Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I had to look up HSTS as I'd never seen that acronym before and the AI Google shoved down everyone's throat was super helpful as always. (I figured it out on my own.)
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I had to look up HSTS as I'd never seen that acronym before and the AI Google shoved down everyone's throat was super helpful as always. (I figured it out on my own.)
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Holy shit that made my night
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm hoping Prince Andrew also goes just to complete the Epstein Triumvirate.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I bought wine just in case. I'll be saving it for when the news finally comes. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but I have a feeling it'll be soon.
veraeikon.bsky.social (@veraeikon.bsky.social) reposted
If Newsom's platform is that I suffer, then I will withhold my vote. If enough of us do it in close states, Rs will win the election and we all will suffer together. So we can all suffer together, or you can recognize that I'm a human being and start acting like it, and I'll help you win.
Swolesome 🍉 (@swolesome.bsky.social) reposted
Trolling is funny and helpful when all someone has is a platform. When there’s access to real, tangible, direct action, trolling is just performative. Newsom is not a comedian or entertainer, he’s a governor.
Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted
This is a poorly framed question. Lots of conservatives would cut off a family member for being LGBT, for example, but that doesn’t clock as a ‘political view’ to them. Also, the narrative that leftists cut off their conservative family members too easily is extremely widespread on the right.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I can't decide if he's like "what the hell! how could you change it back now that he's offed himself?" or "Eh, whatever, nothing means anything anymore so I might as well go"
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Considering you did it quickly and with minimal prompting, it seems like it's what you've already got in the chamber, actually.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
It's cracker erasure and you know it (I'm joking, in case that's not obvious)
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I knew there would be emotional changes but I still wasn't prepared for the difference. It's like I had been living in perpetual night my whole life and only realized it once I saw the sun rise for the first time. It's easily my favorite part of transition now. I refuse to go back to the darkness.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social)
Please, someone. Anyone. Make today a national holiday.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
That's the spirit! :D
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
That rounds out to about 8 PER DAY so far this year. That should be criminal!
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Won't someone think of the landlords :(
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll considering listening to this line of reasoning if and when people like you show the same energy for a progressive and not only for Republican-lite.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I used to live next to a Zionist summer camp. They do exist 🤷
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess I don't know how old he is (and I'm pretty sure I'm younger than him) but I definitely remember it being a big conservative talking point in the decades leading up to Obergefell. And, frankly, since then as well. He really hasn't been paying attention.
Eli Valley (@elivalley.bsky.social) reposted
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I think that's the funniest part of this whole thing. Dude acts like he's a big bad untouchable shit poster but is supremely easy to rile. Dude can't give it AND he can't take it. (Except for from dead sheep, anyway.) It's like he's running a race by himself and still losing.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
No no, he said he's been savaged by a sheep. We should be precise in our language, now, otherwise It might upset him, and he's clearly very easy to upset, the poor dear.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Giving a voice to the voiceless. Now that's true love right there.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
It did take him a while to backpedal on that one, didn't it. Curious. 🤔
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not and I'm not sure why he feels the need to tell the Internet about it, but maybe I've just never loved anything enough to understand his level of dedication to his craft.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
No, he let a dead sheep savage him. Which is, to be fair, a level of dedication to something that I could only hope to aspire to. He didn't let his dreams be dreams.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
It looks like valveeta 🤮
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social)
I think I made things like this when I was 19 and didn't know how to cook and too poor to afford real food. This makes Taco Bell look fancy.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
The correct answer requires paragraphs to explain lol
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
From what I understand they're actually looking for evidence that you have an imagination and use it and could get along with other kids, but that's not what the letter of the question actually says. It feels misleading. If you want to know if a person can engage in imaginative play, just say that.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Deeply so, and infuriating. I can't tell you how hard I identified with "if someone said this to me they'd catch these hands" lol
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
There was definitely a time in my life where my take home was $25 a week after paying for childcare and gas to drive to work.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
They do. They just want someone else to do it with someone else's money but to still pat themselves on the back as though they did anything.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
There's something almost poetic in getting assessed for autism and asking clarifying questions on enough of the assessment items that the assessor starts acting like it's all just a formality. "Do you prefer to be around a lot of people or one-on-ones?" That depends. What's going on? With who?
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
That works, considering what all cops are
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
It's actually better than that. Two lots of High Noon Beach variety vodka seltzers got mislabeled as Celsius Astro Vibe drinks. thehill.com/policy/healt...
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Da peer. It's where ya hitch da boat, dontcha know.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
This was weirdly alarming
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Like Disco Elysium, for example?
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, thank you! I can usually piece together if something is a joke or not but none of my usual heuristics were helping
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, yes, I believe that's mostly local to the Rhinelander area. I know it well.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Help I'm autistic is this a joke or real 😭 like I was born in the 80s and never heard of this but I didn't pay attention to much in the 90s
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I, as a not young person, also have no idea if this is true or not
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
At first glance (and I mean a really quick glance) I thought it was a USMC sticker but you can loot those ones, too.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social)
This is such a homeopathy ass take
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
My thoughts exactly
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait until he hears my very republican grandpa has a hat with this exact phrase embroidered on it, complete with a little embroidered fishing pole.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
... Is this guy thinking she's implying that old "Women need men like fish need a bicycle" saying while misunderstanding both?
