Notices by Jae (considermycat@eldritch.cafe)

@AnarchoNinaWrites But! But! He has “🏳️⚧️ Ally” in his bio! I guess “terms and conditions apply”…

Happy new year, everyone. In the immortal words of Enver Hoxha, which have never felt truer than they do now: “This year will be harder than last year. On the other hand, it will be easier than next year.”

@goatsarah @james @taylorlorenz Turns out “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was more a statement of intent than a warning

Looking for "quiet queer" events, and found a board game night that takes place in London each month. But it's for "women and non-binary people" – which I assume means, as usual, "girl enbies", not "boy enbies". <sigh>

@AnarchoNinaWrites Yeah I read some centrist newspaper writer yesterday saying “fascism was 90 years ago, we live in a very different world” – as if the Trumpists weren’t being *completely open* about their fascistic intent. But like you say: they don’t generally wear uniforms (yet), so it can’t be fascism…

On a call with a tech vendor at work, and The Guy keeps talking about “the [ProductName] Activity Centre”, and all I can think of is THIS

@esvrld Yup. And Trump spending $60m on “Kamala is for the they/thems” ads makes it a shoo-in that the centrists will also decide the Democrats need to definitively repudiate trans rights (sorry, “the more outlandish progressive causes”, to quote one newspaper columnist this morning)

Oh you know, just our “socialist” prime minister laughing and joking with a homophobic fascist while planning to emulate her policies, no biggie, everything’s fine

But as someone pointed out on here recently, Meloni has learnt the key lesson that, as long as you’re “well-behaved” in your foreign policy, you can be as fash as you like domestically and no other country will give a fuck

OK, looks like Philippine English already solved the “gender-neutral alternative to ‘sir’ and ‘madam’” problem :heart_nonbinary:

@AnarchoNinaWrites The constant hypervigilance as you sort people, conversation by conversation, into one bucket or another is exhausting in itself. Like, is this “nice but clueless” cis friend burbling about “women’s fears” and “irreversible changes” because they are in bucket 4 but being crass and (educatably) ignorant, or because they are secretly in bucket 2 (or worse) but keeping it civil? (A situation I often call, “last Thursday evening”)

@ryanc Whereas whenever British people go to houses in the US, we’re like, “Waste disposal units! Mixer taps! Air conditioning! Ridiculous! What’s *wrong* with misery, anyway?”

@ryanc Going to start telling people that that’s what the A stands for in LGBTQIA

Honestly what with Tony Blair, Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting all sharing their _aperçus_ on the subject of trans rights – short version, trans people don’t exist, should be shunted into “side rooms” in hospitals – I’m swinging very firmly back towards voting Green. They have their own terf wing, sure, but they seem to have largely locked them away for the duration of the campaign – rather than free-associating the abolition of trans rights on LBC, say

I really had thought that Labour would at least not make things *worse* for trans people, even if they did nothing to make things *better*. But they seem intent on locking in even the horrendous stuff the Tories forced through in the dying days of government – and the logic of their position will force them to go further still

Whereas the Green Party are promising things like self-ID for trans and nonbinary people, X markers in passports, and allowing schools to continue teaching about LGBTQ+ identities, rights and experiences. Oh, and not setting the planet on fire for 0.2% extra GDP growth. Sure, words are cheap, and they're not going to get anywhere remotely near power any time soon, but still. When I look back at the 2024 election, who will I *want* to have voted for?

When someone's trying to communicate "allyship" in their email signature, but it comes across as a bit aggressive (and/or weirdly defensive)

Do these people ever do any due diligence on anyone, ever? 🤦🏻
https://mas.to/@kissane/112570994388888061

You can tell where Jack Dorsey has tried to improve the sum total of human happiness, because grass never grows there again

Yes, but just one minor detail: THEY'RE NOT CHILDREN. THIS IS A POLICY AIMED AT 18-YEAR-OLDS.

"Fining parents for the behaviour of their adult offspring" is a bold policy initiative that definitely can't backfire in any way *I* can think of. /sarc