The list of people who abstractly want you broken is long. The list of people who want to see you, specifically you, broken is one or two or three people long. The ambient hatred may feel personal but it is not and you are not its target the moment you are out of the floodlights.
Sokka from Avatar the Last Airbender saying “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun”.
Sokka's boomerang is a subtle nod to the blowback caused by Republic City's roots in imperial conquest.
essay i liked a lot especially this part bartleby.life/assault
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
corny shoes list 2025:
adidas samba
allbirds
On running shoes
closed toed birks (open toes ok)
uggs
flats
good bot
whoever keeps drawing the trans symbol on the metro station and in all the parking garages in silver spring, i hope u know how happy that shit makes me
Im smoking weed with the Ppl that live on my floor and Befriending them
CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
yes u can fuck ur friends but i think its important to have friends you don’t fuck
People who don't need treatment or interventions to manage their transsexuality aren't invalidated by the expectation that they have access to those treatments. People who need those interventions _ARE_ hurt by the insistence that they are optional. literally the UK and US have used that reasoning.
dupont circle is posited as this bastion of lgbtq/progressive identity in dc but in reality it just feels like a bunch of boutiques that wanna extract money from upper class liberals and pay no mind that the group they benefit from association with is largely working class. cost of living crisis fr.
The Late Show with Rob Schneider
friends. for my wife to be happy. that's it i guess
Drawing if a tired puppy with the caption; "This too shall pass but like wtf"
Bruh
Planar Guide {W} Creature — Human Cleric {3}{W}, Exile this creature: Exile all creatures. At the beginning of the next end step, return those cards to the battlefield under their owners’ control. “Every moment has its own savior.” 1/1
8/28 #scryfallrandom is a fascinating rattlesnake of a card that blinks the entire table at once, buying back everyone's enter effects and vaporizing token swarms.
like something has to change cuz this aint it
flesh and blood
or even just making emergency bans a thing again would go so far
i mean yeah maybe but if thats the case then why not invest in more staff and more playtesting
Maro consistently trying to ask why enfranchised players dislike ub is insane to me. its not the ips, its the fact that more sets released without more regular emergency bans=worse design and competitive decline. maybe its time to get into FAB lol
The reason I’ve been so critical of people praising the likes of Gavin Newsom and saying things like, “you may not like him but we need him in the fight,” or applauding his redistricting of California as a tit-for-tat move against GOP redistricting, is that fundamentally they are ignoring the core problem here: this is just justifying a further slide into an authoritarian state. I want to be clear, because people don’t seem to understand me when I say this—I think Gavin Newsom’s response to the GOP redistricting Texas to disenfranchise Democratic voters and give themselves more representatives, by doing the same in California to disenfranchise GOP voters and give Democrats more representatives, is the correct response within the system. Yes, if Democrats want to win, this is what they have to do. They shouldn’t be playing by rules the GOP clearly ignores. Again, this is the only response that makes sense within the rules of the game. But the problem with everyday Americans’ response—cheering on Newsom and saying we need to get behind him uncritically—shows how much people empathize with power over themselves. At the end of the day, this is the American system further entrenching and normalizing authoritarian power. Even if Democrats were to win using these tactics in 2028—which is preferable to a GOP win, yes—they will not willingly give up this newly normalized power dynamic. More voters will have been disenfranchised. Long term, we’re left with a system even less democratic, with few—if any—levers within it to push back.
Worse still, so many are cheering on the idea of having strongman leaders like Newsom. People literally make Trump-like memes of him carrying an American flag. This “we need our own strongman to fight Trump and kick him in the balls” is the same cult of personality that entrenches the Trumpian mindset within establishment Democrats who think they’re being progressive, while actually backing further disenfranchisement of middle- and lower-class Americans—people already struggling under late-stage capitalism. And people like Newsom—or other Democratic leaders establishment liberals rally behind, like Pete Buttigieg—are perfectly willing to throw trans people or the homeless under the bus if it plays well to a mythical centrist base. So while people pat themselves on the back for voting for a gay man or supporting a Democrat like Newsom who “punches Trump where it hurts,” they’re ignoring not only their own further disenfranchisement, but also the additional attacks and harm directed toward even more marginalized groups like trans people and the homeless. I say all of this because one day people will have to reckon with this reality—that the American system will continue to justify making itself more authoritarian under the logic of, “that’s just how we have to fight the fascists.” That’s the only choice it offers us within its limits. But we do have other options. People are just too scared, or too enmeshed in the political system, to recognize them or admit what needs to be done. We need to fundamentally change how we do politics.
I’m not saying you need to pick up a gun and start a revolution against the American state. But I am saying you need to stop focusing solely on electoral politics or trying to pass laws within this system to get what you need. Build up your communities. Find ways to provide food, educational resources, childcare, and other essentials locally. Organize for community defense. Join a union or a collective. These are tangible actions, better uses of your time than canvassing for a political campaign, asking people to vote, or arguing with Republicans online. The path we’re on—pouring our energy into stanning Newsom or treating electoral politics as the only way to “win”—is deeply dangerous. It limits our imagination and leads us further into authoritarianism. And eventually, we will have to face that fact—whether it’s in 2028, 2032, or 2036. No matter what, we will have to confront that fundamental problem. The reason I’m so adamant about recognizing it now is that the longer we wait, the more people will be hurt. As a trans person, I’m already on the chopping block—discarded by both sides of the same system of power. I see how people like me face a very real chance of being imprisoned, killed, or worse before society wakes up to this problem. And I’m not the only one. To paraphrase the poem: “They came for the trans people, and I did nothing, for I was not trans.” What scares me most is that when I try to explain all of this, I am the one vilified. Trans people like me are told—not just by Republicans who openly hate us, but by Democrats—that we need to shut up and get behind “our guy” with “our guy” always being politicians who are more willing to publicly sit down with the likes of Charlie Kirk than to platform or even talk to a trans person. That’s how the system fuels resentment and dehumanization of marginalized people like me—because I’m unwilling to comply. I become the problem, the issue, the person to ostracize, the one accused of helping the fascists.
At the end of the day, I’m not here to say Gavin Newsom is wrong to redistrict in response to Trump and the GOP. That is how Democrats can and should win power, and within the system, it’s what they should be doing. That’s not my criticism. My point isn’t to Newsom—it’s to you. Because while redistricting may be a short-term solution, it doesn’t solve the deeper problem. It delays it. It accelerates it. And you will eventually have to face it. I would much rather we face it clear-eyed now. Because doing so not only gives me, as a trans person, a greater chance of survival, but it also means that if you recognize the problem now, I’m still here with you—still able to fight alongside you. Because as the poem warns, one day they will come for you. And by then, there may not be anyone left beside you to fight.
I’m going to make this a video at some point but I’m saying this here and being done because it’s honestly just angering and scaring and frustrating me.
they’re kidnapping trans women and forcing them to choose between male detention centers, where theyll be tortured, sexually abused and forcibly detransitioned, and leaving her whole life behind via self-deportation. but please go on with your “reasonable concerns” about trans rights
Just being alive is amazing!
true!
dude absolute superman is fucking incredible wtf
factsss
ffmpreg
bottom surgery because i believe complaining about my vagina would fulfill me holistically
