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What a gem

Brian Sims, PA state rep and queer, greeted Pence in Philadelphia with a middle finger.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/06/gay-pennsylvania-legislator-tells-pence-get-bent-philly-trip/

The other thing is; they pulled this horror during Pride Month. Divide and conquer (don’t think about X, you must worry about Y), keep your victim exhausted, don’t give them anything that feels like accomplishment, try to control all access to information. Whether it’s children behind chain link partitions, conversion therapy or what they’re doing to us now, it’s a consistently abusive attitude.

A stressed animal will run, fight, or go to ground; helplessness overlaps conserving energy.

We, right now, have very limited means to “fight” and fewer to “run.” I don’t want to condemn myself for not fighting, not fighting enough, I don’t like feeling censured and I don’t have the heart to condemn others for “going to ground.”

If you gotta withdraw, DO IT, there’s enough going on your voice will be crucial whenever you feel like you can cope again.

-> https://organizing.social/@slackz/100232661061069398

(CWed boost)

Silence = Death

Insisting that the voice of the oppressed protest off the thoroughfare is fundamentally not a right we should be reserving. Though the choice to moderate your own voice is one that can be taken for a variety of practical reasons, or for consideration.
We should never normalize systemic social pressures for silence.

It is okay to escape from the news right now.

It's okay to feel hopeless.

Hide if you need to.

Then try and come back and help with some kind of action, even if it's just copy pasting an email to your representative/s.

Help locally.
Help one other person find resources.

Do something to make someone's day, week or year a little better.

Do something to make your community a little bit better.

💞💞💞 I'm hurting so much right now, but I'll come back 💞💞💞

When someone says "oh, it's just a few bad apples" (about cops, etc.) remind them that the proverb isn't "it's just a few bad apples but everything else is fine"; the proverb is "a few bad apples /spoil the bushel/".

Just a little reminder that Google's "Holidays in the United States" calendar includes Black Friday... but not Juneteenth.

Draw your own conclusions.

If someone is posting things you don't like, mute, block them, and move on.

If white people would mute and/or block me rather than sending me their useless emotions and wrong opinions about how they don't like being held accountable, this place would be better for both of us.

Save it, I don't care.

Happy Juneteenth!

Heads up that there is currently no #Seattle event for June 30 shown on https://www.familiesbelongtogether.org. Does anyone around here with #organizing experience want to start one?

#protest #familiesbelongtogether #fuckICE

Want to read webcomics and fanfiction updates all in one place with whatever tools you like, no matter where they're hosted?

I'm proud of https://www.comic-rocket.com that I built for this a decade ago, but I'd rather use open standards. RSS only gives you the most recent pages. So:

I've filed feature requests for RFC5005 (full-history RSS) support with several open source projects.
https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/issues/1109
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-rfc5005-support-to-wordpress-generated-rss-feeds/
(and an email to AO3)

Wish me luck for some positive responses!

I'm looking for others with #type1diabetes on the fediverse. Just looking for a bit of a support network in this. I would very much appreciate a boost.

If you have it say hi/follow please.

#t1d