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I do appreciate one of the interviewees, at least, mentioning both the sentiment of I'm glad we're talking about this, but protection means action. Let's see some action. And that capitalist success does not mean safety.
Text quoted from the article, with a highlight for "...a lot of the visibility and progress that we have made, has been within the capitalist frame of reference. I'm not saying that we shouldn't have that, because everybody else does, but I think we also need to be thinking about how we can build resilience outside of it."
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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What a wild thing to speak for the entire trans community this way.

If I did "crave work" (I do not.) how would I get that without protection?

Women need protection from a patriarchal society. Wild to suggest (even conventionally beautiful, passing) trans women don't.
What it seems we really crave is to work, love and exist with dignity and, more broadly, the opportunities to thrive. If you gave the dolls that, you'd find most of us could easily protect ourselves.
October 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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how beautiful gaea is, how marvelous our little blue speck
A close up of maple leaves on a tree. Green, but starting to turn bright reds and yellows at their edges. Water drops still clinging to the leaf surface from recent rain and morning dew A wide landscape shot from a hill over an overgrown meadow with a small forest in the background. A cloud-streaked blue sky hangs above the trees. Mist rises from the meadow and light filtered in from trees on the left show rays streaking down to the misty grasses below.
September 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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walgreens started sending promo emails out of the blue to an account they show isn't signed up to receive any promotional messages at all. I can't unsubscribe, because I'm not subscribed.

Also they won't let me delete the account without calling them.

When corps are also scams wtf is even left?
an excerpt from the walgreens help pages: "How do I deactivate my Walgreens account? Account suspensions and deactivations, like changes to your name, cannot be done online. Please call Walgreens.com Customer Service, toll-free, at 1-877-250-5823"
August 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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it happened again. the email to open a website to login and get a message to download 2 different .docx documents.

the inevitable follow-up also occurred, they had to send a second notification to link to a message linking to PDFs because people couldn't open the word docs.
a message from parent square saying "Several people have indicated that they are having difficulty opening the word document files sent earlier today. I am resending the files in PDF format"
August 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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pride month is here, time to dust off the round bombs
An old print of a dapper skeleton carrying a large scroll that reads “BE GAY DO CRIME!” The skeleton is wearing a suit and top hat, carrying a torch, and has a saber at its side. The fire of the torch says “Anarchy”, his sash says “Communes” and the hat has a ribbon saying “round bombs”. The tip of the scroll has the words “mob law” written small. Below the image is a caption, “Many blame queers for the decline of this society—we take pride in this. Some believe that we intend to shred-to-bits this civilization and its moral fabric—they couldn’t be more accurate. We’re often described as depraved, decadent and revolting—but oh, they ain’t seen nothing yet.”
June 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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feminism at it again!
An framed, old poster print featuring a devil character looming behind a blond woman with arms raised The bold print reads: FEMINISM ENCOURAGES WOMEN TO: Leave their husbands, kill their children, destroy capitalism, practice witchcraft and… [large and In bright red, all caps] BECOME LESBIANS
May 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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well, i can't think of a better time to bring this one out again, "your neighborhood isn't better just because it has brick oven pizzas and craft breweries"
a meme-style post that says "ignoring and writing off southern states as unsalvageable due to regressive policies does nothing to help those fighting against such policies, and only aids further regression" and in separate text "your neighborhood isn't better just because it has brick oven pizzas and craft breweries" it features several images of southern US culture like Morel mushrooms, a plate of corn bread, a tiny cast iron pan in the corner and most importantly, an opossum in profile, wearing a cowboy hat. Just it's face and arm are in view. it's flipping off the viewer.
May 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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"place your heroes' tender necks on the altar of tomorrow"
I always thought was a very metal way to say "all your heroes will fail you" and the sooner we can learn how to deal with the fact that shitty people will make things we like, the better

(art and phrase from @sickofwolves.bsky.social )
what looks like an official seal There's a central image of what looks like ancient columns and ruins with skeletal remains in the center. The only color a pop of red in the flowers sprouting between the bones. Surrounding the circular image are words above and below in caps that read: "PLACE YOUR HEROES' TENDER NECKS ON THE ALTAR OF TOMORROW"
May 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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what an extremely surreal ad to receive in my reddit feed
An ad on Reddit posted by the account u/TravelStateGov: “LPT: If you're thinking about traveling to a country with a Level 4 travel advisory-don't. Curious about what a Level 4 travel advisory could mean for your trip? We'll break it down. The U.S. State Department issues Level 4 Do Not Travel advisories when there's a high chance of you experiencing: • Kidnapping • Wrongful detention • Terrorism • Political instability • Outbreaks of infectious disease and in places where the U.S. Government may not be able to provide assistance. In short, just don't. It's not worth the risk. Before booking any trip abroad, we strongly encourage you to visit travel.state.gov for Department of State guidance on the safety of your destination. tl;dr Do. Not. Visit. Level. 4. Countries.”
April 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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I had been worried from the start of touting LLMs as real thinking things. Capital using it to wash cruelty as reason and logic dictated by a machine.

This came out of IBM this 46 years ago and yet…
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
April 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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I think about this meme a lot when thinking about the nuances of gender identity and presentation, etc.

Especially how I communicate with new folks (or like, my parents) and trying to understand where they’re at
A picture of philosophers having a discussion labeled “Talking about gender with trans people” against a picture of an adult gently guiding a baby in play labeled “talking about gender with cis people”
April 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Reposting with alt text:
Nate Petersen 19h • © ••• Alright, here's the wall of text that I said I wouldn't drop. For some rough math. Ludington's store does in the neighborhood of $270k~ a year in revenue/sales. We have a, roughly, 55% cost-of-goods. This is an average. Some things are a much higher, some things are much lower, but this about splits the difference and will work well for this exercise. That works out to around $150k of that $270k being spent just to buy the things and does not include operating expenses and overhead. This is how much it costs us just to get the stuff and put it on the shelf. Probably about 2/3 of that has an origin in China, between newly published games, video game accessories, and the like. So, again using the nice round numbers, that's about $100k wholesale that we spend on stuff with origins in China. Now, China's tariffs are cumulative; we went from a 10% to a 20% jump already. As of yesterday, we're adding ANOTHER 34% on top of that. So a grand total of 54% total tarifs. But, we'll talk the EXTRA amount, so 44% NEW tarrifs. What WAS $100k then (or $90k + $10k existing tariffs), roughly, becomes $140k in expenditure ($90k + ~$50k in tariffs). Almost eclipsing our total total spend. Now, here's our options: - Eat the tariff. We can't do that; punting $40k down the drain is more than our entire mortgage on the store buildings. Would YOU flush a whole year's house payment down the toilet? No? Neither can we, and neither will any small business owner. - Increase the price by the tariff. A $10 thing costs us around $5.50 on a 55% COGs, which will now cost us $7.92. So we'd charge $12.42, adding the $2.42 on. This offsets the tariffs, but we're keeping less. - Increase prices commensurately. That $10 thing becomes $14. This keeps a rough equilibrium in what we keep, but it puts things further out of reach of the customer. Here's some of the reality: - Incomes are not keeping pace. In point of note, were seeing tens of thousands of people fired. Ludington and Marquette Michigan lost 14 forestry techs and seasonal hiring is frozen, for instance. - Costs are going up for EVERYONE. Not just us. All of our customers are spending more, and spending more on necessities. Consequently, we are competing for fewer dollars with higher costs across the board. Consequently, we are competing for fewer dollars with higher costs across the board. We're also a discretionary income field; no one NEEDS what we sell, despite arguments to the otherwise about the value of our product and services to the community, mental health and well being, etc. You will survive without the board game on our shelf or without the new set of dice; you won't make it without food in the cupboard. When faced with a choice between "this makes me happy" and "this keeps me alive," ! expect to be on the losing end of that equation, and I am actually OK with that, I hope you make that choice and take care of yourself and your loved ones. This is, believe it or not, not directly a political post. This is math. Last spring, I could buy given products for $X. After the 5th, I'll be paying upwards of an additional 44% on $X. My customer base will be paying an additional 10-44% on $X for everything in their life, thereby having 10-44% less to spend with me. My income will not grow to match $X+44%, it will in fact shrink. That is unavoidable. We will be forced to make decisions about what we do, what we stock, and who we can support. These decisions will be multiplied by tens of thousands of small retailers like myself, and ripple up the chain, impacting distribution houses, publishing houses, and creators. Will the field survive? Yes, I'm sure "we" collectively will. People like to be entertained. Will WE survive, for any one instance of "we"? Hard to say. I hope so. In our case, we celebrate 18 years of business, two successful locations, two families with two mortgages and stakes in our community, and a network of people we support. Pluck this string and a number of other threads start to unravel, and that's true of any one of us. Stan Lee remarked before that he never considered what he did to be consequential; he just wrote for the funny papers. Until he realized how much his work meant to people, and the whole interconnected web that work supported. And those of us in the game field? We're alike. We might sell silly games and talk about dragons and electric mice with little kids, but we're woven in to people's lives in innumerable ways. I hope we can continue to be. "Well, just buy/print American!" Part Two, addressing this, is in the comments~ Because it, too, is a wall of text.
April 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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For TDOV, a status update, a rallying cry, a taunt to the opposition

despite it all, still gay, still trans, still here,
The text “still alive.” In the colors of the trans flag on a black background with a filigreed border in matching trans flag colors
March 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Post a warning
A sign near the shore depicting a crossed-out fish and hook indicating no fishing. It’s written in what appears to be Arabic with an English translation below that reads “It is forbidden to upload and download fish”
March 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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can you imagine being this kid?

