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Remember: a healthy furry population is necessary for keeping local pray animals in check.

!Fuck! I *hate* health insurance bullshit!I just broke my bank on a $650 pre-appointment for a surgery, only to have my stupid insurance change, and now I'm kicked off the waiting list *and* need to find a new doctor and get them to re-sign-off on several things before I can even get back on the list to wait like 6-8 more months. And I don't even have a doctor currently—let alone an income to pay for any of this. Fuck this, I'mma go cry for a while.

Everyone should take a second to send @Lou 🏳️‍⚧️ and @Juniper 🏳️‍⚧️🌲 a heart emoji for me 💕 (Like really, I want their notifications absolutely *flooded* with love! They deserve it.) #Boost the #LoveBomb #RandomActsOfKindnessAndChaos

LMFAO I was trying to change my banner photo, and Mastodon kept using a cached version instead of the one I was picking, so I picked a random photo in the hope I could force it to ignore the old one... Now it's "Natural Nubz" dog treats, and it's saying too many requests, so I can't change it to anything else 🤣 Guess I'm natural nubz now 💁🏼‍♀️ Update: apparently the cooldown is only like 2 minutes, so if ya missed it ya missed it 😋 Edit again: added the photos so ya didn't miss it.

Some of you have been asking how learning to play the bass is coming along, so here's me playing badly for you 😋 I'll share a couple more clips in the replies. #AlicePlaysBassBadly #Music

Imagine if no one treated life as a zero-sum game and only agreed to play in co-op mode? In any other game, if you found out it was rigged after playing your hardest for years, and folx were like "that's just how it is, and the price of losing can include dying in a gutter from sheer indifference", you'd probably flip the fucking table.

Hey @A Pittsburgh Dog! Thanks for the follow request (and your adorable puppers profile photo)! Unfortunately there's not enough vibe on your profile to check, so... What's your favorite type(s) of cheese¹? I'm a big fan of several of the Swiss and Norwegian cheeses myself; just had some Jarlsberg on my sandwich a moment ago 🤤 ¹ or, for the non-cheese crowd, "favorite type(s) of other non-cheese food that has notable types". #CAPTCHAlice

Recently, I was thinking about why men¹ talk over women, and I think it's less a gender thing, and more of a... "men¹ are taught to talk over anyone who doesn't talk more assertively than they do" In my roles as an executive at several tech companies, the one negative feedback I got on almost every review was that I wasn't assertive enough in meetings with other execs. One male CEO even told me "you need to interrupt more, talk more—even if you don't know the answer. Otherwise they'll think you don't have anything to say". Which, honestly, churned my stomach. The feedback was clear, if I wanted to succeed I needed to talk like the guys¹ in the boardroom—the same ones¹ who'd interrupt to ask a question I was already in the middle of explaining, who'd repeat a suggestion I'd just made—only louder, who'd make some cute comment that would derail my presentation, who'd explain my position back to me as though they'd just thought of it. I needed to do that...and I needed to do it louder. Otherwise men¹ weren't going to listen to me. ¹ not all men

The SAVE act targets people who've changed their name *for any reason*. Ya know who's done that? - Married women - Trans & nonbinary folx - Immigrants You know which US citizens that leaves? Mostly white men. The SAVE act isn't trying to save anything other than patriarchy and fascism. @Amy Diehl, Ph.D.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. (@amydiehl@mstdn.social)

SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert...

⚠️ Call for Fedi Help ⚠️ I know someone near Tidewater Virginia who is in desperate need of friends and support right now. If you live near there, or know someone safe who does, and you want to help save a life, please reach out. If not, you can still help by sharing this. Thank you. I means a *lot* to me ❤️‍🩹 #FediHelp #MutualAid #SocialSupport #PleaseBoost