"I want to be a dragon."

The queer community needs to declare a state of emergency, especially for trans people.

I realize this post alone is not very meaningful. I don't have the energy nor clarity of mind to elaborate rn. I will.

Memorize it.

No queer gets caught alone.

No queer gets caught defenseless.

No queer gets caught unaware.

No queer gets left in the cold.

No queer goes without a roof, plate, or connection.

Live it.

We cannot rely on politicians and legislation to protect us. Government does not give us the right to survive and thrive, and they do not get to take that right from us. There are more of us than them.

Queer people will always exist. They cannot kill us. They have never succeeded, and they never will.

Fascism is nothing but a fragile ideology. May it be crushed and left to rot. It has no right to exist.

You have to love each other more than you hate your oppressors, or you are doing their jobs for them.

Memorize it and fucking live it.

I have never been so angry in my life. This is what we do about it.

When communities strengthen, fascism struggles. We need to jam them up at all points.

Republicans: we can just have Elon Musk go to Wisconsin and give everyone money. He'll give them a million dollars. It's all legal as long as we hold power forever and can stop anyone from doing anything to stop us. All of Wisconsin is bribed, nothing can go wrong now

The invincible Susan Crawford:

NBC news: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-results-rcna198353

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.

He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor

Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going

I think covid pulled some kinda psychic ripcord for anyone already primed for political derangement. The combinaton of social isolation and algorithm-driven radicalization just broke people. Everyone I talk to has a story of some relative that nobody talks to anymore.

Your uncle used to be like, into dirt bikes, l but all he does now is come home from work and watch YouTube shorts of IDF snipers blowing up child kneecaps or ex cops ranting about how their recent divorce was caused by "international bankers." And like, it's just gonna be this until you show up at his funeral.

Trump has set up an “electronic mailbox” for corporations to ask him for exemptions to the Clean Air Act. The exemptions would allow companies to pollute the air with mercury, which can cause brain damage and birth defects.

I absolutely fucking hate this. Gold star, no notes.

Yeah I’m having trouble buying into this narrative that Todays Youth have a unique problem with reading literature or writing essays considering that it fits more into a reoccurring pattern of “people getting older start regurgitating cliches about lazy stupid youth” which historically speaking is more of a thing than “all of a sudden a whole generation became very stupid and refused to engage in intellectual activities” which is not so much a thing that actually happens

Millennials just totally forgetting about all their classmates who were 100% reliant on SparkNotes for literature assignments and essays

Yeah, I'm always suspicious of it, like, there's always a few high profile idiots.

Until businesses start using emojis instead of written word like this is The Diamond Age (by Neal Stephenson), I'm gonna assume that literacy isn't SIGNIFICANTLY dropping.

Kabosu did not deserve to have her image turned into cryptocurrency. She did not deserve to have the meme she was known for across the world to become a code word for a fascist coup.

Her name is Kabosu. Not Doge.

Oh no. MAGA is mad that the NYT shared the names of DOGE staffers. Don’t share this! Would be a shame

US legislation moving towards banning fluoridated drinking water + a cultural trend towards trad aesthetics including homemade toothpaste.........I can't forsee any negative oral health effects.....none at all........sigh

working on a comm, then model after

Spock's whole identity problem would have been solved decades ago if they gave him just one mixed-race friend. Or an immigrant stuck between two cultures.

Spock: Despite all my efforts, I will never be Vulcan enough for my people.

Spock's friend: Yeah, I get it. They tell you to speak Spanish and then they complain it doesn't sound right and you're being assimilated. And I'm like, abuela, you're the one who immigrated here??

Spock: Indeed. And when I find myself surrounded by humans, they only see the Vulcan part of me.

Spock's friend: I know right?!? They're always "where you from, no where you really from" and I'm like dude?? I was born here??

Spock: This is most illuminating.

(aka "oh wow I'm not the only person in the universe to suffer this?!?!")

Give Spock a mixed-race or immigrant friend.