Bridget Gordon

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#delightjournal day 199

“Permanent solution to a temporary problem” ok but have you considered that the temporary problem is Very Bad and it sure would be nice to not have to deal with it anymore

#delightjournal day 198

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Asher Elbein

Despair is the tool of the enemy! We do not need it! We will not indulge it!

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Have courage, friends! I genuinely believe that when it comes to a fight, we can beat these gloating little reactionary bastards. A better world is possible if we believe in it!

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

I’m just fascinated by the underlying logic of the fearmongering around gender-affirming care, which is that no one should have to regret any decision they’ve made ever Like, cool, let’s take this to its logical conclusion— which SV douchebag is going to reimburse me for my year in an MFA program?

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I made this into a proper response to the absolutely misplaced calls to "turn down the heat": newrepublic.com/article/1838...

My first thought this morning after I remembered the news was how many people over the last few years have put their bodies between armed far right guys and kids going to the library or a bookstore

Where Were Calls for De-Escalation When Libraries Were Being Targeted?newrepublic.com Trump’s fans seem determined to blame this shooting on their victims.

#delightjournal day 197

Apple News phoned it in today and honestly I don’t blame it

#delightjournal day 196

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in 2013 I saw a man get a 100,000 hour probation on the SomethingAwful forums and today I saw him come off probation and immediately pick up the same argument, quoting a reply from 2013, absolute next-level hater, I can't even imagine, my man is the Count of Monte Posters

#delightjournal day 195

It’s just hard out there, you know?

#delightjournal day 194

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Declaring people to be vermin, enemies of the state, or un-human is the sort of language people adopt before they pursue a genocide.

“We will hold investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington,” Posobiec said. “We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity.” inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!inthesetimes.com At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise.

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kind of useless w/o explaining to people what project 2025 means by porn newrepublic.com/article/1836...

lol

The Real Targets of Project 2025’s War on Pornnewrepublic.com It’s not just about people watching porn. It’s drag queens, trans people, LGBTQ library books, and more.

#delightjournal day 193

Vaginal homunculus

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Zoe Tunnell

"I can't bring myself to vote for Biden", sure, but can you bring yourself to vote *against* Trump? Cause I truly cannot think of a single thing that won't become actively worse if that dipshit wins. It sucks. We deserve better. We don't have better. We gotta work with the reality we have right now

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This paired with the "NO NSFW, NO SMUT" decision really sums up everything terrible about trying to exist as a creative on the internet right now

Absolutely disgusting! www.cbr.com/etsy-ai-sale...

A.I. Art Allowed to be Sold on Etsy in New Policy Announcementwww.cbr.com Etsy has revealed its new sales policy on A.I. artwork, and the company will continue to allow it be sold, with some interesting limitations

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how it feels to live in america

#delightjournal day 192

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Engrave “You can’t grind your way to a just society” on every doorpost in the world.

The reason we hear so much meritocracy propaganda is that it's the only socially acceptable origin story for the people it happend to work out for, could stay in the game longer thanks to generational wealth, or are just pretending to have "made it." You can't grind your way to a just society.

#delightjournal day 191

And, importantly, fascism offers no solutions to any real problems, only a list of “enemies” to blame those problems on followed by vague promises of retribution

Again the best to prevent fascism is a robust social safety net, strong wages and active government efforts to help the poor. Neoliberalism and austerity carve away at this, leaving fascism able to grow.

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When the american liberals use France's election as an illustration of the need to VOTE, they ignore that people were not only voting against the far right but *for* something. They voted for a campaign which promises to: increase minimum wage, lower retirement age, pay for all childcare, etc

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Or: that drug is prohibitively expensive and your insurance refuses to pay for it. Managing one’s medication manager is…yeah. Bullshit. Emotional labor. Demanded by a medical system steeped in eugenics & ableism.

A comic about disability and drugs in America for #disabilitypridemonth

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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.