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Transphobia: grift, baby, grift!

Well, it’s five in the morning and I’m having a one-on-one with W. L. Weller….well, his Special Reserve, at least. You know how sometimes in wine lies truth? Sometimes it also means articulating something right below the surface, and this is not groundbreaking thought. I am a lot of things; a groundbreaking thinker isn’t one of them, unless you wanna hear my ideas about the Third Amendment, and…

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had my first hope for revolution, that was the summer of twentyx2

Just in case you need a clarification on my "murky goals". #MurkyGoalz

Hey, remember the summer of 2020? You know, mass protests, the reason people allegedly don’t come to Portland anymore, pandemic, uprising where it became briefly in vogue to care about Black lives? Because I feel like a solid half the white people I connected with then, you know, with profiles and pages slathered with how much they care about Black lives? Well, apparently…they don’t. I…

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tevis, just admit it

tevis, just admit it: why the mayor's silence and inaction in the face of far-right vigilante violence speaks volumes

The T.V.’s got them imagesThe T.V.’s got them allIt’s not shocking!Every half an hourSomeone’s captured andThe cop moves them along…Well, it’s just like the show before… -Jane’s Addiction, “Ted, Just Admit It” The use of absolutely dark nihilistic humor in the face of scary things is often part of human nature. For example, I wanted to consider how many people the PPB killed on Ted Wheeler’s…

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When is a policy change really a power grab?

When is a policy change really a power grab?

I’ve definitely talked about the evasive, weird man which Portland somehow elected as mayor, Ted Wheeler. As you may know, last summer, a mysterious “write-in campaign” appeared involving a woman who has run in the past as a write-in candidate against shitty, entrenched powers like Sheriff Mike Reese, but this time it was a white-run bunch of people who claimed there was “POC involvement and…

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stop cancelling each other before the Republicans do

stop cancelling each other before the Republicans do

content warning: some of this includes what you might call ableist language and discussions of violence including suicide. if the terms I use to describe myself might bother you, the door is right over there. please don’t hurt yourself to read my drivel, okay? I know I’ve been stuck at home too long when I can tell you how many stripes my cat has. More than you’d think. Though is a whorl a…

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QAnon: It's not a cult, it's a coup.

QAnon: It’s not a cult, it’s a coup.

I’ve spent the past few months trying to avoid the various strains of plague rats. It’s been an adventure, but I’m still here, angry as hell about the fact that had the US handled COVID-19 I, too, could be watching football in a bar with my friends. Instead I’ve watched the slow, terrifying descent of the United States into a munted fuckbanquet where seemingly innocent tag groups on Facebook have…

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Your problematic least-fav still has nasty skin and still needs to get this under control because their PCP, their dermatologist, and their grandmother are tired iof hearing how I will maybe do something someday.

It ain’t life or death, but it is a lot of pain, it is a lot of medical uncertainty, and it is trying to get my nasty plaques to stop looking like...this. 

Give if you can, share if you can’t, and please, please, please help me move along toward dermatological resolution ASAP. Thanks. <3

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““women aren’t tall or have broad shoulders”“

Germany: “...”

““““““““women aren’t tall or have broad shoulders”““““““

Germany: *vanishes in a puff of logic*

the thing that like absolutely blows me away abt this (which was the end of a list that also advised to avoid trans women by “measuring the femur” of women you go out on dates w) is that like, the person admits to like doing a bunch of “research” on pictures of trans women’s vaginas, and the last two bullet points specifically advise all of these cis women who are trying to think thru advice to avoid trans women and their bodies to like specifically seek out images of trans women’s genitals! and its like, dude, you are going to see more trans women’s vaginas in this method than you probably ever would if you just… didn’t do all of this.

It’s like. beyond all of this (and the previous more general advice like “women aren’t tall or have broad shoulders”) being comedically wrong and basic misogyny, this is a terrible method of avoiding trans women’s genitals because the advice is “inundate yourself w images of trans women’s vaginas” and like, you’re gonna see fewer trans women’s vaginas if you just like, don’t even try any of the advice lol. extreme terf/chaser synergy

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Make me look less like a flaky freak and more like a smooth-skinned freak. And, you know, help with the constant pain caused by nasty skin and the social pain caused by the flaky thing scaring the hell out of people. 

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on bullsh!t excuses or get off the internet, I'll meet you in the street

on bullsh!t excuses or get off the internet, I’ll meet you in the street

The 27th of the month seems to be a delightfully cyclical bottoming out. I’m not doing all that well, fam. There’s a lot of uncertainty in my life and the rapidly accelerating pace of internet discourse has gotten to, I shit you not, the point of being informed that I’m not just an alt-right plant, no, that I literally am a “tankie” that supports genocide.

The internet isn’t where our future is.

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having lost my religion, or hope thereof: why I didn't convert.

having lost my religion, or hope thereof: why I didn’t convert.

My therapist says I should put more out in the world. This is an experiment, a long reply from Facebook that I realized really was more of a blog entry.  I’m trying this opening up thing again, it worked the first time around.

I got close, as in did enough hours and all that, to converting to Judaism when I was in college. I have generally, with a couple of exceptions, refused to talk about why.…

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in defense of being ugly

in defense of being ugly

I went to a picnic earlier today. It was a trans-related thing, and if there’s one thing the picnic made very plain is that there’s lots of sizes, shapes, colors, and sorts of trans women, something that no media outlet and most of trans leadership would never let you think.

And it’s great to have picnics, but unless you’re sticking to someone to do introductions, it’s still looking at a very…

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an open letter to Ted Wheeler

an open letter to Mayor Ted Wheeler @tedwheeler

Mr. Mayor:

Recently, you somewhat melodramatically asked what you would tell your 12-year-old daughter about why there are protests in Portland’s streets.

What you didn’t bother with is that there’s squads of people coming here to commit that violence. You know, people like Joey Gibson and his squad, who call people in the city you run “degenerates.” You should know the historical use of that…

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brb buying $20 of garlic bread

i hate that some sites sell our personal data to corporations. we should cut the middleman and sell them OURSELVES.

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...BECAUSE I’M A *POTATO*.

forgot about this

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Yo Beaverton Foods, you gonna sit here and take this lying down? STEP YO GAME UP.

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redesigned my lesbian wall-e humans like the space gay i am