Evyn Redmane @Dogwood@queer.party

a fun thing about quarantine has been that @Dogwood and us have been increasingly unintelligible because of the gradual mutation of language that occurs in isolation

example:
we somehow got in the habit of pronouncing initial "c" as "ch". Chereal, Choffee, et chetera.

(if this is about you, you've been told.)

been trying hard not to block people who boost stuff against blocking. cos like after hellweek being personally targeted by kiwifarms/gleasonator/poast/etc., whenever unasked-for replyppl go "but what about the ~abuuse~ of the ~unjust power~ of ~not talking to people~", it feels like, dunno, being stepped on, personally, with a twist of the boottip for good measure. but I think, ok this is not about me, they don't know what organised online harassment feels like, they don't know that they're minimising it, they're just misguided. I know some good people who are terribly wrong about free speech ideology. or so I thought. then one of the good people starts boosting support for the exact specific trio of terf/fash/channer alliance that came for me. boosting support _for_ these instances, _by_ an open racist.

and I start to wonder, how much of a red flag is really, opposition to defederation

somebody I cared about is mutuals with n-word-using racists, would you know what they interact together about?

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first time I saw Black people voicing how much of a terrible place the fediverse is, I thought huh where's all that stuff going on? I never see any of it! how come me, a white woman, never see any of the racism oh.

protip for fellow whites, Black people talking about racism know what they're talking about and you don't. so listen to what they say on how to deal with it, and take a stand. anti-racist doesn't mean non-racist.

Every single person saying “sex is real, it’s gender that’s not real” to support trans people needs to sit down and think about how that affects intersex people.

Sex is literally made up. Sex characteristics? Real. Genitalia is real, hormone levels are real, chromosomes are real… But dividing those into two boxes isn’t real. We arbitrarily threw together the two most common combinations of these traits, called them male and female, and said fuck everyone who doesn’t fit into that.

Sex isn’t some holy thing that only the most radical people want to destroy, it’s a farce used to justify the medical abuse of intersex people. If you want to be an ally to intersex people, please take the time to think about these things. Think about the way we talk about sex and how it might be hurting intersex people.

Using “assigned gender” language, legitimating the idea of a sex binary, calling intersex types “conditions”/“disorders”/etc., comparing intersex people to animals with diverse sex characteristics, and not listening to or acknowledging intersex people are all things people need to stop doing if they want to be allies to intersex people.

I’m trans as well as intersex, I know that supporting trans rights is incredibly important, but it should not be done at the expense of intersex people.

Source: https://himbo-the-clown.tumblr.com/post/620307952259186688/every-single-person-saying-sex-is-real-its

A group of friends and I have been trying to help this woman in New Orleans keep her home. If you can spare any $ I would super appreciate it. The only thing we have is each other. #mutualaid

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ilona-keep-her-family-home

me: all right, time for me to drink my coffee and watch something on youtube perhaps, and -

youtube: hey do you want a maned wolf getting tummy rubs

me: i...

me: i don't know why you think i want this

youtube: but you want this, right?

me: you are absolutely right, yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uDd1QdeOx4&ab_channel=Naty%27sAdventures