Barbara Friend Ish

Regular liberal people must come to understand that there is no way you can appease Nazis and especially that there is no way that you can shrink yourself so they won't hurt you. Their main goal is to hurt you.

⚠️ Warning: The Trump administration is circulating footage from 2020 to make the situation in L.A. appear more chaotic than it is. This is an intentional effort to manufacture a larger crisis. Stay alert. Pay attention. The propaganda machine is in overdrive.

once you recognize that the reason horse cops exist is because a deliberate horse trampling has plausible deniability that hitting someone twice with a cruiser doesn't it becomes really weird that we act like horse cops are normal.

Trump made the troops homeless. Incredible work, sir

Hey there. Look. They want you mesmerized by the fuckery. They want you paralyzed by the storm of bullshit that they're going to throw into the air. Measured doses is enough. Figure out what you can do something about, then do that. Don't sacrifice your sanity to the rest.

Thank you! I can still pass for human. But passing for tame? Conventional? Problematic.

Right??!
I mean, the answer is “money”. It always is, unless we’re talking about a novel someone can’t stop trying to fix.

This just in: I seem to be going completely feral. Welcome to 2025. You’ve been warned.

I am relucantly picking up a new Windows laptop to run that one indispensible Windows-only program, because the writing is on the wall. So very unexcited about learning the squirrelly current incarnation of Windows.

Inside Meta’s dehumanizing new speech policies for trans people "A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it," reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram

Facebook is preventing links to stories about its horrendous anti-trans/queer policies. So that’s cool. Anyway.

Photo of the poem, “Litanies to my heavenly brown body” by Mark Aguhar. BLESSED ARE THE SISSIES BLESSED ARE THE BOI DYKES BLESSED ARE THE PEOPLE OF COLOR MY BELOVED KITH AND KIN BLESSED ARE THE TRANS BLESSED ARE THE HIGH FEMMES BLESSED ARE THE SEX WORKERS BLESSED ARE THE AUTHENTIC BLESSED ARE THE DIS-IDENTIFIERS BLESSED ARE THE GENDER ILLUSIONISTS BLESSED ARE THE NON-NORMATIVE BLESSED ARE THE GENDERQUEERS BLESSED ARE THE KINKSTERS BLESSED ARE THE DISABLED BLESSED ARE THE HOT FAT GIRLS BLESSED ARE THE WEIRDO-QUEERS BLESSED IS THE SPECTRUM BLESSED IS CONSENT BLESSED IS RESPECT BLESSED ARE THE BELOVED WHO I DIDN’T DESCRIBE, I COULDN’T DESCRIBE, WILL LEARN TO DESCRIBE AND RESPECT AND LOVE AMEN

Blessed are we.

Also interested in other reccs for something with light CMS and good community features that doesn’t require me to code, because the code ship sailed about 10 years ago.

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Does anyone here have experience with Ghost.org? I’m looking to re-home the Salon, because FB is about to become utterly intolerable.

New policy:
Beginning 2025, I will no longer be accepting responsibility for other people’s crazy.
If you have relied on me for this service in the past, you are encouraged to make other arrangements.

YouTube video by Céline Tshika hope u like this sketch, but no worries if not

An anthem

youtu.be/BCNNRmUL1As?...

If you’re looking for a free way to support an author, did you know you can ask your library to stock a book you want to read that they don’t have yet? And usually it’s a very basic online form? Google your library name plus the words “request a title” or “suggest a title” to find yours.

Stealing this.

Heads up everyone - this means they hate how well the blocklists work, which is amazing. But also time to be discerning about which lists you subscribe to.

Love the meta alt text❤️

Netflix needs to stop asking if I’m still watching and start asking if I moved the laundry to the dryer

Finally saw a cybertruck. It was black and tricked out with blackout window tint, and honesttogod I thought, “How is that dumpster doing 65 mph?” I almost drove off the road. Only afterward did I realize what I had encountered.

WTAF.

Remember the rules here: Don’t ever engage, just block.

It’s still a lot of randos coming into posts to antagonize or debate on purpose. Dont fall for the okeedoke. If the vibes are weird block

Also remember that you can detach quotes, hide bad replies, and blocking here is nuclear

THIS 💯 %.

More so if you are an information and memory preserver: librarians archivists, museum staff, heritage conservationists...

They came for the culture already out first.

Bluesky,

Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this

I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this

This tracks.

I guess now is a good time to remind people that TRANSRACIAL is a term adoptees of color who were adopted by white people use. it does not mean someone who has “changed” races bc that is not a thing