דגל שכור 🏴 @thufie@pixie.town

I was a jailer for two years. Not proud of it, I needed the money.

One of the repeat offenders we had was an old man who was HIV positive. He went to jail several times while I was working there and always for the same thing. He would shoplift items from a store while in full view of a cop. This old man had a cane and could barely walk. There was no way he expected to get away with it.

After he was arrested we had to process him and the medical questions always led back to his HIV diagnosis. The state provided him with his HIV medication while he was awaiting trial where he always pleaded guilty. He was always released after serving less than 60 days pretrial. Upon release, he was given six months worth of his HIV medications (which he needed to survive) and he would shoplift again when he ran out of medication.

It would have been cheaper for the state to just give him the medications without him needing to be part of the criminal justice system first.

He was shoplifting so he could stay alive.

#Healthcare #luigimangione #denydefenddepose #Anticapitalism #EatTheRich

Imagine you have a foot that secretes acid, which you use to dissolve away solid rock to make a burrow. Now imagine some scientists want to prove you do this. They put some pH-sensing foil under you and really hope you'll cooperate and leave your footprint on it. You chuckle and do so, leaving a funny smooch-shaped impression on the foil. This is how it was proven that the boring giant clam uses acid to make its burrow, decreasing local pH by ~2 units! #clamFacts

Chao Adventure was apparently recognising non-binary folk way back in 1999.

Help Nina, a trans woman move out of Texas to Washington by July, 2025. Money will be used for rent and down payment as she tries to find a stable job.

"Texas is beginning to pass harsher and more dangerous legislation that directly effects me as a trans woman. My identity is not legally recognized and most recently, Odessa (where I go to meet my endocrinologist for HRT) has recently passed a bathroom ban targeted at transgender individuals that can result in us paying up to $10,500 usd."

Goal: 325/8000 dollars

Link:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-nina-move-to-safety-in-washington?attribution_id=sl%3A50afefab-10de-4754-b6cf-6d7142222091

Tags: #GTFOmyState #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #crowdfund #crowdfunding #fundraising

i read the phrase "white monster energy" on my tl earlier and it took a beat to determine if it was about systemic racial bias, super lewd, or caffeine drink

Very convenient thanks

AI spongebob is teaching me how to cuss in polish

Type of guy who thinks secret black budget military spending goes to Stargate instead of coke.

just saw a guy on the bus with a hat that said "kill your local twitch streamer"

As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.

I’ve highlighted the important bits of Assad’s first statement since fleeing Syria like a coward

HEY. to anyone who posts on youtube: please turn this off. i don't have to explain why

So Xfce 4.20 was released today, and with a release number like that what better way is there to celebrate than to get together with your bestie and blaze it?

Fun little commission I got from @anarceus

#xfce #xfce420 #420 #xenia #xue