April Daniels ⚧

Can you tell me some of your favorites?

What is the most transfem coded genre of music, do you think?

I was reluctant to believe that, but I have heard so many conflicting things about this, about who was driving it and why, that I don't think we'll know what really happened until after the historians dig through the rubble.

It's a religion of Ressentiment. They can never be healthy until they give it up, and they never will.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

And for those outside the wage system altogether, it's even worse. If you're disabled and rely on SSI, payments are currently capped at $994 a month nationwide.

*Nowhere* in the country is that enough to afford even a modest one-bedroom apartment.

But it's not just low wages. Work itself—increasingly gigified or contracted out, and stripped of basic benefits—has become more precarious than ever.

For many, the real threat isn't job loss. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours or stability to keep them housed.

The numbers are staggering:

Rent is now unaffordable for a record *half* of U.S. renters.

Some 30 million jobs pay less than $15 an hour. The average wage needed to afford a one-bedroom apartment has climbed to $28.17 — nearly four times the federal minimum wage, which hasn't gone up in 16 years.

As alarming as the official Point-in-Time numbers are, the reality is far worse.

Recent research suggests the true number of people experiencing homelessness in the U.S.—including those living in cars, hotel rooms, or doubled up with others—is at least *six times* higher than the official count.

Set for tonight and tomorrow but I could use any help people are willing to offer ❤️

All that to say, comparison is actual literal death and there is no way to kill yourself as a creator faster than to try to aspire to someone else’s success or assume that there’s a finite amount of attention and a finite amount of time to reach it. Things take time to reach eyes.

As usual, the state gets a special exonerative vocabulary for doing things universally recognized as wrong for mere people

Kinda not the point!

Very problematic of them!

Total War: Warhammer 3 is grotesque in size, and I'm honestly thinking of buying DLC to make it bigger, because I need my evil lady generals.

Now is a great time to start reading The Guns of August if you haven't already.

The NYT style guide

Trans New Yorkers Deserve Better Than Mamdani's Inaction On Trans Youth Care Closures The mayor has immediate steps he can take to ensure continuity of care for trans youth.

Really weird how many leftists--including trans leftists!--I saw shitting on Mamdani for the snowball thing, but staying completely silent about how he's totally dropping the ball on trans rights. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-new-...

The fact that the U.S. has been so successfully brainwashed into thinking that sunburned white guys with cheeky Nazi tattoos Define the Working Class when the ACTUAL working class is non-white women (many of them immigrants) - yeah, that’s one of the great madness runes of our time.

Since they turned down Trump.

having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you:

you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.

Seems like he might be kind of a charlatan.

The DNC exists so that no Democrat running for President will ever acknowledge this reality.

How come “How are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?

when people point back at Reconstruction to explain where we are as a country (a good impulse) its often to claim that Reconstruction completely failed

I'd say it's more like: Reconstruction was partial and compromised, which kept the Civil War going as a domestic political battle vs a won war

My government has a real “we didn’t know starting a war would cause a war“ vibe going on which I realize I should be outraged about in the abstract but find myself mainly nonplussed by at this point.

every endocrinologist I've ever seen for HRT has tried to enforce an arbitrary maximum hormone level based on health risks associated with archaic forms of HRT that haven't been prescribed in years but not a single one has been concerned about minimum levels for my health, much less my transition

You just don't listen to anyone who doesn't already agree with you, huh?

Okay. My experience is that one of my best friends joined to feed his wife and young daughter, and the other joined to get away from his abusive household. I don't know what you think you're proving.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a trans woman in possession of a third eye must be a witch--BURN THE WITCH