Isaac Hoppe
isaacslaughing.bsky.social
Isaac Hoppe
@isaacslaughing.bsky.social
You can't compete with me.
I want us both to win and more than that,
to grow by understanding each other.
all that lives has a right to live.
a right to move
a right to evolve, to change, to exist differently
a right to sustain our life
and a responsibility to understand the consequences of our life

wherever we fail in that responsibility or fail to move, it is a sign of unmet material or social needs
July 31, 2023 at 4:23 AM
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I love the weird little guys of self-taught American folk artist Bill Traylor. He didn’t start painting until he was 85 years old! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Traylor
July 20, 2023 at 9:06 AM
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It's a problem of whether or not you're willing to look at your life and be responsible for it, and then begin to change it."

— James Baldwin
July 19, 2023 at 8:54 AM
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Is there something out there you have always found fascinating and have wanted to learn more about?

Imagine if you had the resources and support from those around you to absolutely GO HAM on that shit. Would you not spend countless hours doing it, and LOVING it?

2/2
July 18, 2023 at 6:44 PM
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Because we thrive in communities and we seek love, acceptance, and acknowledgment from those around us, especially those we care about (which includes ourselves!), imagine what we could accomplish together if we collaborated, if we let people do what they're passionate about. 1/2
And we as a community know that. So when someone is in need, we help them. Ensure their basic needs are met.

People don't have a problem with doing labor to support their communities. What they have a problem with is doing labor that they know is meaningless.

Read Bullshit Jobs, it's fun book.
July 18, 2023 at 6:42 PM
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the “autistic people are naive” narrative is a combination of:

1) the fact that studies have historically been done on literal children (until recently), and children are likely to believe anything you tell them

2) white people believe anything other white people tell them
July 18, 2023 at 6:27 PM
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I wrote a novel & here it is from a Black bookstore in DC that you can have shipped from. I'm broke as a joke & royalties from this help.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/none-but-the-righteous-chantal-james/18425800?aid=9266&ean=9781640095625&listref=lit16-b4b018f5-71bb-4e79-9329-eff329522ced
July 15, 2023 at 1:27 AM
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And we as a community know that. So when someone is in need, we help them. Ensure their basic needs are met.

People don't have a problem with doing labor to support their communities. What they have a problem with is doing labor that they know is meaningless.

Read Bullshit Jobs, it's fun book.
July 18, 2023 at 6:36 PM
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People who are flummoxed by folks who have "made it" standing up for the those who are still slugging away a) don't realize how thin the margin is in creative fields between those states, b) are often indicating they if they made it, they'd be pulling ladders up behind them, which is... interesting.
Millionaires standing up for non millionaires in the same union is good actually
July 18, 2023 at 5:54 PM
July 18, 2023 at 6:26 PM
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Fact check: true. A lot more humans are bitten by other humans on the NYC subway every year than are bitten by sharks in the whole world.

I use this stat in my talks and can always tell who has been to NYC by their faces. “Wait what that makes no sense” vs. “yeah I can see it”

🧪
July 10, 2023 at 1:33 PM
re: bsky moderation failures

The Internet is part of the world. We have to let it be part of the world instead of trying to wall it off.

We have to *learn how* to let it be part of the world, and that learning requires an active commitment to the people who are being harmed and not being heard.
July 18, 2023 at 1:56 PM
help. help. audhd, and have to make the thoughts stop. never been able to. headache so bad. meditation and physical activity don't stop the thoughts coming. distraction doesn't work. how can I turn the thoughts off.
July 14, 2023 at 8:36 AM
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Yeah I'm seeing a lot of ppl talking about giving up already and I'm just like... why. Why must nothing ever go right. Why must my hopes always be punished
July 14, 2023 at 6:46 AM
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if you wanna support me, a Black Bluesky user, check out my linktree (and subscribe to my Patreon) ❤️
July 14, 2023 at 12:03 AM
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July 14, 2023 at 12:07 AM
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Unrelated to ongoing Bluesky shit but

Sitting here realizing how much trauma I’ve endured over the past few years, most of it specifically from transmisogynoir and ableism, and it’s just like.

I really didn’t have to go through any of this? People forced me to endure it? I could’ve been fine?
July 14, 2023 at 12:10 AM
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Hostile Reminder that Cenk used to frequently do a "bit" on TYT where he would imply that women he didn't find attractive (because they were muscular, for instance) might be trans. Now he pretends his hostility towards trans people is "feminist". Don't buy it.
July 7, 2023 at 6:52 PM
is there any way to remove a follower here yet? beyond just blocking?
July 8, 2023 at 1:51 AM
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Hey, if transphobia is happening on some other app you don't need to screenshot it and put it here :) thanks! I assure you that we already know that transphobia exists we don't need the constant reminder everywhere we look
July 6, 2023 at 6:14 PM
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this is what scares me the most. the more and more gen*cidal the rw gets the more and more loud we have to get to wake people up and the more and more they demonize us in the public spotlight for being loud

they're literally baiting us and it's working

we need effective messaging to fight back
July 6, 2023 at 4:46 PM