It's #NationalComingOutDay, and a few thoughts:

* If it's not safe, and you don't have a "Plan B," don't let a random date on the calendar make you come out without a net. You matter way, way more than an awareness campaign. You're still queer. You still count.

This article sums up my thoughts.

"Chances are, your Jewish friends are not okay right now.

I know I’m not. I’m hurting, I’m angry, and I’m fearful for the future. This is a new phase of terror, and in many ways, the worst is yet to come. I’m afraid for my friends, my family, and my community.

I feel this way not despite my liberal political views, but because of them. I’m an anti-occupation, two-state solution progressive, opposed to the current government’s gutting of Israeli democratic institutions and to its jingoistic, violent, and discriminatory statements and actions against Palestinians."

"This moment also hurts because so many on the American left seem to have lost any sense of human decency and are cheering this barbaric, disgusting, horrifying incursion as an act of 'resistance.'"

https://jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/your-jewish-friends-are-not-okay

death to all websites that display 50000 different in-page pop-ups just to be annoying as fuck

• no, i do not consent to your tracking cookies;
• no, i do not want to sign up for your newsletter;
• no, i will not disable my malware/adblocker;
• no, i will not enable push notifications;
• i don’t give a damn that you changed your “privacy” policy, this is the first time i viewed opened your website anyway;
• i don’t care if this site looks better in the app, fix your fucking website then;
• oh, i need chrome to view this page? what year are we in, 2000?;
• i no longer want to read the full article if it means i have to create account;
• and no, i do not want to sign in with my nonexistent google account either

for fucks sake