aghast (MINNESOTA ARC)

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he/him 🏳️‍⚧️ • trans christian ✝️ • horror lit enjoyer 🐦‍⬛ • left-curious politics 🌹 • transplanted to minnesota ⛄️

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The Fig Economy

With many immune diseases, you have to factor in progression, which makes it more confusing. I remember controlled HIV getting moved around risk categories for a minute.

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The Fig Economy

It has more to do with how the CDC had to lump all immunocompromised people into one huge group in the early COVID days, when in fact there are many levels of being immunocompromised.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

But that's religion and religion is stoopid /s

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𝚂𝙿𝙾𝚁𝙺𝙱𝙾𝙾𝚃

Man, the WWII generation dying off has been terrible for people's brains

Chaotic good

this story from today's Ask A Manager is killing me

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The Mall Krampus

WHAT

I'm not sure if my plantar fasciitis joke will stand

I have a joke about Hashimoto's but it's weighty. My asthma joke, however, is a real wheeze.

Wordle 1,003 2/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 😏

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Uncut Femmes

Not just trans women

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🏳️‍⚧️ High Plains Grifter

"I demand trans people stop getting into the weeds about this or that study, state their principles clearly, and answer all the fundamental questions we have." "Okay." "Nooooooo that's not empirical!"

It feels like every online space for discussing literary fiction (as opposed to light or genre fiction) turns randomly, horribly transphobic. It's depressing.

Yes, I know the literary/genre divide isn't real, but you know what I mean.

The Pamela Paul stuff is a window into how TER*Fism, despite being rather uncommon in the US compared to right-wing transphobia, has nonetheless infiltrated a lot of elite literary fiction cliques.

Transphobes reading Ovid's Metamorphoses and Virginia Woolf's Orlando with no sense of irony.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC)

Drink more MILK Eat more BUTTER For your health & PROSPERITY

HELP MY DUMB ASS WENT TO WORK 40 MINUTES EARLY

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Jamie R Bedford

Oh no, you don't have to imagine, MAGA rap is a real thing

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Proof of Burden

They think MAGA rap will suffice.

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Yair Rosenberg

Glad he is coming around

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🏳️‍⚧️ ARTFIGHT 🌌

The most praised aspect of the series -- that it "grew up with its audience" -- is its downfall. The first three books have an appropriate balance of whimsy and stakes. Raising the stakes makes the whimsical elements of the setting look either ridiculous or sinister.

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🏳️‍⚧️ ARTFIGHT 🌌

TAKE TWINSIES

My honest Harry Potter opinion is that the first three books are solid kid lit and there's a gradual drop of quality from there. Half-Blood Prince is BAD. As a kid, I gradually lost interest without being able to explain why.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC)

People want to rip on the Dems/biden for “not doing anything for trans people.” Fine. But understand the implications of this. SCOTUS has blessed it. And it means that if Biden is in power next year, they’re going to put the screws to red states over treatment of trans people

Utah prison discriminated against transgender woman, Department of Justice findsapnews.com The Utah Department of Corrections is under fire for discriminating against a transgender inmate who the U.S.

The only political thing that bothered me from the very beginning was that squibs (as well as "uneducated" wizards like Arianna Dumbledore) are basically disabled; people with magical disabilities are treated like shit with no resolution.

As a white American kid, I didn't have more insight than that until Rowling went TER*F and former fans with literature degrees started tearing the series apart looking for racism, antisemitism, etc.

But I definitely had Potter fatigue by that point. There was so much pressure to like HP well into adulthood, and I had moved on. I didn't have the same sense of betrayal as others.

We forget how hegemonic Pottermania was in the early-mid 2010s. Hating on HP wasn't just uncouth, it was *right-wing* coded.

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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC)

Eat shit, Ron. “A lawsuit settlement over Florida’s Don’t Say Gay statute announced Monday affirms that teachers and students can discuss LGBTQ+ issues and have access to related library books, largely canceling many of the impacts of the signature legislation from Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.”

Settlement in Florida ‘don’t say gay’ lawsuit says it’s okay to say gaywapo.st Students and teachers will be able to speak freely about sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida classrooms, provided it’s not part of instruction, under a settlement reached Monday.

I'm in gender trouble again (don't know how to relate to straight women when I'm a gay guy, a straight guy, and a lesbian in a trench coat)

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chatham harrison is tending a new garden

One thing I've seen in postmotems of the midterms and special elections is that skilled GOP canvassers (a job that requires you to be both enthusiastic and presentable) have disappeared and I think this is going to be more of an issue in the general than people think.