i had NIGHTMARES about that air conditioner scene
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i had NIGHTMARES about that air conditioner scene
fantasia was my favorite disney movie as a kid and the brave little toaster FUCKED ME UP
happy fakeass may day everybody
yup :(
it’s a weird feeling but sometimes a nice one
Hey all, Ahmad's a friend and could really use some help if you have something to spare. He's dealing with hell right now. gofund.me/69f962fc
Israeli forces killed another Palestinian journalist, Islam Muhareb Abed, in an attack on Gaza City, bringing the total number of media workers killed in Israel’s war to at least 278, according to Gaza's Government Media Office. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/siqj7j
that’s my great-grandparents’ generation, and i’m in my mid-40s. some countries had approved hrt programs about 10 years before i was born. even in terms of modern transgender medicine, we are over a century in
redoing some posts because i misremembered the year. one of the first documented sex change surgeries was in 1906, not 1904. glad i googled to reaffirm because i love to forget exact numbers
this myth is the actual rewriting of history, it is maddening
the first time i met another trans person was in 1995. i first asked about hrt in 2001
I got arrested yesterday! (real drop off from being a corporate law firm associate five months ago. or upgrade.) I was blocking vehicles leaving from ICE’s Broadview, IL, staging ground and de facto detention center at 1930 Beach St. full statement (for now) below.
this is … evil
gretchen loves to nibble sweet oats
i mean, cats love to nibble sweet oats
it’s excellent!
i like that the picture they chose of the cat looks slightly miffed
truth in advertising
it’s an accessibility nightmare, truly
there’s no way it’s not! the banana snitch
not enough moving obstacles in the grocery store apparently
i really don’t understand why it exists, other than tech guys had to do a growth
i admit when i first encountered this thing i thought immediately about philadelphia beating the traveling robot to pieces
its path is always unpredictable and it’s never not in the way. none of this is helping anyone do anything
i HATE the banana robot with a fiery passion, and i’m pro-banana. leave me the fuck alone
Imagine being in a band with Su Tissue and saying, “Yeah, I’m gonna sing over half of these songs.”
the newsom astroturfing on here is so dark. imagine being in this moment and going all in for BETTER THINGS AREN’T POSSIBLE ACTUALLY
First new article of the year is in @hammerandhope.bsky.social, examining the solidarity work happening between Venezuelan migrants and long term Black residents at Concord Missionary Baptist Church in Woodlawn, Chicago. Hope is so hard to come by, and I wanted to share where I'm finding mine.
AI seeks to deplete and destroy our water supply by every means at its disposal www.bbc.com/news/article...
Here's Rudolf Rocker on how lesser evilism helped pave the way for Hitler. Keep in mind, this is from 1937. He follows this saying, “Democratic countries have learned nothing from this example and are now traveling with fatalistic submissiveness along the same path.”
crossing my fingers it doesn’t this time!
i mean, that’s what i do, i’m just griping about it
unfortunately none of the places around me ever offer it
i have tried and unfortunately still dogshit :(
i gotta go BACK to the walgreens? like why man
wish i could get the covid vaccine and the flu vaccine together because i love efficiency. however EVERY time i do this i feel like dogshit for two or three days and i love feeling like dogshit less than i love efficiency
oh yeah that stuff gets an immediate block
there are a lot of legitimate reasons for us to be extremely on edge and our survival will depend on us being able to conserve our energy, i think
what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people
i’ve muted a lot of people because of this. i cannot do it. preparing for legitimate threats is one thing, i have cptsd and my cortisol cannot be maxed 24-7 because some awful dipshit said something on a site i don’t post on
what a great matchup!
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
it’s also immaterial to my point whether or not he intends well here. putting our rights up for debate in this manner is inherently harmful. there are ways to challenge those ideas that don’t involve giving them an equally weighted platform
OpenAI is addressing a dangerous situation by adding another layer of potentially deadly peril for users.
arguing with bigots is not the same as a “debate” where both sides are framed as having legitimate points of view
i imagine a future in which we are all okay
there is no real nuance on this topic. everyone who thinks there is has bought a very specific conservative narrative that was designed to create skepticism about us. either you support people’s rights to bodily autonomy or you don’t. i don’t care how shit polls. it doesn’t matter!
