Please help Ahmad and his family if you can 🤍💌🙏 S’il-vous-plaît aidez Ahmad et sa famille si vous le pouvez chuffed.org/project/1572...

I wish people would come to understand transphobia as systemic, structural, and pervasive so we could stop treating transphobia as explicitly limited to people saying "I hate trans people" and accept the way our society conditions us all to dismiss, diminish, and dehumanize trans people.

-suave, intentionally playing up his prestige in order to distance himself from his lower class upbringing -threateningly cordial, relishes the dangerous life he lives, embraces his violent past -steady, slowly accepting and enjoying how much of a monster he's become -ey im murderin here

Black and brown trans people exist as well and have had history going back for millenia. If you think someone being trans is a white thing... congrats on drinking the colonizer/transphobic kool aid as well. That is all.

Me on my way to the bathroom after ignoring my lactose intolerance's warning signs and continuing to eat something cheesy

the only people who position trans liberation and Black liberation as inherently opposed to one another are of two kinds: first, the kind to profit from the perpetual oppression of both groups. second, those who seek the mercy of their oppressors by sustaining this fabricated conflict for them. -M

Normalize caring about things

I’ve been seeing an increasing amount of posts trying to paint trans rights as being in opposition to black people’s right or imply that being trans makes you white-adjacent lately. This doesn’t feel organic and I wouldn’t be surprised if Nazi trolls, Democratic insiders or both are behind it

by the by, happy (belated) lunar new year. -M

fire bug, i can still smell that gasoline on you. -M

please help our dear friend Ahmed raise 100 euros and survive another day, if you can! -M

blacksky appview seems to be severely jank at the moment, so we'll be sporadically checking our notifications as necessary via bluesky base appview. -M

Ahmed Madhoun in Gaza 🇵🇸 supports his family and strives to protect them. He is trying to raise 100 euros to provide for their basic daily needs, including food, water, medical treatment for his parents, and safe shelter after their home was destroyed. Donate to save us 🙏⬇️🫂 chuffed.org/project/157281

in other news: yes, the omake is very funny when i consider what i am now. all it takes is a new context to radically change a thinking, feeling being. one can crave war, bloodshed, and terror until one is inundated with it past the point of bursting like a tick overfull. -M

Just finished reading this, extremely illuminating. Those in combat are, in large proportion, there because they want to be. Comfortable young men with jingo attitudes who want to impress their families and live up to national ideals. Shoveling human corpses into the maw of the Spectacle.

"President Trump is about to make his speech on Iran, where-" You bolt awake. Circuit City still exists and they have those displays where you can play this new game called Halo on the fancy Microsoft Xbox console. The controllers are big as fuck, but you've never had so much fun killing aliens.

My favorite Wario meme to expand on my point:

Sakamoto Ryoma

do not like that we were awakened by a phone call from our mother asking if we support this new forever-war as it coincides with Purim. no, actually, and we were hoping to eke some joy out of having a costume even if the megillah reading we were going to wear it to seems to be canceled. -M

there's only one way to relitigate this. Wario is definitely a libertarian, but do we call him a libertarian or do we call him ancap? -O

Jay Chester, 42, has always loved baking as fun, low-pressure hobby, made the inexplicable decision to turn it into a not-fun, high-pressure job.

fuck it. self-sabotage by way of boilin ramen noodles in instant miso soup so M can respond to the disturbance in the culinary force by yellin at me for two hours -O

Time is a flat circle

A cop grabbed my wrist while I was holding a cigarette in it, and I watched as the ember came extremely close to his wrist, so I twisted the opposite direction and let it drop to the ground. He proceeded to pick me up and slam me on the ground and a bunch of other cops jumped on me.

no monster in all of horror could scare us. but cops? cops are scary. cops are real and can smell autism -O

good to see i put the draft feature to good use 13 days ago -O

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

we're only married to a Buddhist but this sounds like smth someone would say if they wanted to keep their ass firmly parked in Samsara -O

Bouie’s fans shared revenge porn of a trans person who posted a completely innocuous joke about his blocking history. That’s the type of person this journalist attracts. If you support this, if you read him, if you argue in support, you are my enemy now until heat death. Monstrous.

