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callisto

@callisto@disabled.social

#ActuallyAutistic, PTSD, metastatic cancer, Ohioan, if someone finds my executive function please return it. Find me on the doors in election season, doing what I can the rest of the year. @Chain_Lube on the bird app.

My reality check bounced again & the overdraft charges are ridiculous.

White cishet femme (she/her) but doing my best to center more marginalized perspectives. I mostly follow back, but not if you don't add alt/text to images. No porn, thx.

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callisto, to Ohio
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I don't think I ever saw those little half-millimeter black-legged nymph until a year or two ago. I've had two on me already this year. My neighbor had last year and I don't like this at all.

Am I just noticing them for the first time? Or is their range newly expanding into ?

lovelylovely, to random
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124,158 Ohioans were just purged from the voting rolls and it is Important that you check your registration immediately.

cheating to win don't let them.

callisto,
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@lovelylovely This is last year's post. Definitely every Ohioan should regularly check their voter registration - even regular voters get erroneously purged.

In 2024, go to https://voterlookup.ohiosos.gov/voterlookup.aspx and enter your name and county. If your name doesn't appear, you've already been purged. If your name is there, click on it to find out whether you're in "confirmation status." If either of those is true, register again now!

StillIRise1963, to random
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Fascists are going to get rid of all public education. Have you saved up for your kids yet.🤔

callisto,
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@JamesBazan @philip_cardella @StillIRise1963 This sounds just like Ohio ... down to the 1997 court order. Our gerrymandered GOP supermajority passed universal private school vouchers last year, with all the funding coming from the public school budget.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Feel free to watch movies of the ACTUAL DYSTOPIAN PAST about WWII to see your future.

callisto,
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@StillIRise1963 Just as chilling are German movies from the immediate pre-war period. Just like ours, their movie industry churning out "everything's fine."

mastodonmigration, to random
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Something feels different this morning 🌄.

Workers in Tennessee voting to unionize. Ukraine aid finally getting a vote. Trump told to sit down and shut up in court. AG James calling BS on his fishy bond. Abortion rights getting on the ballot across the country.

Beginning to feel like we've had enough, and we're not going to take it anymore. The dog caught the car. We, the people, have the power, and we're not afraid. Lots more to do, but this morning there is hope.

callisto,
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@mastodonmigration Here in Ohio we've been feeling that way since November. It's a different year. People are electrified.

Let's just hope that excitement translates into activism, because the reason these results happened last year and may happen again, is a lot of hard work.

compost, to gardening
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So far my experiment on using chopped weeds in the aisles of our garden beds is a success. I have put a quite deep cover of this material.

No weeds are regrowing over the cover as long as it is maintained. When we have flash flood events it holds together and is not being washed away by the rain. The aisles are not flooded as they used to be because the soil was too compacted.

So because I did that on a small area to test this option, I will expand it to the whole garden.

callisto,
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@compost Grass clippings (if not chemically treated) make great mulch, too.

Just beware of hairy galinsoga. The smallest stem fragment will re-sprout.

RickiTarr, to random
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If you can't do this you aren't a journalist, you're a pawn:

2. Prioritize Live Fact-Checking Rigorous and robust fact-checking is the best defense against misinformation, intentional lies, and deflection. If Trump says the sky is green, the story isn't that the sky is now green; the story is that the sky is still blue and Trump got it wrong. 3. Ask Lawmakers Hard Questions Ask about the fundamental principles of democracy. Push them to go on the record that Biden won the 2020 election. Ask if they support the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. This writing is not to offer any claim of knowing it all. Your correspondent has made his share of mistakes, but after more than seven decades | believe | have picked up a few useful guideposts. Good journalism is always worth it. Our democracy depends onit.

callisto,
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@RickiTarr And this is why Dan Rather lost his job.

RickiTarr, to random
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It's like they aren't even trying to pretend this wasn't written by a pharmaceutical company AI.

callisto,
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@RickiTarr Best part is they get donors, grieving family members they lost to whatever disease, to underwrite the research so the VCs have no risk and pure profit.

