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I was a flannel and Docs-wearing baby dyke getting teargassed at queer events in the 90s. Doing the same goddamn things in my 50s but w/ gray hair and orthopedic inserts. Member of the Cult of Pilates. Obsessed with Americana music. Lover of asshole dogs
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Good morning. The dance, whatever that means to you, is worth fighting for. “During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.

submitted 20 hours ago • 56 comments

Ooo this looks fun!

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Let's test this. Trading Places style. Put Chris in charge of everything and put Elon on a football field and have large men run at him as he tries to kick a ball.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Finally a good reason to install Proton Mail ✊

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"Move fast and break things" sounds like some bold techbro vision of innovation, but it's also the same motto of thieves who want to do a smash-and-grab and get the fuck out before anybody can catch them.

submitted 5 days ago • 46 comments

Downloading my Kindle library and revisiting my entire library. Think it might be time to re-read "A Year Without Pants" by @berkun.bsky.social (which is somehow over 10 years old and my how time flies and things fall apart...)

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I got that dog in me (I’m scared of the doorbell)

submitted 8 days ago • 67 comments

The Founding Fathers are *spinning* in their graves

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I have no shame about being on antidepressants, they make my life significantly more functional and I have no plan to go off them anytime soon. At some point, states and our representatives need to protect our rights, including access to modern medicine

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“When eugenics-obsessed billionaires try to sell me a new toy, I don’t ask how many keystrokes it will save me at work. It’s impossible for me to discuss the utility of a thing when I fundamentally disagree with the purpose of it.”

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Trans Am

submitted 420 days ago • 35 comments

For too long the rage that sits, simmering within people across the United States has been stuffed down, delegitimized, squashed. But we need it. We need it now. And we need vehicles to allow its unleashing to topple oligarchs and help usher in a new era. My latest: www.jphilll.com/p/your-anger...

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

To get through the automated menu and get to a person who will pass along your concerns, press 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

man i am just straight up not interested in people who will be perfectly okay in the next couple years moaning in public over and over and over again that we’re all cooked and doing nothing else. fuck off man! some of us have things to live for

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

submitted 11 days ago • 783 comments

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Did Elon learn nothing from trying to rebrand Twitter?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

My petty American gene has been activated...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

submitted 12 days ago • 235 comments

yes girls!!!

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

No lies detected.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including: • Pride Month • Black History Month • Holocaust Remembrance Day • Jewish Heritage • Hispanic Heritage • Indigenous People Month

submitted 14 days ago • 520 comments

This is so delightful to me

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

Congressperson John Lewis, whose ‘good trouble’ they love to quote so much, was arrested 45 times in his life. The last was in 2013 protesting for immigrants, during the Obama presidency.

submitted 14 days ago • 19 comments

Resegregation. Call it what it is.

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MAGA: We want a war on Canada Kendrick: *Murders a Canadian live at the Super Bowl* MAGA: Not like that

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments