dawookie.bsky.social
Animal person, writer, art enjoyer
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The job of being a dem right now should be 1. public visibility EVERY DAY (experiment w/ venue, format, message) 2. solicit feedback and listen!! .. there needs to be so much spaghetti thrown at the wall we can't see the wall any more
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Forget MAHA; this is WAGDA, we're all gonna die anyway
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helping his bf recover from werewolf transformation.. very sweet
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yes, but are the sentences long?
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Hell, I told mine to fuck off for choosing not to vote at all
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ok, well, fire away then, I guess
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I think movements need all the types, all the strategies, each according to their own strengths. Malcolm X and MLK brought different kinds of fans to the fight. Cooperative endeavors can't help but lurch a bit. Critique and debate are good but don't let it turn into a circular firing squad
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If increased visibility wasn't already changing things, there'd be little to backlash against. But yes, when the roof's leaking, you buy buckets first. When resources are limited, you spend all your money on buckets and the roof never gets fixed. It's how the system keeps the poor & powerless down
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Freedom's a slippery concept, but I hear you.
What about a USAID-inspired strategy of soft power? Like a disaster relief group that helps clean up after storms (since the govt's hobbling FEMA) w/ LGBTQ branding? Trans people aren't numerous enough to win a war -- you have to wage & win PR battles.
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haha sorry, brainstorming is how I cope with things being terrible. Thank you for doing the work!
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(thinking about having to switch between upstream disaster prevention vs. immediate first aid and wondering, what's something that could accomplish both at the same time?) I think it's obliterating the current tribal lines -- getting everyone to pick teams based on different criteria
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I keep wishing the zone was flooded with trans people .. like an "it gets better" project but outward facing .. an "I'm a person" push .. the right's better at storytelling so might succeed at twisting it.. but maybe a joint effort between all the most vulnerable groups getting screwed right now?
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Accusing the account of grift w/out actual grift involved (ie. they sell merch and overestimate positive numbers?) just makes it seem like I dunno, maybe they're fulla shit but *you* are definitely participating in furthering a conspiracy *against* them. So... point?
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merfolk affair
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no, Brian's just really good at letting the silly roll off him... there's a ridiculous episode of the infinite monkey cage podcast about aliens ... www.bbc.com/audio/play/p... around the 10:20 mark Lucy asks Brian "Now that we've convinced you, will you have to go back and re-study or something?" 🤣
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AltNPS's thing, since tRump's 1st term, has been 1. here's what's going on 2. here's how to stay safe 3. here's how to resist. They offered a higher protest turn-out estimate than others. OK. The numbers and error bars will shake out at some point. In the meantime, congrats on being a cynic?
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they should make a mime outfit an option.. then Tav's weird vibe would suddenly make sense
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ohhhh, he's definitely one of those people whose parents parked his crib underneath a ceiling fan as a baby
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one more b/c this one was bugging me (ha, realizing most of my ah-ha moments are "don'ts") teasing a deus ex machina throughout your story does not make it *not* a deus ex machina! (nor does it make it satisfying when it swoops in to satisfy its plot obligation)
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noticed this reading a novel the other day -- if you put more than a line or two between a question and an answer, either the reader will forget the question OR if the question is compelling enough, will blur right past the in-between to get to the answer. Either way, it's bad craft
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Human brains forget details in real life, so in storytelling, anything a writer includes gets flagged as important. Don't bog down your reader for sensory immersion's sake - share only what supports plot, theme, tone or char development (ie. don't make random set dressings feel like Chekov's gun)
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@chrismurphyct.bsky.social don't listen when the leaderships says, "Don't get distracted by the drama; stay on message" .. Lean in! Man-children should NOT be in charge of government. You can say *that* in this moment
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to be fair, I sent my dad (a CT non-voter) a video of Murphy listing Trump's corruptions, & he got pissed b/c it was a "partisan" video. You're right Murphy's missing an opportunity to hammer home that man-children shouldn't be in charge but mostly he's been criticized for being too hair on fire!
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the blue parts of Ohio are pretty good
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since every accusation is a confession, is tRump trying to get Elon to make him a robot body double to sit in on his most boring meetings?
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leave it. I'm discovering the next penicillin
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I think it's Dan Savage's advice that you don't owe your family access to you if they're terrible that "popularized" breaking up w/ your parents .. I don't know how many people actually do it but I stopped talking to my dad when the weather was the only safe topic left (now that's political too)
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can't wait until they test this thing and we all just get vaporized
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>KISS JOKE
consent matters
>ASK JOKE FOR KISS
no matter what you do, the joke bites you in the ass
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reminds me, too, of the folks who said they got vaxed but got sick anyway (when that's the case, you almost certainly got a much less severe version of the disease!) as if vaccines are either impenetrable force fields or absolutely useless
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hm. well, I block people for mentioning bacon, so I'm not sure why I'm even playing devil's advocate for this person. You seem thoughtful, tho. Nice to meet you :)
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I think this is a great discussion & I hope they're hearing these arguments as well. They might not be in a place to agree, but from what you've said, they do sound like a person trying to be thoughtful. We all benefit from a broader perspective delivered in a non-smack-down way when we can get it
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haha I'm in the "why the hell are there three pages of trigger warnings at the beginning of this book?" generation but also, I went to Oberlin so... yeah, ok, fine :)
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interesting. The ecosystem as a whole tho benefits from embracing a certain level of public dumbassery -- like constructive criticism helps writers improve, criticizers benefit from expressing bad takes or bad form (or seeing others do it) and *getting criticized* - we can spiral up as well as down
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also, objectively, is any of the advice any good? just curious
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Gah! people are frustrating. Peopling is hard & there's no manual but even if there was I'd prolly be like "What? I'm not doing that" half the time. It would be nice if empathy was the first tool we all always reached for. But we can't control others, only ourselves (& ourselves only a little) <3
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Me: <<scanning code like the Matrix>> There's the missing comma
Professional programmer: You know they have software that...
Me: WHAT
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having opinions out loud is the WORST
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why pay at all? smart businessguy can find a way to declare bankruptcy and not pay anyone anything, right?
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We need a superpac that just runs ads targeted at Democratic senior leaders with messages like "RETIRE BEFORE YOU FUMBLE AT THE 50 YARD LINE" "RETIRE WHILE PEOPLE STILL WANT TO READ YOUR FUTURE MEMOIR" "RETIRE BEFORE YOUR BRAIN FALLS OUT OF YOUR BUTT" all-caps obvi because old
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"Siri, play Augustana's song about going to Boston"
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an hour after you dropped your brain in the toilet
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dirty air, probably. depends how close you are to industry. flavor profiles may vary