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| Blog | https://www.ridleykemp.com |
| Soundcloud | https://soundcloud.com/ridley-kemp |
| @MrRidleyKemp |
Trans rights are human rights.
Black lives matter.
No human is illegal.
Love is love.
Their body, their choice.
Science is real.
Kindness is everything.
P.S. If you started following me due to this post, PLEASE look at my profile and decide if it's for you.
Make sure general nerdiness, tabletop roleplay, and other related pursuits are the kind of content you want to see in your timeline.
Our values obviously align, but our interests/hobbies might not. No hard feelings if you unfollow. 😉
When you see racism or transphobia or misogyny and you think “well, it sucks, but it doesn’t effect me” and don’t do anything?
you’re making a choice to be complicit
for @LiberalCurrents, I wrote about a rhetorical trap we are seeing so frequently: the use of children’s well-being to justify atrocities that endanger them. My examples here focus particularly on the anti-LGBTQ+ movements but it truly is everywhere. The original version of this thing included every reactionary movement and was WAY TOO LONG
content warning for basically every kind of bigotry, plus CSA
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-lovejoy-trap-fascism-masquerading-as-care/

Protecting children from danger: it’s one of the most virtuous aims we can think of. Children are seen as innocent, adorable, and helpless. Want to raise the stakes in your screenplay? Put a child in danger, maybe add in a runaway baby carriage sequence. Want to establish what a
Even when they were selling a gazillion records, not a lot of people would admit to liking the Village People.
But, at the end of the day, YMCA has the biggest hook in the history of popular music and you have to respect that.
Here's a neat #Mastodon trick I just discovered:
You can access an RSS feed of any user's posts simply by adding .rss onto the end of their profile URL — so, for instance:
You can then use that link to follow all of that person's posts in Feedly, Feedbin, or any other RSS reading service.
Heck, you can even do it directly in #Chrome, if you want!
WIP, hexagons