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Yanno, I'd have a little more truck with "vote blue no matter who" if they actually meant it. The moment a progressive is even so much as suggested they jump at the chance to tell you they wouldn't vote for them and neither would anyone else. Mamdani winning was a good example of this.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
That's fair. I agree on that point, certainly.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, thanks for correction. I think a big reason folks take such exception to her post is that it comes off like she cares more about the optics than the genocide that's been going on since long before the Oct 7th attack. She's thoughtful about a lot of things, so this feels disingenuous at best.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Like I'm not arguing, really. Just positing that that's the section folks are talking about and take issue with.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, no, she doesn't say that anywhere. But in that section she does say that "Most Jews are Zionist" which seems presumptive at best, and that being against Israel as a Jewish state had the effect of "shrinking the coalition", which feels like she's missing the point. Probably not wrong, though.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I think they mean the second point in the Reddit post titled "II. Misery".
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Opinions aren't sacrosanct, aren't created equal, and can be wrong. Like yours, for instance. Hope this helps!
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't let it get you down. He's not acting in good faith. If he was, he wouldn't have run to ask AI to tell him what he wants to hear. I commend you for trying, though. Providing sources will hopefully be useful to other, actually honest readers.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok, so "Blue no matter who" but only if it's a republican wearing a blue hat. Got it.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
So someone did indeed provide a source and you dismissed it out of hand for trumped up reasons, as predicted. Try being less dishonest in the future.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
calmatters.org/politics/202...
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Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
This should help cut down on the number of divorces in the military if they're just cheating on AI wives with other AI.
jenny_tightpants🪑 (@jtp.bsky.social) reposted
headline: "democrats lost voters on transgender rights." the article:
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
But you do have malort, which proves that some kind of crime and punishment exists.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
That's NUTS. I hope you and your Mom are doing better.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll think about caring about my right-wing family members the moment they stop taking glee in trying to start fights by saying the worst things they can at every opportunity they can.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
"Is It Time to Stop Preventing Your Bullies From Constantly Punching You In the Face?"
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Ohhh, "gay" as in the umbrella term. My bad.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I was partially being ruefullysarcastic, but I still think the next target is lesbians in no small part because of the reasons you noted. It serves patriarchy to focus on the "men" part of "gay men". If it's pitting the rights of men vs the rights of women, women lose every time.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Folks missed the videos you've done criticizing Israel and the history of its formation as a white supremacist colonial state, I see
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
No, next it's the lesbians. White cis (conservative) gay men are still useful enough tools to use and they can't just crush men before trying to destroy women first. There's a hierarchy to uphold, after all.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, agreed. During the Dubya years I thought it was as bad as it could get. That's not the kind of thing I hoped to be proven wrong on. 🫤
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
SWAT Kats or bust
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Exactly what I was thinking. The only way to stay relevant in right-wing media is to be more awful than the next grifter.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
No thank you
Alan Elrod (@aselrod.bsky.social) reposted
I was adopted via closed adoption, born in North Carolina. It was closed so I have no knowledge of or access to my biological mother’s details. It also means my biological mother isn’t on my birth certificate. So if birthright citizenship becomes a patchwork right, what’s someone like me to do?
Chris 🎮 DevPods.gg gamedev community (@chrisdeleon.bsky.social) reposted
hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
To be fair I'm almost 40 and revenge bedtime procrastination still gets the better of me more days than it doesn't.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, I guess she blocked me. For everyone else: this is a decent start/primer. youtu.be/39uen84KnNg?...
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll respond, but at a later time if you'll forgive me. It's 2:00 am where I'm at and speaking biologically: I'm sleepy.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
But it has been. And the Democrat response to all this, beyond a few good eggs, has been tepid at best. Republicans are repeatedly punching us and Democrats are watching from the sidelines saying they're tired of hearing about it. That's a big part of why trans folks are mad at Democrats.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I wouldn't exactly disagree normally, but addressing a bully and their actions directly is necessary or else the bully hears the silence as permission and the victim hears the silence as complicity. Because it is. One must stand in the bully's way at every turn or else they never stop.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
I might suggest furthering your education on the subject. "Biological men" is TERF rhetoric but I want to think you're simply misguided but trying. It might also help to remember that human rights aren't a pie with finite pieces and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, using trans people as the minority de jure to throw under the bus is the opposite thing to do. Giving ground to those who would see us eradicated isn't compromise and doesn't suddenly give protection to anyone else. You know the right are people who take a mile if you give an inch or not.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Thing is: the Right is putting trans rights at the forefront as a scapegoat and moral panic. Ignoring that sends a rather particular message to all, much like the folks who made sure to always insist it should only be "All Lives Matter."
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Shoot, I thought I was being clever by bringing up the weed angle but naturally someone else is faster and funnier.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
That's not fair. Some of them also like weed.
Sheryl Weikal, still wishing ill on JK Rowling (@leftistlawyer.com) reposted
Iran cannot simultaneously be a paper tiger incapable of posing a threat to us (and therefore meaning there's no possibility of war if we bomb them) and a threat so imminent it justifies us bombing them. It's one or the other.
bort (@crushbort.bsky.social) reposted
at least toby keith is dead this time
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Exactly what I was thinking
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
SKYKERS ISLAND 🤣
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Y
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
Nevermind, found it. Was having an old moment.
Gabriel but 🏳️⚧️ (@petrichor-echos.bsky.social) reply parent
What on earth is the context for this???