A fragrance described as “sultry” and “seductive” has brought an autistic woman close to vomiting profusely, it has been rumoured. Siobhan Moorton, 31, from Allerton, is reportedly still recovering from tentatively spraying herself on the wrist with the sample fragrance during a visit to John...

#ActuallyAutistic

Keep pushing back. Hard.

He blinked on tariffs when Mexico and Canada showed some spine.
His California water stunt failed and has been ridiculed.
He was forced to roll back cutting grants and govt payments.
NSF support is resuming.
CDC webpages are being restored.
Street protests are starting.
Lawsuits are being filed.
Fight back.

In case you missed it, acting ICE head Tom Homan was up yesterday complaining that ICE is having a hard time meeting the quotas they're setting because of campaigns telling people their rights and how to resist raids.

In case you're wondering if the little things you do could possibly make a difference, know that they already are.

Original encouragement provided by https://social.coop/@MichaelTBacon/113918703675202297

See:
https://www.themarysue.com/making-it-very-difficult-to-arrest-trumps-border-czar-supposedly-hates-that-migrants-know-their-rights

#ICE #Immigration

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Elections Ontario is hiring right now for literally hundreds of jobs for the upcoming election. There are election-day-only roles, and weeks-long office jobs too. Some are on computers (but not remote), others are paperwork.

Coolest part: the jobs are in your riding, so getting there is often pretty easy.

If you are great with people and with being organized, this could be a great gig - check it out, and please boost?

https://jobs.elections.on.ca/en/apply

#ElectionsOntario #Ontario #ONPoli #Jobs

Oh, hello! Say, if you're a US voter, do you know when early voting begins in your state? It's possible you may already be able to vote! Have you made a voting plan for yourself? Have you encouraged eligible voters around you to vote? This year above all others, it matters. Have a plan! Vote!

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/early-in-person-voting

Time for another lesson from my days fighting in the Mod Wars in one of Twitch's more famous and busy channels

A few years ago, the channel began showing the pronouns of presenters and guests on stream. And toxic gamer types complained incessantly, often in very overtly transphobic ways, regardless of whether anyone on-stream was trans. We banned every single last person who complained. I personally banned hundreds, it must have been a few thousand all together. Anyone who DM'd the mods to apologize/explain it was a misunderstanding got unbanned, but that was a tiny fraction of them; there were more than a few bonus-transphobia parting shot DMs, often aimed at me because I was the first mod alphabetically.

And after a few weeks of this slaughter... the chat became a civil paradise. It was a much healthier environment than before we began showing the pronouns and causing all the most toxic people to volunteer their identity at once. People who are really gross on one axis tend to be unpleasant on all of them.