What I suspect is that the people who are extremely interested in opsec, and especially ones who are giving OTHER people instructions on it, tend to be people who are role playing guerrilla a little bit, and not understanding how easy they are to find and ID. Actual safety comes from boring stuff.

Cis women, when confronted with their prejudice against trans people, will say that because they are women, that their prejudice against people for manhood, masculinity or just laying suspicion of such is justified, but that is just scapegoating.

Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

It's incredible how effective transphobia is as a litmus test for SO many issues. Every time I find a new pro-surveillance tech stooge, they're transphobic. I think people need to understand how tightly the belief that the internet is turning everyone trans is bound up w mass surveillance efforts

*record scratch* *freeze frame* newrepublic.com/article/2054...

These sorts of things always start interesting and end up being a bunch of people using it to reinforce how they think genders should be. " E made me small and pretty and smell good", "T made me gross and stinky and sweaty".

People who don't live in the US, don't, I believe fully understand why this is such a big deal here, because sports doesn't play as central of a role in growing up in other countries.

This is the point of suburbs. I have recently been watching Les Misérables many times because my kid has become obsessed (and me also) but I had to explain what barricades are to them, because it's not a thing that makes sense in their world.

imagine someone is just using a whistle with no one around to respond or know what to do. the risk they are at is now very high—and they are aggravating the violent agents of the state. without back up. which puts the person being targeted at much, much more risk.

whistles can’t work everywhere. some communities find they increase fear. and before they can be used, people have to be educated about what they mean. enough people have to have them, and know how to respond. and places have to be dense enough that there are enough people to come ASAP.

Calling them “protests” is lazy, inaccurate and plays into the false narrative that’s being used to justify further escalation by the federal government. 3/3

The vast majority of what’s happening is communal self-defense. It’s not an about agitating or escalating. The whistles, the honking, the yelling — these are efforts by people to warn and protect their neighbors. 2/3

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

The thing that women don't often understand, is that being raised as a girl, not allowed to climb trees, for instance, means that gender identity becomes a crucial component of encouraging girls that they can do something.

On gender performance, it is important to understand that it's not just about doing the thing or looking the part. It's not only about climbing trees as a girl, that is, it's not only about climbing trees while being labeled a girl.

My all time favorite book is probably, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke, although I am loathe to declare any particular book as my favorite. Basically, I am changeable, as are the circumstances surrounding me, and I do not like to be pinned down to any one interpretation of myself.

Always, always, always make transmasc/butch coded characters very aggressive. However even just real live transmascs just existing as non-aggressive individuals seems to offend people. Transmasc people have been creating transmasc characters who are not aggressive and

There is transmasculinity in Les Misérables (2012), and when I saw that I thought, oh of course. In the movie the revolutionary falls in love with the high class woman, aided by the low class woman,

Cis women are exhausting.

One of the things to consider here, is the role of the Democratic party as opposition. Am I saying that this targeting is planned out? Not necessarily, but it doesn't have to be, because we've seen them probing blue states for weaknesses.

Oh and I've now seen posts saying that the woman who was shot is herself masculine, so it's important to point out that she is in Minnesota and her presentation is perfectly average and normal for a woman even if it is not elsewhere.

As I was watching people talk about the woman who was killed by ice agents, the void and absence around the wife, was a clear indicator that she was masculine. So of course, the conversation is all about it being because that's how lesbians and women are treated.

As a person who enjoys studying language, there is the why of it. For one, I am interested in language generally, it is a part of one of my two main artistic hobbies, writing. (The other being drawing, in case you were wondering). I even briefly toyed with a linguistics major in college.

I almost always have a language I am learning in my back pocket. One day I encountered this video on the Internet when that was new, and that was the impetus for my interest in learning French. (My interest in Japanese was waining at the time) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y99U...

When people say we need to return to the pre Internet days, I understand why they want to for reasons I don't disagree with, but I have very strong reasons why I don't want to return to pre Internet days. Connecting with trans people is the big reason but not the only one.

One thing that has been consistent about my musical tastes is that it's always skewed heavily non American, and before downloading, that meant my teenage years were out of step with mainstream culture.

When I was a very small child, my family had records and a player in the house and one of them was Switched on Bach, the one by the pioneering trans woman, Wendy Carlos. I remember the album cover distinctly but did not know who she was. It was a favorite.

When they started passing laws to allow people to hit protesters, I didn't imagine that would become their excuse for shooting more people. Not that was a plan on their part so much as they always accuse others of what they themselves are doing.

The patriarchy is about power by dividing human beings into two genders, opposite and oppositional. It is about controlling who is a man as much as who is a woman. But you can't see that at first, because...

Centrism really only exists in journalism land. You do have people suffering from "middle child syndrome" so to speak. But that's about not wanting mommy and daddy to fight, not about policy.

This is why the NYT and other centrists work so hard to convince you that everyone is a centrist. The Democratic party doesn't use polls to understand, they use polls to excuse (by the way the polls are set up).

This is why the NYT and other centrists work so hard to convince you that everyone is a centrist. The Democratic party doesn't use polls to understand, they use polls to excuse (by the way the polls are set up).

As usual @sandraduffy.bsky.social is absolutely right. The UK state in Northern Ireland has quite the documented record of killing and torturing. See also: UK war crimes and similar in Kenya, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

On the blog, I argue that Trump is a literal law breaker: He does not merely violate the law; he and his administration seek to render it inoperative, broken. Examples: might-makes-right military actions; J6 pardons; censure of Sen Kelly; and firing members of independent agencies w/o cause. 👇

One of the biggest, harmful lies perpetuated under the name of feminism is that womanhood is outside of the patriarchy. It is not. It can be, which is the actual meaningful project of feminism.

people think moby dick is a stern adventure novel heavy on the plot. i can't emphasize how much it's not. it's supergay chaos with 3 plot points. there's an entire chapter that's just a chowder recipe. sometimes it turns into a play. the main character is covered in whale dinension tattoos.

Yes

1) is what cis people are doing to repress trans people 2) is the constant circular "discourse" among trans people Discourse doesn't die because the patriarchy is still around, the more the patriarchy asserts itself, the more #2 takes over interactions.

I was browsing the Umbrella Academy comic the other day and was reminded how in the TV show, Vanya's story was very distinctly a transmac story even before Elliot Page came out.

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

I just feel tired now. Seeing lots of non US people yelling at USians (which is not undeserved) but it's just, well. yes, this fear you feel is something I feel daily from my own government.

Oh Trump is so unpopular, he is done for they said. What happens when an abuser feels their control is threatened? They double down.

We had a good run

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

I have kids, and the biggest thing the kids are reading now is the Wings of Fire series about tribes of dragons warring with each other. It's huge and international fandom but I don't see anyone talking about the series, instead they talk about HP.

For more on this story, listen to @imarajones.bsky.social 's @translash.org podcast built around an interview with a trans Times reporter, back from 2023. translash.org/podcasts/the...

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

Punishing the whole classroom for the misbehavior of one child is putting the children in charge of enforcing justice, and that is exactly what the Trump administration is utilizing.