just a huge ad on the highway with your face and “look at this dumb kid, she’s so bad at math”
A billboard with a picture of a young girl on the left side and text on the right reading: EMMA WILL NEVER BE A DOCTOR 55% OF NJ FOURTH GRADERS CANT DO MATH AT GRADE LEVEL. WAKEUPCALLNJ.COM BROUGHT TO YOU BY WAKE UP CALL NEW JERSEY
March 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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the neighbors in question
March 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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time to tap the sign again
A meme-y picture with text that reads, “ignoring and writing off southern states as unsalvageable due to regressive policies does nothing to help those fighting against such policies, and only aides further regression” and “your neighborhood isn’t better because it has brick oven pizzas and craft breweries” On it are pictures of morels, a cast iron pan, a plate of cornbread and a gorgeous opossum in a stereotypical cowboy hat flipping off the reader
March 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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my partner bought me this little Strega Nona magnet that says “abundance!”

i cried a bit when i opened it and then stuck it right on our stove

making food is magick too
A magnet on the stove next to a burner knob. It depicts the character Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola. She looks like she’s casting a spell on a cauldron overflowing with spaghetti and it says “abundance!” Above it
March 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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everything sucks

which is why breakfast is an extra important meal
A bowl of homefries with a sunny-side-up egg on top. A bottle of tapatio and a nearly empty, quart-sized mason jar of iced coffee stand behind it like royal guards
March 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I’m so excited to apply for job title at location
A list titled “exciting career opportunities” and those are all listed as generic options like “job title 1, location”, “job title 2, location” with those literal words. No other details other than “apply now”. It looks like someone hit send on an empty template
December 24, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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i look hot today and it’s important to me that you all know
A closeup of fen looking slightly down on her in front of a lit Christmas tree, she’s looking over her glasses at the camera. Her minty teal green hair slightly covers the left side of her face. She has pink cheeks, eye shadow to match her hair and a deep purple lip. Shes wearing a black dress with a black lacy fringe around the neckline. Her heart tattoo is just visible over her left breast. She is very hot
December 18, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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Some days you struggle with a black cloud that fills you and makes you forget everything before and after this moment of depression

And other days you can remember you’re a witch and can ask the spirits for help

And maybe a little spell made of incense and bells (and cannabis and coffee)
A picture of a secretary’s desk setup as an altar covered in candles, herbs and crystals both out and in containers. Incense is burning in a small holder in the front of frame. On a shelf above the incense is a moon phase display stand with three tarot cards in it. They’re from the Queer Tarot deck, brightly colored and featuring LGBT+ folks in place of the standard figures in the Smith-Rider-Waite imagery. Depicted cards show a three card spread starting with the eight of swords, reversed, the seven of pentacles and finally the nine of wands. Fen interprets these respectively as: you have been feeling stuck with internal negative thoughts and feelings holding you back; remember that progress isn’t always immediately visible, look back at all you’ve done so far and let that encourage you; you are strong and resilient and have support, keep pushing to the end, don’t let anything stop you.
December 17, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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road trip day
Fen in the car. She is cute and her hair is spilling out of her knit cap down the right side of her face. She’s wearing a denim jacket with various pins on it like a blue footed booobie and a moth and few with writing that say, “champ is real and he is gay” (referencing the legendary sea monster in lake Champlain), “Get in line thou big slut” (referencing the book Nona the Ninth) and “Let’s make out under the South Burlington Pizza Hut” (referencing the old graffitied former Pizza Hut in South Burlington)
December 12, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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Do you ever feel just directly called out by name from an almost 40 year old publication? (bottom left panel is really a whole mood)
A comic strip of Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel called High Anxiety. In it, the main character Mo is lamenting and being comforted by her friends about her difficulties finding a job. The main crux that fen would like to point out is the bottom left panel, a closeup of Mo saying, "We're living in a Protestant Police State and all I'm worried about is getting a Job so I can help perpetuate the paranoid patriarchal Death culture!"
December 12, 2024 at 12:52 PM