I think people need to be more comfortable with illegalism and I’m not kidding. Of course the more legal something is, the safer and easier it is to do, but the more people who disregard the law, the harder it is to enforce. There are plenty of laws on the books that people just ignore and are never or rarely policed.
Becoming more comfortable with little illegal activities makes you more comfortable with bigger more important illegal activities. Additionally, it is crucial to build a wall of silence. Nobody talks everybody walks.
People who give out food without a permit, hold a march without a permit, grow a garden without a permit, are more likely to be people you could turn to to work with on preventing an eviction, or keeping people out of cop hands, or helping your friend Jane get crucial healthcare when it’s not legal in your state.
Communities comfortable with these acts won’t call the cops, and then nobody knows that it’s happening.
People have got to shift from both the idea that lawful = good/ illegal = bad, and that the illegality of something means that’s the end of it, and the only fight left is to make it legal again.
I absolutely love subtitles cause I have trouble understanding what is going on without them. But there is always some really annoying things that come along with (not greatly done) subtitles. My biggest pet peeve is when they aren’t lined up with the audio
man this is like the worst year for tech and websites
discord is forcing a username change that no one wants, twitch nearly banned sponsored streams, imgur is banning NSFW and removing old pics, reddit is restricting their API usage and killing off all mobile apps, apple introducing some shitty overpriced AR headset, the amount of fuckups twitter is doing i cant even count on my own two hands its all becoming too much i hate technology i hate you silicon valley
Happy #PrideMonth. Pride is not just a celebration of our fellow citizens’ hard won rights, but an important and necessary answer to centuries of state and socio-cultural denial (and violent suppression) of what nature simply continues to manifest in all of its pluralisms…
At a time when private interests + reactionary forces seek to engage in scapegoating instead of providing actual answers to the failures of our systems, I’d encourage all with a heart & a brain to show up in solidarity for our fellow LGBTQ+ citizens now more than ever. Much love
when richard siken said “the enormity of my desire disgusts me.” and when angela of foligno said “i could not imagine a death vile enough to match my desire.” and when yves olade said “my rot is as hungry as me” and when cj miller said “there is nothing more humiliating to me than my own desires.” and when benjamin alire sàenz said “what is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?” and when richard siken said “desire, like a monster, crawls up out of the lake.”
