crystal

with this admin there is always a healthy chance of Maybe They Just Won't, under the What Are You Gonna Do About It doctrine

tariffs struck down! Refunds to the companies that paid them! and the consumers that paid them get...???? Uhhhhhhhhhhhh oh no oh god this was the plan the whole time

hogging all the gender for myself in my relationships, historically

need a "don't talk to me until you don't have a gender" coffee mug

there's a lot of cool things about often sleeping alone and having a standalone room I can use whenever I want but occasionally it's 1 am and you're like aww dang

"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.

Get rid of your Rings. They aren't changing a thing.

Except "maps' in their ads.

things woud go fucking crazy if me and an open minded woman got up to some bisexual Shit

i dont think cultivating your own feed makes you a nobler or better person, we're all just wasting our one precious life posting dumb bullshit regardless of platform we're on. just really shows how effective the "turn on, tune in, drop out" original brainrotting technique still is

this & other comments i've seen about how bluesky needs to "improve its algorithm" suggest a lot of people have grown to like a totally passive social media experience where a computer pushes an endless stream of content tailored to what it thinks they would like while they clap like seals

Wednesday mood

"Why should pedophiles decide who goes to which bathroom?"

"Why should pedophiles be demanding genital inspections of teenagers in order to play soccer after school?"

Seriously, the criticism writes itself, and it also wins people over! The moral victory is strategic too!

"everyone is 12" might have been overstating the maturity of everyone involved

Look I know liberals are desperate to try to read the tea leaves of an electorate they feel they cannot possibly understand but I really don't think "well I guess Trump is kind of tall" is the secret sauce

"Talent is only for rich people" is such an op

the "learning to take care of yourself" thing is where a lot of dolls get lost tbh, lots of stuff is taught socially at puberty that you really have to go looking for if you weren't already exposed to it

"I am less than half as old as Trump and Biden" is already a hell of a pitch

political opportunities are never guaranteed, and if there is ever a time to retire the politics of Waiting In Line for Your Turn, it's now, when "it's his / her turn" has produced only the out of touch septu- and octogenarians that Democrats have tried to run since 2016

I don't really have an interest in clown stuff at all, frankly I don't understand how anyone does but you do you

I feel like I'm not really understanding the whole "30 something mall goth to 30 something circus clown" thing, can y'all hang on and gimme time to catch up to the first thing before you move on

Jmail is often a couple days / weeks behind these days, gotta search Justice.gov

I think the zoomers have caught on and think it's funny to watch millennials use words they clearly hate

if you wear these stupid glasses I'm getting the fuck away from you

my "all my emotional support is solution seeking" shirt is prompting a lot of questions already answered by the shirt

oh for sure

honestly it is really really funny

Biden admin did a few things that were cool! Not enough things, but a few. Terrible messaging on those things. Trump did worse than nothing but with loud and consistent messaging. People won't often fall for messaging alone, but if there isn't substance behind either candidate, it's all they have.

for the portion of Bluesky that does not know what a joke is: these are voters whose lives sucked roughly the same amount during Trump 1 and during Biden. Their problems persisted. Pols cannot "win by default" consistently, they have to both do things for people and communicate the things they did.

I think the best way to secure the votes of these people is to be really mean to them about changing their mind. Make it clear that they are awful for taking this long and how dare they ever be disillusioned with a Democrat ever again. Hasn't worked before, but maybe this time it'll work for us!

are you really nonbinary or are you scared about your body and gender roles

are you really binary trans or are you scared to break the mold by being yourself