a genderless blogging experience

A local paper had some great photographs, all taken by Nicole Hester:

The day before, Rep. Justin Pearson tries to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is barred access by the Sergeant at Arms.

Lawmakers and protesters link arms as the descend the capitol steps.

Once inside the chamber, Democratic representatives continued to stand together with arms linked.

They continued standing together with arms linked as votes were cast.

Democratic representatives take a group photo protesting the redistricting.

Rep. Justin Jones burns a photo of the Confederate flag with the words, We will not go back.

And stomps the ashes.

KeShaun Pearson being escorted from the building by the Staties.

KeShaun Pearson (left) being taken into custody. Rep. Justin Pearson (right) showing his support of his brother.

Additional information: State lawmakers have been gunning for Pearson and Jones nearly their entire terms. Most notably, in 2023, the House expelled them for participating in a protest at the Capitol. Their districts had to have special elections to have them reinstated.

Pearson is one of the plaintiffs of a lawsuit seeking an injunction against the redistricting.

goodbye chiikawa

You blocking someone is a boundary. Your DNI is simply a warning for who you'll block.

You can't expect people to care about your DNI.

People aren't breaking your boundaries, because you never set boundaries in the first place. Your blog is public. You can't forbid people from interacting — you can block them, though. If they were to block evade, then they would be breaking a boundary.

Putting “racists DNI” or “ableists DNI” isn't going to stop the bigots from interacting. You have to just block them to enforce your boundaries.

I can't be bothered to check a DNI when all I'm doing is reblog or comment on a post.

If the wrong people™ reblogging your post bothers you so much, just block them and move on.

Not to mention, some people are just incredibly ableist with their DNIs, too.

“cluster b DNI” or “bpd DNI” are both things I have seen before.