The whiskey had helped for a while, until it hadn't. Now it was more habit than anything. There's a kid at the bar crying over his first lost love. Doesn't even know what else he's lost. Too young to have known the joy of Campbell's Raviolios. Never will. On account of the worst mistake I ever made.

for a label for this phenomenon, which I've just been softy calling "epistemic arrogance", but I think Hermeneutic Dismissiveness might be more appropriate! Can't wait to read the paper :)

misinterpretation and projection etc. Then, when their assumptions fail to align with a trans person's self reported motivations etc, these transphobes choose to stop trusting the trans person rather than question the adequacy of their own phenomenal palette to understand them. I've been looking...

I love this. I've been thinking a lot about how certain kinds of transphobia seem to be rooted in the inability or refusal to believe that another person's self-reported phenomenal experience might not be directly translatable into the terms of one's own experience. This leads to all kinds of...

Mystery group 1:

Some Special Response Team guys, via the SRT marking on helmet. They have a patch with a bear over a sword crossed by lightning with a star. Seems like some kind of California crew, but the sword and lightning patches I can find online so far are all army.

i am very happy for to capture it if you have the time!

omg tyyyyy

Thank you @margaret.bsky.social and @mollycrabapple.bsky.social for recommending Graeber’s work in the cool people ep on libertalia!