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Things I've been saying instead:

Hold the line

Stay strong

You're not alone

I'm not going anywhere

Buckle up

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, SHIT, FUCK

yeah no sorry, I'm ok, you?

"guys we're so cooked" "it's wraps" "the end is near" shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up. i say that with love because you are probably saying it out of distress and hopelessness, but for your own well-being and for everyone else's, please stop saying this shit.

no we are not "cooked." and by saying that, by the way, you are giving more power to the neo-nazi oligarchy in charge.

they want you to abandon all hope of a better life. they want you to believe "oh well, it's over, we might as well stop trying to fight back and just resign ourselves to despair forever."

every time you get on tiktok and comment "guys we're so cooked haha it's over," you are feeding into the mindset of hopeless compliance. you are, unknowingly, spreading this infectious idea that just because we've lost one battle, we've lost the entire war.

your words matter. i am saying this out of love and concern for our future, but please stop choosing words of defeat.

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What unfortunate incident led to THIS (professionally printed) notification!? 🧶

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The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity

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fiber crafts is like oh you think you know how to count? think again. also count again.

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Hey so apparently the Trump administration is trying to include Natives in his unconstitutional birthright citizenship end order. They haven't been non citizens since 1924. He trying to fucking reverse the Snyder Act.

A lot, if not all, of his plans impact natives in some way. Remember to keep advocating for native rights.

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More emails in fed land yesterday. The relevant text:

"An additional Directive has come down from the new Administration. Currently, we are to not have banners, signature blocks, lanyards, etc. that are related to LGBTQAI identities."

They also eliminated a friend's role as the LGBTQAI veteran's care coordinator. He's not allowed to do those groups, outreach events, education anymore.

We have "safe space ' (rainbow triangle) and ally signs have to be taken down. We have to delete the pronoun signifiers from our teams/email signatures (I'm not going to). My lanyard I've used for my keys for years, a rainbow striped one that says "VA SERVES ALL WHO SERVED" is no longer allowed (I'm still using it).

Please understand. Many of us voted against this. Campaigned and donated and petitioned and protested against it. It happened anyway. It's happening still.

Nobody, nowhere is safe from fascism. This little email? It's a test. A test to see how we respond to the superficially trivial matter of what sort of personal expression we are allowed at work. And we all know it's much deeper than that, right? We know this is a double attack - on both free speech, and civil rights of queer people - right?

So. Some of us have decided not to comply. It's a small thing. A tiny thing. But they can come take my rainbow lanyard away before I give it up myself. They can delete my pronouns, I won't do it for them. I've called all my representatives. I'm encouraging others to do the same. I've spoken to my kids to explain to them what's going on.

There were a lot of tears and curses at work yesterday. But worse were the smiles. Worse were the smirks and laughter. Worse were the people saying "don't be upset, some of us ain't mad about it."

Not to mention an administrator bragging about how she was considering going to Mississippi to start collecting rewards for blowing in undocumented immigrants.

It's exhausting to be in that building. I have barely slept all week. This is just the beginning and it's all these things that some unaware people might call trivial but my knowledge of history, sociology, and my pattern recognition are screaming at me right now.

I need rest.

My husband scolded my kids last night. With the tarrifs starting today, he told them to stop being picky about food (we brought home Mexican takeout) because it's going to soon be much more expensive.

It hurts my heart to know that my kids may become food insecure. I've worked so hard to escape poverty and secure our place in the middle class. But here we are.

Anyway. Good morning, USA. I still love you. I will fight for what you should be.

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If you’re an American federal employee and got an email saying “it’s ok to quit your job.” Do not, for the love of everything, quit your job. This is purely a scare tactic to get rid of as many people as possible without legal consequences.

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Same. You can write the ending yourself if I abandoned it. Not that many people read my writing, and not that it's all that great, but it's STILL BETTER THAN AI and so is yours.

Hi,

It’s your friendly neighbor fanfic author here. In the light of this apparent new trend of people feeding unfinished fics to AI to get an “ending,” and some people even talking about “blanket permissions,” let me just say this:

I EXPLICITLY FORBID ANYONE TO FEED MY FICS TO AI. DUDE, THAT IS ABOUT THE LEAST RESPECTFUL THING YOU CAN DO. IF YOU DO IT, SHALL YOU BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM YOUR FANDOM AND WALK ON LEGOS BAREFOOT TILL THE END OF DAYS.

That is my anti-permission.

Thank you for your attention.

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"the magnus archives sounds cool! what are the content warnings?"

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