"Every morning that I have breath, I stay rooted in possibility and I choose to act. And I remember that doing so doesn't preclude feeling burdened or needing relief."

- @prisonculture.bsky.social

and like the larger authoritarian project, the insistence that it all has to be treated politely is part of how it is normalized to a lot of people that are mostly looking for social cues as to how they're supposed to navigate the world