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  • Which is one of those things that sounds great at first but after a few more decades of research we realize it’s actually horrifically bad. Leached chemicals and microplastics are having such profound impacts on life that we’re not even sure how bad it is yet, just that it’s very VERY bad.

    A few hundred years from now, if husband aren’t extinct yet, they’ll look back on this the way we look back on pre-modern societies using lead for everything, except the solution to lead was to simply stop using it while a solution for microplastics doesn’t even exist yet. It’s likely that, even after a solution has been found, microplastics will haunt all life on Earth until they get cycled out by geological processes.


  • The most highly funded police force to ever exist now knows I’m trans. Not that I’m not public about this fact, but sits different when you’re in a searchable dataset accessable to law enforcement.

    This also gives them a pretty solid idea of who is disabled.

    And with the lack of civil rights in the deportation process, all ICE has to do is accuse you of being foreign and being in the US illegally. Bonus, ICE gets to decide on their own if your case requires judicial review or not, meaning you can be deported to CECOT before anyone even knows what happened to you.

    And the public will support it, because they’re being told that trans people are horrible criminals and disabled people are a drain on society. I know this because those are the same reasons they already give for their treatment of immigrants.

    The legislative and judicial branches are already cut out of this process, the only thing the executive branch is waiting for is when they feel it’s the right time.


  • Welfare as just one more method of transferring wealth to corporations, it’s just the money is coming from the government and going through poor people first. Which means it at least generated some economic activity by cycling money from the top to the bottom, but if the tax structure becomes too regressive then that cycle breaks. Both sides acknowledge this problem, it’s just that the neo liberals want to push those limits while keeping the money flowing (so that most of it flows upwards) while the fascists just want to stop the cycle altogether.

    This is evidenced by the fact that SNAP is funded by the Farm Bill. It’s not a handout to poor people, it’s a subsidy for farms and the food industry at large.


  • it’s reasonable to suggest you find another

    If it’s “just a job” like working retail at Target, sure, that’s a respectable take. It’s still blaming the victim, but it’s also advocating for the victim to address the issue themselves.

    But if it’s not “just a job”? If it’s your life’s work, your calling, something you love more than anything else?

    That idea is very likely what drove her to the brink. You really have no fucking clue what you’re talking about.

    I’ve been there and I almost didn’t survive. Choosing to live isn’t always so easy.





  • Yeah, this is a very real phenomenon and it’s difficult to do anything about it sometimes. People develope an internal profile of you based on their perceptions, and anything they say about you is based on THAT, not reality. It’s even more difficult when it’s somebody close to you who’s internalized that profile so much it’s become part of who they identify as. You’ll see this with the parents of trans kids where the parent has internalized some aspect of their child and it’s become part of their identity. “I’m the father of three sons” kind of thing. Then one of the kids comes out as female and the parent has a really difficult time with it because they identified themselves as the parent of three male children and that’s turned out to be incorrect, they’re the parent of two boys and one girl and they need to change how they identify themselves in addition to how they identify their daughter. Some parents have a really REALLY hard time of it (they still gotta do it though if they don’t want to be a shitty person)




  • Related to this, there’s a Google translate button at the top that reads, in Turkish, “translate to Turkish”

    Which could be evidence that the screenshot comes from somebody who speaks Turkish, which increases the chances that the person receiving the email is in Turkey.

    That doesn’t answer your question, but it suggests that Bluesky may only be honoring requests regarding accounts they believe are subject to the local laws.

    Two very important points:

    • This is proof of nothing
    • I personally will continue to use Mastodon instead of Bluesky








  • IMO you’re overthinking it.

    The Constitution applies to all people within jurisdiction of the United States. Immigration or citizenship status isn’t a factor; he absolutely has a first amendment right to say what he said.

    The question you’re struggling with is regarding people who aren’t already within the jurisdiction, or are applying for citizenship.

    All of that said, if ICE already deported him then that complicates things. Normally somebody who’s been deported will be denied reentry for that reason alone; there’s a waiting period (5 years iirc) if they’re ever going to be allowed back in at all. But you’re correct that they could also deny him reentry for his political views. It’s likely that, if he’s already out of the country, legally removed or not, a judge will have to order him to be allowed reentry despite both of this things.