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It's amazing how no one ever explains anything when you flat out full stop refusing to listen to anything trans people say

What I know from being Black my whole life, and poor for the majority of it, is that politely ignoring a root issue to attend to one closer to the surface is like robbing Peter to pay Paul. It’s a band-aid on a gaping wound, and it will not hold your flesh together for long. The US needs stitches.

I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.

As long as the loudest folks on the left insist tone-policing, compromise on human rights, and acquiescence are our only options for a unified country, they will continue to lose the faith of the marginalized. And even when they win, they’ll just be waiting to lose the same way again.

It’s obvious to me that he resents the places his theories cannot reach. And this resentment invokes a profound lack of curiosity, an intellectual eye-roll, for the stories of those who have always had to know what he can’t fathom. That’s why his analysis is flawed. And why he won’t see that.

What Klein couldn’t seem to admit was that his core political analysis is born of his personal experience, and nothing about his personal experience prepared him to face the complexity of the current moment. What he could not cope with acknowledging, is that he never thought that would matter.

If all the left needed was policy that improves people lives, they’d win every time. What keeps them from that isn’t a lack of good ideas or evidence of good outcomes from those ideas. The biggest obstacle is the societal push to ignore what the lack of soft skills in everyday people leads to.

This is the kind of issue people will claim we can do nothing about. That’s untrue, of course, but it’s more complex than most people want to deal with. They believe winning elections and changing policies is the only good thing we can do, and want to ignore what keeps us trapped in this cycle.

Marginalized folks know TONE and LANGUAGE CHOICE are only part of what’s being communicated. But those in the power majority are accustomed to spaces that value and demand the faux nicety of polite tones no matter the core message being shared. To them, sounding angry makes you wrong in any event.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

this shit's so rough because I clicked on a video and got immediately hit with an AI voice speaking in weird semi-sensical sentences and my first thought was "oh this is an IA channel, fuck this" but then I noticed it was actually just a video in spanish that youtube had decided to translate for me

You're suggesting isolating people from the consequences of their actions is an improvement?

I don't know how to fix people but "let's just ban all the trans people" isn't going to do it

i feel like it’s so telling that the bluesky staff never actually acknowledge the specific complaint of trans people being disproportionately targeted and virulent transphobes not receiving any punishment whatsoever. it’s always some abstract statement like this

The Bluesky staff trying to engineer some kind of mass exodus to non-Bluesky AT Protocol instances is too funny. Challenging people who abandoned a major platform very recently. They don't need to be loosely tied to this platform. They are the exact sort to fully abandon the whole thing

Destroying an entire website because you dont want to do the job of "moderating the website you intentionally built" is insane behavior

Remember when Bluesky changed the TOS to accommodate Jesse Singal? Now the CTO is retroactively claiming that he didn’t violate the TOS

Like how people were banned for saying rest in piss tho it didn't violate the tos? Like I and others had my posts deleted (w/o notification) that didn't violate anything? Like how trans people get banned for existing? When your tos is calvinball you'll modify each free action, they're meaningless

Yeah, well, that's what happens when you change the ToS specifically to accommodate someone.

It's actually pretty funny to me that you guys had this cool, interesting, diverse place organically form and you're burning it all down to try and be the New Coke of Nazi websites.

He did, it honestly shouldn't even matter anyway because you can just refuse service to evil people, and even if what you're saying was true - using the situation to mock his targets, a group instrumental in this site's early success, is Very Bad! I'm sorry, that's just it.

you changed it AFTER he violated it just so he wouldn’t get banned, u did the same shit when a white supremacist threatened to kill a black person. you changed the ToS when a nazi podcaster died but being transphobic and racist doesnt violate it? clearly you only change it when its convenient for u

"Between June 9, when the video dropped, and the June 14 registration deadline, 54,291 people registered to vote... That’s 82% of all the voters who registered in June and 43% of all registrations in 2025 before the June 14 cutoff."

A new KFF study reports: 24 million Americans will see their health care premiums under the Affordable Care Act DOUBLE.

Further, 15 million people will be thrown off their health care entirely.
 
Unacceptable. We can’t subject millions of Americans to this unnecessary suffering.

today is iwaoi day again in japan!

#10月1日は岩及の日

1 = i
0 = wa (0 looks like a ring/circle which in japanese is 輪 (わ) — this is read as "wa")
0 = o
1 = i

happy iwaoi day everyone! 🩵

A hand with hennaed fingertips and the tatreez symbol for sunflower drawn on the palm holding an olive tree branch at night. The photo is framed by thin, yellow lines and stylized flowers. At the bottom is a quote from the Qur'an.

"By the fig and the olive"
#art #photography

A turquoise square with a pink Tatreez border. In the four corners there are pink stars with a yellow center and small white stars with a yellow center. In the middle there is a print of a jasmine branch with blossoms and flowerbuds. The print is framed with a pink line and the arabic phrase 'yasmeeni'.

Heady jasmine on a humid summer day
#art

A frame with floral Tatreez symbols in vibrant blue, green, orange and pink. In the middle there is a waning moon held between two hennaed hands. Over them there is a blooming jasmine with two buds to each side. Next to them are three stars. At the bottom the two hands are connected with arabic calligraphy spelling "ya qamari".

'Oh my moon'

#art #flowers #moon

Pokémon feat. Hatsune Miku Project Voltage doing a Black & White themed song on Black & White's 15th anniversary.

Is this a hint? (No)

Illustration of Clippy the Paperclip in a Mad Max style truck, blasting through the wasteland. #kimgakaku

Wasteland Warrior Clippy
Illustration done for autonocast.com 🛻📎🧡

Thank you so much @niedermeyer.online for the opportunity, this was one of my favorite jobs in 2024!

My fave take is @kim-hu.com's post-apocalyptic Wasteland Warrior Clippy...