when the function got a possessive mask

YOU - "Stop being a b--"

REACTION SPEED [Challenging: Success] - Wait a minute.

DRAMA - Sire, the word you're about to use is historically feminine! Applying it to your transgender child is tantamount to misgendering him.

1. [Suggestion - Legendary 14] Think of a masculine equivalent to "bitch."

This month people have been tearing Flock cameras off their poles. Perched above public streets, they are birdlike things, weatherproof, and they photograph every passing car and file it in a searchable national database. Somebody cut two of them in half at Washington Avenue and Westcott in Houston, spray-painted the wreckage, and left an American flag on one of them. Police were notified on the morning of the Fourth of July. Somebody severed a camera in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. The police department posted the photograph itself and collected more than twenty thousand comments. “Not all heroes wear capes.” “Give them a medal.” Here is what the cameras do when nobody cuts them down. Cops use them to hunt immigrants and to follow ICE targets across state lines and to find women who ended pregnancies in states where that is a crime and to watch exes and to watch women they want, without a warrant and without a judge. A cop types a reason in a box and the box does not check. A man in Burleson, Texas, told deputies his girlfriend had taken abortion pills. He showed them the photographs, the FedEx envelope, the instructions. Deputies opened a death investigation into a non-viable fetus, and the district attorney told them the state could not charge her, and they searched anyway: 83,345 cameras across 6,809 networks, a month of everywhere she had been. The reason they typed was had an abortion, search for female. The search reached Illinois and Washington, where what she did was legal. They found her in Dallas. She came into the sheriff’s office a week later, and they thought she had come to explain the fetus, and she had come to report that the man who called them had put a gun to her head. A sheriff in Jerome County, Idaho ran his wife’s plate more than seven hundred times in three months. He typed the same reason every time. Test. The attorney general found nothing to charge him with. He retired in April. The Institute for Justice counts at least twenty-two officers who used the system to track people they were romantically interested in, and calls that almost certainly an undercount. And the cameras keep falling.

So theres a post going around with several layers of misinformation about Autumn Hill & the Prarieland trial and I'm pretty upset about it because it feels like instead of learning specific lessons from what happened and actually supporting the people suffering, some people are just making up this mythos about how we're all fucked forever, trans women specifically are fucked forever, and (the quiet part) any and all political action is too risky to justify. I dont wanna be too harsh on people who are understandably having a bad time but this is the state-desired reaction, its an exaggeration, and its p much repression 101.

So I just wanted to forward Autumn Hill's own words, non paywalled, about what happened, what's happening, and how she's doing. Its not, like, sunshine and rainbows. But the reality is always more valuable and easier to respond to than the fear & I think we really should let these folks write their own narrative.

You can learn about, see the extant support for, donate money to, and contact all of the prarieland defendants, including Autumn, here:

Hello friends, my mother is still suffering from her injuries. It's very difficult, and she needs regular checkups and medication. She must adhere to the prescribed regimen. My pregnancy is progressing very slowly, and I can't meet my family's needs. I'm trying to provide food, drink, and medicine for my mother. We have no one else to support us. I need your help. Please stop ignoring me and try to support me. Remember, even $10 or $20 can ease some of her suffering. I won't forgive you for neglecting her. Please try to save my mother before it's too late.

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Hello friends, I am Yasmin from northern Gaza Strip. I am 27 years old, a mother of two children, Sila and Youssef, and I have been married for more than 7 years.

I was studying Journalism and Media at the University College, and I had both a home and a job. But because of the war, I lost my home, my work, and everything I owned.

My family’s house was also destroyed, and now we have nothing left except a worn-out tent whose torn walls cannot protect us from the heat of summer or the cold of winter.

My husband is injured. He was involved in a traffic accident while trying to get aid, and he is now disabled and unable to work.

My children have suffered from malnutrition due to the lack of food and proper nutrition.

That is why I am only asking for your help and support. I am here trying to save what is left of my children’s lives. They are between life and death.

Please, try to support us and donate whatever you can.

It kills me how many people’s lives would be drastically improved with AT LEAST a cane but who think they can’t use one because “they’re for old people” or “their disability isn’t that bad” or because they tried once with an improperly sized one and it felt bad or because of internalized ableism.

I get mine from canesgalore usually because they cut to size, and have both extra tall canes and sturdy/high weight tolerance canes. The black cane I use is a heavier duty one graded for up to 550lbs, and while my weight varies between 250 and 270 at 6’2”, any time I’ve used the “adjustable” metal ones not only do they not go tall enough, but they slowly bend over time because I have to put my full weight on it at times.

Also, if anyone reading this is wondering “how do I figure out the right size?” Here’s a couple examples: