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"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.

"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.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-criminal-justice/louisiana-parish-jailed-us-citizen-being-latinx-were

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

I'm listening to Human Tetris. They sound like if Bernard Sumner was the lead singer for the Cure. So they're not wildly original, but dark, jangly guitars are a good look, so...

And now cis people are all like, "They're stealing all our tomboys! They're stealing our butches!"

First of all, we weren't yours, second if you wouldn't consider Griffin or Daniel Radcliffe butch or super masculine, why are you calling my ass that when my gender presentation is the same sort of dorky hipster dad deal?

The thing about "tomboy" as a term for me to identify with is, I was a deeply nerdy, bookish child who would have probably been beaten up and called a girl if I had been a cis boy, because I didn't like sports and was quiet.

Literally the only reason I was considered a tomboy was because cis adults did not know how to parse "child with F gender marker who hates wearing skirts"

On the same level, and what brought up the initial conversation: stuff like chest binders or funnels that allow you to piss standing up, which have branding decidedly aimed at cis women.

Like shops that emblazon everything with "TOMBOY" all over, meanwhile you're 35, look like Griffin McElroy, and are NOT a rambunctious little scamp -- you just want your tits covered.

To old white people around here I exist in a quantum state between "tiny milquetoast nerd" and "ambiguously ethnic queer that is going to rob and kill you"

I don't like baseball, but I like going to baseball games because I enjoy sitting outside with my friends, eating hotdogs, and forcing old white men to leave in a huff because they don't want to sit next to us.

Newspaper: "Why are trans people boycotting 'Adam'? Is it because they've never heard of this small indie film, because it has mediocre reviews, because the premise is transphobic, or because word got out that the trans extras were misgendered, underpaid, and lied to about the movie they were making? On the one hand, there are many reasons to not see this movie -- on the other hand, the director is trans and he says everything is fine. In fact, he compares criticism of the movie to Gamergate."

Bein' shown Facebook ads for "Adam", because I like musical theatre (I don't (Adam isn't even musical theater (just say it's because I'm gay)))

I can't become an admin because I don't give a shit about whether people use emacs or vim.

Disqualified.

Hot take: identity verification processes that ask about which roads are closest to your house are biased against people who don't own cars and/or have a sense of direction

But for real for real for real, Jewish history has a lot of stories about the arrogant, deluded dictator who accuses Jews of being disloyal to him, and all of them are pretty dark