I once wrote a well known cancer center about their big fundraising drive that lots of friends participate in. How do I insulate my donation from VCs, I asked? They replied with a link to their page about how I can profit from their pharma research.

I had to explain to my friends why I won't be donating in their loved ones' memory.

TonyStark, to random
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This is big news from the Department of Education. The Department of Education is starting a program to inform high school students about the importance of voting and promote voter registration.

This is getting no attention in the media and Laura Brill from the Civics Center (an organization I’ve volunteered with) is asking for help getting the word out. Please share this information where you can.

U.S. Department of Education Promotes High School Voter Registration:
https://thecivicscenter.substack.com/p/us-department-of-education-promotes

callisto,
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@TonyStark Thank you for this!

Our local League of Women Voters is doing a bang-up job with HSVR, but this should give their efforts a huge boost, especially in schools that are reluctant to let them in.

LeftistLawyer, to random

An important blog post by @smadin

From the article:
“The surest way to immunize yourself against fascism’s insidious ability to work even well-meaning people around to accepting inhumanity by starting with the people they think are the ickiest, is to steadfastly and immovably refuse to find any people icky; to relentlessly search your heart for any shred of revulsion against your fellow humans, and incinerate it.”

I’m guilty. Not above admitting when I’m wrong, and I believe Scott is right. The most effective form of protest is satire. We must be mindful of the difference between satirising/ridiculing the human, from satirising/riduculing their deeds.

https://smadin.net/2024/02/23/against-revulsion/

callisto,
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@LeftistLawyer @smadin Nice. Thanks for the share.

LeftistLawyer, to random

Serious question, please boost for reach.

I’m a 50+ white male.

How many old white guys out there would be willing join a 501(c)(3) whose mission is to oppose old white guys in positions of power? How many people would be willing to provide financial support for the same?

Nothing like this currently exists in the U.S. and I think it could be a damn effective form of protest. Personally, I’m sick and tired of seeing old fucking white guys in power everywhere I turn. Am I an aberration?

Oh, and despite thinking of myself as a bit of wordsmith, I’m admittedly terrible at acronym generation. What’s a good name for an organization pursuing said mission?

callisto,
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@LeftistLawyer As all of the above except male, this sounds like an analogue to Patriotic Millionaires (most, but not all, of whom are old white guys). They have a pretty effective reach.

nonfedimemes, to random
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callisto,
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@nonfedimemes I can't wait to see their babies.

mockpaperscissors.com, to random
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Happy Hour News

https://mps110.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/dy-5zujv4aafgkr.jpg?w=640McDougal is on the right, but where’s Stormy?

Well this is a long shot (or more accurately a very short shot, IYKWIMAITYD):

New York prosecutors are seeking a limited gag order barring former President Donald Trump from talking about witnesses and court staff to “protect the integrity of this criminal proceeding” ahead of his trial next month on charges he falsified business records.

[…] Lawyers for Trump, meanwhile, filed a pre-trial motion where they asked the judge to bar testimony from three of the DA’s key witnesses in the case — former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. The filing paints Cohen and Daniels as liars, and says McDougal’s testimony would be “unduly prejudicial.”

So, to summarize: 1) shut-up Hair Füror and B) do not take any testimony from the three principle witnesses. Yeah, that will happen.

I just hope the short-fingered vulgarian didn’t get into Junior Mint’s stash…

https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/02/26/news-that-will-drive-you-to-drink-2060/

callisto,
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@mockpaperscissors.com@mockpaperscissors.com I love that first photo on the Daily Beast. That woman is watching the best show she's seen all year.

18+ hannu_ikonen, to random

How many white music artists such as Funker Vogt do I gotta deep vet in 2024 to make sure they didn't turn fash since I was last in the mp3 scene in 2005?

"Funker Vogt describes their politics as deeply anti-war and anti-social injustice..." then their label leaves them because they put a fascist as their vocalist.

All of them?

WTF is Whiteness' major malfunction?

Inquiring minds want to know.

callisto,
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@cstross @hannu_ikonen I think a lot of us white folx had things shoved in our faces starting roundabout 2017. Some chose to take the opportunity to learn about our privilege and our unconscious biases, and to take on the responsibility of beginning to dismantle them. Others retreated deeper into the wilful denialism that's always sheltered the privileged.

shansterable, to random
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Last month a friend announced he got COVID for the third time.

