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I tend to think about what is happening to America right now as the ongoing attempted murder-suicide of multiracial democracy by a white nationalist minority and it’s very frightening but what’s happening in LA feels like a good sign that we’re not going down without a fight

Chat, how do authoritarian takeovers usually go when the army isn't paid?

"The USSR wasn't totalitarian," says some guy with fucking Stalin in his header picture.

It wouldn't be BlueSky without someone who ostensibly agrees with me picking holes in a tangential rhetorical point based on misreading it.

Yeah, see, the other thing about "distraction" as a rhetorical device - assuming it's in good faith and not just an excuse to never do anything - is it assumes that when whatever the Real Thing is happens, it'll be announced by a cackling villain who pushes a big red FASCISM button on TV.

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

A spreadsheet?! Oh right.

“No civil police force could hold out against an irate and resolute population. The trick is not to let them realize that.” - Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

This is fascism. No amount of capitulation at this point will cause them to de-escalate: the escalation is already baked in and all this bluster is just to build up a smokescreen of plausible deniability. Now's the time they play their hand.

"Don't fight back, you're doing what they want!" Trump wants to terrorize immigrants and send them to camps. He wants to brutalize protestors, he wants to have an excuse to grab power, and those things are going to happen if you show any resistance to him at all. Your choice is how you react.

"they're just gonna use this as an excuse to crack down harder" yeah just like when you finally stood up to your childhood bully and got in trouble for it because he cried. you kinda had to do it anyway though. not just to prove to everyone else that you could fight back, but to prove it to yourself

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

(Cw: food) Behold all the cake! Never had to use a roasting tin to bake a cake before.

One of Spousebot's things is not checking how many people a recipe is supposed to serve before embarking on it. Normally it's like, serves 4, or serves 6 or something. Had an all-time record today though. "We have a lot of cake." "Oh no - how many was it *meant* to serve?" *Long pause.* "24."

This color version is adorable!!!! This Patreon is amazing, honestly 😍

Wild idea, but hear me out: if you have a toilet in your place of business that is for anyone to use, you could just label it as "Toilet" or use a picture of a toilet. You actually don't *need* to reference anyone's gender on the sign.

UK/US LITERARY AGENTS: Are you willing to look at submissions from former Unbound authors on the, uh, rebound? If so, please drop a line in my DMs with your contact and #MSWL or area of expertise. Especially looking for people who rep nonfiction. Some TRULY excellent books looking for homes.

Indognito Nope, I have seen no dogs round here. www.worldofmoose.com/products/ind...

The breathless cis reaction to Simone Biles's statement proves how little any of them have been listening to us.

trying to understand my ex better

IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT EVERYTHING COMING OUT OF AI IS A PROBABILITY-INSPIRED HALLUCINATION AND IT HAS NO CONCEPT OF "TRUTH", YOU SHOULD NOT BE TALKING ABOUT AI AND YOU ARE NOT SAFE USING IT.