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thetgit.bsky.social
(My moniker is from the Sparks song) (My photo is not current)(I am a scrap on the heap of life) I enjoy parentheses.
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Today’s lesson:you can be mutuals w/someone for awhile and then they show their whole ass out. Great timing while us disabled folks are under attack by the current admin.

Here, have some good news/something to keep pushing on

Same old same old bullshit: White Men Can’t Be Terrorists. And we’re going to see more bc when an armed, conservative, white guy loses his financial footing/job they go off. Add in: if they lose their marriage, lose their kids... Powder kegs in a meat suit.

(the entire lp Sorry to Bother You is a solid 10/10. It hasn’t worn thin over the years of heavy rotation.)

The political assassin/terrorist has been caught alive

Yesterday morning I got an email from an old 80s punk scene friend of mine,now in LA, that she was going to No Kings. She said she felt safe because the Nat Guard & Marines were on hand. I was shocked. I’m still shocked. I immediately replied: Nat Guard & Marines are there to serve trump, not LA🧵

Share, and contact your representatives. We already know this administration wants to diminish or eliminate us. Accessibility for All or it’s not actually accessibility!

1990s While working in a DC bookstore, I heard a British voice ask where Remains of the Day was. I blurted,”that’s by Ishiguro,I’ll show you” & then I realized I was helping Richard Butler of Psychedelic Furs. I said,”You look remarkably like RB of PF” & he chuckled. I told him how much I enjoyed

My dad as a teenage racer in the late 40s who later became a fed employee for various branches of the military & ultimately the Secret Service. Most of his bosses were women. He was anti racist. He gave little me my first “Shirley Chisholm for President” button. He died at age 41 when I was 8.

Stop saying “Less than lethal rounds” and call them what they are: Assault & Injury Rounds. Or something less clunky that conveys their intent: assault,damage,and injury. Which can still end up being lethal.