Notices by Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)

@foone
The endless fuck ups with syringe and needle prescriptions is why I finally just gave up and started ordering mine online. Allegro and Medicalmonks have both been good enough, and I can get like a years supply for $20 or so.

See, and conservatives keep thinking that it's queers grooming kids into being trans. Turns out, it's the fortune cookies! /s

Periodic reminder:

You're allowed to exist.

You're allowed to have needs.

You're allowed to set boundaries around how much of yourself you give to someone else.

You're allowed to ask other people for help, and if they say yes, you're allowed to accept that help.

You're allowed to be yourself, even if yourself isn't who other people want you to be. Their feelings about you being yourself is not your fault.

You're allowed to be happy.

For my last spicy take of Pride Month:

If I see you flying the "Straight Ally Flag", I'm going to be silently judging you for being such a fucking coward that you have to loudly scream "I'm Not Gay" rather than just flying a normal 6 stripe Pride flag.

The biggest lie the US public ever bought into about public transportation - busses, subways, trains, is that should be a profitable service. They're not a profitable service, they're public infrastructure.

Aside from toll roads (which are a regressive tax on the poor and should be eliminated), we don't expect our roads or sidewalks to earn a profit. They're simply a utility that is granted to the public because you live there.

The roads don't close at 2AM just because not enough people drive on them for them to turn a profit, they're there 24x7x365 for people to be able to get from point A to point B no matter when they need to go there. When I buy a house on a road, I don't have to worry that some future administration will decide to tear up that road in front of my house and leave me with no way to get to work. It's simply part of our social contract that you can get to every location in town via a road and a car.

Why can we not offer the public the same for mass transit? Define an area of the city that is a Guaranteed Free Public Transportation zone. Every home and place of business within that zone is guaranteed to have public transportation service 24x7x365 to every other place within that zone. where you'll never have to wait more than 15 minutes, and you won't have to transfer more than 2 times.

Sure, maybe you say "After midnight, the busses don't run, but the city will pay for your taxis, because it's more efficient to run a fleet of taxis than to operate busses", but you've maintained that public infrastructure commitment.

#publictransit #masstransit