Notices by Kit Malone (thekitmalone@hoosier.social), page 3

Caring for and nurturing spaces that exist outside of the grasp of the ruling class is a form of activism and that's why I'm here.

I'm awake to the current limitations of this place, and I don't care. None of them are worse than the disgust I feel at the idea of giving any of these fascists a single fraction of a penny's worth of my online life.

OMG you really believe all these rich people are going to allow one of their favorite advertising and disinfo machines to go permanently dark. L O L

TikTok has just demonstrated why you need to futureproof your creative endeavors.

I'm not asking you to simply abandon a platform that is helping you earn a living -- but you should at least consider planting seeds somewhere else as an investment in your future.

Maybe somewhere like the Fediverse where a single government, company, billionaire, president, whatever can't ever just arbitrarily turn out the lights on your source of income.

Goddamnit I guess I need to find myself a VPN provider who isn't supporting far right politicians. Any suggestions?

I have the misfortune of needing to prepare for attacks on my family next year.

History shows that moderate supporters follow the pendulum during times when it swings away from justice.

When you are tempted to, remember how little harm my husband and I are. Compare the way we live our lives to the way they describe us.

Every "necessary" oppression is a Trojan horse to enable worse.

Do we deserve it?

I don't believe we do. And I don't think you do, either.

Still #trans. Still proud to be.

Zuckerberg ain't gonna send you a cute little Christmas package, people.

❤️ to @brian for the swag and the nice surprises in the mail today!

Pulled out my heavy old ABM 225 button press today to punch out some official #HoosierSocial merch for the folks that attended our virtual party last night!

We had a lovely time and if you missed it, you missed out!

Want an exclusive Hoosier Sosh pin of your own? Starting in January we'll have a way for you to get one AND help out our community! #foreshadowing

#HoosierMast

It's COOKIE DAY. Just finished a batch of white chocolate cranberry oatmeal cookies. Dough for gingerpersons is chilling in the fridge. After that we are going to attempt a variety of fudge with some interesting floral and herbal flavorings.

In the last twenty four hours both Harris and Walz have delivered master classes in how to support the dignity of trans people without falling into the bad faith traps set for them by conservatives. That matters.

Hey there, #Indiana! Come phone bank in person WITH our candidate, Jennifer McCormick! Help us get out the vote to make her our next governor!

She's visiting our Hamilton County HQ this Saturday! Sign up here:

https://www.mobilize.us/mccormickforgovernor/event/710687/

#HoosierMast #McCormickForGov #Vote

So you know this #scotus that is taking every opportunity to rule that states can decide if pregnant people get to live or die? They'll decide this term if states can do that to trans people, too.

This court is an existential threat. We have to win, decisively, to even begin to undo the damage.

@ryanc

I don't even usually respond to polls like this but I hated WinME so much that my voice could not be silenced

wow I can't believe that Donald Trump would lie about a major disaster and then exploit it for political gain gosh

Last night I sat through a breakdown of a study of women voters where the speaker (who had a lot of really awesome insights, otherwise) kept referring to the set as "self-identified women."

Can we just stop using constructions such as "identifies as" or "self-identified" when we're talking about women?

Trans women are women, and to me those constructions always feel like a covert way of making our womanhood sound sketchy and inauthentic.

It also sounds weirdly condescending. Like, "well they *say* they're women so ok" ... listen women can be trusted to know if they are women.

Want to piss of radicals? Tell them they need to respect the pragmatists in their ranks.

Want to piss off pragmatists? Tell them they need to respect the radicals in their ranks.

But both statements are, in fact, true.

Every once and awhile I want to ask a question in the LibreOffice forums but the responses there are such a unique combination of condescending, snide and defensive that I inevitably decide to just do without. Whatever I needed to learn is not worth having Discount Richard Stallman 'splain the difference between spreadsheets and databases to me or sarcastically tell me that I am incorrect to want to do what I want to do.

@GottaLaff here's what I don't understand... Texas is pretty red. You can expect that a lot of Republicans would like to have their successful elections certified so that they can take office. Why doesn't this sort of think just make everyone angry at them? rhetorical question obviously, as forethought never really seems to enter this stuff

@gooba42 @GottaLaff No doubt, I can see that for national and statewide candidates. But what about all those local Republican school board, city council, state reps and state senators who would otherwise just coast into their seats on an easy win?

I predict this kinda chaos will have all kinds of unpredictable impacts and make enemies at the local parties. Which is honestly par for the course with national Republicans right now and would be somewhat fun to watch if it wasn't so dangerous.

While clearly that's the national party's priority, and a lotta folks at the local level are enabling it ... I still think pissing all over your local-level party infrastructure is kinda bad-news death-throes stuff. I don't see these tactics working out well for much of anybody in the end.