Quibble While Rome Burns
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Black//Gray Ace/Bi lesbian//Agender//AuDHD//Ancom Sex+ Feminist//♊🌞♏🌕♍🌠//"proship"//🔞
Politics, Games, Sewing, Fashion, Food, and whatever I'm into.
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Here are some thoughts on why even armed people do not survive encounters sometimes with people who come to kill them.
And this is from someone who watches a metric fuckton of true crime, reads criminal cases, blah blah blah.
So here's OPINION, primarily based on survivor stories. A survivor
And this is from someone who watches a metric fuckton of true crime, reads criminal cases, blah blah blah.
So here's OPINION, primarily based on survivor stories. A survivor
November 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Here are some thoughts on why even armed people do not survive encounters sometimes with people who come to kill them.
And this is from someone who watches a metric fuckton of true crime, reads criminal cases, blah blah blah.
So here's OPINION, primarily based on survivor stories. A survivor
And this is from someone who watches a metric fuckton of true crime, reads criminal cases, blah blah blah.
So here's OPINION, primarily based on survivor stories. A survivor
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In 2022, I commissioned @mollycrabapple.bsky.social to make a portrait of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, as part of a series for the release of The Viral Underclass. Molly signed if for her. Alice was so excited to have a Molly Crabapple of herself!
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
In 2022, I commissioned @mollycrabapple.bsky.social to make a portrait of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, as part of a series for the release of The Viral Underclass. Molly signed if for her. Alice was so excited to have a Molly Crabapple of herself!
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doing a bang up job aaron but at least the pedophiles feel safe
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
doing a bang up job aaron but at least the pedophiles feel safe
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tasers, pepper spray, a phone, a baseball bat
I don't see it anywhere in the comments, but please. If you struggle with your mental health, there are self defense tools & training that don't increase the chance that someone in your house will attempt or complete suicide.
Reach out if you need suggestions.
Reach out if you need suggestions.
November 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
tasers, pepper spray, a phone, a baseball bat
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I don't see it anywhere in the comments, but please. If you struggle with your mental health, there are self defense tools & training that don't increase the chance that someone in your house will attempt or complete suicide.
Reach out if you need suggestions.
Reach out if you need suggestions.
November 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I don't see it anywhere in the comments, but please. If you struggle with your mental health, there are self defense tools & training that don't increase the chance that someone in your house will attempt or complete suicide.
Reach out if you need suggestions.
Reach out if you need suggestions.
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My heart is so heavy … I lost a friend and mentor yesterday and the disability community lost a leader.
The incomparable Alice Wong passed away.
She inspired me to find my voice.
She encouraged me to take up space and embrace my disabled body.
The incomparable Alice Wong passed away.
She inspired me to find my voice.
She encouraged me to take up space and embrace my disabled body.
November 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
My heart is so heavy … I lost a friend and mentor yesterday and the disability community lost a leader.
The incomparable Alice Wong passed away.
She inspired me to find my voice.
She encouraged me to take up space and embrace my disabled body.
The incomparable Alice Wong passed away.
She inspired me to find my voice.
She encouraged me to take up space and embrace my disabled body.
"I am not prepared to die for Democracy, but I am prepared to kill for it" is way too hard a line for a commune of roaches to say
November 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"I am not prepared to die for Democracy, but I am prepared to kill for it" is way too hard a line for a commune of roaches to say
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“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
Obit:
Obit:
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
Obit:
Obit:
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Caribbean countries to hold slavery reparations talks on UK visit reut.rs/4i5YI3d
Caribbean countries to hold slavery reparations talks on UK visit
A delegation from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) reparations commission will hold talks this week with officials and politicians in Britain on addressing the historical injustices of slavery and colonialism, as well as their lasting impacts.
reut.rs
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Caribbean countries to hold slavery reparations talks on UK visit reut.rs/4i5YI3d
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New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers.
The NYPD’s Watchdog Whitewashed More Than 10,000 Misconduct Allegations in Public Data, New Evidence Shows
Allegations of lying, sexual misconduct, bigoted statements, and racist policing were among those quietly reclassified by the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
hellgatenyc.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers.
I can't tell if this is a joke or not
"The most disappointing part of del Toro’s version is the fact that the Creature himself does remain blameless. When he kills someone, it is always because he was provoked, hurt, or in danger. The Creature himself is an immortal angel." defector.com/guillermo-de...
Guillermo del Toro's ‘Frankenstein’ Is Flawed Because His Creature Is Not | Defector
Guillermo del Toro has devoted much of his career to sanctifying monsters. In his first feature film, Cronos, an aging antique dealer stumbles into eternal life, becoming a vampire who, rather than…
defector.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I can't tell if this is a joke or not
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And their interlocutors refuse to ask why because they too buy into the idea that somehow Black people are to blame for “true socialism” not flourishing.
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
And their interlocutors refuse to ask why because they too buy into the idea that somehow Black people are to blame for “true socialism” not flourishing.
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A big thing that’s happening is people being surprised by anti-Black racism because they convinced themselves that Black people were particularly protected, valued and privileged for …reasons.
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A big thing that’s happening is people being surprised by anti-Black racism because they convinced themselves that Black people were particularly protected, valued and privileged for …reasons.
