“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.” – The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

Idly wondering where we might land with pro-love (not pro-life) politics.

#Solidarity #MutualAid

the idea of being visited by aliens lost its appeal when i realized they’d likely just be some other planet’s asshole billionaires

I feel like I'm seeing less and less #alttext on images that cross my timeline, and it's not good, y'all. Please don't exclude our visually impaired friends. Thanks!

“She held her torch high to light the way to the free country, the asylum for the oppressed of all lands.” – Emma Goldman

Nice while it lasted.

https://placesjournal.org/article/sentinel-the-statue-of-liberty/

Everyone's posting their list of "No"s (No, I don't want to review you for doing your fucking job as a delivery company etc.), and I'd like to add this:

No, I don't want you to shuffle my music. I will never want you to shuffle my music. It's in that order for a reason – either the artiste agonised for hours over which track should come next or I built the playlist because I like it exactly like that.

Welcome all newcomers to Fedi!

@clacksee @neckspike for the insurance companies skimming profit.

The problem is Americans think this stuff costs that much. To have care during labour, to take an ambulance, to have a bone set - when it fucking doesn't.

Then they're scared shitless of free-at-point-of-use healthcare because they think those massive bills are going to be spread out to everyone.

But they aren't. Get rid of insurance companies and stuff costs basically what it costs instead of being massively inflated.

European airlines are redirecting away from the US as demand falls.

https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/europe-freezes-us-travel-as-lufthansa-british-air-france-klm-and-more-slash-routes-to-major-cities-including-new-york-miami-los-angeles-and-chicago-to-tap-soaring-demand-across-canada-mexico/

@keith, former engineering lead at Glitch, sums up my feelings exactly.

"The thing that breaks my heart isn’t just that another platform is shutting down—it’s that we’re losing one of the last places on the internet that prioritized joy and experimentation over engagement metrics and revenue optimization."

https://blog.keith.is/blog/the-end-of-glitch-even-though-they-say-it-isnt/

via https://front-end.social/@keith/114558932619184865

#glitch

@sinvega

There has been a lot of research about autistics over the years, but this one really took the cake! 🍰

Find out what happened when researchers attempted to compare the moral compass of autistic and non-autistic people... (1/2)

#actuallyautistic #autism #neurodivergence #comic #art #MastoArt

So IDK, if it helps you to frame it as “just get off social media”, that’s okay!

For me, I won’t just get off. If I’m using social media as an emotional coping mechanism, I’ll just replace it with something worse.

For me, I find it more helpful to put things in terms of “how can I move towards at least one of those 6 things every day”

Getting off social media only helps my mental health if I replace it with something more positive

So the US government fired a bunch of its cybersecurity experts at CISA and now wants to get into a hacking war with China?

Even Idiocracy wasn’t this dumb.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/23/cisa-cyberattacks-china-doge-cuts/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ3OTcyODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQ5MzU1MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDc5NzI4MDAsImp0aSI6IjM5NGU2ZTdmLTk4MGYtNGM5Ny1iNGE4LTdlM2YwODFiODA4ZiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI1LzA1LzIzL2Npc2EtY3liZXJhdHRhY2tzLWNoaW5hLWRvZ2UtY3V0cy8ifQ.6mhMc0mHMdAT6e2AHnmfFxNG8llsaic35_4jtbQDCiI

Be careful out there. https://www.axios.com/2025/05/23/google-ai-videos-veo-3

When I was in my twenties, I was repeatedly denied a medically necessary hysterectomy because I might “meet a man who wants kids”.

I was left completely disabled, forced to undergo six surgeries, multiple blood & iron transfusions to preserve a diseased uterus for a HYPOTHETICAL child.

This happened in Canada, where we tend to be more Liberal than our neighbours to the South.

I was cishet and white, so faced less barriers to care than marginalized people do.

I still wasn’t permitted to make a decision about my own body.

Wasn’t trusted to know my own mind

I had zero quality of life. There was no way I could have been a mother even if I HAD wanted to (which I didn’t).

Yet a hypothetical future husband’s needs and desires were repeatedly put before my own.

I was told I would feel differently once I was “in love”. That my dream man would leave me

Basically imagine every misogynistic and patriarchal nonsense you’ve ever been told… I heard it all.

I watched my twenties slip away from a hospital bed, confused and disheartened by the fact that I couldn’t convince any doctors to let me make the choice that was best for my life & body

I eventually did get the hysterectomy, but only because I was literally bleeding to death.

What could have been a planned & controlled operation was done as an emergency and left me with tons of complications.

Autonomy doesn’t exist for uterus owners. And we’re losing more each day

I tell this story because I feel sick over what’s happening to Adriana Smith in Georgia.

She was a black nurse who tried to seek medical care. She was dismissed and it cost her life.

Now because of an abortion ban her body is being kept alive for a 9 week old fetus.

Her family had no say in the matter. She’s been turned into an incubator by the State. Had “care” forced upon her despite the fact that she couldn’t access proper care when she was alive.

The same day I found out about Adriana, I discovered that police in the UK are being given guidance on how to search a woman’s home & devices for any reference to abortion after a pregnancy loss.

Choice is an illusion. So is autonomy. And it shouldn’t be.

I don’t know where we go from here, but I do know that if I faced a battle to obtain a hysterectomy, more marginalized people living in less Liberal areas have it far far worse.

We need to tell our stories. I’ve told this story before, and I’m going to keep telling it until none of us suffer this way.

For the Adriana’s who can’t tell their story. For those we’ve lost and will lose. For the next generation.

We need to keep fighting for true autonomy. We need to support each other.

We need to make it clear that we do not agree with patriarchal fascist means of controlling our reproductive organs and by extension, our lives.

When we share stories, we help others know they aren’t alone. We educate people on how far we are from equality. We change hearts and minds

#patriarchy #misogyny #fuckthepatriarchy #fascism #roevwade #abortion #womenshealth #disability #ableism #misogynoir #womenshealth

TIL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_industrial_disasters