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The whole national divorce thing is pretty stupid, and while most of the people arguing for it are right-wingers mad that most of us think it’s wrong to hate trans people, the fact that our electoral map is broken up by states, which are then colored either solid red or solid blue, tricks even some reasonable people into thinking it makes sense. When in reality, this is what the country looks like, making clear there are basically no red or blue states.

Just got the warning again. It hasn't happened for a few days.
@admin, do you think this could be related to the version of Mastodon we're using?

I'm pretty sure Mastodon is the first social network I've been on that didn't immediately ask me to betray all of the people in my address book.

Today is February 17

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A good concise THREAD from @parkermolloy
She references JK Rowling as a basis for her thread, but I think many of us will recognize the distorted perspective of Rowling in people we know, read, or listen to. It starts:

"There seem to be a number of pundits insisting that anything short of putting trans people in camps is not "an attack on trans people's rights."

Please understand how ridiculous that sort of characterization is."

masto.ai/@parkermolloy/1098807

Please do not let the Matt Yglesias and Jonathan Chait types get away with lying about what that letter called for. Don't let them get away with NOT ADDRESSING A SINGLE ACTUAL POINT OF CRITICISM THAT WAS MADE in the letter.

Trans people need help right now, and I'm thankful for those of you who are pushing back on the attacks.

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The problem with capitalism is how it distorts the natural balance of Fucking Around & Finding Out by creating a class that is allowed nearly infinite fuckery with zero finding out

"The point isn’t that Biden was proposing tax policies that are likely to pass anytime soon. Rather, the point was to frame the fiscal debate in a constructive way [....] This stands in sharp contrast to the GOP’s deficit reduction plan, which (a) will be far more regressive and unpopular; and (b) still doesn’t exist...."

msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/m

Hat tip to Wonkette for leading me to this:
"Sewing machines hummed in the gym of a Yakima church as volunteers spent a recent Saturday creating 180 reusable feminine hygiene kits for shipment to Cambodia, Mexico and India. [...] Freedom Kits... are designed so women and girls can stay in school while managing their periods with dignity and independence."

yakimaherald.com/news/local/fr

fwiw....
I was having issues, and narrowed it down to some issue with a , but was stuck with 6mbps speeds instead of my usual 80-120ish rates.

On a hunch and brief reference to something I didn't quite understand on a tech site, I logged my laptop into that mysterious "5G" channel my wifi offers (as opposed to its default 2.4g channel) - channel's probably not even the right word, but ANYway...

Speeds now jumped to 120 mbps or better.

Lesson learned!

" 'And I’m not defending these guys, of course,' [former Rep.Tim Ryan] said while defending cops. 'This is a tragedy.'

"t's not a tragedy. It's a homicide. It's not even tragic in the Greek drama sense. No one who dared watched the snuff film footage of Nichols's beating experienced any accompanying catharsis, a 'pain [that] awakens pleasure.' (At least I hope not.)"

wonkette.com/are-cops-just-too

"These laws have nothing to do with what is best for trans youths and everything to do with adults who want to believe that if they just ignore them, transgender people will go away and this will all stop being a thing. Given that this did not occur over the many decades when trans people were ignored and continued to exist despite this, that seems pretty unlikely."

wonkette.com/utah-anti-trans-b

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