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(she/her) digital security for movements. My lungs taste the air of Time, blown past falling sands.
Joined January 2013
Now is as good a time to remind everyone that we at Digital Defense Fund released an Abortion Privacy Guide with the top 3 actions that can have the greatest impact on reducing risk, even after an abortion is over. Link to print and fold version in next tweet.
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People almost never talk about how “lifestyle creep” when you begin to make more money is not so much spending on luxuries, but rather all the life maintenance things you couldn’t tend to before that end up being really expensive, like dental work or car repairs. 💀.
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“Do you expect people to lie and break the law to save a person’s life?”.Well I’m Jewish, so if I give you an extra 30 seconds to consider that fact, how do you think I would answer that question?.
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Be the woman hitting a Nazi with a handbag you wish to see in the world.
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Okay but seriously, I found out that USPS fires our postmaster every year for a week and hires a temp so she can't get continuous employment benefits like a pension. All of our postal delivery staff are hired as temps. Is there anything we can do as the town to advocate for them?.
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At the end of the Camp Fire trial that found PG&E responsible for 84 deaths, they read to the courtroom how each person was found deceased in their home. It was one of the most sobering things I have ever heard and I resent often that we seem afraid to share that with the public.
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This case out of Nebraska goes to show you that when it comes to abortion surveillance, deleting friends and neighbors who would call the cops on you out of your life is more urgent than deleting say, period tracking apps.
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They broke up because he refused to accept that abortion could be a necessary outcome of a medical emergency. I’m equal parts proud of my friend for having the right standards for someone she might want to have kids with and horrified for her. These men are out there dating!.
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My husband was horrified when he heard this man, when asked if he would provide consent to treat an incapacitated partner by terminating a pregnancy, asked “What’s the % chance she’d die?”.The correct answer is, “Whatever she wanted,” and if she didn’t weigh in before, “Yes!!!”.
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I know so many women who want to have kids. Yet they cannot find a man with the right judgment to share the medical, legal responsibilities of a pregnancy, let alone raise kids together. No concept of what it would be to hold your wife’s cold lifeless body, just misogynist vibes.
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When I was in Portugal, they gave me a combo of opioids and acetaminophen after emergency surgery. And I had to chuckle when a doctor said to me (I’m rephrasing), “You Americans gotta be careful, you panic about opioids but it’s this acetaminophen shit that will kill you.”.
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Why I’m writing a horror movie about the deferred maintenance and related emotional baggage previous generations of homeowners leave for young people to fix in one clip. The reality of what lurks in the housing market is stranger (and scarier!) than fiction.
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I really have no idea how we get through to (mostly) ER doctors and nurses that they are not obligated to report any miscarriage to the police, no matter what the patient tells you. Hospitalists turning people in already is and will remain a primary way “post-Roe” manifests.
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Kind of burying the lede on how she also stole fetuses and filmed herself handling them in her house.
Anti-abortion activist who led a clinic blockade is sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison
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I can feel the annoyance bubble up in me every time someone talks like justice can be done even if people act only when it’s completely risk-free for them. That kind of fallacy has a body count.
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Fun fact: this is the card rack for a Jacquard loom. Patented in 1804, these incredible machines used the holes in the cards to weave intricate patterns automatically, more than 124 years before IBM would begin using punch card computers!.
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100% of my team has been 100% remote as long as we’ve worked here, and all of us are having trouble concentrating this week. You’re not bad at working from home if all of this has made it hard for you to be productive.
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People should be terrified of how many therapists are openly saying on here they think an abortion would count under mandated reporting when there is zero established legal basis for doing so. Stop guessing because you think it makes you sound like a hero to not call the cops.
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It’s a little known fact that tuxedo cats’ coats were not the result of selective breeding by humans, but evolved to help them thrive in their native habitat: the black tie gala. Camouflaged in their formal wear, they feed on a diet of cocktail shrimp, caviar, and canapés.
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The oldest eligible adults saw their SNAP benefits drop from $281 to $23 per month, not a typo. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is about to submit for its largest budget in US history, $842B or about 8x the cost of SNAP. $170B of it will be used just to buy more weapons.
