I discovered a very strange superpower today - I am very good at guessing Beatles songs when they're played backwards. I went 15 for 15.
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New blog post at Cleveland DSA - this one deals with Palestine, the encampments, art, and the meaning of violence. Give it a read!
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I spent the afternoon assembling IKEA furniture and now have two pretty chaise chairs. Tomorrow, the sofa.
RIP Robert Carradine. As someone who struggles with bipolar disorder every day I can empathize completely.
We haven’t even had our new sofa — or most of it, since IKEA didn’t deliver the armrests — for 24 hours and a cat threw up on it. Bissell Spotbot to the rescue.
i'm just so fucking exhausted, could privileged cis het white people with guns and money take a turn please in screaming "trans rights are human rights" and getting shit done for a few years please
New blog post up at Cleveland DSA -- Winter Storm: Rapid Response in Minneapolis. Please read and share!
#DSA #Cleveland #Minneapolis #ICEOUT
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Add Idaho to the list of “states I will never visit.”
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TIL that my insurance company has an exclusion in my policy for collisions that happen when doing gig work. 🫠
I had to make a DoorDash pickup yesterday at The Cheesecake Factory, on Valentine’s Day, and it was the biggest fucking nightmare I’ve ever seen. It was like the zombies trying to get into the mall in “Dawn of the Dead.”
“Begin the Begin” lives on an endless loop in my head. Far and away my favorite song by them.
I am now the acting blog editor for DSA Cleveland and I’ve got a pipeline full of material that’s coming out in the next couple of weeks. Keep an eye on www.dsacleveland.org/category/blog
I finally did it - after more than two years out of work and countless ignored resumes sent, I've accepted that the job market for 56 year old disabled trans women is not robust. So I spent my first day as a DoorDasher today, working 10:30-4:30. It wasn't as miserable as I expected but wasn't great.
I have decided i am going to try one last time to grow my hair long. Like halfway down my back long. But now I’m starting from a pixie cut and it’s going to take f o r e v e r
I won’t lie, his “moth joke” is an all time classic, but otherwise yeah.
I am lazy and hungry and have DoorDashed dessert. But i am supporting a local Black-owned business during Black History Month so that is my excuse.
Show me one of your favorite childhood cartoon characters
Yeah, that tracks!
It is impossible to count the number of times I watched “Battle Beyond the Stars” on cable as a kid, and this ship was uh a not-insignificant reason why.
Sometimes when I’m feeling blue I remember it’s February and I will soon have my hands on the new Sisters of Dorley Hall book.
the polish figure skating team in the kiss and cry holding a plush pierogi
IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:
THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI
Ok but you have to follow me back or it’s all for nought!
Stopped at Dunkin on the way home from therapy to pick up coffees for me and my wife, then slipped on ice on my front steps and spilled mine everywhere. 😭
DHS, ICE, Border Patrol, it’s all gotta go.
Currently reading Eric Foner’s “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877” and whoooo boy did we as a nation fuck things up royally.
🏳️🌈 Gay rights: We need to figure it out if *all* Queer people are gonna make it, but the buck starts and ends with Trans people.
When they come for us, it affects everyone else - it always does. Trans rights *are* human rights, when we are safe, so is *anyone* under the Queer umbrella.
A screenshot of a Twitter post by Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) criticizing a post by Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net). Singal’s caption states: "No one actually thinks a double mastectomy is similar to a nose job. That is the sort of stunted, pseudointellectual space you inevitably end up in after you spend years attempting to reputationally napalm good-faith critics and skeptics". Caraballo’s embedded post includes a link to a Washington Post article titled "First major medical group opposes gender transition surgeries for youth," which reports that the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) suggests delaying these surgeries until age 19 due to "insufficient evidence". Caraballo argues that the ASPS has no issue with thousands of minors receiving nose jobs but is choosing to align with political bans rather than medical science.
It’s funny how "insufficient evidence" only seems to apply when the treatment makes people uncomfortable, but thousands of nose and boob jobs for minors gets a pass because nobody’s making a culture war podcast about elective rhinoplasty.
Ohioans, join DSA and other organizations across the state in calling on Gov. Dewine to take executive action to protect Haitians in Ohio:
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The saga of my furniture continues. I just called IKEA and they finally conceded that my order was lost somewhere. So they rebooked it as a new order at no charge to us an refunded our shipping costs, with an estimated delivery date of next Friday. Fingers crossed!
