It says everything about the two parties how people react to the possibility of a Nazi-adjacent tattoo. On the one hand, we have a candidate apologizing and promising to remove it. On the other, we have the self-styled “Secretary of War” who still has his.

We are sorry to announce that we have to ration the amount of time you have to scream into the void so as not to fill it beyond its capacity to endure.

Told my wife days ago I expect Hegseth to speak in front of a giant US flag à la Patton. He is so fucking predictable.

In the spirit of the very same logic Charlie Kirk used to support his agenda, this is what happens when you drop out of community college.

I really shouldn’t be surprised how easily a little bit of sun gives me a migraine.

Scenario 1: He dies. Natural causes. Without the unifying force of his mere existence, the GOP fractures. No one is able to take his place.

When the internal screaming and tinnitus merge into one ringing wave of overwhelm.

I can’t quite describe the fury that settled in my soul the first time I became aware that some people were capable of hypocritically using professed truths or beliefs against others. For example, declaring adherence to a religion of love and forgiveness but pushing politically for the opposite.

Personally pet peeve: Small cats have slit eyes, large cats have round eyes. Therefore catgirls/boys should have round eyes.

That melancholy when you finish a series of books knowing the author died afterward.

Just fucking die already. Put yourself, and the rest of us by extension, out of our misery. On a related note, I bought a special champagne for the after party.

So, when they start kidnapping active duty military for being foreigners, cause they have already been going after vets, how will the military respond?

The guilt of unexpressed rage. The fear that there is no sufficient method of expression that doesn’t also destroy.

Be the karma you want to see in the world.

We need more hacker collectives. Come on, can’t have cyberpunk dystopia without hackers.

Bought a bottle of expensive champagne to drink when a certain someone finally dies. Hopefully sooner than later, but I will have it on hand for the inevitable eventuality.

I want my own cool, dark cave to hide away from the world in. For when I am having sensory overload or an anxiety attack. And to get away from the heat.

Is anxiety what is keeping me up? Like it’s my skeleton whose disappearance would lead to an internal collapse? Hi, I’m Alex, an autistic blob given human form via the fear of failure.

Honestly all I really want to do is make the world a better place by shocking people out of their preconceptions, a wake of stunned faces trailing behind my works.

Game idea: FPS war game where the PC discovers that an earlier brain injury made them forget they were a trans. They go through the game with the assumption that they are a cis het guy, until too many incidents make them question their self image. Really want it to come as a shock to the player.

Return to me the desire to complete those stories I was interested in enough to buy in the first place!

God I hate this dysmorphia. I feel like I have never been truly comfortable with how I look in clothes. Oh to be a woodland spirit clad in bark and leaves.

I hate feeling like I have to justify my continued existence.

Had an edible for my b-day. Lost the ability to encode time into my ongoing narrative. Every moment was both the first time and a repeat of that moment, constantly cycling. It can’t quite be explained, as you the reader are encoding time into my narrative, which puts it forever beyond timelessness.

I have now definitively spent at least half of my life with my wife. From this day on, she has the majority of it. Also, I’m 42 today. Just thankful it didn’t fall on a Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

My day went to hell yesterday when I returned home from some errands and I saw an elderly neighbor, who always greets everyone, was outside working on his house. The sudden spike in anxiety knowing that in order to not be seen as rude I would need to respond led to a breakdown that evening. 😩

Still alive.

Need to calm down but my brain won’t allow me to do anything calming because it’s a privilege I don’t feel I’ve earned because I haven’t done the things that caused the anxiety in the first place. It’s a Gordian knot of my own making.

I am trans in that I am not cis, though I feel my trans-ness is in some third direction. Slowly I am learning how exactly I want to express myself. I know for sure whatever that expression is, the patriarchy views it as a threat to their normative ideals. Fuck their constraining ideals. #tdov

I’m still alive, if anyone was wondering. Just haven’t felt very chatty or pontificatory recently.

Even when I was in an organisation as top down as the military, I was taught in leadership school that change will not easily adhere if there is no buy in from those who will be affected. Step 1 is always to promote the need for change, then you can start making it happen.

Unconsciously goes to scratch ear. Oh god, what’s that! Oh ya, my earring. Got to remember that.

Finally got my ears pierced.

I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Will definitely not be watching tonight. I’ll let the internet filter it for me to understand tomorrow.

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Remember how effective calling them weird was? They all desire to BE the status quo, the example everyone should be following. We should never treat them that way. Always point how strange, how alarming, how abnormal they are behaving. Remind them that we have no respect for their actions.

Saw Schmigadoon! at the Kennedy Center Thursday. My thought that night, it’s a weird world we live in where this is now considered subversive. And then today…ya, I think someone at the White House saw and then complained about it. It just fits too perfectly.

I think there needs to be more effort to promote intercultural relationships. Friendships on up. This is a surefire way to promote the spread of empathy. Plus, it really pisses off white supremacists, which is always a win, though it’s only a minor bonus on top of everything else you get from it.

That gap, that murky fog of thought, between running out of Adderall and getting the refill by mail.

Honestly wish I could be at a protest today. I have my choice of either Annapolis or DC. But I have parental duties and I won’t put those aside. In a way, I guess I’m doing my part, cause I’m trying to make my kids lives normal.

Does the rule of law just disappear if your boss is the one committing crimes? Are all the lawyers/police just shrugging and going, oh well.

What are the rules regarding citizens arrest? Like, you see someone commit a minor crime, you can hold them until the police come. But what if you are witnessing someone steal the fucking treasury department?

Every time a Dem is president, they make up scare stories of what he will do, with no concern on accuracy or feasibility. When they hear the warnings of fascism, they think we are just playing the same game they do. Those whose eyes are just beginning to open never thought our warnings were honest.

You know, if I make it through this, I am really looking forward to the very public trials of Musk and everyone else involved.

Wish I had a cat to pet. Fighting my constant anxiety attacks would be easier with a cat.

I hate how society has instilled in me the feeling that I am wasting peoples time when I am sick and unable to do much of anything.

We are Autistics Unmasked (AU), an autistic self advocacy organization ran entirely by autistic people. We were founded in 2021 by two queer, autistic, black sisters (#AddToBlackSky) who saw a need for an advocacy organization that centers voices of the Global Majority.

Four people in my home, my wife and I and our two teenagers, and we all have ADHD. I can only imagine what we’d be able to accomplish if we had someone help us keep on track and organized.

I just don’t get it. They are bragging about stealing the election via Muskrat’s actions in PA. Why is that not being blasted everywhere? Where is the investigation? Is everyone just rolling over and giving up?