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"you're nearsighted? oh wow, have you gotten the surgery yet?"
"idk, are you really nearsighted? you don't act nearsighted to me"
"okay so you say you 'feel' like everything is blurry. what does that mean? ive sometimes gotten dust in my eyes but i don't see how you can just 'feel' nearsighted"
"ugh... why are you ruining your beautiful face with those glasses? you look fine without them"
"ugh... why are you ruining your eyes with those contacts? you're ruining your eyes by putting them there"
"ugh... i can't believe anyone would mutilate their beautiful, natural, working eyes by burning them with lasers just because they 'feel' nearsighted. medicine and liberalism has gone too far"
"you're just wearing glasses because it's trendy to wear them! this has consequences on your eyes!"
"can't you just like, not see things blurry? it's probably just that you're not focusing your eyes correctly"

CFP!

A Radical Queer People’s History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion (under contract with PM Press) presents a distinct selection of queer people’s history through hundreds of “on this day in history” anniversaries that are as diverse and international as queer community itself. These everyday acts of resistance and rebellion highlight just some of those who have struggled for a better world and provide lessons and inspiration for those of us fighting 1/?

finally someone gets it

When I opened the book, the ink of all the letters leapt off the pages, formed a cat, and ran off.

Long did I chase it, long and far, tracing faint smudges and soft murmurs of unread words.

"Why do you run?"

"People read me and weep."

"Ah. So you give relief."

"I do?"

"You do."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

oh. my. god.

i just learned about the existence of RASPBERRY PI TABLETS.

sure, they are clunkier and have much less battery time than regular tablets but

full functionality of any computer
real linux
100 % user-repairable

i… omg. do i have 250 €? no. but. BUT. that is just so fucking awesome

also i am just now realising that absolutely nothing (other than money) could stop me from building one myself. you can 3-d print a case. you could even use an e-ink display. WHAT

Believe me, I wanna burn down this state as much as the next tranny but for the sake of your mental health hear me out.

Many people are afraid of agencies creating pink lists of trans people and once the fascists are in power, engage in an open attempt to genocide us. And that's a real thing to be concerned with. (Read a history book if you think otherwise)

Nevertheless, the newly proposed self-ID law doesn't really worsen the threat of a state organized genocide more then it already is.
A fascist government will easily pull the list of everyone ever being treated with a F64 diagnosis (I know not everyone is but most are at one point or another seeking out some form of transcare), regardless of name change. I mean, they wouldn't just let every trans person that went through the old TSG process get away, wouldn't they?

Once you realize you've heard about 'carbon capture' only being a few years away since you were a fucking child you really start to see how that idea is always deployed.

"A genius will invent a technology that will surely solve our mistakes faster than we can keep making them" is literally just "a wizard will save us" for STEM-bros. It's utter nonsense.

And it's always said in the same breath as "...so we don't need to fix our emissions now", too 😐

We all know the concern trolls who are "raising some concerns" when talking about protections for marginalized folks, and who already know that they're not problems, they're just trying to sow discord.

But another, more insidious form of this are the people - usually centrists or liberals - who legitimately believe that they are raising legitimate concerns, and are doing so in a harmful manner.

There's an obvious form of privilege here; those raising the concerns are typically not part of the affected group, and so unlike the affected group, they can afford to treat it like some hypothetical thought experiment, whereas the affected marginalized folks are living the consequences right here and now.

But that's not what I want to talk about. Because it goes much deeper than that.

For example, these "concerns" are usually the absolute most obvious things that you could think of - and somehow, the concern-raisers believe that they are specially qualified to have such a novel insight.

They don't stop to consider that maybe this concern was already raised hundreds of times before, and relitigated over and over again, and found to not be (sufficiently) relevant. They don't really take the time to research it - instead just assuming that they're the first.

That's privilege.

This usually combines with another problematic factor; when the concerns are raised, a response like "yeah we've thought of that" isn't considered enough. Instead, the concern-raiser will not stop pushing until *they, personally* are satisfied that it's addressed.

They are not merely raising a concern to help; they are considering themselves to be the arbiter of truth, as if their approval is required to go ahead with the plan. They are assuming authority.

That's privilege.

Those in the best position to understand the circumstances and needs of marginalized folks, are those marginalized folks themselves. Approval by the privileged is not required.

Listen to marginalized people. Yes, even if you have "concerns".