Nicole

Things I love: animals, travel, coffee, wine & all things sci-fi.

No DMs unless I know you.

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

If the changes that Musk has mentioned recently happen, I won't continue using this platform. If anyone cares to follow me elsewhere, I have the same @quietcomposer name on Mastodon and CounterSocial, though I'm not very active on them yet.

And if you know me IRL, I'm on IG.

[Diane Marie @Dee_Camacho]

Bored in the hospital so I put all my symptoms into ChatGPT & asked it to list the most likely dx’s in order. Of course, anxiety was at the top of the list. So I ran it again but as a male pt, and to absolutely no ones surprise, anxiety wasn’t even ON the list of possible dx’s 🙃

[Kristin Song @kristinsong3]

My name is Kristin Song.

On January 31, 2018, my son Ethan was shot in the head in his best friend's house. The father/gun owner stored 3 handguns and ammunition in a shoebox. Ethan's friend had been accessing the guns for over 6 months.

At the hospital, the ER doctor slid down the wall, put his head in his hands, and whispered, "Your son is gone." At that instant, all I knew, loved and trusted was imploded into a million tiny pieces.

I begged to say goodbye to my beautiful boy. I wanted to kiss his forehead, tell him how cherished he was, and tuck him in one last time. But the doctor begged me to remember Ethan as he was, you see, he was unrecognizable even to my eyes.

The day before Thanksgiving in 2018, the prosecutor told me she would not charge the negligent gun owner, and if I wanted negligent gun owners to be held accountable, I would have to change the law.

So I did.

6 months later, Connecticut passed Ethan's Law, which requires gun owners to secure their weapons if children can gain access.

Then, I learned that so many states stood silent on this issue, so in 2019, I turned my attention to passing Ethan's Law nationally. I met with over 400 congressional offices, 130 of them Republican.

In 2022, Ethan's Law was passed in the House of Representatives as part of the Safer Communities Act. Sadly, it was not picked up in the final package.

When the Democrats lost the House of Representatives in 2023, I pivoted to passing safe gun storage laws in the States. As a result, Michigan, New Mexico, and Maryland passed safe storage laws.

Currently, I am working with 5 states to pass Ethan's Law.

I am emotionally and mentally exhausted, but I will not stop until there is a cultural shift in this country where it becomes second nature to secure your weapons around unsupervised children.

If you believe in protecting children from gun violence, please follow and repost.

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

@ap_schulz @JanetCoryell @ask_aubry Agreed. If he had seen her reaction, felt bad about it & apologized, the situation could be attributed to thoughtlessness, but he didn't. All he cared about was his bonding time with his son. His wife's feelings didn't matter at all. That's a huge red flag.

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

@LilMotherHooker Needed more characters than allowed:

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

@KristanHawkins The fact that christofascists don't understand that this isn't a theocracy is truly terrifying.

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

@22vani22 @magusissweet @KristanHawkins It's about abortion.

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

@azzilathehun @catriona_b @KristanHawkins I'm sorry that happened to you. Please see a therapist. Viewing rape as a gift is not normal or healthy.

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

@shamnis9182 @LilMotherHooker You're insane if you think it can't happen. Cruelty is the point.

Blocking after this. You're clearly too deranged to have an actual conversation.

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

Conservative women are so blind they don't see what's happening in front of their eyes. Or maybe they don't care.

Reacting after the fact means these extremists have won. Voting appropriately now is how we keep this from happening & start to fix the damage they've already done.

[Violet Mello @LilMotherHooker]

@quietcomposer @FamilyDrBen Feel free to tag me when that occurs.

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

@LilMotherHooker Again, learn to read. I didn't say it's happening now. I said it needs to be prevented because religious nuts are saying that's what they want. You not paying attention doesn't mean I'm lying.

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

@jwvansteenwyk @LilMotherHooker @DermotKearney3 Nope, see above. I never said it's happening now. I said we need to keep it from happening because that's what religious nuts want. And it's not a lie - they are openly saying women should not be allowed to save themselves.

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

If this is real, they're angry that a child is getting the care she desperately needs. Not about the fact that she was clearly raped. At that age, it was most likely someone from church or a male family member...like her father. Which means telling the parents could be dangerous.

[March for Life @March_for_Life]

Planned Parenthood enables the exploitation of children.

They were caught helping a man arrange an abortion for a 13-year-old girl without her parents, and they didn’t think to question him about it.

WATCH 👇

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

@WindowsByTheSea Compassionate choice as long as the patient is coherent and capable of making an informed decision.

If someone is suffering and they want to end it, and need help to do so, there is nothing wrong with that. Nobody should be forced to suffer when they are ready to be done.

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

@LilMotherHooker @FamilyDrBen Then you haven't been paying attention. A lot of pro-forced birthers believe women should have to carry a pregnancy to term even if it's guaranteed to kill them & that anything that might harm a fetus should be prohibited during pregnancy, even if the mother needs it to survive.

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

@AmandaBThrifty @FamilyDrBen That is horrific. It's not pro life, it's pro birth, even if the fetus suffers horribly. The sane, humane choice is to have an abortion, get treatment & then try again for a baby later.

If *you* want to do it this way, fine. But other women should be able to choose differently.

[Catherine E. Cullen @catherineecull1]

By the way, for everyone agonizing over this:

Here in Massachusetts, breakfast & lunch (and at many schools, an afternoon snack) is FREE FOR ALL CHILDREN from pre-school through high school.

Our school system is rated #1 in the country.

There is no “down side” to feeding kids.

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

@DanLathrop1979 @JoelWBerry More people don't see it because families come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Not all of us want the life you want and there's nothing wrong with that. Personally, I would be miserable as a SAHM. My husband, on the other hand, would love to be a SAHD.

[Nicole @quietcomposer]

I *know* people like this. They benefit from the affordable care act, public education, feminism, and so many other things, but choose to side with people who want to destroy it all.

[Tiff4Mahogany_44 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 NATO MEMBER @tiff4mahogany]

White people are broken and have been since the Civil War when very poor white folks sided with the southern elites for the right to have free labor.