Your dog likes me more than you.
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Red Lines for Democrats, Republicans, & other Neoliberals:
🔳 Genocide
🔳 Slavery
🔳 Police Brutality
🔳 Suppression of Free Speech
🔳 Suppression of the Press
🔳 Strike Breaking
❌ Human Rights
❌ Education
❌ Housing
❌ Healthcare
❌ Thriving Wage
❌ Improving Material Conditions for *Everyone*
Hey, @mgiacchino.bsky.social
I just watched Werewolf by Night (6th time) (4th annual Halloween watch) (it’s so great!).
Have you ever made any remarks about combining the jobs of director & composer?
Is the workload doubled or squared in that situation?
Either way, you made it look effortless.
Here’s a pic of the quotes by Julius Nyerere and Gore Vidal, even if shitlibs will think this means I think “both parties are the same”.
As the tweet goes:
"why don't you ever attack
Republicans?"
“I *AM* punching right, baby. Tell the Democrats to stop standing there.”
~R6Rider@twitter
I hate that they think it’s enough to vote for them because “we aren’t republicans”. Their VBNMW edict combined with diet fash campaign promises just proves Gore Vidal correct:
"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat."
My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today.
Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.
The discovery of five baby orangutans abandoned on a plantation in eastern India is highlighting the country's growing role as a destination for trafficked apes.
Briefly pausing our break to shine a light on recent news.
Let the fan community mourn respectfully at this time. 46 is way too young for an unmatched talent like Eric Bauza. He is irreplaceable and it feels disrespectful to compare him to other voice actors like Jeff Bergman or Bob Bergen….
We need free healthcare and a completely different culture of medicine in this country, and we need it NOW.
Until then, take care of yourselves and help each other stay on top of shit.
Eric Bauza's family is reporting that he died from hypertensive heart disease, according to the LA medical examiner. He was 46.
My instinctual reaction is to tell people to get their shit checked out… but then i think of my own experiences this year & the cost of medicine in this country, & i just…
Eric Bauza's family is reporting that he died from hypertensive heart disease, according to the LA medical examiner. He was 46.
My instinctual reaction is to tell people to get their shit checked out… but then i think of my own experiences this year & the cost of medicine in this country, & i just…
The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.
Maga says people w/ disabilities, etc. have no value, purpose, or won't live a productive life, etc🤬
WRONG!🤬 No matter if a person has cancer, illness, disability (physical/neurological) & regardless of age
They DO have PURPOSE, their EXISTENCE matters & they have the same right to live as you do
🥹🙏🫶🫂🥰💙
"For the next month the #kids are going to have access to this awesome robot #exoskeleton called #BambiniKids. In just the first day, it already brought tears to our eyes!
By the end of his trial, Damon was initiating the steps himself, which is huge!
Ozzy was working on gait mechanics..."
RIP Eric Bauza, one of the greatest of all time. Did almost every single one of those voices in Coyote vs Acme. Someone who clearly loved these characters so much that he wasn't just doing Mel Blanc, he made them his own.
So, my shelter will take in abuse cases where there is a gov’t hold so the dog / cat can’t get elected.
We currently have multiple >separate< court cases, and this afternoon, a visitor broke down sobbing at the state of those dogs.
Those are the things that balance me, especially terrified dogs who respond to me even though they shake like a blender about to fall apart. When those dogs trust me & come to my hand to accept some affection, I know they’re going to get better. And so will a tiny piece of us who can touch them.
PS: another thing I wish I had been able to tell that visitor who was in tears at the sight of some of my dogs?
One of them is so underweight they could be prop for Halloween. They’re shy at 1st, but open up for pets with each encounter. But certain foods make them turn werewolf just bcz I looked!
So, my shelter will take in abuse cases where there is a gov’t hold so the dog / cat can’t get elected.
We currently have multiple >separate< court cases, and this afternoon, a visitor broke down sobbing at the state of those dogs.
I don’t have a dog, or cat(s). So that probably doesn’t help me much, at least until I can move out & find a new place that allows a pet(s).
Compassion Fatigue can be fatal, a major killer of animal care specialists, from kennel handlers to veterinarians.
(It’s a distant second to my Chronic Pain)
The thing I didn’t get to say to the visitor was the good stuff. At least three of my dogs potential adopters interviewed with me went home Monday & Tuesday this week. A dog splashed around in the water with me, having their best day in recent memory. A dog was brave & sniffed a sandbag for me.
