Please eat my banana bread I made it myself

It's the kind of thing I've seen people say doesn't happen. It does.

People on phone calls will be kind and respectful until you tell them you're on Medicaid - suddenly they will become strict and hostile. They'll correct your wording and pronunciations, sometimes even mocking you for them. Suddenly there's a wait list. Suddenly the program isn't for "people like you."

Medical offices (who say they accept Medicaid) are open to seeing you. You mention you're on Medicaid and suddenly they don't have any openings. No, not even a wait list. Try another office.

Landlords will find out you have subsidized rent and suddenly the apartment you toured has been filled by someone else, and actually, nowhere else is vacant.

Your meals in fast food joints are watched like a hawk. If you stay too long after finishing them, you're at risk of getting kicked out. Don't even get me started on department stores.

A lot of these are generally part of the poor experience, and also a lot of them are usually worse if you're unhoused (and even worse if you're visibly unhoused), worse if you're racialized, and worse if you're visibly disabled. Black and Brown poor people have all of the above issues and also a higher risk of the cops showing up, and God knows the cops won't listen to their side of the story.

A lot of these are illegal - some blatantly. But you don't have time to prosecute because you're at risk of eviction, you're at risk of losing benefits, losing your car, your medication access, your ID, your food stamps, your spot in a shelter, your name on a wait list... a permanent crisis, a socially engineered pressure cooker.

You want to stop making DVDs? Cool put it on a streaming service. Want to take it off streaming services? Cool start making DVDs. You don’t want to do either? Cool you can’t take people to court for burning it onto CDs or sharing it. That’s just keeping the media alive.

"Second Security Question: What was your childhood nickname?"

The answer is 6 letters, and the system warns, "Profanity found in Secret Answer. Please select a new Secret Answer."

Article from The Cut by Andrea Gonzales-Ramirez headlined: The Campaign to Force Genital Exams on Girl Athletes Soon Washington State could require sex-verification test for those playing sports in schools.

Body text reading: Those physicals, Maria explains, are usually perfunctory: "Like, Are you walking normally? Are you lightheaded? I have never had to take any clothes off. I've never felt uncomfortable or violated." If IL26-638 were to pass and Maria were still in school, she says she would likely drop out of her team. (We're withholding Maria's real name to protect her privacy.) "I honestly don't know if I would be able to do those tests," she adds. "It would also make me question, If I do it, are all my teammates going to too? Or would I just play with the three or four girls who are willing to or have access to do it?"

Quote post from verified user Ben Collins (@/ benCollins.bsky.social) reading: Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pans before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

Image #2: Text reading: The Washington Sex Verification Requirements for Female School Sports Initiative is on the ballot in Washington as an Initiative to the Legislature, a type of indirect initiated state statute, on November 3, 2026.

A "yes" vote supports:

requiring school districts and nonprofit organizations that regulate interscholastic activities to "prohibit biologically male students from competing with and against female students" in sports with separate team or individual competitions for male and female students; and

requiring students seeking to participate in athletic activities designated for female students to submit documentation from their healthcare providers verifying the student's sex, defined by certain biological factors.

A "no" vote opposes the initiative, thereby keeping the current state law requiring that recreational and athletic activities "be offered to all students without regard for sex" and prohibiting public schools from discriminating based on sexual orientation including gender expression or identity.

Image #3: Text reading: Do student-athletes need to undergo a physical exam to prove they are biologically female?

Do you reckon I could cut off their power and water supply with a single letter?

Or perhaps their lovely little subscription services?

Maybe up their mortgage rate for their 3rd property they don't want to the Expenses Committee to know about?

How can a single, uninformed letter cause such targetted hurt and hate?

I thought Wales was at the forefront of giving transpeople actual dignity!?

I urge anyone reading this to do something because I am now really done taking all of this lying down.

I will writing to the First Minister of Wales directly.

If you are in Wales or the UK, you should too.

If you are outside the UK then amplify our voices until the very fucking foundations shake with anger and grief.

Between October 2023 and August 2026, Israel has killed more than 21,500 Palestinian children. One doctor interviewed by the Commission explained, “Based on the clustering of injuries and the targeted body parts, I assess that the Israeli soldiers have been deliberately shooting teenage boys in a game of target practice."