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David Lynch saying ‘One day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.’

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

Sometimes living in the evil death country feels pretty bad

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

to reiterate: it is not up to trans ppl to "vote blue no matter who"

it is up to *cisgender Dems* to decide whether you want us in your coalition or not (see 🧵 below for why the latter would be bad for *all of us*)

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

Lots of supposed liberals/leftists have insisted that trans people stop fighting for our rights because "kitchen table issues" or whatever.

What we're seeing in Kansas right now is the natural outcome of you throwing us under the bus.

Fix your hearts.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

This thread is now dedicated to organizing aid for trans refugees

If you need help or have help to offer, please @ me

Instructions and updates to follow in below 🧵

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.

They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

GO DONATE.

tcpipeline.org

Gotta put ski goggles on before beholding a photo like this or you risk snowblindness

Dang it would be so cool if I could write my books without feeling like I'm in a race against death itself

every day as a trans person doing creative work is forcing yourself to not focus on the nightmares and hunker down and keep doing as good a job as you can in the hope that for a brief window you can fulfill your drive and get your art into the world before the hammer falls on you too

I don't even have words for this shit anymore.

I adore that one.

Congratulations and happy writing!!

A panel of philosophers has been convened to determine the volume of unique experience a clone must accumulate to be considered an identical twin rather than an extension of the original person, as well as the maximum morally acceptable time elapsed between temporally-displaced past/future selves.

Transphobia is an astroturfed moral panic invented from whole cloth by people on the Epstein list

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That's gorgeous. Thanks for sharing!

Tell me your favorite short stories! I wanna read one short story per day. Self-promotion welcome.

It's brilliant!

This hell isn't even fresh

The collective store of human memory is approximately 16 times the age of the universe.

What if we had less mind-shattering horror in the world. Have we tried that

What's even more hilarious is that if the US ever did institute Norwegian tax rates we would still all be dying of medical debt and preventable disease, but ten men would be trillionaires and there'd be a Tomahawk missile for every human being on earth.

Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoy it.

I remember the difference between desert and dessert by considering that in the harsh conditions of the desert even the letters of the alphabet must be carefully conserved.

As someone who watched the entire thing I cannot overstate my envy for you.

What, are you saying we shouldn't *continvoucly* morge our bugfixes over tinm?

The tech's inherent toxicity is so amplified by this age of loneliness. Everybody's starving for human connection and the bot is there to help us stuff our bellies with styrofoam.