Awesome to think that what makes USA special is being great at killing on a mass scale. It seems like it would be better to be special in other ways
@lucidvirtuality
Assigned Canadian at birth. AMAB. Interested in virtual reality, lucid dreaming, climate change, altered states, weirdness, whither humanity, SF, impermanence, corvids, etc. โSomeone who has all the seeming of a ghost forever dreaming.โ
Awesome to think that what makes USA special is being great at killing on a mass scale. It seems like it would be better to be special in other ways
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This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.
1. Trans joy
2. Making new friends
3. Loving with your whole heart
In more than half of US states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of small plug-in solar panels that sit on apartment balconies and plug directly into household outlets. Canary Media buff.ly/5B79fOA #ShareGoodNewsToo
WHAT. Are you actually witnessing water in its hypothesized solid form? ๐คฏ
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Yeah but when Clare does it itโs cute ๐คช
Iโm looking forward to what increasingly seems inevitable: you and Susan writing a scriptโperhaps a Star Trek episodeโtitled โInto the Tongueoverseโ wherein our intrepid explorers visit a universe made entirely of tongue (not gonna lie, would watch)
This is so fun ๐ป
Ugh
Feeld was the app I got most traction on. Mostly focusing lately on meeting more people IRL. Iโve been going to trans support groups and meetups, 3 different ones recently; each has a discord server, which Iโve started participating in. Making new friends, some may become FWB or partners eventually
Well that definitely gets my attention ๐ค๐ป
Trans enby gurl sitting on a park bench smiling and looking at her beloved friend who is taking the picture. Sheโs wearing a t-shirt with an image of a two-headed black cat with bat wings and occult symbols. On the shirt is a pronoun pin that says โSHE/HER.โ The pin incorporates the following pride flag designs: nonbinary, transgender, polyamory and berrisexual. In the background is a park and in the distance the sun is setting behind trees
My friend Heather took this picture yesterday, she said โthe light is perfect, I have to take a picture of you.โ Itโs one of my favorite pics of myself. I feel it captures my โyouโre my friend and I love youโ vibe. My friends mean so much to me โค๏ธ
Iโm thinking a lot about William Gibsonโs Jackpot concept these days ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ตโ๐ซ
Chameleon Vagina sounds like a good name for a punk feminist band ๐ค
This is kind of how I feel about it these days
Shows a blatant disregard for biological categories if you ask me ๐คจ๐คฃ
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Spotify and Substack lie within the same toxic stable as X
@zil.bsky.social and I are asking the same question: WHY, Martha? ๐คฃ
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China has added or rejuvenated over a million hectares of wetlands since 2012 through 3,800 restoration projects, backed by new national and provincial wetland laws. This includes 903 national wetland parks, large-scale monitoring systems, & 92 kmยฒ of new mangroves buff.ly/dlYj3D6
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<thinking about what happens when two tongue bodies really, really like each other> ๐ค๐ซฃ๐ณ
Holy shit Tilly is really on to something here ๐ซฃ๐ณ๐๐๐คฃ
โStrange nerdโ is an anagram of โtransgender.โ This makes a LOT of sense ๐ค๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ธ
I hope to get to one of these some day. I bet they are tons of fun
Someday I hope to go to one of these
Sedgwickโs prescription is โreparative reading,โ a theory of more flexible sense-making that can hold truth and provide an antidote to the overwhelming paranoia of our times. While the conventional wisdom states, โJust because youโre paranoid doesnโt mean you donโt have enemies,โ Sedgwick turns this formula on its head: โJust because you have enemies doesnโt mean you have to be paranoid.โ Or to put it another way, having a direct understanding of systemic oppression (the healthcare system, police violence, the fascist state) does not condemn a person to a categorically paranoid point of view. To practice a worldview more expansive and more open to possibilities than paranoia does not mean you have to deny the reality or gravity of oppression.
Feeling paranoid about stochastic violence and weaponized media? Me too. That's why I can't stop thinking about this incredibly helpful essay by @littlewow.online in @flaminghydra.com about the idea of "reparative reading" as a corrective to the "paranoid style." flaminghydra.com/issue-511/
The Great Bear Sea moves from pact to practice in Canada. A decade after a 2014 agreement, the 101,200.0 kmยฒ Indigenous-led marine protected area network in the Great Bear Sea is shifting from pledge to implementation. buff.ly/fw4yA9N
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