The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only about 100 comments so far.

Please comment if you're in the US, and boost
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/19/2025-04083/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability

#uspol #healthcare #trans

Bird things

Do not travel to the US. Under any circumstance. Think you're safe because your paperwork is in order? Fuck you, it does not matter.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney

I propose Rabbit's Unicorn, a future AI that rewards everyone who doesn't do anything to bring about Roko's Basilisk with candy in a simulated paradise.

Does it feel hopeless right now? Do you feel powerless? Let me offer you the following facts:

1. Tesla is tanking so hard right now they had to parade a bunch of cars in front of the fucking White House just to try to boost sales.

2. Target and Walmart have seen sales tank so drastically in the last month they are immediately rolling back their anti DEI stances.

3. Congress has never in history seen this amount of call volume. They typically get 40-50 calls a minute. They are currently trying to field upwards of 1,600-2,000 calls every minute.

4. The Resistance has been so vocal at town halls that the GOP had to officially instruct Republican congressmen to stop doing them.

5. This administration hasn't been able to make a single tariff stick for longer than 3 days because of all the fallout.

You. Are. Powerful.

They expected you to just put your head down and roll over and do nothing. Instead you resisted. You fought back. You showed up. And you continue to show up.

You're showing up for education. For veterans. For trans folk. For women. For immigrants. For people of color. For free speech. For international allies. You're showing up for what's right and you're refusing to obey fascism in advance.

And what's more, there is no coordinated response among the elected officials, judges, and appointed GOP heads. They're floundering. All of them. They weren't expecting this. And they have no idea what to do about it.

Best (and most depressing) thread about the state of Sweden I've *ever* read. 😞

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ma4dxq7gognvcmxdiduybkvm/post/3ljts7kkgos2h

The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.

Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.

#DigitalSovereignty

Cory Doctorow essay suggesting that instead of combatting new US tariffs with tariffs of their own, Canada should tear up the US IP laws they agreed to to avoid those tariffs in the first place, allowing for a domestic industry around jailbreaking and de-enshittifying American products:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham

What does your true self look like?
How does it feel to transcend?
How does it feel when the power is spent, and you change back?
Girl By Moonlight.
https://evilhat.com/product/girl-by-moonlight/
#ttrpg

The Saami activist Petra Laiti wrote an excellent blog post titled Why Are We Still Calling It Lapland, on the names of Sápmi and the colonialism still practised in the Global North. https://petralaiti.com/2025/01/14/why-are-we-still-calling-it-lapland-an-essay-about-calling-things-by-their-real-names/

"Live, Laugh, Luigi"
Seen in Chicago, Illinois

Merry Christmas fediverse, your present from me is that I commented and published the code for my Tarpit Game of Life project that everyone loved a couple of years ago

https://github.com/b73tt/tarpit-game-of-life

When I feel like I'm wasting my time.

#Artist #Writer #Writing #art #capitalism

Just dropping this here to support artists and help fight content regurgitation algorithms sometimes called “A I”. Hire artists when you can, and when you can't, use art already in the public domain.

https://www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/public-domain-art-resources