Sydney Schafer
neondimples.bsky.social
Sydney Schafer
@neondimples.bsky.social
she/her
Somewhere in California

I like video games, ttrpgs, board games, sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. Software Engineer for money

🏳️‍⚧️ 🧡🤍🩷
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Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later

Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
January 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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I've seen people express fears about "framing transition as a choice losing us cis allies", but that's not the point. The point is to stop justifying transness, to stop giving so much heft to the "why" and instead focus on the fact that we exist, we need this care, and we have a right to it.
January 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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I saw someone claiming "the effect of estrogen is more reversible than testosterone" and if I catch you saying that you're required to donate to someone's top surgery.

This isn't a competition about whose transition is harder, we're all in this together.
December 8, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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AIPAC went after less targets than they suggested they would. And some of our strongest pickups in PA, IL survived. I think that’s worth exploring.

Reflection doesn’t automatically mean capitulation or left-punching. It can mean actively identifying the strategies that are actually *working,* too.
November 23, 2024 at 2:50 AM
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Imagine if we just had a ton of really queer people, butch dykes, trans men and women, etc queue up to use the bathroom outside of Nancy Mace’s office and make them tell us which one we are allowed to use.

Absolute gender fuckery.
November 22, 2024 at 2:56 PM
After thinking for a while and reading the thoughts of a bunch of other trans people, I kinda feel like maybe we've been too hard on Sarah McBride. A lot of people have made the point that civil rights movements are generally made of two tracks: clean hands and disruptors. She's clean hands 1/2
November 22, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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Let's just get one thing straight. Every time Nancy Mace mentions a specific trans person's penis, it's sexual harassment.
November 21, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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Ooooo, you want toooo reskeet this so big accounts see that I'm a cutie and put me on their cute funny leftist poggers account lists oooooo.
November 21, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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ALSO! ALSO! ALSO! Maybe you're overwhelmed by all the stirring, touching, deep, meaningful stuff. Maybe you just need to laugh. @rileysilverman.bsky.social has GOT you there.

Riley is staying alive for the pettiness. Be like Riley. Make creeps lose their little minds with rage, just by being you.
Do it For the Pettiness — Assigned
There are many uplifting, hopeful reasons for trans people to carry on fighting. Riley Silverman brings us some of the other ones.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 20, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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I literally just got out of meetings with members of Congress & used the bathroom on my way out.

Trans women are women—full stop. We're every bit as "biologically female" as cis women & Speaker Johnson's statement doesn't change the fact that women's spaces include trans women.
November 20, 2024 at 6:07 PM
I love that if you start watching the Kung Fu Panda series at 4, it seems like Po's two dads are in a gay relationship.

Even having watched all 4 now, I'm not sure this reading is wrong.
November 17, 2024 at 6:51 PM
I always thought bodies were stupid and if given the opportunity, I would immediately upload my brain to "the cloud". And of course my avatar in the cloud would be a girl because "everyone/most people would rather have a girl's body".
November 16, 2024 at 5:11 PM
The incoming administration will wage a war on women and anyone with a uterus. And obviously many, many others, but that's the group that's around 50% of the country. It's going to be a dark four years. And beyond, because of SCOTUS and other things.

open.spotify.com/episode/2Iiy...
Not This Again
Boom! Lawyered · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 15, 2024 at 8:17 PM