Amy

I was radicalized by a kind elderly Presbyterian minister in a brightly colored cardigan who played with puppets and told me that people could like me exactly as I am and that everyone is different and that's great and we should like them exactly as THEY are.

I had missed it. Thank you for the follow up!

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you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”

Bildinhalt: Man sieht einen Waschbären, der zwischen zwei großen Bäumen hängt – mit ausgestreckten Armen und Beinen, als würde er sich verzweifelt festklammern. Die Situation wirkt angespannt und instabil. Text im Bild: • Oben beim Waschbären: “ME” (Ich) • Linker Baum: “STAYING INFORMED ON THE AMERICAN DUMPSTER FIRE” (Informiert bleiben über das politische/gesellschaftliche Chaos in den USA) • Rechter Baum: “MY MENTAL HEALTH” (Meine mentale Gesundheit)

It's not just that these professional politics observers somehow failed to spot the obvious rise of American nativist thuggery.

It's how much energy they devoted to arguing the real problem was the volume, tone, and vocabulary of those raising the alarm about it.

Sign held up with handwritten text: "If they are going to shoot us and then call us fucking bitches, then we need to be bigger fucking bitches"

A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march

If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?

These are great! Love the Ren and Daveth set.

I lost my breath more than once reading this book. Truth is often best found in fiction.

I have spent much of my adult life trying to reconcile the America I was promised with the America I actually got. That was a long and painful process. And here we are. It's a game of chance, and very often, bare bones survival. That just is what it is. I don't moan about it anymore. I just live it

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Blue whale
Bald Eagle
Orca
Leopard Slug
Rattle Snake

We don’t get to choose the times we’re born into, but we can try to shape the time our grandkids will be born into.

A letter from Charles M Schulz about democracy and protecting minorities

“Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.”

— Linus Van Pelt

Typewriter Monke @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social "why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate April 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM

A striped cat appears to be “yelling” at a kitten with the exact same coloring. The kitten’s eyes are wide open and their ears pinned back.

you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now

patriciaofchicago 23h A lot of men think they're being disrespected. What's actually happening is: She's not performing submission. 547 81 72 5 Top View activity > karacantrell 15h The conflating of respect and obedience in the male mind is crazy.

Yup

there are people who claim that Terry Pratchett would have been a TERF if he was still alive

to them I say two things:

1. are you fucking serious

2. go fuck yourselves

I'm so tired of being ashamed, embarrassed, and disappointed. And so very, very angry.

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok

Movie you've watched more than six times using GIFs. ("Hard mode" - no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

We decided that EVERYTHING is his dump stat. He put every point he had into Luck.

Larry, I know you'll never read this, but thank you. Truly, thank you. You have given me new hope that there are good people who are willing to really listen and, having listened and heard, are unafraid to change their minds and hearts. You are a brave man, and a good one. Again, thank you.

In meme format, a photo of a hatless Terry Pratchett next to Heinz Duffenshmirtz captioned "A Fantasy Author?" Under it, a photo of Terry Pratchett wearing his signature hat. Heinz Duffenshmirtz points, a gast! Captioned "PTerry the Fantasy Author?!"

Saw this. Cracked up! Had to share.

Something folks aiming to be better allies might want to understand is that transphobes don't call trans women men because they believe it, they say it because it's hurtful

I saw this earlier and now it won't leave my head 😭