In the two months since Biden ended SNAP emergency allotments, an additional 1.3 million people reported not having enough to eat (per Census data). Total food insecure population among US adults is now 25.4 million.
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Don’t reply guy me with that shit anymore, asking if I’m expecting people to lie and risk their jobs to ex: keep pregnant people safe. Everyone is capable of making their own decisions, and the civil society you expect isn’t possible without many people deciding to take risks.
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The Jane Collective used a different apartment and a different car every single week, and also blindfolded people when driving them between the front and the place where abortions happened. They did not give press interviews and do photoshoots.
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Okay apparently all of us sound exactly the same. 😅
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When you hate Palestinians more than you love Torah, a document which is exceptionally clear on where it stands re: how forbidden it is to cut down fruit-bearing trees even during war.
Earlier today, dozens of settlers celebrated the holiday of Hanukkah by stealing crops from Palestinian-owned olive trees outside the village of Awarta. After the theft, which was escorted by Israeli soldiers, the settlers proceeded to cut down several trees.
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I mean this is technically something I should be able to complain to our Congressional Rep about, yes?.I'm already peeved that the USPS contributes nothing to the maintenance of our post office. It's entirely on volunteers to keep the building standing, paint, fix leaks, etc.
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You know a tweet has taken off when you finally get the QTs willfully misunderstanding what you’re saying. Just because you can technically live without something doesn’t mean it wasn’t essential. We sadly treat even basic human needs as commodities or luxuries now.
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Republicans have for decades had these stacks of bills piled up and ready to go to distribute to the party in every state, and I have to read about how Democratic legislators are “calling on the administration to develop a plan.”.
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People do the same shit with abortion that they do with COVID: imagining that only a certain kind of person will need medical care for discrete choices they made, so they can mentally distance themselves from the possibility that it could happen to them too.
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@Xenoimpulse I think it says a lot that you need to tell yourself the reason this therapist isn't working for you is that you must just be too intelligent for therapy generally. You're probably not that special.
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“Fat kids grow up to be fat adults.” Yeah okay maybe wrap your head around the fact that it’s not the worst thing in the world to be a fat adult. That you could be proud of a fat adult. That they will live a full life, with you in it because you’re not their perpetual antagonist.
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@rachsyme I overdress every time anyone gives me the slightest excuse. Capes and big sleeves make a frequent appearance.
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People prosecuted for their pregnancy outcomes to date were surveilled, turned in by trusted people, including doctors, not period tracking apps. The corroborating evidence was Google search histories, not app location information. It was texts and emails, not cell tower pings.
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As someone who assesses threats against people who work in abortion access as her full time job, I cannot emphasize to you enough how much of our abortion rights have been allowed to crumble because people in power who aren’t at risk at all are afraid of like, a mean email.
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@zzzzaaaacccchhh It’s ok to admit there’s parts of a movie about misogyny you have no ability to personally relate to, rather than insisting its message is generally not important.
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Why yes, I did entirely hand crochet this fried shrimp costume. 🍤
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And people do get hurt from Tylenol all the time! Acetaminophen toxicity accounts for more than 56,000 emergency room visits, 26,000 hospitalizations and an estimated 458 deaths due to acute liver failure each year. And it’s still right there on the pharmacy/grocery shelf.
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Abortion isn’t something anyone should get to vote on, that’s the fucking point. There should be no power, state or corporate or otherwise, with the authority to regulate autonomously inhabiting your own body. That it should be the domain of law at all is an absurd concept.
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@botticellibimbo I graduated grad school in 2011 and thought all my opportunities and the career I spent years training for evaporated with the recession. I now have a job that wasn’t invented when I went to school, and an amazing life I couldn’t have predicted. The world changes. Hang in there.
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@debraj112 @jkohlmann This is why I'm not a fan of all those "having a daughter made me realize sexism is a thing" takes. There are many men who toe the same line as long as it doesn't actually cost them anything personally.
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Who knows what the situation is with this kid giving information about her friend’s abortion to the cops, whether a parent pressured her or who knows what. But honestly, we’re fucked if we can’t even get kids to side with each other and their safety over the authority of adults.
