"what suceeded was being normal and relatable"
my good bitch
fucking
stonewall
act up
pride
you are *literally wrong*
the mattachine society failed.
Your approach does not work.
"Fuck you, got mine, please faggots, be normal"
Fuck you. I will be *myself*
Anyone can learn from their mistakes. Only the chosen few can pigheadedly shit the bed in the same exact way over and over, bravely staring down the forces of self improvement
anytime i’m facing an especially hated or arduous task, i like to give myself a little treat beforehand to encourage myself to get it done. it’s called a ‘pre-ward’ and it absolutely does not work
i accidentally went out all day without my phone and it was the best day i’ve had in weeks. looking forward to learning nothing whatsoever from this experience
This is always worth repeating: You might be familiar with Uline, the ubiquous source for packaging supplies. Uline also directly funds extreme right-wing causes, including Trump (www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...)
What can you do? USE SOMEONE ELSE! Here are Uline alternatives: refuseuline.com
As Chelsea says, the only way to correct for this asymmetry is to tell them no. To deny that the conversation and the logic that presumes its necessity is worth taking seriously. In doing so, we can keep transphobes from exhausting us. In doing so, we can insist on the humanity of trans people.
From Toni Morrison:
“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do.”
“yeah listen I know deplatforming nazis and other hate groups is scientifically proven to work, but what if I debate one of them and expose my huge audience to them so I can get cheap dunks and totally own them”
It's almost Valentine's Day so it's my yearly reminder that lilies are DEADLY to cats. Every single part of the lily. Even the tiniest sniff of pollen will send a cat into kidney failure within an hour. Lilies are a death sentence. If you have cats DO NOT have lilies in your home!
This is going to sound more flip than I mean it, but when I was a kid I watched the Blues Brothers running Illinois Nazis off a bridge and the Nazis on Hogan's Heroes being pathetic dimwits every damn day, and I do feel like we need to get back to constant, vicious cultural ridicule of open racists.
From “technically it isn’t fascism” to “technically it wasn’t an insurrection” to “technically it’s not a genocide,” our intellectuals are really making a bold show of their commitment to sophistry and semantics above any meaningful confrontation with the realities of their time.
Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
