Caption reads: The world is not divided into east and west. You are American, I am Iranian. We don't know each other, but we speak and can understand one another perfectly.
The difference between you and your government is much different than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much more than the difference between you and me.
And our governments are quite the same.
- Marjane Satrapi
international solidarity
No matter where we live, working people have the same enemy: a ruling class that starves, abuses, exploits, neglects us and sends us to die in their ridiculous wars that have nothing to do with us.
I have more in common with any given clock-punching Iranian than I do with the bloodless creeps who run our foreign policy death cult. They're not my "team."
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you are struggling with your transition I highly recommend the vague but great advice of “Just try things.”
Do lots of different things and take stock of how you feel. And then do more things. Listen to yourself. Trust your own psychological and emotional responses. Some things won’t work, they won’t work at all. Stop doing those things
And when you find things you like, do them more. Find more things that give you that positive feeling.
Just, don’t ever give up doing shit.
@lastfuture @DialMforMara
“In an age of performative cruelty, kindness is punk as fuck.
Be punk as fuck.”
—Daniel Abraham
My youngest child declared himself ACE and wanted a black ring, so this morning’s project was to machine a ring to size and fire blacken it (what else would a #blacksmith do?)
I started with some 22.5mm round high torsion stainless bar and machine out the centre on the lathe. I then progressively snuck up on the right size with a dremel and hand sanded to finish before heating and quenching in oil multiple times to blacken it.
In the future mankind's soul is no longer anchored by gravity as they've become free to explore deep space.
This mainly shows as people becoming disaster queers and abandoning gender left right and right. The best space pilot wizard swordwielder is a genderless robot whose sidekick identifies as a fuzzy cube.
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own