A few days ago, a friend announced her entire household had COVID (I know it is at least her second time).

Yesterday, a friend canceled plans due to a sore throat. She's had COVID at least twice and this is probably indication of a third round. She went out to a birthday gathering at a crowded bar the previous night. Although she likely did not contract COVID there, she likely infected others with whatever she has.

Today, a friend announced she got COVID last February and now has it again this February.

callisto,
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@andymoose @shansterable News flash, if they're in the USA the health care system has never been here to help Disabled people.

RickiTarr, to random
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Yesterday @theropologist told me Jam Bands were in fact real, but I'm still pretty sure they are real like Improv Groups are real.

callisto,
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@RickiTarr @colo_lee @theropologist And when someone or someones from another band or bands at the festival sit(s) in, and after maybe one verse where they're finding their feet, mesh perfectly into an incredible sound that nobody practiced? What then?

callisto, to Ohio
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Good morning from

callisto, to random
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@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs Does the dog warden and/or Fish & Wildlife count as cops? Either should have authority, and neither is trigger-happy about killing human beings, though of course it all does feed back into the carceral system.

callisto, to random
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Pet peeve: "I don't use pronouns." It's ALWAYS cis white women, which makes it feel extra TERF-y.

99.999% of the time, when Karen says Karen doesn't use pronouns, Karen doesn't mean that whenever we talk about Karen, we're supposed to use the word Karen. (Apologies to my friends actually named Karen, who do not behave this way.)

What Karen means is "I expect everyone to assume MY gender from my appearance, & I refuse to help make people more comfortable about disclosing their genders."

TexasObserver, to Texas
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In an op-ed for us, Representative Jasmine Crockett wrote, "I’m watching women suffer because of Republican anti-freedom authoritarianism. Today, I possess fewer rights than my mother possessed during her reproductive years. Why and how did we get here?"
https://www.texasobserver.org/abortion-ban-roe-v-wade-election-2024?utm_campaign=mastodon

callisto,
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@TexasObserver @failedLyndonLaRouchite Voting is an incredibly important step, but we have to remember that it is only a step.

The next rung is fighting voter suppression to ensure everyone CAN vote. There are a lot of ways to do that. Participate in VR drives. Volunteer for VoteRiders or another organization that helps people get voter ID in states where that's required. Testify against voter suppression bills. Donate to Black Voters Matter, Common Cause, LWV and other voting rights orgs. Etc

cra1g, to geopolitics
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FORTUNE: Consumer prices pushed up mostly by corporate profits, new Groundwork Collaborative study finds

"Corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the second and third quarters of 2023 and more than one-third since the start of the pandemic, the report found, analyzing Commerce Department data. That’s a massive jump from the four decades prior to the pandemic, when profits drove just 11% of price growth."

https://fortune.com/2024/01/20/inflation-greedflation-consumer-price-index-producer-price-index-corporate-profit/

callisto,
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@cra1g Non-paywalled link: https://www.aol.com/finance/greedflation-caused-more-half-last-100000958.html

callisto, to random
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Anybody have some handy links on why exclusively in-person events are ableist, especially during a pandemic? I don't have the spoons to write or compile.

(Side note: I hate the "spoons" metaphor, but sometimes I don't have the spoons for the extra three syllables in "capacity," and today is one of those days.)

RickiTarr, to random
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Yeah, New York Times, where would they be getting that idea?

Few Transgender Children Change Their Minds After 5 Years, Study Finds But the study, which began in 2013, may not fully reflect what’s happening today, when many more children are identifying as trans.

callisto,
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@RickiTarr Meanwhile, nearly 15% of patients regret having had cancer surgery, which the paper's authors frame as "relatively uncommon," suggesting that most other types of surgery have a much higher regret rate. Surgical transition hovers around 5% regret I think?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28243695/

callisto, to random
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https://xkcd.com/2855/

callisto, to random
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question for my community: If I take the risk of going to a potluck event, is it rude not to bring food, when I won't be unmasking to partake of anyone else's?

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