Syllabic Suserations

it's always so fucking funny to me when terfs are like "how can you say trans women and women are the same thing! being born as a man makes you different!" because like. yes. trans women and cis women are different. so are black women and white women. and straight women and queer woman. and women from different countries and different socioeconomic statuses. there's diversity in the experience of womanhood? what a wild concept

This. This is the core of it. This is why trans-exclusionary radical feminism is rooted in racism, colonialism, and imperialism. It excludes the idea that there can be any other type of “woman” except one very (white, colonialist, imperialist) definition.

If you are a former gifted kid and had to listen to Lou Wilson say "It's like every time I fail or have a misstep, I suffer the ultimate consequences. And that doesn't happen to other kids. And I want to know why. What was the goal? Why did I have to suffer?" you may be entitled to financial compensation.

I want to log on to the mushroom chat so bad

What would you even say?

"Had a cute frog sit on me today. Win."

two kinds of people etc etc

I was expecting Rimsky-Korsakov. But this is nice, too.

Harry Styles winning over Renaissance....white people will never give Beyoncé AOTY. I don't know whyyyy I believed they'd award her work as it increasingly centers her Blackness.

Something that I first applied to working with children, and have applied in a limited form to working with adults: you don't need to tell someone when they read your instructions wrong. Sometimes it's enough to point out what they did right and then whatever they didn't do? You ask them to do it in more precise words, and you make it sound like it's a new request. Remarkable how fast things get done this way.

This is also a habit I built up from emergency response training. If I say "I need you to bring me a first aid kit and an accident report" and you bring me just a first aid kit, it's so much more efficient to say "thanks now can you bring me an accident report" than "I asked you to bring an accident report why didn't you bring me one".

Once you've internalized "a person bleeding out is one of the worst times to start an argument" you start to wonder what other tasks could get accomplished without arguing