Under the weight of all this crushing Fascism, I want to remind everyone that Iβm a badly underfunded teacher in a badly underfunded alternative school in the poorest city in New England. I could use your support to continue helping kids prepare for this fucking awful world that is being dropped on them.
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Hereβs a couple of my students building a hot air balloon together. The one holding it just graduated and is headed to college!
TFG is on record calling veterans losers and suckers.
Pres Biden has a record of caring & providing for veterans, #TFG eviscerated their care & plans to make steep cuts in funding:
"Here are additional cuts Republicans are proposing under The 2025 Project produced by The Heritage Foundation:
-Ending disability compensation for veterans
-Ending enrollment in VA medical care for some veterans
-Placing a 10 year limit on disability claims for veterans"
-T Akers
Climate change is supposed to give SoCal cooler, wetter winters and hotter summers. So far we haven't seen much of the hotter, just the cooler and wetter.
@Gilliosa@mastodon.social
Autism is generally described as a spectrum. The presentation in any individual can vary widely.
@rabia_elizabeth@mefi.social @actuallyautistic
Dealing with some stuff.
Last summer I wound up in the ER, and the doctor told DMV that I'm medically unfit to drive. My license was suspended. Got a DMV hearing and they restored it, and I thought it was done. Now auto insurance non-renewed me, and I'm shopping for insurance, after 20 years with the same company.
Change. Change I have no control over. Change I didn't agree to. I'm trying to get through this part as fast as I can.
My father is a lifelong Bircher fundamentalist. Me, his only son, turned out gay. Our relationship ended the day it finally got through to me that he was perfectly content to see me dead or in prison for the sake of his politics. He's never apologized, and I don't think he'd even be capable of understanding why he should.
#Daddy died a #MAGA. He was never #hateful, until he was. He was always #caring, until he wasnβt. It made no sense.
His #lastwords were #apologies for how his #Trumpism #hurt our #family. Daddy died in August of 2017.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
The best thing I ever did for myself was get dogs and a parrot, and let myself interact with them, however they and I wanted.
Making weird noises? Parrots love that. Crawling around on the floor playing? Dogs love that. Want unfiltered, unfettered feedback? Dogs and parrots both give that. At home, with my companions, I'm 100% me, whatever that is at the time.
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@ScottSoCal so true. It's hard to not feel like we're going back to the dark ages.
So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.