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Resistance Jews and righteous gentiles during the Holocaust and other atrocities are honored in our history as people who adhered to pikuach nefesh. It is a holy act to place reverence for human life above the letter of law. Governments, laws change, but human rights are eternal.
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Well this blew up so I’ll take a second to explain the concept of pikuach nefesh: a principle in Judaism that the preservation of human life overrides virtually any other rule both in Judaism and as it is culturally practiced, in secular law as well. This is how I was raised.
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Helping people get their abortions under criminalized circumstances is stressful and thankless. It’s hard to suppress the urge to seek encouragement and approval for going through the effort. But it’s not worth it. Knowing a person’s life is different forever has to be enough.
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There are 4x as many of fake clinics in the US as there are real ones. They get people in with misleading ads, get names, contact info, other PII, confirm their pregnancy and get them to state their intention to abort. That is IMO the biggest surveillance risk to pregnant people.
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And you’d think Twitter, a place where people love to rag on each other for having basic niceties, would be quick to get that lifestyle creep could also mean boring stuff like no longer paying the minimum credit card payment or having income-based student loan payments go up.
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Imagine your grandparents and then parents own a house, then only when you get it do you discover a 300 year old well whose excavation (and constant refilling with water) is going to totally fuck over your kitchen renovation. AND now you have a scary old well inside your house!.
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Disability rights activists are correct: you will think it will not be you and then faster than you can imagine your life comes unraveled because you simply cannot do what you did before. It can be fluid or temporary and still be as much of a wrecking ball in your life.
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We thankfully have tools at our disposal that groups like the Jane Collective did not, and do not have to resort to things that are IMO not compassionate, not human rights-affirming like blindfolding people. But people still need to treat their activities as actually secret.
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The college kids have taken the trash cans of jungle juice and made them portable, called Borgs. And as this TikTok explains, despite it standing for “Black-out Rage Gallon,” it’s pretty solid harm reduction.
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If Jack Dorsey’s hackers had ex: shorted Twitter stock and then made a fake merger announcement or other market-disrupting hoax, they could have likely made millions and it would have been one of the wildest hacks of the decade. Instead they decided to just spam 4chan nonsense.
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Very occasionally I get to bring together my love of privacy advocacy with my love for designing fabrics, and my initial tests are going well. What better way to introduce noise in to hostile data sets than to wear it?
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Misunderstanding what “lifestyle creep” is for most gets us absurd articles about how families “don’t have much left over after private school and a 401k.”.Let’s see a different article about how it can still be hard to save when people can now fix broken stuff or go to a doctor.
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If it wasn’t on Facebook messenger but text her cell carrier would have handed over those messages just as quickly. And yet we would not (and should never) yell at people to just not have a phone number as if that’s reasonable. Don’t blame people, blame corporations and states.
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If you work at an abortion clinic, if you escort, drive people to clinics, I feel like I learned today that you should keep a tourniquet and quik-clot pads in your bag or car. Even if you do not know how to use them in an emergency, say you have it and someone else likely will.
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I would be so mad at my parents and grandparents. Now I have to lay my own heated floors and I have ghosts in my kitchen because previous generations who owned my house didn’t note a haunted well on the disclosure forms.
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I am true to what I posted in my name field. Don’t post about crimes, but also don’t perpetuate a culture of blind obedience to vague and untested laws. Do not guess at what counts, make them fight you to pull what they want from your bared teeth. Fight for your patient’s life.
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@kyylien - Tub of Maldon Sea Salt.- Rechargeable handwarmers.- Celebrity Cookbook (ex: Snoop Dogg, Stephen & Evie Colbert, Matty Matheson).- Pasta Tarot Deck & ravioli-shaped spoon rest (my selection for this year).- USB desk mug warmer (also doubles as a great candle warmer).
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This is to say, acetaminophen/tylenol/paracetamol is an essential medicine. Just please read the bottle, talk to a doctor if you have questions about how much you can take, and do not ever ever ever mix with alcohol!.
