@Defiance devoid of humor, lousy with pedants!

me trying to like using Mastodon

The idea of arresting San Francisco drug users to "force them into treatment" only makes sense if you willfully ignore the fact that there's a waiting list for people that voluntarily want to go into treatment.🤡

We have 💰 to pay cops overtime to arrest, but not Drs to treat, addiction.

If you live in SF take 1 minute to email the SF Public Library to demand they re-enable after-hours wifi, which they disabled due to pressure from Rafael Mandelman, who didn’t want homeless people to use it. Use this script & email: https://tinyurl.com/mewp95zn

My fellow cis Americans, I want you to look at this map. Really look at it. And I want you to imagine what it would feel like if those red states were threatening you and your family. Because, ultimately, they are.

This is what creeping fascism looks like. It will harm ALL OF US. And it will take all of us, together, to fight it.

We don't sacrifice people. We stand with our trans siblings. When their rights are threatened, all our rights are threatened.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/may-anti-trans-legislative-risk-map

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I made badges and screen-printed t-shirts for everyone. We had swag-bags with 3D printed pins etc. and other made-up sponsor nonsense. Our platinum sponsor gave an excellent ChatGPT generated keynote.

Really, there should also be a Trans Day of Invisibility where trans people get to run around playing pranks on cis people and we all have to pretend we don't see them and just take it.

Friends! Come to the ANY BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB tomorrow (4/25, 8:30 pm) at the Castro's FABULOSA BOOKS. Tea and cookies and books and @bffdotfm, what's not to love??

@catherine @lilyrosesloane @ira @burritojustice @quonky @benward @boywithgirlsname

The top 1% has taken $50 TRILLION from the bottom 90% since 1975.

That's enough to more than double the median income—enough to pay every single working American in the bottom nine deciles an additional $1,144 a month. Every month. Every single year.
https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/

Highly recommend this to anyone with a confusing parent. I think I am the last one to read it though!

(comment on "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents")

I just want to point out that today is Purim, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the moral and spiritual obligation to fight back against people, societies, and systems that are trying to kill you and eradicate your people.

It specifically and explicitly calls upon people to fight back in self-defense.

"to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, and to slay, and to cause to perish, all the forces of the people and province that would assault them".

Purim sameach.