Every day I see some new "the pedophiles were the conservatives and Christians we ignored along the way" bullshit and it just makes me more irritated how much people made fandom - hell queer/trans spaces overall - a hellscape to please these fascists
I hope antis never forget they caused this
I hope antis never forget they caused this
Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.
MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN - Catholic League
Bill Donohue
www.catholicleague.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Every day I see some new "the pedophiles were the conservatives and Christians we ignored along the way" bullshit and it just makes me more irritated how much people made fandom - hell queer/trans spaces overall - a hellscape to please these fascists
I hope antis never forget they caused this
I hope antis never forget they caused this
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Looked it up. Donohue, the author here, is the president of the Catholic League, & also an adjunct scholar with the Heritage Foundation. It has been his life’s mission to defend sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and he is using Kelly’s statements as a further justification in his argument.
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Looked it up. Donohue, the author here, is the president of the Catholic League, & also an adjunct scholar with the Heritage Foundation. It has been his life’s mission to defend sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and he is using Kelly’s statements as a further justification in his argument.
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Catholic League claiming the real sex abuse crisis in the church wasn't about child sex abuse but in fact about homosexuality
November 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Catholic League claiming the real sex abuse crisis in the church wasn't about child sex abuse but in fact about homosexuality
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Sometimes participation in them isn’t obvious:
“…it was revealed medical centers throughout the University of California system …had contracts with Dignity Health that placed UC clinicians in Catholic hospitals and required them to adhere to religious restrictions on the care they could provide.”
“…it was revealed medical centers throughout the University of California system …had contracts with Dignity Health that placed UC clinicians in Catholic hospitals and required them to adhere to religious restrictions on the care they could provide.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Sometimes participation in them isn’t obvious:
“…it was revealed medical centers throughout the University of California system …had contracts with Dignity Health that placed UC clinicians in Catholic hospitals and required them to adhere to religious restrictions on the care they could provide.”
“…it was revealed medical centers throughout the University of California system …had contracts with Dignity Health that placed UC clinicians in Catholic hospitals and required them to adhere to religious restrictions on the care they could provide.”
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Slightly less intuitive, this is the proportion of hospitals who are part of a larger health systems. This means they have a broader infrastructure which provides financial stability but also creates a greater policy monopoly when other options are scarce or non-existent.
November 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Slightly less intuitive, this is the proportion of hospitals who are part of a larger health systems. This means they have a broader infrastructure which provides financial stability but also creates a greater policy monopoly when other options are scarce or non-existent.
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It would also be a mistake to conflate religious institutions with non-profit institutions:
“Despite their stated missions of serving the poor, Catholic hospitals as a group serve a lower percentage of Medicaid-insured patients than do other hospitals and provide slightly less charity care.”
“Despite their stated missions of serving the poor, Catholic hospitals as a group serve a lower percentage of Medicaid-insured patients than do other hospitals and provide slightly less charity care.”
November 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It would also be a mistake to conflate religious institutions with non-profit institutions:
“Despite their stated missions of serving the poor, Catholic hospitals as a group serve a lower percentage of Medicaid-insured patients than do other hospitals and provide slightly less charity care.”
“Despite their stated missions of serving the poor, Catholic hospitals as a group serve a lower percentage of Medicaid-insured patients than do other hospitals and provide slightly less charity care.”
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I found this excellent report on the hidden costs of ceding control of community health systems to religiously-run institutions with maps showing communities where they are the only option. It also lays out how this can facilitate discrimination.
communitycatalyst.org/wp-content/u...
communitycatalyst.org/wp-content/u...
November 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I found this excellent report on the hidden costs of ceding control of community health systems to religiously-run institutions with maps showing communities where they are the only option. It also lays out how this can facilitate discrimination.
communitycatalyst.org/wp-content/u...
communitycatalyst.org/wp-content/u...
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Many people dismissed the announcement Catholic hospitals will ban gender-affirming care nationwide under the assumption that there will be other options. In reality, Catholic hospitals make up as much 46% of options in some states. This map is 2020, prior to Trump’s assault on safety net hospitals.
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Many people dismissed the announcement Catholic hospitals will ban gender-affirming care nationwide under the assumption that there will be other options. In reality, Catholic hospitals make up as much 46% of options in some states. This map is 2020, prior to Trump’s assault on safety net hospitals.
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LIVE NOW | www.twitch.tv/mrkravin | Finishing my hubby's first playthrough of Silent Hill f tonight! Come hang out and bonk some manifestations of our own fears!
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
LIVE NOW | www.twitch.tv/mrkravin | Finishing my hubby's first playthrough of Silent Hill f tonight! Come hang out and bonk some manifestations of our own fears!
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With friends like these, who need enemies youtu.be/k1Ec34XmqTU tagged in @kenniejd.bsky.social to make some sense of the mess that is Akira v Brenay (& Tim, Karrin, etc)
When Your "Friend" Wants To Be You
YouTube video by Foreign Fridays
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
With friends like these, who need enemies youtu.be/k1Ec34XmqTU tagged in @kenniejd.bsky.social to make some sense of the mess that is Akira v Brenay (& Tim, Karrin, etc)
I can't remember how many funerals I've missed at this point in my family alone. Off the top of my head, at least 8.
sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure
November 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I can't remember how many funerals I've missed at this point in my family alone. Off the top of my head, at least 8.