@danielaKay
some people have all the honesty of a sealion

I like “cheat sheets” like this - it assists in unfriending assholes I thought I knew.

@breakfastgolem I feel like this works because...

• People with even the tiniest shred of creative ability can find what they need in a Spirit Halloween at prices they can afford and make something truly magical.

• The most annoying thing is not shitty kids and weirdos running around being occasionally obnoxious so much as the shitty adults who don't actually want to be there loudly complaining about how the random part timers aren't providing a level of service to which they have become accustomed and keep threatening to loudly leave but then... Don't.

Kevin McCarthy giving the nominating speech for Jim Jordan is like making the ex-boyfriend give the wedding toast. And to top it all off, McCarthy comes out and says that Jordan has been an effective legislator—even though he hasn’t passed a single bill into law in his 16 years in Congress. The response? Uproarious laughter from the Democrats. And well-deserved scorn.

In Part I, I outline my critique of the polarization framework: It privileges unity, stability, and social cohesion over social justice and equal participation; it gets the diagnosis of the current situation wrong; and it indulges an ahistorical nostalgia for a golden age that never existed. 2/

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-treacherous-allure-of-the-polarization

I grew up in section 8 housing, needing food stamps to get buy, & I’ve been working since I was 15. I’m grateful to have emerged from that struggle. But I’m enraged that wealth and income inequality is worse now than it was 30 years ago. And it continues to get even worse.

I’m running for Congress because I realized something many years ago. Poverty isn’t a life choice. We cannot tolerate policies that make it a life sentence. Let’s get to work. Because Justice cannot wait.

Let me get this straight. Trump wants the ability to show witness testimony to “volunteer attorneys” on his side? What the hell is a volunteer attorney, one who never gets paid? Isn’t that nearly every attorney who’s ever worked for him?

Two splendid San Francisco bookstores, Fabulosa Books and Booksmith, will let you pay for queer books that'll be shipped to places where those books are desperately needed. Please support this incredible effort!

http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/229799/377fedf3e9/1579000000/5c4d1b00fe/

If Trump didn’t want his case tried in D.C., he shouldn’t have committed crimes in D.C. See how that works?

UPDATE: Sorry for the notification, but as this post is circulating again I wanted to make it clear that we are not using Open Collective for donations at this time. You can, however, donate through Ko-Fi here: https://ko-fi.com/blackqueerlife thank you thank you thank you!!

Hello Fediverse! I am coming before you all today to promote my new instance: blackqueer.life! You may have seen my post on my old account about it a few weeks back. I wanted to wait until I finished migrating my old account over here, got the instance up and running to where I wanted it, etc before promoting it fully.

We all know Fedi isn't always kind to Black users, doubly so for Black queers. My instance represents my attempt to continue the amazing work some folks are doing in the Fediverse to make these platforms more accessible and safer for all users, ESPECIALLY marginalized folks.

When I joined the fediverse, the first thing I was searching for almost from the beginning was an instance dedicated to or centering Black queer people explicitly. While there are a few amazing communities like that out there, many of them are either not federating, offering limited federation only, or are currently closed to new users.

This allows them to have much greater control over the content their users are exposed to, which I have tremendous respect and appreciation for. Hell, I've got alts in some of those places!

However. As a newcomer to Fedi, it was not overly easy for me to find these places and gain access, which I recognize is somewhat by design. Limited or no federation meant the only way to locate them was by word of mouth and extensive research.

This is where BlackQueerLife comes in. I want to build a place where Black queer, trans, and GNC folks can feel safe making a home while also being able to venture out into the rest of the fediverse. I want somewhere they can use as a landing pad. I want as many multiply marginalized Black folks off of corporate hellsites like Twitter and Bluesky as possible. We are not safe being corporate playthings.

Most importantly, I want every Black queer person who joins Fedi to know that they have somewhere they can go. I don't expect that all would necessarily want to join, but I want all Black queer fedizens to know that they are welcome to.

So if you see this, please boost this post to spread the word. If you already boosted the other posts that have gone out about this instance, no pressure. Thanks so much!

@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #BlackQueer #BIPOC #QTPOC #LGBTQ

This is the phrasing that needs to be used. #strike

In the internment camps we learned valuable skills! Like how not to get shot for trying to escape, when we just running to use the public latrine on a freezing cold night.

Ron DeSantis is spending time defending the benefits of slavery and investigating Bud Light instead of fixing the home insurance crisis and highest inflation in the country in his state of Florida.

The MAGAs screaming "stop making everything about race" just repealed affirmative action, claim slavery benefitted Black people, ordered drowning of brown migrant kids, defied a SCOTUS redistricting order, & threatened to sue Fortune 100 companies for "anti-white" discrimination.

Clears throat, then says it loudly for those praying in the back of the room.

@simontoth

You didn't read very closely.

@simontoth

Get you an education:

* Polysemy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysemy
* Understanding Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Grammar - https://amyrey.web.unc.edu/classes/ling-101-online/tutorials/understanding-prescriptive-vs-descriptive-grammar/
* someone's testimony - Why I Stopped Being the Grammar Police

@simontoth

it's not them... it's you

SCOTUS struck down AA b/c it’s allegedly discriminatory. Here’s the Facts:
•AA benefitted white women more than all other groups COMBINED—plaintiffs never complained about that
•43% of white Harvard students are legacy or athlete students, of which 75% would not be admitted otherwise—plaintiffs never complained about that
•Asians are 6% of the population & 26% of Harvard admissions—plaintiffs never complained about that

This SCOTUS ruling is 100% anti-fact & 100% anti-Black racism.

GOP: We are pro-life!

So—free pre-natal care?

GOP: No

Extend child tax credit?

GOP: No

Paid family leave?

GOP: No

Universal pre-K?

GOP: No
Universal healthcare?

GOP: No

Gun reform?

GOP: No

How exactly are you pro-life?🤔

GOP: Ban reproductive health access & increase women’s death.