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@nicholelizaq You want the blessings of life with none of the reality of death, some idealized moment you want forced on people as you imagine it, not as it is for everyone. Abortion is a blessing that allows people the dignity of grief, process, and closure. It’s not yours to deny.
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The full list of people killed by PG&E starting the Camp Fire is here, along with how they were found.
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So here is the reality: when people know they need an abortion they begin googling because that is intuitive. They may not know the legality of abortion in their state before they Google it. Our threat model and security advice can’t reasonably accommodate “don’t Google it.”.
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Things cops already use to prosecute people suspected of having abortions:.- texts to a friend.- google search history.- email receipt for pills in inbox.We all deserve apps that do not leak our data, but period tracker apps not even close to the foremost threat in your phone.
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I know people are bringing up that the Colorado Springs shooter had made a bomb threat before, but it’s really important to not leave out that it was against his mom. Almost every single US mass shooter has a history of being violent towards women, often family or partners.
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@EruditeElf Good question, I'm friends with the daughter of the former postmaster (lol small town) so I'll ask!.
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So many more who could make no attempt, disabled and infirm, no evacuation order in time, no one to help. All these souls who died in the most painful ways possible. Reading their stories in Paradise by Lizzie Johnson changed me. I will always leave. I carry their memory with me.
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Reminder: it should never be a crime to end your own pregnancy, or to miscarry at home. It does not matter what you take or when it happens or what the circumstances are. Gestational limits on abortion and fetal harm laws are caustic to human rights and a functioning society.
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I don’t think people appreciate how Roe v Wade (abortion), Griswold v Connecticut (birth control), Lawrence v Texas (“sodomy”) are the cases that define when cops can and cannot literally kick your door in and arrest you for autonomously inhabiting your own body.
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I maniacally cackle every time they push out the student loan pause, because I’ve been shoving all my would-be payments in a 401k instead for the first time in my life. In March 2023 we’ll have hit 3 years, which for me means $36,000(!!!) I did not have to send into the ether.
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I find it really abhorrent to respond to Europe getting a deadly heatwave with, "Whatever, that's an average day in Texas.".An average winter day in Europe brought Texas to its knees last year and people died. We all are in climate crisis and empathy costs nothing.
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I think of the people of Paradise often, because learning about their lives and their deaths is why when wildfire swept our area in WA, we evacuated as soon as we saw flames climb the hill, before any evac order. Had the wind picked up, I could have owed my life to these people.
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The weakest link in anyone’s digital security for their abortion is so far the endpoint of other people who don’t honor their obligation to protect that person. We can still try to pick privacy-forward systems, but the strongest security is a function of community, not tech.
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We've updated our Abortion & Pregnancy Privacy Guide with this quick mobile settings graphic to save and share. These tips can help ensure these sensitive experiences are less able to be easily accessed by looking through your device. Full instructions at:.
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Were the US not a necrotic state where everyone resigns to “ too bad it’s against the law ☹️,” an abortion ban should mean “record number of hospitals engaged in legal battles,” not “record numbers of women dying gruesomely in buildings with unique resources to not do that.”
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Annihilation is my devastating romantic movie I watch when I want a good cry. I too would stay in a top secret government facility with my mutated and disintegrating spouse and descend into a horrific nightmare zone to reconcile what happened to him. The Notebook could never.
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@mutablemuse This is why I love anti-work ideas and writing. Labor is necessary, exchanging labor for capital is not. We create a lot of extra labor by needing to keep the two stapled together. A world where things get done but there is no “work” is possible.
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Stop letting people’s boyfriends build tech stuff for your nonprofit/ mutual aid group/ direct service org. I know every software engineer acts like he could build literally any product all by himself, but he can’t. He will half-ass it and then inevitably disappear.
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Mandated reporting in therapy has to do with harming yourself or another person. Even if you think an abortion might count, make someone else prove fetal personhood in court before you start blabbering misinformation all over the internet. You really should know better.
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"Dennis Clark Jr., 49, was found dead in the passenger seat of a car with his mother, Joy Porter, in the driver’s seat. Their vehicle was in a line of cars in the 5000 block of Edgewood Lane in Paradise, roughly .3 miles from their home.".
