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J.M. Hardin

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NOLA-born transbian living in Boston. Cat mom, LA Dodgers fan, Linux user, playing songwriter, and demander of using alt text. *NO DONATION REQUESTS* Donation requests in a profile get blocked. Links: https://jmhardin.life/links/ #SlavaUkraini

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J.M. Hardin @jmhardin.bsky.social · Aug 5

Folks who want to ask for donations need to read my profile. I'm a retired, disabled woman who works hard just to make ends meet. It hurts me to have to say no, and I won't risk making my followers feel bad that they have to say no.

Donation Requests = Automatic BLOCK.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 5h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 11h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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J.M. Hardin @jmhardin.bsky.social · 2h

It was a later start getting back to my music, but I fixed some errors in not just the MIDI programming for the bass, but also for the keys, although I think the organ and Rhodes may be playing the wrong chords for the choruses. But Chuck says it's bedtime, so that's tomorrow's task. #MusiciansLife

J.M. Hardin @jmhardin.bsky.social · 4h

It's like New Orleaneans say about Mardi Gras: It's a marathon, not a sprint. The players aren't the only ones who need to get in shape with spring training.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 1d

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

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Ray Mikell @raymikell.bsky.social · 10h

This is a great piece. Reading it sure beats more doomscrolling.

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 10h

"The original cut of Annie Hall ran nearly two-and-a-half hours, and according to its editor Ralph Rosenblum was a shapeless mass of bits. "And so we began cutting in the direction of that relationship,” he wrote. Result: 4 Oscars. www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Unfading Beauty of Diane Keaton

For over five decades, cinema bent itself around her profoundly original image. It had no choice.

www.vulture.com

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 1d

The resistance art is
TAKING OFF. Inspired by ANTI FASCISTS in the STREET!

An image of a frog with an American flag tied around its neck, looking serious and determined. It says underneath “ HOP”.
It is reminiscent of the images generated before elections like the one for Barack Obama where underneath it said “hope“

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Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 16h

Every time someone talks about “curing” autism, what they’re really saying is:

That autism is a disease
That we are broken
That we shouldn’t exist

It’s not just wrong - it’s dehumanising

We’re not a problem to be solved.
We’re real, valid humans

Why is that so hard to see?

#AutismAdvocacy

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Congressman Chris Deluzio @deluzio.house.gov · 19h

Urban Institute predicts that 267,000 fellow veterans will lose health coverage if the ACA healthcare tax credits expire.

Those are the stakes in this fight.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 9h

Every time someone drops into my comments asking about a general strike, I have to remind folks that unlike in Europe we have at will employment here allowing essentially anyone to be fired at any time for any reason, and health insurance tied to employment.

The amount of organizing

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 6h

No gay, trans or straight baby has ever been born religious.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 7h

Given what we're watching in Portland...

Here's information on attacking dictator-types with humor and mockery.

It's been branded "laughtivism."

And the Portland frog is showing how it works.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elql...

Pushback Politics Part 2: The Power of Humor

YouTube video by National Council for History Education

www.youtube.com

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 17h

Who’s running the globe:
Fascists
Pedophiles
Sociopaths
Genocidal maniacs
Hoarders of wealth
Zionists
White Suprmacists
Christian Nationalists
Right-wing extremists of every persuasion

Things are DIRE.

We can only survive this TOGETHER.
So many more will die.
I will do whatever I can to HELP.

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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 7h

Ladies and gentlemen, your corporate media.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 7h

EVERYONE needs to get involved.

Everyone.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

Kelly: I really worry about those aviators, drone operators, special forces guys that are in the Caribbean right now striking these boats and whether or not this is legal..

There’s no authorization for the use of military force. The Congress has not given that to the president. He hasn’t asked.

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J.M. Hardin @jmhardin.bsky.social · 7h

May all of his fans pour out a little Fish Head Soup, have a wacky Wet Dream, and schedule a visit to the Diggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota in his honor. And may his Last Will and Temperment include many Boots to the Head for all who said his broadcast was a waste of precious airtime. #DrDemento

J.M. Hardin @jmhardin.bsky.social · 7h

This. Freaking. Sucks. The Good Doctor was my favorite part of my weekends during both my late teens and twenties and my 40s. It seems impossible that there won't be any new #DrDemento Shows, even though I haven't been able to listen since he went to satellite radio... #RIP

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11h

so, this weekend the great Dr. Demento did his final show. I could write a lot about the importance of his show to me & my friends when we were 12 and 13. there's more to it than "he played funny stuff" and "his show is where @alyankovic.bsky.social got his start." 1/3

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 8h

"Men are victims too.”

When have you ever advocated for men except for when women are sharing their own experiences?

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J.M. Hardin @jmhardin.bsky.social · 7h

Forget the Democratic Party. They've failed Americans for too bloody long. We need a new party that will show the Dems the kind of party that will actually stand up and help our country rather than fall back on the same tired old talking points. #TalkIsCheap #TimeForCHANGE

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.

Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

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NPR @npr.org · 7h

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.

Need a laptop? This retiree refurbishes laptops, gives them away to those in need

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 16h

A friend sent me this. It’s a little wonder. Lamberts of Norwich was a tea importer, wholesaler and retailer originally established in London Street in 1843, they had a warehouse in Hay Hill too, demolished in the late 1960s. They used to produce collectors cards. This set of cacti is from 1962.

The cover of a lamberts card booklet or Picture card album.

Some lovely drawings of cacti on the cards.

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 9h

A “zionist Palestine,” is an oxymoron and the whole world knows it so if governments really want peace in their own countries, as well as Palestine, free them. Any whiff of reconstituted apartheid and the unrest will never end.

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 8h

Ireland has a population of 5m and we've a waiting list approaching 15 years. Why? Because their mandatory, archaic and traumatic psychiatric and psychological assessments are a deliberate bottleneck to ensure as few people as possible can access healthcare a nurse can do!

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 14h

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

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J.M. Hardin @jmhardin.bsky.social · 7h

This is the kind of things that mayors (and hope-to-be-mayors) should do on the regular. Forget photo ops and meet and greets, get out in the city and meet people where they live and find out how you can make their lives better.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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