So, my shelter will take in abuse cases where there is a gov’t hold so the dog / cat can’t get elected.
We currently have multiple >separate< court cases, and this afternoon, a visitor broke down sobbing at the state of those dogs.
I think this is why I wrote this. Initially it was going to be about empathy and compassion suddenly crushing someone who might never have objectively considered what it means to wind up in a shelter and what these dogs experienced before coming here.
They cried. I get nightmares checking them in.
It’s not a competition, because I definitely lose. That person can go home and hug whatever pet they have, but they will probably become an even better pet owner. They might get strict with how friends treat their own pets. Best case is using social media to talk about it, or volunteering somewhere.
So, my shelter will take in abuse cases where there is a gov’t hold so the dog / cat can’t get elected.
We currently have multiple >separate< court cases, and this afternoon, a visitor broke down sobbing at the state of those dogs.
So in spite of that attitude, we make sure to put put weight on the starving dogs, keep their casts dry, monitor & clean wounds, or keep tabs on their mental health.
My shelter only euths them for serious injuries, disease / cancer, extreme old age, or behavior (multiple bite incidents, etc)
It took a few moments, but once we explained all this, the visitor felt much better for having experienced an unprepared-for amount of compassion fatigue for someone who doesn’t work in the field. I felt terrible for them, but also glad they went through sadness, when I live in anger at the abusers.
So, my shelter will take in abuse cases where there is a gov’t hold so the dog / cat can’t get elected.
We currently have multiple >separate< court cases, and this afternoon, a visitor broke down sobbing at the state of those dogs.
I think they might have been misinformed we would euthanize them for space, because… honestly? Pretty much every shelter and sanctuary is overcrowded & understaffed.
But the vast majority refuse to do that, and kennel staff work too hard to the detriment of their own staffing budgets.
Even short staffed we make sure our animals have as much good quality of life as possible, though it often makes bean counters think the job is easier than it is because we get the work done no matter what. “Nah. You’re doing awesome! No need to replace all 8 people who’ve quit. You can have 3.”
So, my shelter will take in abuse cases where there is a gov’t hold so the dog / cat can’t get elected.
We currently have multiple >separate< court cases, and this afternoon, a visitor broke down sobbing at the state of those dogs.
Their friend had experience rescuing dogs, so together we convinced them the worst part was over.
Those dogs have been confiscated from bad situations and sent to us so we can treat their wounds, administer antibiotics, get them back to a healthy weight, & hopefully reassure them good humans exist.
Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."
Just read the "update" JK Rowling posted. I'm going to write something on it for Assigned, but the bottom line is that her earlier concern trolling about trans boys' medical choices has graduated to a seething, sickening hatred of trans women.
Rowling *never* writes about women’s rights, workplace discrimination or the threats to women from predatory men.
I tracked her posts for five months: Well over 200 hateful transphobic smears.
Not a single post about women’s actual concerns or needs
None
"Abandonment is Unity," the doublespeak of centrist extremists.
Working with Nazis to exclude people Nazis want to exclude is how you get Nazis. Solidarity is how you beat them.
We must work to replace leadership of the Democrat's Abandonment Coalition. We must foster and grow a Solidarity Party.
You can't beat fascism by agreeing with fascism. You can't beat fascists by accepting a fascist frame.
Corporatist Democratic Party leadership needs to be defeated and jettisoned. We have to fight them, not because we don't want to fight Republicans, but because they refuse to.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC - @electdemocrats.bsky.social) is running anti-trans ads now, so I don't know how you can say the party itself isn't embracing transphobia.
There are still some good Dems out there, but transphobia is apparently a party value.
😳 So disappointing when marginalized people throw others under the bus to get ahead… I think these turncoat democrats need to change their affiliation to m@g@, they’ve been just as hateful and for the same reasons. Yet, his opponent is far worse. Who else is tired of having terrible choices!? 🖐️
"I've faced my fair share of bullying"
Josh, from one cripple to another, being marginalized in one way doesn't give you authority on other forms of marginalization
Now watching ‘Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox’, and it’s pretty bonkers right from the jump.
A physicist builds a time machine to find out what happens when you travel back and kill your younger self.
Samuel Dunning (Tim Travers) is damn well killing it, too.