Unbetitelt

I’m a Black trans man living in the conservative suburbs of Texas without a car or public transportation. I am in need of monetary help with transportation and groceries for the rest of the month as I put my efforts toward securing housing for myself and my cat out of state.

I’m asking $200 toward transportation (I use rideshare services) and $100 toward groceries. $300 total; everything helps tremendously. Thank you!

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here’s how to turn it off

“If you want to avoid these AI generations of your Instagram posts without switching your account to private, you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings.

Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen.

Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab.

Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.”

the article

“As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.”

“META LAUNCHED ITS inaugural AI image model from the Meta Superintelligence Labs on Tuesday, its effort to compete with the likes of OpenAI’s GPT Images 2.0 and Google’s Nano Banana 2 in the AI image generation race.”

Called MUSE Image, it’s deeply integrated into instagram

“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes.

All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”

“Meta positions this feature as a cheeky way to personalize generations with images of real people.

"Whether you want to design a custom event invitation, mock up a collaborative creative concept, or generate a personalized graphic, tagging a username lets Meta AI use public photos to build a visual that’s ready to post,” reads one of Meta’s announcement blogs about the new AI tool.

The Instagram updates are rolling out first in the US.”

“If you want to avoid these AI generations of your Instagram posts without switching your account to private, you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings.

Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen.

Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab.

Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.”

“Instagram’s help center site includes more details about how this feature will impact users, saying that “people may be able to create content with your Instagram content using AI features at Meta” if you leave your account public and on the default settings. (A previously archived version of this page from 2025 does not include similar, AI-focused language.)”

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.

"He betrayed Odin" - no

"He betrayed Grandmaster/Thanos/Mobius" - no and f u

"He wanted to take over NYC" - no

"He killed his mother" - no and f u #2

"He was a bad king" - no evidence of that either

Etc

But never, NEVER "Loki tried to eradicate his own race".

Which! He DID DO. HE TRIED TO OFF HIS PEOPLE AND HIMSELF OUT OF SPACE-RACISM.

His "redemption" in the series also includes torturing someone because he was asked to.

Which kind a is on brand for Loki

If you go back to mythology

He was never punished fro cutting Sifs hair

The mouth sewing thing was becausethe dwarfs where sore loosers

Also

Considering that

He still got draupnir, mjolnir and gullinbursti for free

AND

He got to keep his head

So I'd say it was at least a draw if nothing else

But I remembered literally just now that dogs are red green fucking color blind so he wasn't waiting because he was just sweet good boy who only wanted to eat the tomatoes that were given to him! It was because there were still plenty of green tomatoes on the vine and he couldn't tell the difference between the ripe ones and the gross ones!! At some point he figured out that the cherry tomatoes I gave him were always delicious and ripe and even though he had no way of knowing how I could tell which ones were good I simply could so he would sit there and ask me to give him a good ones.