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Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch
“Once you get troops on the streets, it’s only a matter of time before it goes bad. Some kid throws a stone, next minute there’s houses on fire and people getting killed.”
1. A transgender woman let legislators know she intended to use the bathroom in the Florida Capitol.
A contingent of officers waited for her, and stood outside the door.
When she stepped in, she was arrested and sent to a men's jail.
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16.02.2025 00:34 — 👍 99 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 0
The good news is that reactionary centrists are engaging in some self-reflection on the excesses of the right-wing backlash to 'wokeness.'
The bad news is that they are saying it is woke people's fault.
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Right one, wrong time
Today's a good day to say goodbye
#Jayvik
Seeing people talk about the "DEI" orders but not much on the fact that they have added an A for "Accessibility" - ie, Disabled people. They are targeting disabled people too. And it looks like they are coming for the ADA.
23.01.2025 01:21 — 👍 2124 🔁 761 💬 54 📌 50
Post from John Perricone 3d • Several years ago l invited a Buddhist monk to speak to my Senior elective class, and quite interestingly, as he entered the room, he didn't say a word (that caught everyone's attention). He just walked to the board and wrote this: "EVERYONE WANTS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO HELP MOM DO THE DISHES." We all laughed. But then he went on to say this to my students: "Statistically, it's highly unlikely that any of you will ever have the opportunity to run into a burning orphanage and rescue an infant. But, in the smallest gesture of kindness -- a warm smile, holding the door for the person behind you, shoveling the driveway of the elderly person next door -- you have committed an act of immeasurable profundity, because to each of us, our life is our universe."
Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.
22.01.2025 13:50 — 👍 4473 🔁 1554 💬 44 📌 68i know it LOOKS like there's a great eye, lidless and wreathed in flame, atop the tower of Barad Dur, which APPEARS to have been rebuilt, but here's why it's important not to jump to conclusions!
21.01.2025 16:43 — 👍 390 🔁 95 💬 5 📌 0
Would you fall in love with me again, if you knew all I've done? The things I cannot change.
Would you love me all the same?
#Arcane #Jayvik
hi, cis folks! it's trans day of remembrance & we're mourning our dead. the GOP used it to intro federal legislation barring trans folks from the right bathrooms.
this is bigger than rep mcbride, who can’t or won’t fight for herself. we need folks to stand with us now. call scripts & info follow.🧵
#CriticalRoleSpoilers
We have truly come full circle: It was art of Vax that first made me watch CR and now here we are years later.
That's a wrap on my VM art!
A graphic showing candles in the colours of the trans flag - 'Transgender Day of Remembrance', November 20
Rita Hester, a black woman wearing a layered top. She has short hair.
November 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance.
TDOR was founded by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a transgender woman, in 1999 to honour the life of Rita Hester, a black trans woman who was murdered in 1998.
Protect your trans friends and family, speak up for them, and listen to them.