the bulging forehead vein is a necessity
kind of just endlessly and irrevocably furious at anyone and everyone who euphemized rfk jr’s malign conspiracism as “skepticism” or co-signed the idea that “he makes some valid points” or “is asking the right questions”
you’re the #1 guy in the group
he is a useless, bloviating bigot who is notoriously not smart or insightful
he’s a bigot. this is not going to go well
i do not think ANYONE’S rights should be up for debate, literally, ever
personally i do not think human rights should be up for “debate” but what do i know, i’m emotional and biased because those are my rights they’re talking about
(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice
60 or 70 candles on a cake is straight up terrifying
they are SO EXPENSIVE. it’s fucked up. i have a backlog accrued over a long period of time
ok honestly that’s good because i was worried. also how hot would that be
it is, for all intents and purposes, true
look man, i love candles, there are six of them in my living room right now so i can choose among scents, but i think this is too many candles
big sign therapy has worked on me is that i went “you’re in a shame spiral, stop it” and then started looking for ways to fix it
was feeling so disappointed in myself for scratching my car today (long story, i used to be a very bad driver!) but like, scraping a pylon in a very narrow garage is a Thing that Happens and also there are diy paint kits and i’m just gonna try to fix it myself
honestly i think i am so broken from my last job that i don’t think i can write about music as my job anymore. but i would like a fat salary for doing the work that i am doing now
yeah after it got hit twice while just being parked in my neighborhood i kinda gave up. as long as it’s driveable
"raised questions" "appeared to show" "the officers reported" The cops lied.
please call your state electeds and tell them to stand with trans people. learning about transness as a kid would have spared me over a decade of misery. this is an act of genocide, and not a particularly early-stage one.
we know CPD have already assisted ICE on the ground here of their own volition, but this is good to have on the books regardless
Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...
Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.
and none of them will fucking listen to us
the “you shouldn’t be able to transition until 25” stuff is something only committed transphobe circles are talking about and it really lets you know who he’s obviously listening to and taking cues from
(tho i was covering non-mainstream stuff for the most part so i suppose i wasn’t part of the conversation they’re talking about)
it’s funny also because i was one of those people and i dissented a lot!
RIP Chicago DJ Lee Collins, who Theo Parrish called one of the three best DJs in the world ra.co/news/83447
but like, the album covers! the names of the songs! this is not subtle stuff
not really interested in any take on What Happened to Music Criticism that doesn’t take into account the labor conditions of the interlocking music and journalism industries
there are a lot of black metal bands that you have to do some deep diving on to figure out the nsbm connections. a lot of these are … extremely obvious
Mariam Dagga, an AP freelancer and mother, was among the journalists killed in Israel's "double-tap" strikes on the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza. In a "double-tap" strike, Israel bombs a facility once and then strikes again... after rescuers and journalists have raced in.
A Teamsters local in Illinois whose workforce is 90% Latino is striking with the specific demand that the company turn away federal immigration authorities unless those authorities present a signed judicial warrant. Our friends at @workdaymagazine.bsky.social have the story:
CPD got called to an office where ICE was detaining people without warning, and officers instinctively took the side of ICE + helped them ferry detainees out of the building past protestors to vans waiting to bring them to detention facilities, despite city and state laws prohibiting collaboration.
IT’S THE SAME GOONS
pfffft sorry for posting different clips of this but cpd???? CPD???? what are you TALKING about
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it’s a couple different ziploc bags but yes
not necessarily. the communities overlap heavily, which is why they’re grouped together, but “transsexual,” “mtf” and “ftm” were all in use before “transgender,” which is itself a term that dates back to the early ‘60s. (also, please don’t scare quote “trans.”)
the surveillance glasses that make yr brain worse. i love tech
it’s SO EVIDENT, you just need to think critically for 0.000002 seconds
this trans woman was taken into ICE custody tonight over a 3-year old weed charge. she faces torture in men’s detention centers or self-deportation and leaving behind everything she knows (if she can afford that option). please support if you’re able
ok I synthesized a few ideas and I think I figured out how to explain basically all goth music
i mean, i’m not talking about understanding trans people here; i’m talking about understanding the rhetorical strategies that are employed against us which is extremely important
this is very true in my experience
right, these are people who have accepted this framing! we are still Others to them, and their “acceptance” is conditional
the academy is also notoriously bad at doing this studying ethically and has perpetuated a lot of harm against trans people by treating them as objects of study!
exactly!
#3: people do not need diplomas to understand that if someone is different than you they also deserve basic respect
#2: there is this idea that trans people are a creation of queer studies/the university and that we are a recent phenomenon. we’re not, and the university thing is backwards. we are objects of study
need people to understand that the idea that “regular people” can’t understand trans people is inherently transphobic framing. #1: we are regular people. demographically, we are less wealthy than cis people on the whole because of employment discrimination, housing discrimination, and the wage gap
my bed was made before this and he just rolled in there all by himself
gee, i wonder where cypress is
