Notices by timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social), page 12

The notion of a "basilisk" is really symbolic of a group of marginalized people who are viscerally, reflexively hated because they violate social norms that people have so deeply internalized as a part of their own identities and sexuality, that they loose all sense of logic, empathy, and sanity when interacting with people who violate those norms.

As I came on shift yesterday, my coworker was expounding upon how disgusted she was that another coworker had used a bowl from the cupboard to provide water for her dog during an overnight shift.

She was so disgusted that she put the bowl next to the trashcan under the kitchen sink and freaked out when I went to pick it up.

I explained that the dishwasher gets so hot that it would be sanitized after a wash cycle.

She thought I was completely unhinged.

I'm probably back here on a limited basis.

I've missed writing quite a bit.

I've missed you all as well, even though most of you are not deer or rabbits.

(Most of you. I suspect there are at least a few woodland creatures with keyboards out there in the Fediverse.)

I was taking another 9 mile meander around the wilder parts of west Minneapolis and I saw a delightful number of deer and rabbits.

I think deer and rabbits would make nice companions. I wonder if they'd mind if I moved in with them?

One day, I might not bother coming back from my walk and just spend the rest of my days living with other woodland mammals.

It seems like a sane response to... Well, everything right now.

This human thing is wearing a bit thin. Time to do something else.

I'm breaking my "radio silence" to mention that I wrote this thread on July 4th. It is not a commentary on yesterday's shooting of Donald Trump.

Sometimes it's easy to forget to read time stamps on posts, so I'm just pointing this out to prevent confusion.

It is weirdly ironic that I posted this nine days before an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, though.

(Who knows what the political persuasion of the shooter is, though. Too early to tell. Too few details.)

I'm chiming in with one more thing and this makes me pretty angry.

Can you people *please* shut the fuck up with the gun talk?

Hey, you know what? This is the Fediverse and it's full of trans people and speaking as a trans person, I'm usually one or two emotional crises away from wanting to end myself.

If I bought a gun, the first person to wind up with a bullet in her would likely be me, by my own hand.

Please take your gun fondling shit somewhere else.

OK, I'm done here.

(thread muted)

One thing that sets off old PTSD reactions from childhood more than anything else, is seeing people engage in violent posturing, and good grief, has there been an upswell of that lately.

I can endure many different kinds of social toxicity but this is not one them.

I'm taking a break from social media for a while.

See you whenever.

No, I don't want to see another think piece about why we should be taking the rage of the racist ass white working class seriously this election.

Christ Erin, even you are going this route.

Haven't we been doing this bullshit since 2016?

And yeah, I'm from the working class too, and my experiences with the white working class and their right wing authoritarian bullshit is largely why I have little sympathy for them.

#Subtoot

Why do people assume that the left doesn't contain working class people and that we don't know what the fuck is up with that part of the class hierarchy?

Seriously. Fuck off with this bullshit assumption that we're largely well-to-do clueless people who aren't "real working americans."

I spent time at a friend's cabin in northern Minnesota last week.

Here is a photo of two butterflies who seemed to fancy each other. They spent a lot of time just hanging out near each other.

This photo was taken with my tablet. A better camera than my phone's.

This was taken on a lake shore, by the cabin.

I forgot to get pics of the lake, of course. I'm a dork.

My phone's camera might work better in direct sunlight. These photos were taken at lower light levels before sunrise.

I don't actually see the sunrise until I'm nearly finished with my hike, LOL.

I wake up EARLY.

Seeing all of @Greenseer's photos from her daily hikes inspired me to *try* to snap a couple of photos during my hike with the terrible camera in my phone.

They suck. I know.

I think I might dust off my digital SLR camera at some point and take it along on one of my morning hikes. Darn thing is kind of heavy and awkward to have bouncing around on a strap around one's neck, though.

You know, if you're a medical professional and you give private medical information to the media without the consent of the party whose information you are sharing, particularly the private medical information of minors, the government SHOULD stomp all over your ass for HIPAA violations.

And they should do so with great force.

Some people on here seem to think that being condescending assholes to younger people will somehow provide the motivation to vote for a party full of condescending assholes who dismiss the concerns of younger people.

If you're actually trying to help, you're profoundly incompetent in your efforts.

But you're not really trying to help. It just feels good to act like an asshole to younger people.

Oh fun.

There's a tornado watch for...

EVERYWHERE in Minnesota.

Hold on to your britches folks.

https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=MNZ060&warncounty=MNC053&firewxzone=MNZ060&local_place1=Minneapolis%20MN&product1=Tornado+Watch

Yeah, the sky is beginning to take on that weird look it gets when it's thinking about vacuuming up things.

That's 64 of Minnesota's 87 counties, btw.

Not all of them, but damn near close.

I think I have a post in me before I wander off to do that cooking and packing thing for my trip...

It's not one of my darker posts, so you can pull the mouse away from that "X".

😉

But you know, this is the thing that has struck me recently.

Yeah, I tried to "boy really hard" and ironically, that was a part of the process of me realizing that I fucking hated being a boy and I'd rather be taking a peaceful dirt nap than living the rest of my life that way.

In a very real sense, learning that being boy/man/masculine identified/etc. was a misery inducing affair for me was very much a part of the process of me understanding that I'm female.

They are entwined.

I imagine some of you might understand this.

You aren't alone.

It brings a whole lot of messy feelings for trans women of many walks of life, I'm sure.