Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

For everyone that needs to hear this: Having a sleep routine that is outside the normal sleep routine doesn’t make you a bad person. Just because capitalism decided people should be asleep and be awake at a certain time doesn’t mean everyone can sleep at those times and we should be allowed to sleep and be awake whenever we need to.

Gentle reminder: the "War on Christmas" bullshit conservatives love to pull is a) definitely anti-Semitic, b) arguably anti-black racist, and c) occasionally Islamophobic.

a lot of presidents make a point of never speaking on subjects they dont have expertise on to seem worldly and intelligent but only donald trump will confidently tell you hes not sure how toilets or windwills work and he doesn't care to invesitgate further

Nike under fire for failing to recognize trans contractor’s pronouns, gender identity / LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/12/nike-fire-failing-recognize-trans-contractors-pronouns-gender-identity/

At least one co-worker told the trans contractor that it was against her religion to refer to them as they identify, while others literally began to ignore the contractor rather than correct themselves.

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1. Needing content warnings isn't a white thing and it's not as simple as "mental illness = yes, not = no". Some people need any given CW, some people don't. Some people, it's more a spectrum - too much un-CWed stuff, and the fediverse stops being a place they can inhabit.

2. Instance admins designing codes of conduct set CW rules for their instances. Within our instance's rules (hopefully), we individually decide what principles we follow for our own posts and boosts. Those principles are things we decide based on:

- what we /can/ do (some people can't CW consistently! it happens and it doesn't mean they should be punished!),
- what we can live with ourselves doing (I am never going to treat the word 'queer' as something that needs a content warning - it feels like reversing the reclaiming of a word I need, and I can't do that), and
- what we want to do to accommodate others.

That balance is gonna be different for everyone. We can talk about what we want as a community - I'm a big fan of https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/inclusive-teaching/2017/12/12/an-introduction-to-content-warnings-and-trigger-warnings/ as a starting point - and we can talk to people who actually know us about what we need from them, but after a point it just becomes "their account, their choice" and we mute, filter, block, or unfollow.

...that's it, that's where I stand.

If the United States was conquered by the Russians, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Elliott Abrams and the rest of them would probably be working for the invaders, sending people off to concentration camps. They're the right personality types.
-- Noam Chomsky

#anarchism #quote #bot

privilege aint this hard switch thats either on or off and thats that. its a fluid concept because its as socially constructed as the rest of the hierarchical system. thats why intersectionality even became a topic, because those other intersections impact the response to all of the specters assigned to you.

“bi women aren’t queer enough, femme women blend in too much to really experience lesbophobia, nonbinary people can just stealth”

"I don't take sides" is taking sides.

"I don't have spoons to deal with this, I'm going to go away" is not the same thing as saying you don't take sides.

If you need to step away, do. Take care of you and your community.

Hello, My name is Vickie, or as others know me as Heffboom Konijn. I'm a transgender female who is having transition surgery this Christmas.

I have created a Gofundme as I need financial help to survive until I return to work in March.

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