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I'm not logging in to find out if I'm allowed to write "$10 USD" or not, fuck you Chicago Manual of Style

How do you fucking make a style guide a subscription service?

I can think of at least 7 cults and 12 horror movies about this exact scenario, including the founding of the United States.

The worst thing about Tumblr was...all of those posts about being gay and going off to live in the middle of the woods to farm. Going off to the middle of the woods to set up a farm with my gay ass? Hell no.

Watching people in realtime freak out over Homestar Runner kink references must be what it was like when Gen Xers first realized Shaggy from Scooby Doo was a stoner

Going to manipulate my computer solely with powerful magnets

Aggressively providing money to trans people, to own the cis (and my own sense of panic and grief over being treated as disposable)

@pexl It's kind of infuriating, because they're a community pillar for a lot of local activism. The straight activists I know here, in general, have an issue with not taking gay rights seriously. The local UU is just a symptom of it, not a driver, but it certainly does not help -- especially if you are trying to organize an action and they're one of the few places you could get a room to run a fundraiser or plan an action

@pexl My local church, which was founded by abolitionists, etc etc

@pexl My family attends a UU church, even though they're Jewish. I can't stand going because the local community is homophobic in this creepy smiling way. They're currently debating, in 2019, if they should display a rainbow flag or if it would ruin wedding photos. And going to sit in a church is also super uncomfortable for me, since I was raised by Catholics who did not like my Jewish background.

On the one hand, the local UU was founded in the 1800s by abolitionists. On the other hand, the people who attend there in 2019 are liberal white homophobes.

I get why a Christian would find Unitarianism appealing. I don't get why people from other backgrounds would want to attend a literal Church on literal Sundays, with none of the music or pageantry or cannibalism of a traditional mass.