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Seen surprisingly little celebration about this, the Biden administration just this past Friday (April 26th, 2024) issued a rule that does the following:

Explicitly states that queer people (including transgender people) are protected from discrimination in healthcare, this means they cannot be discriminated against or denied care based on their status as a transgender person. As set out by the ACA.

Additionally adds that nondiscrimination rules also apply to things like AI tools that may be used by healthcare professionals, and adds that those tools need to be evaluated to ensure that they do not enable discrimination.

It explicitly extends nondiscrimination protections to these cases and gets in front of the whole "oh well I put the numbers into the machine and the machine just happened to do racism about it so it's fine and it's not my fault" issue. Instead, this ruling says "actually, it's your job to know what that machine is and will do, and failure to do that is you fault." which is really good for patient protection!!

All in all, pretty fucking cool shit, hell yeah.

#that's actually pretty fucking neat #it also explains why my news feed was a trainwreck today #goddamn republicans are already shitting themselves about this

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April 28, 2024 - An unintentionally funny video by a zionist propagandist shows off some good organisation and discipline at the UCLA encampment for Palestine.

#i just hoped we could end in a hug #fucking HOWLING at this #oh my god you should get a standup routine #current events #holy shit this lady is willfully dumb

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he sit

#listen bd's little tippy taps give me serotonin #i am cal in this scenario #cal kestis #bd-1

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#it really depends on how much of a workout ive had #just because i fucking reek after running two miles and lifting a ton of weights #so probably once a day or once every other day depending on my gym schedule

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A Reminder

Palestine is not over. Palestine is not dead. Gaza, the West Bank, the entire region between the river and the sea, and the various countries across the world where refugees have fled to, house a surviving people and surviving culture. Palestine is not dead, and WILL NOT die.

I'm seeing a lot of very valid despair online, but if you're someone like me, living a privileged life in a Western country NOT under active bombardment, and which is actually COMPLICIT to some degree in that bombardment: we don't get to give up. Not now, not ever.

You can still get involved in protests or direct actions (e.g. blocking supply), you can still donate eSims or fund UNRWA on your government's behalf, you can still hassle the crap out of your local MP. No, it won't roll back the harm that's already been committed, but all of those things are STILL WORTH DOING. PEOPLE ARE STILL ALIVE OVER THERE. PALESTINE IS STILL WORTH SAVING.

If you've bothered to read this far, you're probably already aware of what's going on over there right now. If not, check out Al Jazeera's fantastic coverage. But also remember that Palestine, and Palestinian culture, is more than just death and despair. Examples below:

Long live Palestine, from the river to the sea.

#current events #from the rive to the sea

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Apparently if a warrant is issued, it will be for crimes against humanity

#current events #israel is committing war crimes #likes charge reblogs cast #wonder if the hague invasion act covers us allies too or just the us #i like to believe that we'd let netanyahu fall for the crimes against palestine he's enabled and ordered #but unfortunately the chances that the us would intercede on a military level to save his genocidal ass is unfortunately high

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#current events #from the river to the sea #israel is committing war crimes

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Update Harvard students are walking out in solidarity with Columbia’s students

These are billion dollar for profit institutions that directly impact financial backing of Israel’s apartheid regime

#current events #boycott divest sanction #because if nothing else money speaks the loudest #and the lack of money is the loudest thing of all

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#palestinian joy #from the river to the sea #they deserve the world #israel is committing war crimes

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English added by me :)

#ok well that's hot

[dragormir]

I would like to request clone #112, please :D

During the Clone Wars, Spiderbait was known to attract spiders, even in places where there shouldn’t be. Not even the local equivalent. Spiders.

(I should say: zi most often finds the spiders in zir boots, to the point it's the battalion joke, but the spiders just gravitate to zim)

During a briefing for an assignment, zi saw pictures of the spiders on Kashyyyk and had a slight nervous breakdown about it. Had to go on medical leave actually. Full blown panic attack to the point of threatened self harm (never actually did anything though). It was put in zir file, no exploratory missions to unknown planets. No Kashyyyk at all. Period.

After the Republic fell and the clone forces were reorganized into the Empire, zi was assigned to the outpost on Barton IV under the command of Commander Mayday.

Spiderbait belongs to @dragormir, thanks for lets me play with zim. ☺️

#spider bait my beloved #poor baby just attracts spiders like it's going out of style #ze still doesn't know how the spiders get there #and zir batallion swears it wasn't any of them

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Source

#look im mad that it took them this long but at least it happened #it shouldn't have taken this long #passive voice is a plague #but at least it's fucking gone #current events #from the river to the sea #israel is a terrorist state

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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL ASEXUALITY DAY!!

-April 6th

[dragormir]

Every night at eleven I have to choose between enjoying the sweet embrace of slumber or staying up late to do something enriching and fun that I wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity to do. And every night at eleven I take the secret third option of “doing nothing on my phone until one in the morning.”

#i feel called out

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#current events #from the river to the sea #bombing a hospital is a war crime #murdering doctors and reporters is a violation of international law #and refugee camps are supposed to be sacrosanct #AND YET #israel still commits war crimes and genocide and carries out acts of ethnic cleansing #they flout international law and every action they take flies in the face of any moral ethical or legal guidance #may a sinkhole swallow you and never give up your bones

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#me about all of my blorbos #please ignore that i'm the one giving him a tortured soul #and the tortured body to go with it #oops.

[dragormir]

Best Boops this side of the abyss!

#lookit his tiny widdle beans! #he painted them himself #BD 1