Or, if you are too interesting, work on becoming so visible, it would be inconvenient to disappear you

1996 was a very weird year because it was when we learned why this very close friend who at first had seemed a little too normie had gotten involved in our community

And I really wish I could tell that story, but I still don’t feel comfortable telling it openly

But, yeah. Life on the fringe.

Guess you had to be there to have a clue 🤷🏻

Compliance will not save you

Doing things the “right way“ will not save you because they can & will change the definition of the “right way”

Being polite or respectable or dressing “professionally” will not help you change the minds of people bent on controlling everyone around them

Sometimes I really miss the night auditor job. Met so many colorful people.

Watch the X-Files from back then

There’s this one episode & the Lone Gunmen suggest the government keeps a database tracking book purchases made with credit cards to know who’s buying what

And in that decade, that kind of surveillance was unthinkable

Totally normal now

Don’t let it stop you

Just FYI, because Ohio passed some privacy laws and I refuse to give the techbros running site my personal information, I cannot access my DM‘s here.

But posting resource links publicly helps everyone who might see the exchange.

I can’t do much on the ground myself and my social media reach is significantly smaller than it was back when Twitter was still Twitter - but I’ll boost & connect folks as much as I’m able

That would be great. Honestly, anything helps.

The timing for hitting Ohio is not coincidental. They had already targeted our Haitian population for a moral panic during the election. We pushed back to protect our neighbors.

February 3 is when their qualified immunity ends.

Springfield was where they pulled that whole “they’re eating the cats“ campaign during the election.

At this point, it’s almost certainly being targeted because people pushed back against that intentionally false & willfully harmful narrative

I cannot even imagine how difficult that would’ve been.

We have all endured so much in a very short while.

With these new attacks, they will not break us

This is brilliant and I wish I had been part of it.

Was just thinking that

Thank you so much

Yes. And evil is not a word I ever use lightly.

Thank you. We’re just a little enclave of weirdos and queerdos in a very red commuter town doing our best. Every resource helps.

That’s gotta be the best feeling