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There’s a house on my way home that has one of those Home Depot 12 ft. skeletons and they haven’t taken it down since Halloween, just dressed it up in holiday-appropriate wear and of course for June it’s all about Pride so please allow your dash to be blessed by 12 ft. Pride Skeleton

EDIT: Oct. 2023 Apparently this house is now for sale. Godspeed Pride Skeleton.

EDIT: June 2024 the pride skeleton still lives!

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In the middle of watching the newest Lindsay Ellis video essay, about the persistent belief that Yoko Ono caused the Beatles to break up. I already knew that this wasn’t true.

They were already being pulled in all sorts of creative directions after Brian Epstein’s death. It wasn’t just John’s growing relationship with Yoko. It was George’s frustration at not being able to contribute to the albums as much as he wanted. It was Paul’s need to be the leader and wanting to keep steering the ship. And you can definitely see Paul’s micromanaging in Get Back.

So it’s not really anything new to rabid Beatles fans, but I appreciate that Lindsay also focuses on Courtney Love’s relationship with Kurt Cobain, and how she still gets blamed for his death. I didn’t have time to finish it yet, still on the section with Megan Markle & Harry, and the fact that she’s being blamed for Harry’s tumultuous relationship with his family. So there is a larger conversation about how society views women who hook up with powerful men, and blame the women for somehow eventually destroying those men.

It’s a decent watch and has given me some stuff to think about:

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The list of things that Biden's team has accomplished is impressive. I went ahead and made a bullet list of the things that affect me/my loved ones personally:

  • Over the counter birth control now available. This is especially important to people in states like mine where abortion is entirely inaccessible. Opill can be ordered online with no doctor visit and is currently available at $50 for 3 months worth, which is not bad. Could help a lot of people! (they're also trying to make it so your insurance would have to cover this)
  • Established the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which is one of the first major steps towards gun control we've seen in a long time. Also awarded one billion dollars to support student wellness and school mental health professionals (which is the field I work in)
  • Helped broker a deal to save the Colorado river. There's something simply existential about a water crisis, and I have a lot of family living in the affected area, so it's nice to get some progress on this.
  • Invested millions of federal funds into cancer research, with the goal to halve death rates over the next 25 years. I unfortunately know several people who have/have had cancer, and it could happen to anyone, so it's always nice to see progress made in this area.
  • Made it harder for companies to engage in union busting. This doesn't directly affect me yet as I'm not currently in a union, but I sure hope to be someday!
  • The infrastructure deal is pouring 1.2 trillion dollars of investment into roads, bridges, airports, waterlines and broadband networks. Hey, I use those things!
  • Making airlines pay up when flights are delayed or cancelled. I've lived through the tragedy of a cancelled an non refunded flight, and hopefully I'll never have to do it again.
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Hey, wasn't that one of the big things Trump promised to do ahead of his first presidency? Help the "Real Americans" who were underemployed? And then he didn't do it?

can we get back to politics? the biden presidency is one of the most progressive in recent memory and no one fucking cares real policy-making is boring the media yearns for a second trump presidency because that's guaranteed clickbait i love the boring-ness of a real president i hope this continues