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

"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.