jk I'm all about that bread @danishcookies@computerfairi.es

In contrast, facebook and twitter are both taking your body and mind, vacuuming it up, churning it into cash for them, and selling you as you - for free - to other churners, while you scramble to make a living and the vacuum keeps taking away your life you require to feel like you exist

Lol this is why I'm on Mastodon. It doesnt kill me as me

how to be chel, a guide

step one: write toot
step two: delete what you wrote
step three: repeat

@maple *appreciates the squirrel*

such a good squirrel

IT'S SQUIRREL APPRECIATION DAY! 🎉

Remember to appreciate yr local squirrels! Like @maple !

#pdx community members beating down fascists with strategic deescalation and neighborhood mutual aid...

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/01/20/25580467/patriot-prayer-rallies-outside-union-headquarters-spouts-hate-speech

"We have used deescalation tactics and otherwise been entirely non-responsive, which enrages these fascists who are very clearly seeking out a fight and media attention," Katbi Smith wrote in an email. "We will not be deterred by violent misogynistic white supremacists who attempt to disrupt our efforts; we will continue to organize to build a better world for all."

cat is WILD about butter

reply guys: nahhh
reply girls: now we're talkin
replenbies: hell the Fuck yeah

yeah

Me

let us destroy the boss within ourselves

businesses contacting instance admins to ask for sponsored posts and being confused when they say "lol get bent" is the funniest fucking thing

i hate buying from the amazon marketplace and getting that pathetic follow up e-mail begging for a review

@Tetra This is just one of any number of possible analogies. The point is that gender is extremely complicated and arbitrary, and our society is pretty poorly equipped to make any serious sense of it. We built it, but the ways it actually works are still pretty unexplored in the popular consciousness because we're all expected to just take on faith that it's a simple immutable binary thing.

Most cis people are like undergrads using spectroscopes that have most of the grating blocked out, and can only identify the spectra of hydrogen and helium. They already get confused enough when they see light sources that include neither hydrogen nor helium, or both of them at once - put them in front of a neon tube, and they'll basically just panic.

everyone, even people who call themselves cis, has a different gender. Society tells us that the only important parts of gender are the brightnesses of two specific regions of the spectrum, and also asserts that one region must be bright and the other dim. For some people, this is indeed true, but for many, those assumptions are false, and the brightest parts of their spectrum are nowhere near the two conventional bands.