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Cake day: September 10th, 2023

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  • The most restrictive states are also the most gerrymandered. In the places where your representative democracy is the weakest, your voice is the most muzzled by the efforts of the state itself, they’ve decided that they’re going to take some of your rights away.

    Fuck that, we need national abortion protection laws. Without them, the suffering grows with your poverty. The rich will find a way to get to NY/CA/Canada/wherever they need to.



  • The agreement tells participants they’re “expected to feature the Google Pixel device in place of any competitor mobile devices.” It also notes that “if it appears other brands are being preferred over the Pixel, we will need to cease the relationship between the brand and the creator.” The link to the form appears to have since been shut down.

    This is some Disney Influencer-level bullshit, where they just dole out premium perks to influencers who will endlessly and exclusively positively shill their shit.




  • “We basically tried to communicate to officials that there were educational nonprofits and shelters that were immediately willing to bring trucks and save all of the books … and officials refused,” said Zander Moricz, executive director at SEE.

    Moricz continued, “​​There were Bibles, there were stories of Black authors, of Latin authors, female stories, there were LGBTQ+ and queer stories, or trans stories, all thrown into a dumpster. It sends the message that New College of Florida wants to send stories of gender and diversity to the dump, and it was so heartbreaking and also very frustrating.”

    Cruelty’s the point.