I don't hang out here anymore for my own mental health but just so you don't take me silence for compliance:
Black lives matter.
Defund the police.
Reparations for Black folx.
Arrest, try convict killer cops.
Dismantle white supremacy.
Wear a goddamn mask.
@FlyFrontier finding out from Google that our flight from PWM to Cincinnati was cancelled less than an hour before the flight was supposed to board but no notification from you at all? What?
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The #Scholomance trilogy is @naominovik's take on a #SchoolForWizardry:
It.
Is.
*Superb*.
Novik takes a belt-sander to all the crumbling tropes left by lesser writers to reveal fresh wood beneath, fashioning something breathtakingly new:
https://t.co/3jwSYOgJKG 1/
@dankois So now in addition to the sex talk and the lockdown talk, I’m going to have to give my future teenagers the don’t let yourself get published for hate clicks talk also?
If you like, support, buy new Harry Potter stuff now, you're supporting transphobia. You just are.
Wanna re-read the books you bought in 98, alone quietly in your home? Go ahead, I guess.
Buying new shit? In the year 2023? You're handing the terfs money. Sorry.
I think that as I've gotten older, and thus seen a bit more of the world, noticing all the various ways a life can go wrong—a person can fall on hard times, the unexpected disaster that lays you low, etc—the more my politics have just become about alleviating the suffering we can
Everything about the HP series just makes me sad, at this point. JKR's work meant a lot to me before she decided to dedicate her life to screwing over people I care about.
Like it's not even a principled decision anymore -- I stay away from it because it makes me sad.
Opinion | If they win tomorrow, Republicans may end American democracy as we know it. Here’s why I still can’t bring myself to pull the lever for a Democrat.
@haleshannon 3yo Charles was SO excited to be The Princess In Black for Halloween. I wanted to share and thank you for creating a character who make his Halloween extra exciting 😊
Me: How's your tummy?
3yo: unintelligible noises
Me: Your tummy wants me to go away and let you play with your cars by yourself?
3yo: Yes.
I'm smashing this parenting thing guys.
Conservatives know they are pursuing a project of minoritarian rule. For them, that’s not cause for moderation or course correction – only proof that the supposedly radical forces of Godless, “Un-American” leftism have already been allowed to advance much too far. 15/
Reactionaries are disputing the legitimacy of the 2020 election not necessarily on the basis of claiming fraud – but because democracy itself subverted the will of “real America” by allowing the “wrong” people too much of an influence on the fate of the country. 11/
@RottenInDenmark It really helps to understand that reactionary centrism is modeled on abusive family dynamics.
Every culture war critique of young people - whether college students or trans kids- is basically horror that the youngs set boundaries on abusive behavior.