Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

« A thousand things make it impossible to mistake the verdict on queer lives and on women’s lives, as on the lives of those who are poor or not white. The hecatombs of queer youth; a decade squandered in a killing inaction on AIDS; the rapacious seizure from women of our defense against forced childbirth; tens of millions of adults and children excluded from the health care economy; treatment of homeless people as unsanitary refuse to be dealt with by periodic “sweeps”; refusal of condoms in prisons, persecution of needle‐exchange programs; denial and trivialization of histories of racism; merely the pivot of a disavowing pronoun in a newspaper editorial: Such things as these are facts, but at the same time they are piercing or murmring voices in the heads of those of us struggling to marshal “our” resources against illness, dread, and devaluation. They speak to us. They have an amazing clarity. »

eve kosofsky sedgwick, 1993

you say you listen to queer elders? ok name five of their songs

it’s really obvious from like a few seconds which moderators actually care about the safety of the people here, and which moderators care about cultivating a certain kind of liberal space or discussion platform with no considerations made for the fundamental vulnerabilities of being human, or not Enough for them to sacrifice their perfect vision of Liberalism in favour of actual measures to protect users

if your posts are indistinguishable from that of a CIA plant trying to sow controversy and foil collective action, maybe consider making different posts

the kind of idle linkfollowing which people now see as relegated to sites like Wikipedia or TVTropes was once how the entire internet operated

i think kitty is trying to do a bit but honestly she’s always been like this so i’m not sure what’s changed

in a time when white communities around the world are turning to fascism

make sure yours doesn’t. yeah?

what we’ve been discussing is starting advent with the lighting of the first candle on the fifth sunday before new years, maintaining a twelve day yuletide from the lighting of the fifth candle on the final sunday thru to the second following thursday (twelfth night), and then celebrating kings day on the following day

this is different from the christian kings day but we don't care about epiphany we just want the tasty cake

for the most part “celebrate” just means eating food

the winter holidays we celebrate are advent, sinterklaas, new years, and kings day

we were talking about the winter holidays and now i want to do winter holidays things but it's not for two more weeks

“this take was made by someone who is probably bourgeois and consequently beneath my notice” is a great strategy for not needing to waste energy being bothered by takes

so whenever i see someone making a take praising bluesky for whatever, it’s true they don’t convince me anything one way or the other about bluesky, but they do convince me that they are probably bourgeois and consequently beneath my notice

and i fundamentally have a hard time believing that anyone who does is a working-class person with loved ones and a job who deeply cares about and is deeply affected by the issues, because where are they finding the time

genuinely cannot imagine wanting to be on twitter, or a successor to twitter, or a replacement for twitter, at this time

i’m not saying “ever”—there were times when i valued being in that kind of space—but not at this time

falafel after a walk 😌

soup noodle soup

the burned tower burned down 150 years prior to the lake of rage incident which makes that almost exactly contemporaneous

breeding cyndaquil while exploring ecruteak city and the burned tower and those are the vibes

not sure i believe that hisuian typhlosion wasn’t also in johto at that time

sometimes if you are lucky you can find a single saint candle in the mexican food section of the grocery store

while i am sympathetic to the e·g Sedgwickian “Christmas is everywhere and all‐consuming” types, in fact what is everywhere is only a highly specific, extremely American Protestant interpretation of Christmas

apparently target doesn’t know about advent

never has it been more obvious that most people on the internet have never tried to create something in their lives

every single one was like “yes this is completely normal for folklore but isn’t it WEIRD that game freak wrote it? also don’t worry it is NOT CANON”