A Nearly Fearless Warrior

Jedi or Sith?

Rebels or Empire?

Favourite character from Prequals?

Favourite character from original trilogy?

Favourite character from sequal trilogy?

Do you have any ships?

If you could choose any profession to have in the GFFA, what would you be?

Weapon of choice?

What food from Star Wars would you want to try?

Which character do you feel is most like you?

Which planet would you want to call home?

Which character would you be friends with?

Would you want to be a force user?

If you could change one thing about the Star Wars universe, what would it be?

Did you play any Star Wars video games?

Have you read any Star Wars books?

How were you introduced to the fandom?

How has Star Wars impacted your life?

What type of outfit would you wear?

What type of pet would you have?

Which heroine is your favourite?

Which heroine had the best hairstyle?

How would you wear your hair?

Would you want to be human, or from another species?

What type of ship would you fly?

What type of job would you want?

Top 3 planets to visit?

If you could stop one character from doing one thing, who would it be and why?

Which character doesn't get enough credit or screentime?

Do you have any headcanons?

Have you made any fan content?

Who would you cosplay as?

Which movie have you watched the most?

Which trilogy is the best?

Opinions on the animated series?

Opinions on the Mandalorian?

Opinions on the Jedi?

Fic recommendations?

If you wrote a 'fix-it fic', what would you write about?

If you could make your own Star Wars trilogy/series, what would it be about?

If you reblog this, I don't care who you are, you best believe my nosy butt is going to ask you some of these!

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

This year’s is different. They are now federal REQUIREMENTS, which means there’s no flexibility. As was said previously, the 400 pages are not singularly devoted to being absolute shitheads to trans people. Theres a lot of stuff in there, some of which is the standard dry boring grants stuff, some of which is the horrible ideological warfare outlined above.

This document is issued by the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, which is currently lead by fucking Russell Vought, the principal architect of Project 2025. This is how they’re going to implement all the horrible shit in there that wasn’t covered by Executive Order. Russell Vought is actively coming for my job, my marriage, and my kid, and most of my friends lost their jobs last year because of him. He is the fucking arch villain behind the heinous shit the current regime is doing.

We're now officially in an anniversary year for the "Founding of Our Nation" that is divisible by 50.

(1776 -> 2026 = 250)

So I'm bracing myself for a whole whopping load of supposedly "Patriotic" slop.

I just want to remind people (because I'm sure as hell that those in power, politically and economically, won't) that "patriotism" is more than just repeating whatever upbeat slogan we're given to repeat.

Real patriotism is working like hell to keep your nation on the road to true justice and peace, even when its leaders want to take a shortcut to hoards of money and power.

"My Nation, Right or Wrong" = "When it's right, I will fight to keep it right. When it's wrong, I will fight to make it right."

I was a lot more enthusiastic about the Bicentennial, because a corrupt president had just been forced from power by the Congress and the Courts. I had seen daily proof that the U.S. Constitution could work as intended.

This time?

Not so much.

go to discord support ( https://support.discord.com )

sign in or sign up (you do not, and imo should not, use the name and email you use for discord proper. this is a different account; if you've got Firefox, you can use an email relay mask very easily, and the email will end up in your inbox but the site won't know your email from it)

"Submit a request" (at the top)

fill all the dropdowns (I did "Help & Support" -> "Technical Support" -> "Account Settings" -> "[OS type"). it won't let you proceed until you do

Subject line: something about age verification

description box: keep it civil, but be clear. you don't like this, you're not participating, and you're not giving them your money anymore (whether you had nitro or not is irrelevant, remember that you didn't use your actual discord login to get here and they have no way to verify).

some reasons possibly worth mentioning: the insecurity of databases (Discord's had multiple leaks; databases being hacked isn't possible to prevent afaik, it's a matter of mitigation), the dangers of putting one's govt id on such a database, the technical problems people are already experiencing where it's already been established, how it will disrupt communities

be very clear that this is going to cost them money. "I won't use your service anymore" is a common threat ("I'm never shopping here again!") - you need to make them feel that they are losing money just by considering it, and it will get much worse if it's implemented.

This is true of literally any technology, of course, but I forget that many people just go "This Technology BAD." So yes, good reminder: computers and algorithms—and yes, even generative 'ai'—are just tools, and what matters is how they're used.

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How Gambling Ate the World | The New Republic

All of these are by @mattxiv on Instagram.

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what the actual fuck

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the best fic ive ever read in my life. this absolutely ruined me and ill never be the same ever again

Dealing with complex thoughts and emotions I can't work through in therapy, like grief, despair, a complicated relationship with pain and addiction