Me either. People around me when the news leaked said both that I was completely overreacting and that the court would never, ever renege on the precedent set. I told them they were wrong. Even my therapist (an old lady) was like “it’s just not possible and I think you might be far too anxious about this.” Hoo boy. She at least apologized later after every single thing I predicted would happen, happened.

Because truly, the people who have been involved in this activism for decades have always known this right to abortion was tenuous. My state has caught wind of how screwy SCOTUS is right now and has been pushing through many many laws to codify them outside of the supreme court. We just codified the Miranda rights provision as a law. It’s crazy so much of our legal protections exist within a structure that’s basically been blown apart over the last year. People’s right to marry outside of their race and to people of the same sex are in a similar place. States need to get moving to protect their citizens.

Yeah. Although I think this situation is also happening in places like Illinois.

I live in a state that agreed to be a sanctuary state to people coming here for treatment. Border towns’ Planned Parenthoods are overrun with people seeking care and in-town waits for routine care are pushed farther out than usual due to the increase in patients. Colleges are having less students attend in red states and entire hospitals have shut down their birthing and NICU departments in some places that have banned abortion. Even in my safe state I fear that nothing is truly protected from federal interference. Fortunately my state government has a background of saying “fuck you” to some federal policies like marijuana legalization and immigrant reforms that were put into place by Trump. But like many people in a blue state I’m getting priced out of where I live, and the options for affordable alternatives has shrunk considerably.

2FA and ad free links for podcasts. I already pay for an ad free experience on Spotify, and sometimes I’ll pay to support someone on Patreon, but I can’t use their link to even just remove the ads the podcast itself issues. I’m not sure where the ads come from every time but it feels like I’m being had.

But ad free music is worth the price, which I was buying before they even hosted pods so it’s hard to complain too much.

Those are pretty huge things, that actually cost a ton of money to do in the first place. Learning how to code can be fun, free, and can help you earn money down the line in hundreds of ways. After you have built up some skills you could tutor your friends for cash.

Figuring out the individual steps for your end goals is really the first step. If you want to make a movie, how will you earn the cash for the budget? Who will write it? Where will you rent the equipment and props, and hire actors? Then where will you show it, and advertise? Each of those things individually could be a place you focus your energy on learning.

I found it completely asinine how it bitches at you when you take a screenshot and puts its watercolor on a downloaded image.

Big. Fat. Hen.

Which is fine because you can join another.