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They/she. UW MLIS student. Community libraries, TTRPGs, research rabbit holes. Uninvited guest on Spokane land.
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See also, the 1933 Nazi burning of the Institute of Sexology, which held replaceable research into trans and gay identities. Attacks on LGBTQ rights are an effective way to test the waters on what society will tolerate and what other marginalized groups can be targeted next.

In today's episode of doomerism isn't a strategy, here's a list of things you can do today to make the world around you suck a little bit less: Pick ONE thing and do it. bsky.app/profile/itsa...

This number dropping by 2 might seem like nothing, but imagine if we ALL called? So, so many people feel like none of their actions matter, but the actions of (presumably) a few lead to 2 changed votes. These tiny actions matter SO much. The only way we lose is if we give up entirely.

People are trying to think of ways to be cute about this and: do not. Do not call the feds with spurious reports. Do not play word games about extra terrestrials. Simply do not interact and do not answer questions about other people and always, always, demand a judicial warrant

I'm sure somebody had already said this and I haven't seen it yet but: people clinging to "I never liked him" or "actually I COULD tell there was something wrong with him" or "I can't believe we let it when when it's all over his books" is a trauma response. /1

ya girl got her intermittent chronic illness state paid leave approved. PTO about to become a nonzero number baybee