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The abortion access movement didn’t fail. It basically remade Medicaid from scratch + travel support, and kept Roe from falling 20 years earlier, all while everyone else was taking a nap. The movement is literally more powerful than govt in this moment. It’s not us who failed.
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There’s a special place in hell for people who would tip the cops about someone they know having a miscarriage or abortion. That tends to be the primary way people are prosecuted for being suspected of ending their own pregnancies to date, and it’s a disgrace.
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“Shirlee Teays, 90, was found dead inside her home in Paradise. She appears to have been holding or hugging a framed photograph.”.
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The longer this goes on the less nice I’m going to be. My job is legally sensitive so I get attorneys to help me parse my questions and form new practices around changing laws. Those in healthcare, care work all need to do the same. Don’t comply in advance and DON’T GUESS.
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@DGlaucomflecken I went on some dates with an orthopedic surgeon, and when I asked him why he picked ortho he said, “I’ve always been really good at putting together IKEA furniture and it’s basically the same thing.”.
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Your “community” isn’t just the people you like. :).
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I will never know why anyone on the left attempts an ill-advised dunk on abortion funds. Funds are like, a radical and tactical form of organizing that’s also incredibly easy for the general public to agree is a great, values-aligned idea. Just take the win jeeze.
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People didn't "just move on" from Roe being overturned. Everywhere I go people are pissed and busy working on it, including record numbers of new people. If you feel like things went quiet in your spaces then look at who you hang out with, bring it up yourself, IDK.
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@ask_aubry I work in abortion digital security and I have to just also remind people in these replies: it’s not realistic to insist that someone try to avoid all tracking. People in these cases are usually turned in by healthcare workers or other people they’re supposed to be able to trust.
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Apparently there are "book nook" miniature kits you can make to create little alleyways in your bookcase. 🤩
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People broadly misusing “emotional labor” to refer to the effort of personal relationships is going to drive me to the brink. It was coined to describe having to perform emotions like cheerfulness to keep a job, and the threat of losing your livelihood if you don’t.
As a leftist, is there anything you’ve seen that can be considered woke that you actually think is bad?.
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“Ethel Riggs, 96 was found inside her home in Paradise. Riggs spoke with her grandson on the day of the fire and told him because the power was out she couldn't get her car out… she couldn’t reach the manual release for the garage… she wasn’t strong enough to raise the door.”.
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It’s good to be mindful of all of the information our daily activities generate in our devices, but I’m frustrated to see many articles and experts discuss digital threats to abortion seekers that are speculative and never mention the existing threats even once.
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ChatGPT does not understand truth vs lies. It’s a probabilistic model that gives you what sounds like words humans might say based on an enormous training corpus for which there is no guarantee of quality or veracity. It’s wild watching grown adults unable to understand this.
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“Teresa Ammons, 82, was found dead inside her Paradise home. Ammons died while trying to flee the fire and was found just outside her trailer with her purse nearby.”.
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“The body of Andrew Burt, 36, was found just outside a minivan near his home in Paradise. The remains of Burt’s dog were found next to him. Burt had been in the minivan trying to escape the fire when the vehicle was overcome by the flames.”.
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I know ACOG has been trying to turn its own internal tide to realize a field-wide commitment in OBGYN to abortion as part of the ethical obligation to care. But what about AAEM or ACEP or other associations for emergency medicine? Can they get ER doctors to not police patients?.
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Honestly, the most shameful aspect of the NFT market is not that “you could just right-click save the picture.” It’s that way too many people in it see no value in buying art or supporting artists if it’s not a financial instrument to potentially make themselves more money.
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I am however actually writing a horror movie about a house angrily resisting its renovators. It’s inspired by our home’s previous owner, who put folded pennies in the main breaker rather than spend $200 to not potentially murder future occupants in a house fire. Thanks buddy. ❤️.
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The amount of people who don’t understand that this tweet is a joke concerns me! I’m making light of how pissed I’d be if I got stuck with the expense when other people I know got to avoid it. They don’t put hauntings on disclosures lol.
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