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A Guide To Fandoms When A Special Episode Airs

STAR TREK FANS: I hope this one has my favorite niche character that appeared a decade ago for 15 seconds on screen

STAR WARS FANS: I hope this one isn't a tragic disappointment that somehow shits on the entire previous franchise

DR WHO FANS: I hope this one fucks me up emotionally

Here's a take that might get me cancelled, but hear me out. Saving money is a luxury expense.

You can't expect people to live within their means when their means is below poverty wages. There is no budgeting oneself out of systemically enforced poverty.

The Welsh language is beautiful

Turns out the weirdos who are obsessed with trans children's genitals are [CHECKS NOTES] obsessed with children's genitals. Gee who could've seen that coming.

There's a concerted effort on the far right to rebrand bigotry as "political differences". Here are some things that are legitimate political differences:

- Disagreement on what should be the maximum build height for this neighborhood
- Disagreement on whether there should be another tax levee to pay for additional school funding and buy your county new school buses
- Disagreement over how the new development downtown should be zoned, either fully residential or business/residential mixed.

Here are a few things that are NOT "political differences"

- Disagreement on whether or not black people count as people
- Disagreement over whether gay people should be electrocuted to try to make them straight
- Disagreement over whether immigrants deserve basic human rights

These aren't disagreements over politics. They're fundamental differences in morality. And yes, they're valid things to end a friendship over.

BRITISH TEA TRANSLATION GUIDE

"Cup of tea?" = A valued friend has arrived. Let's welcome them in.

"Spot of tea?" = A foreign guest has arrived. Hyper-English Mary Poppins mode activated.

"Pot of tea?" = The in-laws have arrived. I would very much like to impress them.

"...tea?" = I find this situation awkward. Let's do literally anything else.

"Cuppa?" = I don't know you. This is a veiled threat.

"Fancy a cuppa?" = You are smokin hot. Would you care for some intercourse?

"I'll make some tea." = There has been a death in the family or national tragedy.

Let's be clear about the threat posed by book banning groups like Moms for Liberty. The VERY first thing the Nazis did in 1933 after seizing power was burn all the books in the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, the largest library in the world at the time of trans histories and trans academic research.

The NEXT thing they did was burn trans people.

@georgetakei good. No Momzis at my Thanksgiving parade. Win - win.

@bmalsuj same. But not about the elections. If we show up, they lose. We outnumber them by millions.

What I'm worried about is coup #2. We haven't put nearly enough safeguards in place to prevent it, and they're already psyching themselves up into it again.

A SHORT, TRUE HISTORY OF MAGA

It's 2016. Donald Trump leads his party into a campaign against Barack Obama, who is not a candidate. Wins the electoral college but loses the popular vote by millions.

It's 2018. Donald Trump leads his party to a crushing defeat in the midterms, giving up 41 seats in the House and ceding control to the Dems.

It's 2020. Donald Trump leads his party to a crushing 306-232 defeat, a loss of over 7 million votes. Several GOP strongholds like GA, AZ, and NV flip blue due to his deep unpopularity.

It's 2021. Donald Trump leads his party into an attempted coup, which is crushingly defeated in under a day.

It's 2022. Donald Trump leads his party to a crushing defeat in the midterms, losing Senate control, and only managing to claw back a slim 4-seat majority in the House.

It's almost 2024. Donald Trump is leading your party. Again.

And you're following him. Again.

I love this for you.

ME: I wish I had the perfect body
GENIE: It is done
ME: *looking myself over* But nothing's changed
GENIE: correct
ME: wow you're a wholesome genie!
GENIE: I'm a hallucination take your meds.

THREE THINGS CIS PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE:

1. We aren't rare. There are twice as many of us as there are police officers in America.

2. We aren't new. There are historical examples of us in every society, in every nation, on every continent on earth, since the beginning of recorded history.

3. We aren't going away. In 1933, one of the first things the Nazi party did after seizing power, was burn down the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, the largest repository in the world of trans histories and trans academic research. So if you've ever thought trans people are rare or new, blame a Nazi.

There is no greater condemnation of the Boomer generation's systemic generational wage theft than the fact that when The Simpson's first started its run, Homer's ability to own a 2BR, 3Ba house minutes from work and school, while supporting three kids, a spouse, and provide elderly care for his father on a single income was seen as the sorry plight of a struggling, low-income worker.

@georgetakei we are watching Republicans gleefully abandon democracy in real time.

I've been reading up about solipsism lately but I don't believe it exists.

If every landlord disappeared, alllllllll the housing would still be there. Landlords provide nothing of value to society.

@Npars01 this. 💯.

They aren't trying to win in the court. They want the court to look weak. The point is to degrade and weaken public institutions.

Happy #Caturday from Cricket

@georgetakei What we are fighting is not a political party. Fascism has no political stance. It is merely a tool for seizing power. MAGA isn't a political party. MAGA is fascism. MAGA is terrorism. MAGA is a cancer.

I had a lot of well-meaning friends try to teach me good stage presence. They would say 'talk louder in the middle' and 'project to the back of the crowd' and 'be high energy'. I didn't learn stage presence like that.

I learned stage presence when another friend put a boot in my back, pushing me forward about four feet toward the audience. 'Stand here', she said. 'And be you. You're awesome'.

So I did.

Words of wisdom from a young guitarist friend of mine, wise beyond her years.