@dahlingzoe
46 year old transfeminine aerialist living in the South Puget Sound. Sometimes I write, but not in some coy clever self depreciating way, I really should write more things. truscum fuck off. Apostate academic. 21+, please.
It really is striking the difference in immediacy in the arguments for and against the #WALeg Millionaires Tax.
Against, we have a bunch of slippery slope nonsense and crocodile tears about GOP's wealthy donors.
For, we have special ed teachers like Stephanie dealing with reality:
yeah. that email chain was intensely upsetting. ive. been soft looping on it too
YAAAAAY
Help Clara survive.
Listen.
even there, the whole context window thing is a thing
Happy international women's day to all women tall or short, thick or thin, cis or trans! #iwd #international #womens #day
i also do think there is a "i live on the eastern half of a time zone ' versus "i live on the western edge of a time zone" debate here too
FUCK IT, 30 MINUTE OFFSET IT IS.
As someone who was in physics grad school from 2002-2010, holy fuck this. fuck that show till the end of time, and fuck everyone who yelled "hey sheldon" at me
the worst shows ever are Big Bang theory Big Bang theory, Big Bang theory, Big Bang theory, Big Bang theory, Big Bang theory, Big Bang theory, Big Bang theory, Big Bang theory theory, Big Bang theory, Velma, Big Bang theory, Big Bang theory, and Big Bang theory
there is no banning gerrymandering while retaining single member districting. every map is a gerrymander.
say this over and over
I'd also add to this that just, so often, the people "just asking questions" are really more going through a "how far can I go publicly saying this shit and getting away with it?" process.
Remember how Joe Rogan was "just asking questions" about trans women and sports and didn't have a problem with trans people otherwise?
He's now a full on anti-trans genocidal fascist.
There is a reason you hold the line at sports.
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And I think it's also fair to say stuff like "you know, I hadn't thought through a lot of things that seem extremely obvious now, but maybe Joss Whedon needs to stay gone"
is there a masterlist of trans surgery Gofundmes that is currently active?
BREAKING: @aoc.bsky.social just came out swinging in the House E&C hearing against dangerous & misguided "age verification" legislation (aka online ID checks) that would force everyone to upload government ID or get a face scan before accessing content or posting online.
Video incoming. This is big
to bring up another issue.
and like, this is about more than "my personal vote". Harris did not offer an alternative position on immigration in any real way, and it left the Democrats unprepared, going into this genocide, to oppose ICE until it got far too bad to stop.
This messaging is important.
Giving quarter to just a *little bit* of point-scoring transphobia is a direct line to "both parties oppose your rights now, and there is no way to do advocacy"
Over this stance, i'd probably still vote for him, but like...
in the UK, trans people are just objectively worse off under a Labour government right now than they were with the Tories. it's not abstract, this is just a fact.
And respectively, this is impossible to parse as "a well meaning ally saying the wrong thing". This is ol' Pete punching a tranny and then turning around and softening his stance for the larger audience, and your position is that I should "thank you sir can I have another" to him.
Simply, no.
Well trans folks, you have no excuse now. Sobbing uncontrollably for two hours or more is now FREE OF CHARGE
a politically aware cisgay man knows this. Which means that he is ok throwing us to the purgers, at least rhetorically.
fuck him.
and why I cannot ignore this, is that this is just, nakedly, an attempt to create a legal framework to say "trans women are not women" and then use that framework as a wedge to purge trans people from public life. Heritage foundation and focus on the family have said this directly.