A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am

Everybody's talking about the Honda Odyssey, but nobody's talking about Logan holding Mary Puppin's paw so that Laura can give her a high-five.

outdoor cat defenders really are simply some of the most Delusional people on the planet, like you can list fact after fact all with verified sources about how bad it is to let cats outside for both them & the environment around them and people will cover their ears and be like "umm not my frumpkins he knows not to play in traffic & he has magical resistance to coyotes and disease"

thinking back to the time that a random girl told me how her cat would always find injured wildlife and bring them to her to try and heal them.

the mental gymnastics genuinely had me speechless

anyway yeah DELETE YOUR FUCKING ADVERTISING IDS

Android:

Settings ➡️ Google ➡️ all services ➡️ Ads ➡️ Delete advertising ID

(may differ slightly depending on android version and manufacturer firmware. you can't just search settings for "advertising ID" of course 🔪)

iOS:

Settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ tracking ➡️ toggle "allow apps to request to track" to OFF

and ALSO settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ Apple advertising ➡️ toggle "personalized ads" to OFF

more details about the process here via the EFF

Also don't take your cell phone with you if you are participating in activities you would like the government to not know about, or keep it fully powered off and I'm a faraday cage if you must have it for emergencies.

when your friend Mark forgets to return the worms he borrowed from you

*crushes up and snorts all six infinity stones*

just wanted to say that i'm seeing headlines everywhere say "floridians rejected an amendment to secure abortion rights" and that is NOT TRUE.

we voted ~57% to enshrine abortion rights in the florida constitution. amendments for our state require a supermajority, aka 60% to pass. this is bullshit and we were set up to fail.

the entire time, our governor Ron Desantis' officials were pressuring and threatening media outlets for publishing anything supporting this amendment.

don't believe the bullshit headlines. floridians wanted abortion rights.

these tags from @dharmasharks made me so emotional, she's so correct. i'm from the south, and it's awful to see my state vote the way it did. but it's such a complicated and layered issue, there's so much suppression & gerrymandering & just total lack of access. my own county 'forgot' to mail thousands of ballots to people. but the south is full of good people who work really hard to make things better. and it's a good thing to hope for better things. don't write us off so easy, we are not giving up, don't give up on us.

the way percy is down so bad the kiss is the first thing he thinks about when there’s literally a god war about to happen

they can try all they want but AI speed paints/art process videos will never capture the intensely human artistic endeavor of drawing and undoing and redrawing the same simple shape or line 400 times rapidfire in a drawing thats pushing you closer to the edge with every lift of the pen

AI art will suck forever because robots cant want to kill themselves

Normalize this response

can’t believe shinji got beat out by a honest to god squid

Fastfood workers carry more weight in society than any giant robot.

rip mythbusters you would've loved destroying cybertrucks

im not even the type of guy to go "actually it's frankenstein's MONSTER" because a painting by rembrandt or picasso or any other artist is often called "a rembrandt" or "a picasso" as shorthand. so in this respect frankenstein's monster can be considered "a frankenstein"

darling I love your 8 foot tall patchwork flesh creature, it really livens up the place. is that an authentic frankenstein?

it's only a true frankenstein if it was produced in the frankenstein region of switzerland. otherwise it's just a sparkling homunculus

yes, percy rose through the ranks of new rome disturbingly fast. no, jason did not do the same at camp half blood. yes, percy's rise to leadership at both camps took about two weeks and was completely unplanned. no, the same cannot be said for jason. his rise was carefully planned and took over a decade. they're both children of the big three, but where percy thrums with raw power, jason is a sword honed by zeus and hera. where percy is a survivor, jason is a weapon. where percy is a cycle breaker, jason can't get out. jason's fatal flaw was temptation to deliberate because he never managed to make his own choices. he was every classic definition of a hero rolled into one, and he never questioned it because his happiness came after the responsibility. jason was never going to ascend as fast as percy because jason was raised on hard work and discipline while percy, an abuse survivor and child of poverty, knew when to fight dirty. where jason was a transplant, percy was an invasive species. jason was always going to die because he was never more than a tool for the gods to throw away when he outlived his usefulness, or when he started to question his place. if someone as locked down as jason can question the system, anyone can. now that luke has put thoughts of overthrow in everyone's heads, zeus has to be very careful because while jason was expendable as his weapon, percy was unexpected in every way. zeus has no plan for him. when percy dies, he will become a martyr, so he can't die, except now everyone knows that percy doesn't want to be a god either. jason had to die, and now percy has to live.

oh this is beautiful.

in the last books in HoO we read Jason’s POV and a couple of times he mentions how he “always questioned the rules at Camp Jupiter”. it’s such good wording. he questioned, but he didn’t do anything about it. he was conditioned to think that he couldn’t, that if he stepped an inch out of line, things would crumble. he would crumble. he only saw a way to change stuff after being at CHB.

meanwhile, we see Percy break the rules at Camp at least once a book. yeah there’s the rebellious teenager who keeps sods under his bed even though he shouldn’t. but I’m talking about when he does it because it’s the only way, because if he follows the rules he knows things will end badly. we see this specially in SoM and TTC. no wonder people choose to follow him. he offers a path.