I've literally seen anti-trans folks argue that we must all be lying about being happier because they believe it's not possible to actually be trans and happy given how badly society treats trans people.
Already working on implementing this plan.
It may not have livened up his prose, but it sure livened up his legal career.
Brilliant idea. There is absolutely no way this will get spun as Democrats driving up the price of gas when it expires just before the midterms in November.
Dude is absolutely going into textbooks as a cautionary tale at this point.
Exactly! I have rules about how to load my dishwasher because certain dishes only reliably get clean if loaded in a specific orientation. I do not have rules about gender because restricting certain aesthetics or actions to only those possessing specific genitalia is batshit insane.
Neurotypicals hear that ASD folks are "rule followers" and think that means we'll follow a rule just because the rule exists when the reality is that we adhere strictly to rules *that make sense to us* and ignore rules that don't.
I swear to the gods, some people would shoot themselves in the face if they thought it would maintain the appearance of the status quo.
Almost a full minute of 5 FPS video!
The low brass backing track they added to this is absolutely sending me.
Yes, I'm often quietly in a corner but it's out of a desire to take everything in and savor the moment, not out of detachment. "These people I care about are happy right now" is a powerfully positive experience and I'm reveling in it.
I feel like most neurotypical people fail to understand the comfort that comes from just existing within the same space as people I care about.
The truth will either set me free or get me a grippy sock vacation.
Reminding myself that I should not respond with "Decompensating" when people ask what I've been up to lately.
I can't honestly say that I ever had "faith" in any real sense; the closest I ever came was a sort of hodgepodge of Bultmann's existential demythologization and Crossan's non-eschatological Jesus. The idea that a loving all powerful god would create this world seemed absurd to me from the beginning.
Contact with religious folks outside of my family's milquetoast Methodist congregation. I basically believed that religion was a mostly harmless way of saying that we should be kind to one another until the actions of groups like Westboro Baptist convinced me that the bad outweighed any good.
Well folks, they've finally done it. A circuit layout that is somehow *less* interesting than an oval.
I have to wonder what it would be like to live in a world where my relationship with my country wasn't best described as "morbid fascination."
happy international women's day
See, if I respond with that they'd say they want the true answer and I'm not confident in my ability to moderate my response to that. lol
An opportunity for me to push slide film, you say? Always happy to help someone get a little taste of the film of the gods.
Ah. Good. Company.
We're in clean energy. There hasn't been a great week in *years*.
Meeting host: "I hope everyone had a great week."
Every attendee: *silent thousand-yard stare into their webcam*
Honestly more of a clear progression here than I would have predicted.
Exactly. Firefly was great *because* it was only one season. The wasn't time to do much beyond establish the characters and the world and, as a result, let fans build out the world in their own minds. I think that a lot of the popularity is because it left things untied and let fans argue about it.
What about other Bluesky users?
"They are decimated for a 10-year period."
Does, does he think it's a video game zone with a fixed respawn timer? We've got fucking Leeroy Jenkins as our commander in chief.
Legitimately relieved to see that most young folks now are smarter than I was at their age.
They're apparently all over the place! I can tell I'm getting old because the big non-Cedar Point attraction in Ohio during my childhood was Sea World.
