both disastrous and unsurprising. it’s legal for tech corporations to steal all your artwork to create LLMs but it’s illegal for you to read a book in a world changing global pandemic

Don’t understand people who love movies but have the impulse to immediately shut down any thematic reading. I know we all come at things differently and if the below isn’t for you, that’s fine, but that “curtains are blue” meme has really made the proudly incurious worse lol

if you wanna know how i'm doing lately

STAND WITH AND PROTECT YOUR TRANS FRIENDS EVERY DAY

You’re going to see a lot of people talk about community and I want to remind you that community doesn’t mean big or large, it means people who are intentionally invested in your well-being. Your friend group of two or three people is also a community.

We That Have Been Lost May Still Rise, If Only For A Moment, And All Be Lighter Than The Air

I think one of my least favorite internet comments is when an artist (especially non english speaking ones) make a piece that's like strikingly beautiful or you can tell had a lot of themself poured into it and the replies are people just saying it looks like some other character

for anyone who still reads twitter: guys there's no more "i'm sorry you're dealing with that" or hashtags on trans issues. it's time to start calling senators and congresspeople, talking to your friends and family members, and publicly organizing and speaking about it

I've spent years working on this and it really comes down to this: Any single tiny thing you can do to feel like you're helping build a better future is more productive than 10,000 hours of dread.

just remember the "death" in "death before detransition" isn't referring to us