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in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

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in light of Trump's inauguration speech declaring multiple national emergencies that require him to take god-knows-what executive actions immediately, I'd like to remember this chapter of "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder:

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usamericans, do you remember in the incredibles when syndrome made the robot go haywire just so he could swoop in and 'save the day'

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Hannibal (2013-2015)

3x13 - “The Wrath of the Lamb”

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Oh train blog. What are we to do now.

Live, like we always have, and always will

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The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise

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thinking about Brad Dourif in "Istanbul" and the fact is Grima Wormtongue would have gotten away with it forever if they'd let him be hot. with better hair he could've run that horse girl country into the ground for decades. eomer would've been like "dang, seems like my uncle is a very bad king for no reason, oh well." pretty privilege grima wormtongue could have girlbossed middle earth into the flames of mordor

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Geological horror. You find a geode and crack it open and the crystal lining its walls is human blood that can't be genetically matched to anyone. You find a human skeleton but every one of the bones is made from rock, a rock that you know can't be whittled into those shapes. You find layers of clay and loam that sport ancient fossils at the top and the still-rotting corpses of modern animals at the bottom.

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ok, well now what.

My fellow Americans: hello from your local pissed-the-fuck-off former community organizer.

You're probably seeing a lot of calls to support each other right now, and that's all well and good in principle. Where we tend to stumble is largely practical: we're not sure where, how, or when. The same way it works to make a plan to vote, make a plan to help. A few key points:

Please do not get impatient if the organization's response to you is late or generic at first, or if what you're asked to do isn't what you offered. A lot of local organizations—where your impact will be the greatest—are very small and 100% volunteer-run. You're here to help. Don't be one more thing they have to manage.

Be honest with yourself and the organization about your capacity. If that's a couple hours on a weekend from time to time, that's great. If that's driving people places once a month, if it's a small, regular donation—whatever it is, it's one more person helping who wasn't before. The point of doing it all together is that none of us can do everything, and it isn't on any one of us to do it all. It's much easier to scale up your participation than it is to take on a big responsibility and back out.

Stick with it. Everybody's fired up right now, and many organizations won't be lacking for personnel or funds...for now. They'll need you when it gets boring, when people get tired and busy. Whether it's recurring donations or one shift a week, stick with it for as long as you can, which is why see point 2 above. The need will not stop. The help can't either.

My aim with this brief list of organizations/funds is not to be comprehensive, it's more a starting point of both actual orgs and the types of opportunities there are out there. I highly encourage you to look around in your local community. There are people out there working on creative solutions in innovative ways to problems you didn't even know existed.

I know it might sound small or facile, but I promise, going out there and talking to real people will help. Just go to one meeting, on Zoom, in person, anything. Start there. Everything you're able to do is more than there was before.

Fascists thrive on despair and isolation, on mistrust and fear. But there is good in this world, it's worth fighting for, and you're part of it. The time is now. Let's fuck them up. (List below the cut).

If you're on bluesky, here is a much more specific list of organizations. If you're not, reply to this post or send me an ask with your region and I'll respond if I can. Everyone else, please feel free to add your local organizations in the reblogs. Make sure you do your vetting first; please link to a direct source/person/means of contact if you add something to the list.

Trainings and support for leaders to run for public school boards

And library boards

Black and brown youth organizing

Labor organizing in the South/Southwest

Mutual Aid in NYC/Donate to keep that mutual aid active

Mutual aid/volunteer orgs in DC

Supporting and training young progressives to run for office

Collective action against medical debt

Climate action

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ten people i'd like to know better

tagged by @dreamerinsilico

last song: i'm drafting, so i've got stuff on repeat, and right now it's Evening Prayer from the Conclave soundtrack

last book: the last book i finished was Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez. the content on that one was good (and depressing) but the audio was not great. the book i'm almost done with is The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake, and sad to report, it's a stinker, folks.

last movie: Everest (2015). look, it was the night before the inauguration and i needed to watch something like it. beautifully shot, well-acted, excellent music.

last tv show: uhhh, idk, i'm so bad at TV. one of my discords is watching through Black Sails, which continues to be a good time.

sweet/spicy/savory: sweet, savory and spicy are tied

last thing I searched for online: well, i'm drafting a new book, so that means it's absolutely going to be strange. and ding ding, yes it was, i fell down a rabbit hole about what the legal age is to be a nude model (for photographers and art classes and such) is in massachusetts

current obsession: current hyperfixation on mountaineering disasters lead me to a podcast about engineering disasters (among other things) which led me to an all-trans podcast about how much james bond sucks, which is my platonic ideal of everything, frankly. so, the answer to this one is the podcast Kill James Bond!

looking forward to: hopefully a writing retreat soon. i miss the coast badly

tagging @the-bees-patella, @chaparral-crown, @zipegs, and anyone else who wants to that i'm missing!

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Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling (The Silence of the Lambs 1991)

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Hannibal (2013-2015)

1x07 || 1x08

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1x05 "Coquilles"

"Got just the thing to wake you up."

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Hannibal Lecter’s Hands. Hannibal NBC, Season 2

Season 1 Edition

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Martin Luther King speaking to striking workers in Memphis