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terfs would lose their minds if they were exposed to 2000s-2010s "a girl can do anything a boy can do, including beating them at sports" messaging like why are you all acting like nobody has ever said this and that it's radical to think that women aren't inherently worse at things. open your mind. read some feminist theory. touch some grass. the most basic banal middle-class white woman feminism of the 2010s looks fucking radical and visionary compared to the misogynistic victimization complex y'all are peddling

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I wish they could invent a medical device that temporarily transfers your symptoms and pain to the doctor treating you and it worked like a shock collar. “I think light exercise would-.” and then bam they’re rolling around the floor clutching their stomach in agony and dry heaving.

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So a white woman today wished me happy canada day, and when I did not respond positively, told me that while she's not much for canada day, she was thankful for her freedoms as a queer/trans person.

I told her "glad you all get freedoms at least"

And it really is 'you all' and not us.

My people's traditional systems of gender and social roles are not recognized. There's no legal recognition for people who are ayahkwêw, iskwêhikan, or înapîkasoht. No understanding of the roles of tastawiyiniwak.

Our traditional styles of relationships, the way that we do "marriage" has no legal protection. Legal marriage takes after european christian marriage. Why are Indigenous unions considered less valid? Why does the occupational government get a say in who I choose to share my life with?

Polyamory was not uncommon among my people. People regularly had multiple partners. You could have multiple spouses. These relationships nowadays have no recognition, no protection.

Children were raised communally. Nowadays most kids are raised without our language. More than 70% of kids in care in Alberta (where I live) are Indigenous. Instead of being raised by the community our kids get stolen off reserve and sent to white families.

People had the right to end relationships at any time. How many women get stuck in abusive marriages because of the high financial cost of divorce? How many Indigenous wives have been murdered by settler husbands before they could leave???

50% of sex trafficking victims in so called canada are Indigenous women and girls. Rates of rape and sexual violence are higher against our women and two spirit people than anyone else. We are just now starting to talk about how many Indigenous girls went from residential school to arranged marriages with white men.

But its great that settlers can have their queer marriages recognized. Happy canada day.

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Reminder:

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The right-wing "cities on fire" narrative depends on MAGAts being too stupid and small-minded to comprehend what a "city" is!

I saw a right-wing tweet share this image that claims to be from left-wing protests. I haven't fact-checked the images so... take it with a grain of salt...

Whether these are really where they claim to be from, what I want to talk about is how all of these are super zoomed in on individual fires and used to create this narrative that cities were being burnt down by riots.

To people who actually live in cities, I'm sure this narrative looks pretty ridiculous. But the narrative isn't meant for people who live in these places. It's meant for rural MAGAts who have never stepped outside the places they were born.

Just focusing on that last one, New York City. This is a city that has about 120,000 city blocks. It is so massive that the buildings on Google Earth look like grains of sand.

If there was a single building on fire from this view, you couldn't make it out.

We have to zoom further in on just one borough, like Brooklyn, to be able to make out individual buildings if we squint hard enough.

And even on this map, a fire is going to be a small dot.

A skyline picture like this one can only capture a small fraction of the city:

And I genuinely don't think the majority of rural MAGAts actually have any understanding of the size and scope of what a city actually is.

If a single building catches on fire in their own town, that's huge. So they, with their small-minded perspectives, assume that applies to everywhere just the same.

On the other hand, the people who feed this propaganda to MAGAts DO know what a city is. Most of them live in big cities and know what they're shoveling to them is nonsense. But they also know that their intended audience is too ignorant and stupid to see through the propaganda.

The rural MAGAts will eat up a narrative of liberal cities being burnt to the ground even while never stepping foot in one themselves. And the right-wing propagandists know this. They don't respect the rural MAGAts in the least, but they've found a voter base in them they love for how easy they are to manipulate. The propagandist loves playing on the ever-reliable ignorance of the rural MAGAt.

(Also, 8647!)

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bro last night was totally redacted! last night was fully expunged from the record. bro, do you... can you remember last night? what did we do...? what did... did we hurt someone? bro? why won't you look at me? what did I do...? whose blood is this...? bro...?

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you need to PLEASE scroll past the ai overview because they often just make shit up to fill in gaps or sound more interesting CAUSETHEYREDUMBROBOTSWHODONTJNOWANYTHINGANDWEREJUSTDESIGNEDTOGIVESNAPPYANSWERS

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I actually do feel like the "unemployed friend on a Tuesday" meme actually helps de-stigmatize unemployment because it frequently affirms that when you don't have a job you're more likely to be getting up to some weird shit rather than just lazing around. But I also feel like the unemployed friend is frequently up to some random shit because there's a whole pile of miscellaneous life tasks that full-time employment keeps people from. The unemployed friend is helping their cousin move, or babysitting, or checking in with a neighbor with mobility issues. The unemployed friend is a walking thesis on the inflexibility of our current labor landscape and just how much work exists outside of work.

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“If we all got angry together, something might be done”

No, hear me out:

“If we all got angry together, we might do something”

Politicians never listen. Direct action gets the goods.

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Hey. Your brain needs to de-frag. Literally it needs you to sit there and space out.

If you want your memory or executive function to improve, stare out a window at the skyline or sidewalk or trees or birds on the electrical wires for like 20+ minutes per day. (With no other stimulation like a podcast or TV if you can manage but hey baby steps innit). If you're fortunate enough to have safe outside with any bits of nature, go stare closely at a 1 meter square of grass and trip out on the bugs and shapes of grasses and stuff.

Literally this will make you smarter. Our brains HAVE TO HAVE this zone out time to do important stuff behind the scenes. This does not happen during sleep, it's something else.

That weird pressurized feeling you get sometimes might be your brain on no defrag.

Give your brain a Daily Dose Of De-Frag.

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I don't normally post photos or talk about the protest actions I participate in, but I was at the Chicago Stand Up For Science rally on behalf of my job recently and this sign took me out at the knees.

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“you’re so lucky your disabilities mean you don’t have to work” thanks. you’re so lucky that you’re sheltered enough to think that is a privilege

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Musings from Anna Fusco