Notices by GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)

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I realize that you're 23 and you live on a phone and that you're happy reading a phone screencap with a 4pt font.

And you're upset about what's on the screen, I know you are, and we are allies. I want to know what you're upset about.

But I can't.

I'm not 23, and I can't read a screencap. On my 26" monitor it is 2 inches wide.

Ya wanna make allies? Make messages allies can read.

@skinnylatte God yer such a babe, Adrianna. Tell your partner I said so.

They target trans-folk *precisely* because they think cis-het folk will look away. Cuz cis-het folk basically don't *get* it. We can't, really. They're counting on us not defending those who aren't like us.

I'm not looking away.

I have friends and family who are trans. I don't get it, sure, I don't, and I'm not claiming to.

What I *do* get is that these evil fucks are hurting people I *love*, cuz the camps always start with the minorities we don't get. *Always*.

I'm not looking away.

There is no evidence, none, nada, bupkus, zip, zero, zilch, of any kind whatsoever in any country anywhere in the world of a transfemme or transmasc person doing a crime in the bathroom.

Nothing.

Oh, my dear non-US friends, I just hate to say this.

Don't come. Don't make plans to come.

When a country loses its sense of the rule of law, you should avoid it.

Nobody, and I mean *nobody*, is safe when the rule of law collapses. It is collapsing here.

Look. I know it's bad. It's really bad. All I want to do, myself, is lay down in a place that is warm and quiet and dark.

But politics is not a game with a clock. It ain't over until we leave the field.

Don't walk off the field.

Hang in there.

Reminder: You don't know, *can't* know, your effect on the world. The math is too hard, the logic is too hard, the causality is too complex to chart.

Be kind.

I miss Buffy sometimes. I have a new gee-kid, he's just 12. When he's 14, we'll share the only-when-together blood oath and watch Buffy from beginning to end.

If preventing a shutdown is so desperately important to Senate Democrats, I just have a fairly straightforward question: why are they letting DOGE -- an operation expressly designed to shut down government all across our country -- say and do whatever it wants?

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@skinnylatte Bad Adrianna, no biscuit!

@skinnylatte A reasonably good question.

@kaia @futurebird Welllllllll. Myrmie, my friend, has 18,000 followers here, deservedly. I, a lesser figure, have 5k and change followers.

Can't speak for her, but I can for me. I had five times as many followers on Twitter -- it was Twitter when I was there, not X -- and I got a fifth of the actual engagement, and five times the mean-spirited drive-bys I get here.

@skinnylatte Are they headed home tonight?

Concept: I'll just go grab the latest season of Resident Alien or Slow Horses, and when Apple TV comes for me, a team of a dozen $400/hr lawyers will swoop in from Meta to defend me pro bono.

Yeaaaaaaah, *That's* the ticket.

"See, it's okay to *take*, it's just not okay to *give*."

So Meta says it's okay to torrent if you don't seed.

Interesting. I wonder how music, game, and film producers feel about that?

Honestly, tho I doubt anyone at Meta would even understand the allusion, these people remind me of nothing so much as the vicious lying buffoon villains of Dickens.

They make Smallweed seem almost likable.

And another reminder: these people are not incompetent. Were they trying to govern, yes, they would be incompetent governors.

They are not trying to govern.

They are trying to rule, beyond any notion of our 250 year long attempt at self-governance.

Their mission isn't to govern, it's to destroy democracy. They have *said* this, and they are *doing* it.

Y'all called us alarmists.

I don't understand why every single paper or website in America doesn't have a headline: "President Lies About Origins of Ukraine War".

Above the fold. In 48pt type.

Republicans are traitors.

I just fucking hate saying this.

But I said what I said.