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@neolithicsheep.bsky.social
"Swear to god you're like a Fox Fire book set in hell." - Ursula Vernon
"You puckish motherfucker." - Sarah Day
Trans and queer anarchist sheep farmer. Navy veteran attempting to redeem himself.
Where was this energy when the abortion ban went down? Where was this energy when the transition care ban went down? Why do you only give a fuck when you can envision a law affecting you personally? I don't know how to explain that you should care about other people, too.
And frankly I hate who this burnout turns me into, because I think this proposed mask ban in North Carolina is incredibly shitty and will do immense damage to public health but also I'm so angry and sad and tired that I keep getting fucking hung out to dry by people who then want my work.
Like, what's going on there non-binary disabled people? Are those of us who need medical transition just too fucking shameful and gross for you to show any goddamned solidarity when there's legislation targeting us, but you want us behind you?
Also what is worse than the cis disabled people who ignored the transition care ban are the ones I see who are non-binary but didn't show up for transgender people in North Carolina and now want to use words like eugenics etc.
I can tell I am still extremely burned out from organizing in North Carolina and the way we were ignored in the rest of the nation but look. Look.
I am disabled. I volunteered to test the Pfizer/BioNTech covid vaccine. I'm also transgender.
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Also "fun"/"enjoyable" is not an objective measure you can quantify in a way that's meaningful for everyone. Some people dislike some mechanics. That's OK. It doesn't make games that use those mechanics bad games. A thing doesn't have to appeal to everyone.
Yeah, I feel like in many respects the “are games art” conversation is extremely played out (and thank Christ) but “should games be fun” is a whole other thing
And I think the answer is that “fun” is needlessly restrictive and we should evaluate games based on intent more than anything else
...well this is brilliant and if I hadn't been forced to leave the south I'd be asking permission to steal it
Wait if you and @scarlettohairdye.bsky.social are out in my area and have not arranged to say hi I will make sad faces
Yeah exactly. And one of the things I find most resonant about Judaism is that the daily prayers are still attached to things that are meaningful to me - eg in the Shema we find "if you keep these commandments I will send rain and grass for your livestock and you will eat and be filled"
I mean we desperately do. As the NC mask ban is proving, once they've taken abortion and transition care the far right will move on to abusing other rights to keep their base riled up. You have to stop them when they start this shit, but people don't care about us enough.
I'm transgender, it is not safe for me to visit Florida unfortunately because the panhandle has a lot of fond childhood memories for me
Internet, if one wanted to maybe encourage one's very patient girlfriend to wear such a bikini because it is quite frankly country boy catnip, where would one find one WITHOUT AN AMERICAN FLAG ON THE TIT
Love to you in Florida. The helplessness is real - they've rigged the system so getting them out of office is damn near impossible
Lawrence's goldfinch, house finch, lesser goldfinch, mourning dove, American Robin, yellow-rumped warbler, Edgar the scrub jay who shows up to see if I've put out large seeds
Haha yeah my ptsd came pre-installed from military service and an abusive marriage. I've been out of the south since last September and I'm just now starting to process the depth of my grief and anger at having to leave.
Like they will claim they care but it is evident by their actions they do not. They just don't actually give a fuck.
Frankly I don't think it's even that deep. Transition care bans don't affect most cis people on the center/center-left, which is where most of them are, and therefore they do not bother to pay attention or engage in any effort around the bans.
Because we needed your help down there for years now and you just ignored us and you're going to forget about this in five minutes and also maybe try giving a fuck about people other than yourselves. You make me very tired.
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I gave a third of my life to organizing in the south. To trying to get people to pay attention and to help us, and no one ever would, and finally the other side won. And now cis people are demanding more work over this mask ban and frankly I hate you all.
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I am so tired. I had to move 2600 miles to be safe. I had to leave behind all my friends and all my family living and dead. I had to leave behind my oxen and a third of my sheep flock. There was no big outcry when North Carolina started considering bans on transition care, nor for other states.
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They kill disabled people who need an abortion. They kill disabled trans kids. They cause more disability when pregnancies go terribly wrong, when debilitating mental illness is the result of the lack of control over your own life.
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You have to show up for fucking all of it. For abortion (North Carolina also passed a 12 week abortion ban, where was everybody?), for transition care, for EVERYONE'S right to stay alive and thrive. Abortion bans kill. Transition bans kill. Just as surely as mask bans, they kill.
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I need cis disabled people to understand that I see them demanding I show up for this law when they did not show up or even notice a ban that will kill trans children and I am angry at them. Because healthcare is fucking healthcare.
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I'm seeing some cis disabled people throw around the word "eugenics" in regards to the mask ban and as a trans disabled person I need them to understand that bans on transition care are also eugenics and will kill people.
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I had to leave North Carolina last year and indeed the entire south because the place is no longer safe for trans people. North Carolina ended up passing a ban on transition care for minors. Cis people outside the state did not rally and pass around instructions for protesting it.
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I can tell I am still extremely burned out from organizing in North Carolina and the way we were ignored in the rest of the nation but look. Look.
I am disabled. I volunteered to test the Pfizer/BioNTech covid vaccine. I'm also transgender.
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I turn to science when I need to understand how things are happening in the natural world, I find religion much more useful for the why.
...if that even makes sense. And I mean also I am much more deeply connected to and invested in mundane natural phenomena than most folks these days.
@joshuaeaton.bsky.social it's time to FOIA for good!!
well, UGA is public, so they’re subject to public records requests about why they shut down their public records clinic. Would be a shame if they got a lot of those.
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Probably a severely delayed allergic reaction to part of your leg being eaten by a dog
Between the description of dysphoria as socially constructed and the claim that autistic people don't have any empathy I'm pretty horrified by it.
You can't go back to using an old beardy photo, you'll upset the balance we have going where you firmly exited being a beardy small ruminant person and I took the spot. I'm not putting a 15 year old femme Pic on LinkedIn.
"Oh but I can't keep track of those bills" must be fucking nice not to have to. Must be fucking nice to not have to worry about bills that only target trans people.
I see you. I see you all. I see you not caring sweet fuck all when the legislation in question is only going to kill queer and trans children.
The number of cis people I see getting all het up about the NC bill that removes the health & safety exception from their mask ban who had exactly fuck all to say when NC banned transition care for minors WHICH WILL ALSO KILL makes me want a separatist commune.
I just feel like you could get that down further if you really tried
Please specify species, I am a sheep farmer living on rangeland and have identified 6 grasses within 10 feet of my front door