(she/her) Musician, VTuber, gamedev (taking a break), and all around gremlin.
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I grew-up as a Christian Pastor’s Kid which surely was a struggle for me. Today I got this text from my dad about him performing his first ever same-sex marriage in his career at the age of 67 years old.
He’s been a minister in the United Methodist Church for over 30 years and I can assure you, this was one of the highlights of his entire 30+ years ministering.
He said, “It was one of the most meaningful things I’ve done.”
Changed hearts are possible! 💕🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
She also kept her faith, but refuses to congregate with the church because of their views. Instead, she lets her beliefs guide her daily life, with a focus on love.
It completely repaired our relationship, and I talk with her regularly now. I am so fortunate and grateful for that.
That’s wonderful!
I grew up in a megachurch. My mother was deeply evangelical and my childhood was rough.
But she eventually chose to love us instead of lose us, so she turned away from hate. She is now one of my strongest allies.
It’s too rare, but change can happen.
Massive TDOV rally expected today from 4:00-6:00 at the National Mall between 3rd and 4th streets.
Go there, I know many who will be there. Be with community and show your support for transgender people.
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Bluesky folks, consider quoting the above with the links (or screenshotting with alt text) instead of just a repost and letting folks know it’s not graphic media. Content warnings about USPol on Mastodon get labeled as such when I use the bridge, unfortunately.
Also, if you would like to support me and my wife more directly, my GoFundMe is still active (please boost): https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lily-and-katie-overcome-financial-hardship
We are making good progress but still have no stable income at the moment.
Does it feel hopeless right now? Do you feel powerless? Let me offer you the following facts:
1. Tesla is tanking so hard right now they had to parade a bunch of cars in front of the fucking White House just to try to boost sales.
2. Target and Walmart have seen sales tank so drastically in the last month they are immediately rolling back their anti DEI stances.
3. Congress has never in history seen this amount of call volume. They typically get 40-50 calls a minute. They are currently trying to field upwards of 1,600-2,000 calls every minute.
4. The Resistance has been so vocal at town halls that the GOP had to officially instruct Republican congressmen to stop doing them.
5. This administration hasn't been able to make a single tariff stick for longer than 3 days because of all the fallout.
You. Are. Powerful.
They expected you to just put your head down and roll over and do nothing. Instead you resisted. You fought back. You showed up. And you continue to show up.
You're showing up for education. For veterans. For trans folk. For women. For immigrants. For people of color. For free speech. For international allies. You're showing up for what's right and you're refusing to obey fascism in advance.
And what's more, there is no coordinated response among the elected officials, judges, and appointed GOP heads. They're floundering. All of them. They weren't expecting this. And they have no idea what to do about it.
This is why legacy journalism is dying, and independent journalism is taking its place. Legacy journalism is all manufactured consent and the editorial goals of billionaires who treat it like their personal toy.
Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper...
But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
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Crosspost:
I wrote a post about making safety plans with trans youth. The transphobes came out in mass to send me horrifically detailed death threats.
Yeah, it induced panic/fear.
But then I noticed how they're all unoriginal and repetitive.
They kept repeating things like: "You'll never be a woman."
I was assigned female at birth. Society often views me as a woman whether I like it or not. I've never been a man, not even in society's view.
I'm nonbinary, but that is too advanced for them I guess. They can't even imagine me.
This is a pattern I've noticed from years of getting death threats. Whenever I am too outspoken, or if my organizing gets picked up by a local paper and I'm interviewed, or if some well-known person boosts me, I get deluged with death threats, and they're always the same. Sometimes verbatim.
I get it. The right-wing wants me and those like me dead. In my state, they made that clear by stripping me and other trans folks of our rights.
But holy shit are they uneducated on this topic. Their hate has turned them into screaming sludge mortars that hurl their bile everywhere.
To them, every trans person is a trans woman. Trans men don't exist to them. Nonbinary people are beyond their ability to imagine. The fact many cultures throughout history had multiple genders might explode their brains.
They're a cult of unoriginal, repetitive people, who lost their imagination.
They've turned hating trans people into a religion. They've married it to Evangelical Christianity, to the point that it's practically their idol. (Irony, since Christianity specifically says to NOT put an idol before God, but well, evangelicals put money and hating others before God constantly.)
So what I learned from years of getting death threats is that no matter how terrifying it is to get these threats, no matter how graphic they become (and holy hell are they graphic at times), there is two things I have that they don't.
I have an imagination and I have a heart.
I can imagine a present/future full of people with many diverse genders, sexual orientations, skin colors, (dis)abilities, cultures, and ethnicities. A pluralistic world, where many worlds exist in tandem.
A world full of adventure, love, hope, justice, and equitable ways of living and thriving.
I have a heart bent toward justice and love. For Love is an action. It requires us to listen to others, to accept a person where they are, but at the same time be willing to hold them accountable when needed. To listen to our own needs. To be willing to hold ourselves accountable. That's all love.
Hate sucks all that from us; hate is a black hole that hungers for more pain, more hate, in an never-ending search that will always end in an empty void.
It's far more fulfilling, far more joyful, far more healing to give people compliments. To share hope with someone. To listen to their stories and uplift them. To share validation. To work together collectively toward a better, more just, more equitable, more loving future.
Sure, the bigots try to steal all that from me and folks like me. They terrorize to colonize our very minds.
As long as we continue to create, continue to exercise our imagination, continue to make art, to write, to sing, to dance, to organize, the bigots will never win.
Resilience comes from our heart's desire for hope and justice. It comes from finding joy even when the world screams at us to 'just die already.'
I've survived several near-death experiences (fall off 500 foot bluff, drowning, crash, etc.). Death and I have been dancing around each other for years.
So no, transphobes. I will not "just die already." Death isn't done dancing with me. Plus I have more stories and art to create, to work with others to build that better future.
This resolve may not cure my nightmares or panic attacks.
But it's a reminder that they can't steal my joy or hope.
Here's my reminder to anyone who reads this thread.
No matter how terrifying the bigots and fascists are, no matter how much destruction they wrought, they can't steal our imagination or heart.
We imagine and will build up better than before. We care for one another. So go and create joyfully.
@bytex64 time to get a thunderbolt to PCIe adaptor and try the whole chain to see if it works? It would look so silly, lol
Hot take:
DLSS as a tool for performance and/or alternative to resolution scaling? Good. I like it actually. Is nice.
DLSS as a basic requirement/crutch to run a game even on the high end because devs can't be bothered anymore? No. That's dumb.
Frame Generation--just, in general? Why. What the fu
@thraeryn if you turn off history tracking in YouTube it used to show a general feed. Now it shows a prompt to turn it on…
Gotta love when your phone tuchscreen starts to fail but you can’t afford a new one >.<
Frustrating day.
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NOTE: Below toot is from an old request that has long since been resolved and met. My *current* ongoing need is linked above. Though, donations are appreciated anytime because the needs are ongoing.)
I have about an hour before I must send the rent money over. Still $200 short of what I need. This has to get done TONIGHT. If anyone can help, please do!!
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Hey all,
Our one functional bathtub in this 110 year old house has developed several bad problems this week: leaky drain, constantly dripping tap (more water bills), and the floor is damaged so the whole thing wobbles.
We got the drain fixed, but it came to $1300. The tap will be another $1200. We'll have to fix the floor ourselves. Our all-trans household is out of savings because we also had to have our furnace replaced to survive another Minnesota winter.
Anything helps, and thank you!
$700/$2500
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