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More Texas news: three mothers of varying religious beliefs are trying one of the latest legal strategies against the right, that is, to use their own laws against them. Last year the Texas state legislature gave posters of the ten commandments to public schools and demanded they display them in classrooms (yes, really). Residents have been battling the law in court since then- the article provides more details. Now they're suing under Texas religious freedom and "parent's rights" laws that were, let's just say, not created with this purpose in mind. Paging @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social cause this seems like the kind of thing she'd find interesting. https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17398220/texas-ten-commandments-lawsuit-houston-parental-rights #USpol #TXpol

I haven't been online because I'm doing fun real life meetups and stuff 😋 cool writer thing, cool poetry thing, and coming up tonight a cool music thing. I met a younger person today who talked about being really thankful that their parents disallowed them from using social media. And someone with children my age, who said they wished they knew when their kids were young some of the things they knew now about social media. I love talking to people

@captainvellalives@lgbtqia.space This this this I just looked back at some old phone memos of dreams and I was like 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Me being like my intuition is so unreliable 🙄 what do people mean listen to your gut meanwhile my gut is just yelling you're a man over and over

So the stiffness and pain sucks but maybe the worst is the chafing on my armpits from the enormous bandage that I can't take off until Wednesday. I don't suppose anyone has any tips on that? It's been about 24 hours since the procedure. #surgery #topsurgery #trans

@totalclaireity this will sound bad, but this never even occurred to me. I share peoples messages with others all the time. I learned a poor sense of boundaries growing up and I've been surrounded by people who think anything they heard and weren't told to keep secret, is fair game to tell whoever they want. I started unlearning this mindset when my college roommate told me explicitly that it was none of my business why she was leaving or where she was going and that I needed to stop asking about it just to make conversation. That's how bad it was. Obviously I still have a ways to go!

@dalfen@mstdn.social deodorant smells are all so awful lol. I smelled some actual fancy fragrances a while back and it was a revelation to me. Even the ones that weren't to my taste were clearly better than basically any personal care product

@CatsWhoCode@beige.party but steel is heavier than feathers.........

@michcampbell@fediscience.org I work in Excel daily doing tragically manual cash applications among other things. sometimes Excel seems to know just what I want, but it's more of a broken clock type of situation than anything. Dealing with all the different ways a company can say "these are the invoices we paid" gets as annoying as you would imagine, and Excel can make it better or so so much worse!

@BlakeHamiltonCA this is what I've been SAYINGGGG 👏👏

@maj I'm surprised by the results so far (about 60/25/10/5 atm). Personally I post a lot of negative stuff, it's just never criticism directed AT someone. I complain about my own life and if I'm really mad at somebody I'll subtoot, lol. I'm more likely to filter because something sounds "dumb" or "uncool" than negative.

@baldur@toot.cafe great thread. Made me realize that in my company (I'm not a dev at all, but I help with grunt work like "this stuff didn't work, can you do these 2,000 orders manually please?") that our software upgrade this year, that's supposed to help, might actually be a disaster. So looking forward to that (laughing while crying emoji)

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange thanks for posting this, I'll be sharing it around to people who aren't on here

@HiromiGoto@mastodon.social I love this picture!!