She needs $200 to get clothing and transportation for a job. Please donate or share. gofund.me/2c575e438 #MA #MutualAid

highkey just realized i talked all this shit when the evergreen aphorism "being marginalized does not exclude anyone from being a bad person" was right there -O

"marginalized people end up in the military!" and they come back out just as resentful ofthe system as any anti-war civilian because they were promised a crumb of socialism, only for that to be a lie. who are you to treat them like hapless hypotheticals without opinions of their own? -O

Y'all ever heard of Punks for Autism? Check this out.

btw we've been so hyperfocused on our own music that we neglected to share a call for more writers from @filip.start-track.com . join us in making Pitchfork But Good :3 open.substack.com/pub/starttra... -O

compared to allistics in otherwise the same positions of identity, class, neurological results of trauma, n so on as us (hell, even down to "same country of residence"), i legit theorize that autism turned out to be our "chemical X" when it comes to our creative output -O

okay we had one more track in us. it's a blatant vent track abt bein a transfag. bandcamp link in thread soundcloud.com/user-3510792... -O

So here's the breakdown of demographics by a think-tank using 2018 US military data: www.cfr.org/backgrounder... In terms of affluence, the poorest quintile is under-represented, the middle three are overrepresented, and most come from middle-class backgrounds. Not exactly an army of destitutes.

Dos and Donts for being a trans ally: ✅ - “I support you” 🚫 - “I support you, but it’s not a genocide” - “I support you, but I think trans women have an unfair advantage in sports so I’m fine with sports bans” - “I support you, but I’m pro-Gavin Newsom” - staying silent

Animation is going through a rough era right now and I can't say that the lesson should be "Be more like Ralph Bakshi" (because there's only one Ralph Bakshi.) However, I do think there's value in always wanting to make something personal to you that only you could make. Be more like you.

$50 is a tiny goal! you all have helped us reach bigger ones. please give to Khalil and his family so they can break their fast!! -O

if u think it's appropriate2call trans women racist4saying it's transphobic4jamelle bouie2work4the nyt, contributing2a dogpile he started on a trans woman via quoteskeet, all cuz a black trans woman posted re how he blocks us4criticizing him, u may be more motivated than simply class-defensive

Khalil needs to buy bread for his children; he urgently needs $50. He hasn't any food to break their fast and is desperate, because he'll be fasting again soon 😭 chuffed.org/project/khal...

at least we spent most of the fast of Esther asleep, we only need to pull thru a couple more hours. we got this, gang, we can do this -O

My family and I in Gaza are going through very difficult times. My mother is ill and needs medical treatment. Donations have almost stopped, while our needs increase every day. Any help, no matter how small, could save my mother and provide us with food. Donation link ⬇️🫂🕊️ chuffed.org/project/157281

Apropos of last repost: The rabbis throughout our tradition constantly remind us the Amalekites no longer exist. This is relevant because the propaganda is meant to associate Amalek and Iran, which is Segal using the Torah to call for a God-sanctioned total war on Iran.

🚨 Urgent: Jamal needs $100 now for insulin and inhalers. Diabetes and asthma are exhausting his small body, and without treatment his life is at risk 💔 Please don’t scroll past. Donate or repost 🙏 Even $5 can help save Jamal and give him a chance to breathe again 🫶 Donate now 👇❤️ gofund.me/a94c20e00

had another dream that we remembered but it's actually so dumb. someone gave us a navage, we used it once, then like.. yk the scene in The Shining with the blood elevator? imagine that with snot and that was our nose, right into the navage bucket. felt downright cheated when we woke up from that -O

sometimes you just need to push policy through tbh

btw it's very helpful (not rly) to see ppl in the fucking US jump to "welp this is gonna be the war that just kills EVERYone, hug yr loved ones" as if the children killed in Tehran don't deserve to be mourned bc of yr fantasy of purification by sacrifice. holy shit -O