Notices by Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social), page 2

"trans women get so much shit for acting hyper femme but the reason we do it is it’s the only time we get seen as feminine"

One of my transition goals was to read as female no matter what I wore or whatever, which is something gender normative cis women take for granted. And I mostly succeed unless I'm very tired or depressed. But unless you transition young or pass very well, you get stuck having to manage other people's perceptions in exchange for basic validity.

https://bsky.app/profile/leonalurid.bsky.social/post/3ltklsbcg5c2k

If I had my druthers, I would rather be a conventional heteronormative cis woman so I didn't have to think about it at all.

It sucks that even other trans people will attack you for it. There's always some "pick me" willing to throw less passing people under the bus. Conversely, some trans people get snotty over wanting to pass at all! "That's not important." Not to you maybe. That's not for you to decide.

It's exhausting.

The same people up in arms about Zohran Mamdani because he's a socialist or a Muslim or what have you are perfectly fine hanging out at the Nazi bar. Adjust your expectations accordingly.

So yes, Musk reprogrammed his "AI" to praise Hitler. That's a thing that is happening. And this will apparently have no effect on the politicians and organizations who insist they have to be on "X" because reasons.

Affluent older white people will tell you with a straight face that crime is rampant on the subway, which they never use, or downtown, where they never go, amongst other easily disproven things.

None of these people have ever cared if my life was destroyed so I frankly don't give them any sympathy either.

My feeling about transphobes, racists, misogynists, and other assorted bigots and fascists is I think they should die.

One of the most maddening aspects of living in America is that most people, especially those in power or in the media, act like they've had a stroke and can't remember why things are the way they are. So we keep having the same bullshit dead end arguments about stuff like "small government," when the only reason (white) people claim to prefer "small government" is they're still mad about civil rights and desegregation.

Like, the Christian right created a fake controversy around abortion, which they previously supported, to try and gin up support after they lost the battle on desegregation. They created a fake controversy about trans people after losing the battle on same sex marriage. "Trickle down" was always a wealth extraction scheme for the ultra-rich. It never works. Etcetera, etcetera. The same petty, rich, evil assholes are responsible for almost everything wrong with American today!

US politics is continually stumbling around, walking in circles, crashing into things, and fucking everything up because it won't just take off the goddamn blindfold and walk calmly toward the exit like a normal person.

The only reason no one talks about the plain truth of what's happening in this country is because it benefits a relative handful of wealthy white bigoted assholes to keep us in continual misery and they have eager servants in both major political parties.

There has always been a stark divide between the people whom America has treated badly, for whom "death to America" might be said wearily, ironically, but aspirationally, and the people who clutch pearls that someone might hate this stupid, racist country enough to say so. The former understands the latter very well. The latter apparently understands nothing at all.

You would think that ICE showing up in combat armor with a truck mounted machine gun to "arrest" (kidnap) little old ladies and child cancer patients would finally drill it into Americans' heads that immigrants are not dangerous and the only heavily militarized, ultra-violent gang in this country are cops.

"People should have voted for Democrats."

Maybe Democrats should have campaigned on something OTHER than being anti-immigration, pro-cop, pro-genocide, and having "the deadliest military on earth," making it hard to distinguish them from Republicans.

I don't know how to react to people who say they would rather pay $100 for eggs than hear about trans rights except to hope they suffer and die because that's apparently what they want.

My secret is I'm the extra final super secret super defective Cylon.

Whoo-woo.

I went to one of the poorest, minority majority public high schools in our city and I came out with an education that ran circles around the private school kids.

But the point of private school isn't learning. It's teaching kids that segregation is normal and the wealthy are superior. Which is why those kids fail when exposed to the real world.

I get why Trump thinks this is a good deal because he's convinced all trade imbalances are artificial and not the result of, you know, unequal wealth, resources, production capacity, etc. Plus he's still convinced that other countries pay the tariffs. But -- ugh.

So Trump negotiated a deal where Americans pay a 20-40% tariff on goods imported from Vietnam but Vietnam can buy American goods essentially duty free.

[rubs temples]

Okay. Sure. I guess.

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/02/nx-s1-5422252/trump-trade-deal-vietnam-tariff