The idea that trans women are men or that trans men are women falls apart pretty quickly when they're your actual close friends. When you know them.

Fascinating that these party movements meant to keep people dumb and pliable continue to use slogans that assert their support of being dumb and pliable.
amazing that they declare themselves against being woke. That their followers hear this and say, "yes! Being woke is bad!"
Dumb. Pliable. Asleep.

Martin Luther King wrote:
"...the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice"

Read the whole Letter From A Birmingham Jail.

I saw the killer of the CEO.

Here is a rendering. I strongly encourage all law enforcement to pursue her and close the case.

Leaving this here for no particular reason.

When Musk was going to be forced to buy twitter I immediately deleted my account.
The pure freaking stupid smug joy this gives me years later when it has become what I knew it would, and people have now mass exited it, is really incalculable, and points to me being a pretty terrible person.

There's a lot of really good history about mac&cheese in the US. You should read it.
But know that it starts with James Hemings, who was a slave of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson had him taught French technique, where he learned bechemel, and brought it back to create mac&cheese at the White House.

This is what radicalized me over a decade ago. Thank goodness.

Me: I know basically what Cabaret is about, but I've never watched it.
Me later: well. It seems really portentious that this got big again recently. And fucking yet.
Me yet later: the weird tiktok micro trend right now are sequined shorts?!

Almost always people with privilege experience challenge to that privilege or loss of that privilege as abuse.
This is true in interpersonal dynamics and larger societal ones.

If you find yourself uncomfortable, sit with it.

Ask yourself where you feel threatened.

I'm not kidding.

I know that a lot of people are feeling lost and unsure what to do. I also know most of us exist in the hellscape of end stage capitalism where we don't have the ability to do much
Might I suggest following @darlenacunha.bsky.social on her mission to do one small thing a day to give yourself ideas?

About to lose my entire shit at Healthcare workers who exclusively focus on extension of life over quality of life. Especially and specifically without discussion of both with the patient.

Looking at these cabinet picks, it's clear that chaos isn't a ladder, it's a fucking escalator.

I can't follow the people who post a hundred or more times a day. Y'all eat my feed.
New rule: if you post more than @pattonoswalt.bsky.social , I'm not reading all that, but I'm happy and or sad for you.

Among the things that have made me care so much about trans rights despite being cis -
Being autistic
Being autistic so I have many autistic friends, who are more likely to be trans or have trans children
Knowing the bellweather pivotal roles trans people have played in history
Being human

#proofofcat