white, agender afab, cool with any respectful pronouns but default is she/her, bisexual, love trans & nb folx, pro-sex workers, working on anti-racism #BlackLivesMatter #AbolishPolice
Have various obsessions including (but def not limited to) horses, education/teaching, linguistics, Hamilton, Hadestown, Bon Iver, Moulin Rouge, and too many tv shows to list
obviously dietary requirements aren’t a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she’s up to today and she said extremely seriously “ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia”
i am totally going to come across as a boomer in this post but as an engineer it’s common sense to not build systems with a single point of failure. and i’m starting to realize that our usage of the smart phone is exactly that. a single point of failure. the calling/texting is the implied function of the smartphone, which is fine. that’s what it’s built for. but nowadays we don’t think to keep a physical map or atlas or gps unit in our car because our phone has google maps. we don’t keep address books anymore because it’s all stored in our contacts. i serve customers who no longer carry a wallet/physical card because it’s all on their phone. this is literally a single point of failure. if you lose or break your phone when you are in a foreign place you are fucking screwed. maybe you’re still screwed even in your home town because so many people have become accustomed to using a smart phone to take them anywhere.
The new slogan of the site formerly known as Twitter is “Blaze your glory!” Is it just me or does it sound like something a life coach/aura cleaner would say to clients while looking directly into their eyes and not blinking?
TIL that tyou can urge a mob to do a bunch of illegal stuff in a wa that was not criminal, but merely aspirational. So attempted murder is now aspriational murder?
This is - elucidating. I have a job (the repatriation of Native American human remains and sacred objects) that specifically involves the confrontation of these issues on a daily basis, so this is a pretty useful list for me for understanding exactly what I rub up against when I get static about what I do. I.e., I don’t always fully understand the parameters of why I face resistance to repatriation, or policy changes, or, shit, even just my own fucking presence a lot of the time.
I guess I’ve noticed that, if you’re not White, even your basic frame of reference can set White people off simply because it’s not their frame of reference. This is probably really naive and stupid of me after 40+ years of experiencing this, but - it’s still fucking bewildering every time it happens.
This guide will be useful to Americans when we need to protest
This is great stuff for situations where you’re dealing primarily with cops - just please keep in mind that one size does not necessarily fit all situations.
We’ve found locally, for instance, that nazis here like to use knives. A lot of knife injuries come from attempting to fend off an attack, and thus result in slashing injuries to the arms. Fortunately there are very light, flexible, and relatively inexpensive products originally intended for butchers to use that are great for this and will cover your whole arm or forearm.
Always research this stuff ahead of time and look at what other people in similar situations are doing and share the information you find. And remember that you don’t need to reinvent the wheel to protect yourself. And always mask up.
This persons comment wasn’t rebloggable but I felt was an important addition.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but my early relationships were unimaginatively fraught and this both hits nerves and awes me with the author’s committment to sparkle motion.
