An Army of Awesome

and not Socialist Deprivation

like difficult medical fields which many tend to put off for fear of not finishing and still going in financial ruin, or never being good enough to go anywhere with it as we can see folks with 4.0s be denied from medical schools.

but the heads of things like medical schools would rather create artificial scarcity to keep doctors paychecks up and then run around screaming when things like corona hit.

ok.

Son: there’s always a librarian. Just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t there. And it’s a garden, there has to be someone taking care of it or it isn’t really a garden.

Me:

Son: any librarian who hoards a library to themselves is hiding something.

Daughter: /nods seriously/

Son: wouldn’t be a secret library. I have nothing to hide.

Daughter: so not a secret librarian. A good librarian.

they know how to argue people in. they were argued in. they know about nontransfemnine people’s latent transmisogyny and they know that we are not as vigilant as we should be. they make popular posts.

they are undercover. they pretend to be allies. there are nonbinary TWERFs and TWERFs that are WOC. keep reading. these people have been coerced in and know how to coerce others in. there are many different ways, and there are many different things to look out for.

when i say don’t argue with TWERFs, when i say ignore them and don’t give them a platform in the first place, it’s not a giving up tactic. it’s because TWERFs know that if they can point out one tiny flaw in your logic, or spout some bullshit that some nontransfeminine person has thought about before, they’ve hooked someone.

TWERFs count on preying on the young and impressionable, the people that don’t know or talk to transfeminine people. this has to be pointed out. the only reason i know this is because i am not transfeminine and i have seen many of my peers, not transfeminine, fall to them.

stop arguing that they’re stupid. don’t let your guard down.

When TERFs “debate” you, the purpose is not to convert YOU to their ideology. The purpose is to change the mind of onlookers. Even if you are 100% confident in the necessity of maintaining an alliance with trans women, there is at least one of your followers who is NOT.

Don’t debate TERFs. Don’t boost their ideology. Don’t let them misconstrue your words and thereby paint you (and, by extension, the entirety of the transfeminine populace) as ridiculous.

So a hillbilly gets into harvard. Hes the first person in his family to go to college, his family are farmers and auto mechanics and stuff, he worked super hard to graduate high school much less get his scholarship to an ivy league. His mama drives him all the way up from Virginia in the fall. On his first day, he is walking across campus and cant find the building his class is supposed to be in. So he politely stops another student to ask the way.

This guy is obviously old money ivy league and he obviously can tell that the hillbilly isn't. He kinda sneers like "can I help you" and the hillbilly says "excuse me but could you please tell me where the chemistry building's at?"

The other student gives him a look of utter disgust and pulls away and says "it is IMPROPER to end a sentence with a preposition"

Conifer tea is one of my favorite seasonal treats. Eastern white pine is my favorite, but our tree has gotten too tall to reach the lower branches, so I’ve settled for spruce tips. The bright new growth is less bitter then the older needles and tastes very good with a bit of sugar. Very fresh and cheerful flavor—but you should strain it before you try to drink it, unless you want a throat full of soggy needles.

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my paypal account has been blocked off! I originally thought it was because I’d missed payments on paypal credit but having checked on my account it’s giving me different reasons - saying it’s due to the ‘nature of my business’ which makes me very suspicious that they’ve just decided that I’m doing SW through it or something (untrue! I DO do sex work but not through paypal! lmao xD)

so anyway my PA actually set up a bank account for the sake of fundraising for me yesterday anyway so I’m just going to post the bank details for that but I think that will mean only people in the UK can help out :(

Sort Code: 11-64-77 Account no.: 09616263

I don’t even know how much I need anymore xD £150 for storage plus £230 to maybe clear my paypal?? if that’s the issue?? plus any more you want to throw me for much-needed food and possibly clearing my other two credit cards that are also overdue and not working because I lost a £500/month FSSW income to covid xD

so yes I am just straight up begging for whatever you can give me to survive on at this point I have completely maxed out and ruined every credit and overdraft option I have and have no way of getting any other income (have been TRYING to transition to online SW for a good 5 months beFORE covid flooded the market and it’s just not going well…) and my fantastic PA has applied for all the benefits for me and there’s literally nothing to do but wait at this point but the wait was, again, ridiculous BEFORE covid flooded it, and we’re looking at probably at least another month before I see any of it and I have no idea how to survive in the meantime OTHER than through all of your kindness at this point >.<

Joe Russo:

There’s a fucking pandemic happening.  We have basically no infrastructure to handle such an emergency.  We have to keep going to work and exposing ourselves and our loved ones and our communities to possible infection because we’re all one or two missed paychecks away from starving to death.  Those of us who can’t work are facing homelessness because we can’t pay rent, i.e. we can’t afford the usurous and ever-rising fees that a guy who contributes nothing to society but happens to own a building charges us to be in a building.

Oh, but the landlord might have to pay his mortgage!!!! Bitch I wish I had a mortgage

The for-profit healthcare industry is so determined to not handle the crisis correctly that they are *seriously considering* shuffling life-saving medical equipment away from elderly and disabled people and letting critical COVID-19 patients just fucking die.  There’s no fucking reason to do any of that, except that it’s more cost effective.   Because that’s what The Market demands, is blood sacrifices.

And speaking of blood sacrifices for The Market, they’re also talking about lifting the state of emergency and sending everybody back to work in the middle of a fucking pandemic and just accepting all the tens or hundreds of thousands of people who would be killed by that as reasonable losses in order to make the stock market go back up.  "Hey man, I’m sorry about your kids and I’m sorry about Meemaw and I’m sorry about your friends with respiratory issues, but they’re just useless eaters anyways and we just gotta get that line to point up.“

The presidential election looks like it’s gonna come down to an epic battle between one conservative rapist and another, different conservative rapist.  

Meanwhile the planet is still heating up and we’re still disappearing people into camps in the desert.

Is this the world you want?  Are you just going to accept this?  Are you really just going to say “yes sir, thank you sir” and take this lying down and wait for shit to just go back to normal?  Like a dog?

Or are you going to fight?

Because I got news, man:  It’s not going back to normal.  Not ever.

You need to look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself:  Am I going to take this?  Am I going to stand up and fight?  Or am I going to force my grandchildren to suffer the shame of laying a coward’s bones in my grave?

https://www.socialistalternative.org/get-involved/

UK: mutual aid / rent strike

… let me get this straight. The average rent in Houston is $1338 (1 bed: $1148; 2 beds: $1446). Every single month for who knows how long you were paid thousands of dollars x32 and you didn’t save anything?

And yet you expect tenants on a minimum wage to save enough money to pay off your mortgage?

Landlors really expect people to sell their own car and borrow money from friends and family because - in the mist of a pandemic where some people barely have enough money to eat - they feel entitled to your money.

Couple things to remember:

1. These people are fucking cannibals and have no hearts or souls or shame and will not stop until they are stopped

Fight

Fight hard

https://iww.org/projects/gdc/join

https://incarceratedworkers.org/

Just do it

The one’s that have turned you against your Fellow Workers.

I know many of you are afraid to rise up now. So many of us(myself included) have to care not only for ourselves, but others. But joining a union, a renter’s collective or a community solidarity program can do the one thing the bosses and the capitalist pigs are really afraid of.

All of us. Waking up. And standing tall.

They tracked me down in only 21 hours.