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Thea van Diepen 🌳📚
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Author of fantasy and sci fi, lover of languages, "yes we could definitely put more trees in this book" They/them 🏳️‍🌈 https://theavandiepen.com/links
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The livestream is done, but you can still catch the recording via the same link!

Thanks to everyone who came live- it was a lot of fun! And for folks watching the recording, I hope you enjoy 😊
Next Friday, I’ll be interviewing @piperstrangeart.bsky.social live on YouTube!

To find out what time it’s starting in your timezone, head on over here: www.youtube.com/live/3ruUlLY...
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Do not confuse legality with morality. Feed the hungry.
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We are losing the SNAP messaging fight. And part of that is because Republicans are saying that there is no way to fund it during a shutdown. And all the evidence that there should be no lapse in funding, has been removed from the USDA website. Good news, the wayback machine exists.
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Yes, everything’s terrible, but still be kind
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we all need a reason to keep fighting #silksong
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ABANDONED THE TODDLER IN THE BACKSEAT

Arrest these motherfuckers for child endangerment
Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
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With SNAP on the verge of running out of money, a critical reminder that people who rely on food stamps make far healthier grocery choices than most of us do.
People on food stamps make healthier grocery decisions than most of us
Which is why we shouldn't tell them what to buy.
www.motherjones.com
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A rare happy story: The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has restored its holdings of the works of the enslaved potter David Drake to his descendants, following the pattern of Holocaust art restitution, the first time a museum has restored a work produced by an enslaved person.
MFA Boston returns works by 19th-century enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs
The terms of the restitution of the two ceramic pots have been cast in the mould of Nazi war-loot agreements
www.theartnewspaper.com
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The Alberta President of the Canadian Bar Association has entered the chat…

Calling out not only the preemptive use of the notwithstanding clause but also the limited debate as threats to the rule of law.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI
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The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
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A clear winner at the work Halloween party
Perennial reminder that, if you’re not currently disabled, you will eventually become disabled unless you die before you reach old age

That is not weakness; that is life
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”

Disability is dynamic

Some disabilities are invisible. Some change day to day

You won’t always know a person is disabled unless they tell you

It’s a minority group you can join at any time, not a moral failing.
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People always forget that disability is a huge umbrella term for many health conditions that make living day to day like an able person challenging.
Just like there are disabilities that don't change, there are those that can get better or worse at times and that doesn't make them any less valid.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”

Disability is dynamic

Some disabilities are invisible. Some change day to day

You won’t always know a person is disabled unless they tell you

It’s a minority group you can join at any time, not a moral failing.
The sleepiest I’ve ever captured Emma on camera (so far) ❤️
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Possibly the most asleep anyone’s ever been
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Cat running for office: But we're going to get rid of the humans because they've been treating us very badly. And our bowls will be full in the morning- perhaps fuller than ever before
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Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.
DHS just posted a Lord of the Rings meme as an appeal to join ICE
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the prog thing is not that complicated. some notable jobs prog and its metabolites perform:

- important neuromodulator
- helps your brain protect against and recover from damage
- probably important for long term skin and bone health
- probably an important component of managing libido
we don't really know exactly what it does for us but it's an essential hormone for women that does or assists with dozens of different tasks in cis womens bodies. until we have evidence that suggests otherwise it is reasonable to assume it is important for long term health outcomes in trans women.
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.

Shittles
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.

Footsie Roll
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.

Sharties
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You will suffer the curse of caw!
Share if you care to spread the curse even further! 
#fishcrow #art
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if the government was actually shut down they would stop taking your taxes

federal student debt would stop accruing interest

Argentina wouldn’t get a $40Bn bailout

Israel wouldn’t keep getting shipments of bombs

and we wouldn’t blow up fishing boats

but it’s not shut down at all.
it’s not a government shutdown if the cops and the military are still working … it’s a coup