They/Them | 🧑💻 | CST
Dare to be kind
Solidarity is our instinct, our humanity; so of course they had to teach it out of us, to make machines of us. Let us reclaim our humanity, and in so doing, the world.
| Objective | Survive ( pending revolution ) |
The Stupid Auction is up to $250! Support Minneapolis against ICE and/or Kansas trans folks, your choice, and get the inside scoop before the world does.
It's not me calling this stupid, by the way. It's the bidders.
Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth. Write letters, complain to staff, refuse to answer. Make it impossible to collect sex assigned at birth. Be really offended that anyone would ask you. Make enough noise that if trans people want to quietly not answer or give whatever answer feels correct to them, no one will notice.
sometimes i get so frustrated by artificial limits on technology that only exist because of profit incentives that i cry from the frustration and it ruins my entire day.
the latest instance was setting up a translator to allow bedrock clients to play on java minecraft servers, only to find out i need to login to microsoft and enter a code each time i connect to the server, despite running minecraft on my own vps.
i have bought minecraft probably 4-6 times, i hate copyright. abolish it.
maybe this is obvious but it took me too long to figure out:
if you think yourself the type of person who would never do X, you likely are going to ignore yourself doing X because you have internalized not doing X as an identity (we often struggle to accept reality if it contradicts our identity). accept it as a possibility and you not only will more readily accept having done X should it happen, you will likely be more aware of situations developing that could lead you to do X.
"don't talk about politics" hits differently when the people saying it live in a different U.S. state as you, and are actively supporting the masked, armed thugs invading your city and hurting your neighbors and family members
it feels like being kicked while you're down and told to just shut the fuck up, by the people you thought were your friends
George Floyd died in 2020, so the US said, "OMG! Racism is bad! We can change!"
In 2021, the US *talked about* some modest reforms.
In 2022 and 2023, white grievance against those reforms had reached fever pitch.
2024 saw record police funding, record cops killing Black people, and DEI rollback.🤷🏿♂️
That whole arc took less than 4 years, and the United States is now more racist than it was in 2019.🤦🏿♂️
US racism is incredibly durable and self-healing. The rules of engagement of US society, including who is allowed to criticize what systems, make it so that any meager gains can be clawed back.
In the moments after George Floyd, many people thought that the US had changed for the better, and changed for good.
But a lot of us older Black folk said to ourselves, "👴🏿OK! Now what durable improvements can we put in place before everyone goes back to business as usual?"
We've seen this before.
My point is: Do not mistake temporary revulsion prompted by white people seeing what happened to Renee Good, for widespread opposition to the idea of ethnically cleansing the United States.
That would be a mistake.
You have a limited window to put any durable changes in place.
And prepare yourself emotionally for that pendulum to swing back.
Because if you are not prepared, it will smash you, and break your spirit.
Ironically: a lot of Black people were less emotionally devastated by the anti-civil rights swingback, because we knew it was coming.🤷🏿♂️
It's a long game.
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Andrew Kelley
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
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