it can be easily shared across platforms. feel free to repost.

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MECHANIC: *presses finger to my lips* wait did you just call it a cat’ll lick it converter

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The word about Project 2025 and its inherent evils is starting to spread. We need to make sure this entire country really knows what it is before November, so share it far and wide. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

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On the plus side it puts people out of work and offers no real benefit to anyone

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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This seems to be a rather legit question more and more each day

Were you in a coma during the first trump admin

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I'm a little late but wanted to join in :-). Acrylic on canvas.

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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"

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When folks argue that a Universal Basic Income would deter working, think about those million-dollar CEOs. If a modest $15k is enough to make one quit working, wouldn’t multi-million dollar packages make CEOs practically comatose? Yet, here they are, still CEOing. Weird isn't it?

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Boil water alert for the whole damn county, Arlington.

Boil Water Advisory Issued for Arlington Countywww.arlingtonva.us As a precaution, Arlington has issued a Boil Water Advisory for customers across the County due to water clarity issues found at the Washington Aqueduct, the County’s source for drinking water.

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Sending this to SCOTUS

SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kingswww.youtube.com YouTube video by tennesseejed93

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It is Disability Pride Month - the perfect time to learn about ALT text and start using it! www.perkins.org/resource/how...

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This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

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Here's a different one...our little monk in his yana, heading towards the other shore, the stars above reflected in the lake. 12x12 original painting on canvas and prints at zenbreeze.com/collections/... #moon #pourpainting #zen #buddhist #night #spiritualart

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The absolutely wild thing is: This goes for ALL social aid. Just *giving people some fucking money,* literally going "OK, how much did you need?", cutting checks, and waving them out the door? COSTS LESS and HAS BETTER OUTCOMES than the current system's bureaucracy and means testing, EVERY TIME.

With alt-text because THIS IS LITERALLY EVERYONE’S EXPERIENCE & I FUCKING HATE IT. Being disabled is a godsdamn full time job battling different agencies all damn day. #NEISvoid

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It's not even in the top 50 reasons to fight against Trump's reelection, but do take a moment to consider how much Republicans would delight in completely ending all federal money for the arts and humanities. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/a...

DeSantis Vetoes All Arts Grants in Floridawww.nytimes.com Gov. Ron DeSantis gave no explanation for zeroing out the $32 million in grants that were approved by state lawmakers.

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Billionaire Harlan Crow has spent over $13 million on federal politics since the 2010 Citizens United ruling. That’s on top of the years he spent secretly dolling out free vacations to Clarence Thomas. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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Motherfuckers don't need to run their goddamn cryptomining rigs all day and we sure as fuck don't need ChatGPT horseshit being ran all day but I don't see anybody crawling up their ass about power usage ...

Interesting article to run prior to a weekend where we expect a devastating heat wave and label it as “climate solutions”

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If you're wondering about needle size: "The CDC guidance deems 1.5-inch needles appropriate for anyone over 152 pounds and necessary for people assigned female at birth who weigh more than 200 pounds, as well as people assigned male at birth who weigh more than 260 pounds."

COVID Vaccine Needle Size Matters—So Why Aren’t We Hearing More About It?www.self.com Pervasive anti-fatness in medicine means not everyone is receiving the care they need and deserve.

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New painting, "Light on the Prairie:" zenbreeze.com/collections/... Inspired by views of the wetlands at Finley National Refuge. Original 12x16 painting and prints available. #oregon #pacificnorthwest #landscape #pourpainting #wallart #homedecor #contemporaryart

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As a librarian, I can answer more than 1 question per 16 ounce bottle of water.

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Generative "AI," as presently construed, is not worth the cost. Learn to do this shit different— more sustainable, all renewables, low water use— or we're all gonna die for shirpost-fodder-as-a-service.

Google's AI Overviews must create entirely new information in response to a search query. That costs an estimated *30 times* more energy than simply extracting information from a source through a traditional search. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... by @parshallison.bsky.social

What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?www.scientificamerican.com Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches

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and by the way i did not need to disclaim this for any reason other than to orient the reader i can always say you're kind of being shitty to tie brain trauma to evildoing even as a joke and then if you're the first one to bring up Fetterman we still end up at don't be shitty. find other punches.

its obviously fuck John Fetterman but ive taught rap to kids who had gone through traumatic brain injuries and these constant jokes about brain damage making you do xyz evil think or have xyz evil stance just make me think of those kids, who never wished ill on anyone and were picked on by everyone.