Samantha Duke says Free Łink 🏳️‍⚧️💖🏴‍☠️

My short answer is yes 😊✨️

Why does no one feel our pain anymore? 😔💔
Winter is coming, and we live in a broken home with no doors or windows. My children are sick and shivering from the cold, and I can’t protect them.
Please, help me with $200 to buy Nasser’s medicine and food for my children. ❤️‍🩹
gofund.me/edd687b8

And know this: the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.

Remember this. Try.

- Nimek's Manofesto, Andor S1

And then remember this: The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this: Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction.

The promise remains, even as donations stay sparse

I have been building a small library of tiddy pics in the meantime

YouTube video by Steel Panther Steel Panther - All I Wanna Do Is Fuck (Myself Tonight) Official Video

These guys are a problem for me

I truly can't tell whether they do it in earnest or not. Where does the parody end and their true selves begin? Are they the dreams of Johnny from Cobra Kai come to life?

Anyway here's "All I Wanna Do Is Fuck Myself"

Whatever else is goin on here it kinda kicks ass

Don't beat yourself up. I once mixed up "disenfranchised" and "disillusioned," everybody fucks up sometimes 😉

6. Poetry. Audiobook also includes some of Tanya Tagaq's own deeply expressive & moving throat singing

5. Memoir. Rasheed Newson's account of being gay in 1980s New York, the people he met &/or worked with while surviving the AIDS crisis

4. Non-fiction. A history of Christofascism and its inherently white supremacist roots

3. An unconventional whodunnit set on & around a bee farm. Anything else constitutes a spoiler; all I can say is it's really fckin good

1. Non-fiction, RWK's account of blending her mixed heritage & embracing the best of both

2. The first being an apocalypse told entirely from the perspective of folks living on a northern Ontario reservation; the second being a mission to find a pair of scouts from the new community

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Moon of the Crusted Snow & Moon of the Turning Leaves - Waubgeshig Rice

Mad Honey - Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan

Wild Faith - Tal Lavin

My Government Means to Kill Me - Rasheed Newson

Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq (esp recommend the audiobook)

Arsenic is natural. Tornadoes are natural. Hemlock is natural. Getting struck by lightning is natural.

Modern medicine isn't. Neither are books, TV, firearms, political theory, or cooked food.

"Natural" is a thought-terminating cliché, and deploying it in argument is either dishonest or naive

TIL Boudicca *may* have been trans

Listen to Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff with @margaret.bsky.social for more 😉

Should add really that if you're a smol newsletter bean who would dearly love to NOT be on Substack, then I will happily roll (and manage) a Ghost install for you for cost + a small maintenance fee.

I'll talk you through setting up your own mailgun and stripe. Do that and you keep ALL your revenue.

Cate is doing really badly, and all I can do about it is post here and ask you for help

Sending her money would really help; little donations can add up if you also share her posts 💖

Yep, embarrassing for them & alienating for any who would have been potential readers

I hate this "phones" conversation regarding queer people and queer kids because the bottom line is, cishet society KNOWS. Right-wingers KNOW that the internet is how queer people connect to each other---hell, that marginalized people period use it to organize and educate.

That's why they hate it.

My guess? Ai generated

gonna try something a little different this time cus i still need very many helps. and maybe tits all i got, but tit will have to do for now so..

money pleaseee 🫴

If youre a cis person who feels the need to disagree with me, but dont follow me, have never interacted before, and don't boost my mutual aid, Maybe donate first, or fuck off instead? I do not need the hassle of trying to figure out your intent.

Terrified me as a kid, but stayed a favorite

Apparently, as of a year ago it was 0.02%

So like, $2.5 billion of about $1.12 trillion

• The Hobbit, 1977
• Wizards, 1977
• Fantastic Planet, 1973
• The Sword in the Stone, 1963
• Bambi Meets Godzilla, 1969
• Neighbors, 1952
• The Owl Who Married a Goose, 1974

4 frame comic. The author is in bookstore. Text above reads : I went to my local bookstore today, and the first thing I saw upon entering was a display of children's books made with aI. In second frame, she holds a book. Text reads : telling stories to children is so quintessential to the human experience. why would anyone want to let robots do it for us? In the third frame there is a recipe book open on a cake picture. Text reads : a few months ago, I bought a recipe book that turned out to have been made with aI. hallucinated cakes that I unknowingly placed next to a binder containing my mom and grandma's hand- written recipes. In the last frame, the author as a child is baking with her grandmother. Text reads : I'm not against aI because it might ''steal my job'' as an artist. I'm against aI because it robs society from the very experiences that connect us.

Nothing is sacred.

I've begun to suspect that online gambling represents an appreciable chunk of Ontario's economic activity

For all the trans people out there, if you like, please share something good that’s going on in your life, no matter how big or small.

I’m sure we could all use some good news to offset all the bad.

How about we start Trans Joy Tuesday! 🏳️‍⚧️