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July Campaign Update is out for OutKast People Nation--we've got two new incarcerated trans women we're supporting, an advocacy request from comrade Akeem, and lots of other good stuff. Check out the fundraiser and consider sharing or donating! https://givebutter.com/OutKastPeopleNation
physical health
Tomorrow I wanna do nothing but have ginger turmeric tea and try to stretch and move my joints
physical health
I'm at a point in life where bending over at the waist is a high stakes activity. I have to do specific exercises to maintain the ability to bend over. I'm discovering that there are butt and thigh muscles that I have neglected to engage for my whole life that support my back. This is the era of the buttocks. Buttocks or barbarism
Hope y'all are giving and experiencing deep love despite the existence of disgusting fascistic turds and other anti-black asswipes
Mutual aid, IWW member fired
Kaley was a public defender and employee of the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission (VIDC). She fiercely advocated for poor and working-class people in an oppressive criminal legal system. She was also a newly elected delegate of the PWID Union. She was sacked after demanding a union rep at work.
grump, fash bullshit
He just texted me to clarify that it's not used exclusively by nazis, the other place he sees it a lot is in NFT and crypto speculation subreddits lmao. The venn diagram tho
grump, fash bullshit
I asked my friend (fyi he's white, cishet) whether I'm just being touchy, and he said that in spaces he's in, "based" is currently used mostly by nazis and "was/is popular with trumpists, especially in the run up to 2016" so. Fuck y'all. (not you)
grump, replies from black users only pls
The recent frequent use of "based" by non-blacks stems from ironic anti-black appropriation of AAVE by 4chan fascists, right? Does it bother y'all or no?
I wouldn't mind it as much if:
- it didn't mean that people's casual social networks include fascists that successfully spread fash vocabulary/attitudes
- it wasn't definitely making fun of folks who have drug addictions
unimportant grump
Sometimes I see this thing where someone will ask for advice about something personal and emotionally complex, and another person will reply with a reductive abstract single-phrase answer like "Simply accept the change in all things." with the period and all as if they're a profound spiritual guru whose every utterance should be meditated upon with hushed reverence
What *is* that? Where are people getting this insufferable rhetorical style? Is it some subreddit? Who did this
friend, pol, old leftpol grumps
God, I really am a walking litmus test for whether people are forreal or just full of shit. Cheers to everyone else in the "knows too much" club. Sometimes I'd rather not always know what every stranger's oppressive attachments are
friend, pol, old leftpol grumps
Her somewhat ignorant ass is unfortunately better than the kind-of self-described leftist that quotes 200 yo white dude theory but rolls their eyes at, say, black feminist thought
I'll always prefer someone who doesn't know any better over someone who thinks of themselves as knowledgeable but holds onto specific oppressive ideas even though they should know better. I don't give a shit about what people say they are poitically, the proof's in how you respect oya
my avatar is a photo of a black cat with gleaming yellow eyes
they/them, millenial
Black, Skaruhreh
unutterably queer
San Francisco, CA
I grump, complain about my mental health, post partially-formed political ideas, and shitpost about butts.