This is how I survive. This is how I write. And it is something I consciously practice.

If you are at the point you’re like “hey busted-ass magic 8 ball that kills people, give me an idea”, you need a year in the woods or up a mountain reconnecting with your own goddamn brain.

you learned nothing, you practiced nothing, you diminished yourself, you outsourced your human capacity for growth, intelligence, and personal reflection to a fucking jerk-you-off machine

Oh and online protest movements like @50501movement.bsky.social and #NoKings would be quickly wiped off of social media by censorious lawsuits.

Some of the organizers of the @teslatakedown.com protests wrote a letter about this earlier this year.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It's so embarassing to see so-called progressives like @amyklobuchar.com and @senpeterwelch.govpeeps.us on this list.

Blowing up Section 230 would be devastating for abortion access

www.wired.com/story/sectio...

It would harm LGBTQ communities

www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...

I think the appeal, for you, is that you don't have to be polite to the AI

The sex/gender distinction, the focus on "normal" queers, "born this way" politics... We knew where all of those would end up, and every time we tried to argue that case we got shouted down. I don't blame queer people for this outcome, but I find it frustrating we didn't do better for ourselves.

Instead, we fought on our enemies' terms, on a field of their choosing. To our credit we eked out quite a few wins! But we also left ourselves extremely vulnerable.

I don't consider the fight lost, not by a long shot, but I hope going forward we learn to listen to the radicals in the room.

It's hard to determine whether the blame lies more with trans advocacy abandoning any and all radicalism while trying to find a palatable message for a cissexist society married to sex-essentialism, or with cis people's inherent discomfort with sex being mutable.

All I know is this fucking sucks.