ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

At the time I got married, 13 years ago, I lived in a flat. I liked it cos it was a short walk from the train station. Good for getting home after late nights out.

My wife moved in. One day she said, "The only problem with this flat is that it's a long walk from the station."

Long?

Turns out it's short if you go thru the woods & by the dark underpass, a route a woman would never think of taking.

And that was my 1st lesson in how we inhabit the same space but live in different worlds.

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Via Kyle Griffin:

The #LGBTQ youth suicide prevention and crisis intervention group The Trevor Project said in a statement it had "an approximately a 125% increase in crisis contact volume" on Election Day through Wednesday morning compared to typical days.

Jan. 6 Officer Nearly Crushed To Death Predicts 'A Cold January'

“People voted for someone who would see them never vote again,” Washington Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges told HuffPost

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jan-6-officer-reaction-trump-2024-election_n_672bdc2ae4b01cfbdad3ac52

Had to get outside today. Found myself at a park, where I felt compelled to defend an immigrant family’s right to be there.

I must admit, it took me a few minutes to speak up. I was initially reluctant to do so—I am not young. I am not in good health. I am not of large frame. And the young men were not nice.

So, I gathered my thoughts & my courage & then, said what I said. Something disarming & then, something more pointed. I ended up babbling something about the gift of this beautiful sun shiny day & was relieved when they turned & walked away.

The father shared his appreciation for my “kind manner.” Said his wife had wanted to leave but when he heard me, he said to her, “See. See, there are still kind people here.” We continued to talk for a bit and they were so lovely. I am happy to have meet them & their beautiful children. I am happy I found the courage to say *something.*

Still, I cried all the way home.

We have to stand up for each other now.

@ScottSoCal My main feeling is anger. Yet I am forging ahead like nothing happened. Almost. If I don’t try to keep swimming I’ll sink. Maybe I’ll be hot differently and in a worse way later. But I literally told my husband to cheer up. I am so insensitive atm. Maybe it’s because I am having to block my feelings. Or maybe I processed this before it happened because it’s what I feared. I don’t know what to think. And I’m so sorry you’re feeling so bad. I totally agree with you. We are probably after Russia one of the most corrupt nations on earth. I think I already realized that a while back. I fear for people who are younger than me. How could people do this to them. How could parents not vote. I am very angry.

Being out, proud, and obnoxiously nonbinary is immensely important right now.

Hateful people want to scare us into hiding and invisibility, and some of us will have to comply.

So be out for those who can't. Remind the world that nonbinary people exist. Make it clear that our enemies are taking rights away from real people.

We are here to stay.

#NonBinaryPositivity #NonBinaryPride #NonBinary #exorsexism

If the fucking DOJ didn’t slow walk prosecuting a motherfucking criminal, we wouldn’t be in this fucking position.

I just had my UPS driver come to my office to pick up stuff we need to send out to clients. He immediately begins talking about how great it's going to be to have Trump back in office.

"Now we have freedom of speech again. We can say the "N" word again! (a little pause) and then he says "Notorious!" and begins laughing. "Yeah, the Notorious Trump is going to fix things. You'll have more money in your pocket. Interest rates will go down. We'll help Israel and he's gonna end the war in Ukraine."

So I immediately start going after him. In answering back he had no logic or reason when I pressed him on why he supported the issues he was talking about.

He is indicative of every uneducated, moronic, parroting Trump supporter. No idea why he supports the issues he does other than he's told that's what to support. And supports that guy because it allows his racism to show. In the three minutes he was here he showed how he and others like him are racist, transphobic, misogynistic, lack consistency in their morals/positions and in general just fucking ignorant.

I don't use the word "hate" lightly... but I hate people like that. And I really fucking hate that more than half my fellow citizens voted that piece of shit into office and further emboldened racist guys like my delivery driver to think they can do and say whatever they want.

The election result says less about Trump and more about the American people.

RIP America

@GottaLaff I'd be quite surprised if there's a Next Election.

8/ I hope this clarifies, because it’s way better than what I tried to write:

https://techhub.social/@jonquass/113436809241809728

White Americans killed the Ukrainians and the Palestinians. Congratulations.

After today, I'm going to start judging people who are still active on Twitter much harsher.



I'm sorry folks, but at this point everyone knows what it is. Musk is Goebbels, and Twitter is his megaphone. Him purchasing the site is a not small part of the foundation of what happened today, it's not a small part of the root of the bad things that are going to happen in the next few years.



I'm not buying any excuse anymore: being active in there makes one of the main tools of the fascists more effective. I know it. You know it. If you are there, please, close your account today.

Someone said “good morning” to me at the bus stop and before thinking about it I said “no it’s not. It is objectively *not* a good morning.”

I regretted this instantly all the bus stop regulars already think I’m a strange little nerd. Now they will think (know?) I’m a weirdly politically obsessed strange little nerd.

But instead of the look 👀 of disapproval, hilariously everyone agreed.

“Bad morning!”
“BAD morning!”

There's this weird Venn diagram of conservative, religious and homesteading (the community-rejecting weird racist survivalist type) obsession with sewing and crafts, so a lot of the time when you look up any kind of sewing tutorial or sewing product review, there's always the possibility that the seemingly nice and polite white woman doing the video is a Super Karen.

So every time you click on a video title and the presenter is a black woman? Such a good and warm fuzzy flood of relief!

My boyfriend read the phrase "He stopped her mouth with a kiss" in something and decided it was very romantic and started kissing me in the middle of speaking. He refuses to stop, as he considers it loving and romantic. I'm breaking up with him tonight.