Ifyousayso

Ifyousayso

@ifyousayso.bsky.social

Advocate, but tired. Accidental accumulator of cats. Lots of ADHD.

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Newspapers really were a miraculous thing. People would wake up in the morning and find a short book on their doorstep that told them what was happening in the world. We have a rectangle that does something similar, but it's cursed. Newspapers weren't cursed. You could wrap fish and chips in them.

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The first warning arrived on a Tuesday morning, six weeks after consultants advised moving from dependency on six hundred small excel scripts - and nobody at Zenith Ledger Advisory paid much attention. It appeared in the system dashboard between routine audit notifications and a maintenance reminder

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One way of thinking about HR1 is that in exchange for a tax cut that most benefits the wealthy, the much larger number of people who rely safety net benefits *and* our state governments are going to lose resources because of administrative burdens

Alice Miranda Ollstein@alicemiranda.bsky.social

NEW: The Trump admin is counting on Medicaid work requirements to save the government billions of dollars. But well before the rules formally go into effect Jan. 1, they’re costing already-strapped states millions or tens of millions to implement. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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Hi friends, I am sharing this with permission. This is a newsletter I subscribed to from a woman who is a quilter. I started following her on YouTube a little over a year ago when I started my quilting journey, she lives in Minnesota.

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Replying to @baddestmamajama.bsky.social

It’s cute when it means you apologize to a lamp for bumping into it. It’s not cute when you use it to claim a computer program sincerely regrets all the child sexual abuse material it’s been making.

I mentioned to my ex-husband that it seemed like men were being less creepy lately and his response was that it just seemed like that to me because I wasn't a cute 25yo anymore

Teri B@tallmaschq.bsky.social

What's an insult you'll never forget?

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Replying to @brian-goldstone.bsky.social

Today is Homeless Persons' Memorial Day. As unhoused people are brutalized, criminalized, and vilified nationwide—and with so much invested in obscuring the root causes of homelessness—it's important to be clear: people are homeless because they have been deprived of housing they can afford.

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“According to a 2019 USDA report, every dollar in new SNAP benefits increases GDP by $1.50 in a weak economy.” “SNAP benefits are one of the fastest, most effective forms of economic stimulus because they get money into the economy quickly during a recession.” ~Center for Budget and Policy

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With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

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Today’s EO on homelessness is shocking in its cruelty (even for this administration). Cutting funding for housing and health while criminalizing homelessness & mental health and substance use problems will lead to endless suffering and worsen homelessness.