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Anarchist Lookbook!

"What to Wear to Smash the State:
Anti-fascist activists believe in dressing for the job they
want. Right now, many think, that job is punching Nazis."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/style/black-bloc-fashion.html

A question thread for toy friends:

What does being a toy mean to you?

https://www.etymonline.com/word/*skei-

My favorite etymology fact:
"science" and "shit" have the same root, proto-indo-european "*skei-", meaning to cut or split apart.

Oh wait, here's what looks like the original (better quality) link, not a re-upload that somehow has higher pagerank:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

Evergreen post: a lawyer and a cop share an entertaining one-hour
law school lecture on why you should never ever give a statement to police (without a lawyer) when police are investigating a crime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au4_EdPwTkE

Listen though I think it's wonderful that "this is not a place of honor" etc is a known and recognized phrase.

Car insurance claim filed.

Update: the police officers arrived to take the report at exactly 11pm.

They seemed surprised I was asleep in bed. They were courteous enough in the conversation, though.

Actually, that's a pretty useful thing to remind myself of, so I'm busting this out into its own post:

If I let a boundary lapse when it's inconvenient, I'm defeating the point of having it in the first place.

Also even if it's 11pm and raining, when (if) they arrive I'm not inviting any police officer into my home.

sucks for both of us but what's the point in having a boundary if I let it lapse when it's inconvenient.

g'night.

I think it's really cool that I know a bunch of people who were AMAB, transitioned to something in the vicinity of "woman", then later moved to "oh my gender is way more interesting that that, imma re-adopt back a lot of guy-spectrum stuff."

Don't let people talk shit about "de-transition" or whatever as if there's one simple narrative.

One thing I try to do when something shitty is happening is to imagine Fox sitting on my shoulder and saying "you appreciate having new experiences! This is one of them."

I had a fox-person say something along those lines to me after something really emotionally confusing happened. It actually helped a whole lot.

When reading people's names online I can usually guess the phonemes pretty reliably, but a lot of the time syllable stress is something I can't make a good guess at.

G'night. Tomorrow, I'll keep doing my best to do my best.

Related tabletop RPG opinion:

the stock joke,
Player: "I rolled a 3 on the investigate check"
GM: You realize... you're in a room."

is funny like, maybe twice and just inane after that.

Tabletop RPG opinion: Apart from limited circumstances like warning about a sneak attack or trap checks, "roll to see if you notice a thing" is a bad mechanic.

You know what made my workday better? Wall-to-wall listening to The Adventure Zone. I'm a bit over halfway through The Eleventh Hour arc and it's so good. Very effective at taking my mind somewhere else, though sometimes trying to not randomly start laughing when around coworkers is a challenge.