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Hot take: "Close to Me" by the Cure is a jazz song.

Clippy, abandoned by his corporate parents for many painful years, returns as a grizzled and battle-hardened communist

transphobia, unnecessary gendering 

My masculinity is considered marked and excessive, whereas cis men with the exact same presentation are considered ordinary, or even somewhat unmanly and soft.

I could present in an absolutely androgynous way, or as a super femme twink, and it would not matter.

Because I'm rejecting that little F they put on my birth certificate without asking, I am inherently masc and butch and blahblahblah, when cis men doing the exact same things are not considered as such

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If your computer is wearing a black cowboy hat, it has been compromised

both normal people and cis people should be respected Equally

Urrgh, why do people abbreviate words in their subject/cw -- it's so fucking misleading

trans culture is wanting to be a shapeshifter

the one good thing about jpeg is the pronunciation of its name

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The main difference between a "big cat" species and a "small cat" species is a small bone in their throats that allows them to either roar or purr

Therefore, cheetahs, who can't roar but purr, are small cats

And that's why I should be allowed to have one as a pet

You cannot separate your race from your queerness or your queerness from your race. Black people don't suddenly stop being queer when speaking of black issues. Queer people don't suddenly stop being black when speaking of queer issues.

Identities cannot be spliced into chunks or conveniently ignored.

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i feel like liberals want there to be a magic pc dictionary with one edition that is a perfect shibboleth for who is good or bad instead of having to understand many people and their different contexts and you know, maybe being a good and kind and just person in ways that take more effort

:gimp: For those who missed the news, #GIMP got forked big time: 

#Glimpse is the rebranded version. It will also bring changes in other areas of the program (while staying based on GIMP as it evolves of course)
getglimpse.app/
I wish it didn't come to this but I'm game for switching.

"Seattle's changing so fast," says the white person from Ohio. "It's all those damn techies moving here and ruining everything." Their parents are landlords.

immigration, anti-latinx racism, cops 

"Staff at the sheriff’s office explained that they had a policy of detaining all Latinx people for immigration review."

He had a passport, state ID, and social security card on him to verify his identity, but they still held him for 4 days.

The ACLU is suing.

aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/r

Every day I wake up, and I feel grateful that Frank Zappa died before he could get on Twitter.

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