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Saul T
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Consumed too many white monsters and was consumed by one in turn
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I hate this "phones" conversation regarding queer people and queer kids because the bottom line is, cishet society KNOWS. Right-wingers KNOW that the internet is how queer people connect to each other---hell, that marginalized people period use it to organize and educate.

That's why they hate it.
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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That's why right-wingers have been filling the airwaves with shit, setting up their own "alternative facts" and media ecosystem, to continue to perpetuate epistemicide against marginal populations and push back against our attempts to present our own struggles, voices, and communities.
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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The average person may be ignorant or uncaring but anyone paying the barest attention KNOWS that queer people in particular rely on each other and on informal networks to tell each other our stories, support each other, advise each other. It's WHY many parents are so fucking militant about phones.
November 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Parents who will never empathize with their queer children will call it a fad, a trend, a corrupting influence of Those Damn Phones on their naturally, innately cishet child, because they refuse to acknowledge that queerness is natural. That we could be something other than what they want us to be.
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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So even as tech oligarchs make social media and information access unreliable and radioactive, conservatives will still rail against the left-wing propaganda saturating The Online because to them, every queer person who exists is a failure. Every queer person who comes out and thrives is a failure.
November 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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At some point we have to confront that we're not trying to educate an ignorant population about the struggles of queer life and epistemic injustice.

They KNOW, and they want to keep it that way, if not make it worse. We are an affront to their pathetic, rotten societies.
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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There is a sharply religious stench to the attempts to restrict and control information to everyone. It's starting with kids and queer info, but it's going headlong into adult info as well. A desperate, old school Roman Catholic style of information control where only the few have knowledge.
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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The first thing anti-trans groups like Bayswater Group and Transgender Trend say to parents of trans teens is take their phones, get them off the internet
So, given that a lot of trans people are offended that Brianna's transfemicide is being turned into a crusade against phone use, when Brianna had a supportive online community and was murdered offline by her classmates:

Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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it's widely known that transphobic parents publicly brag about cutting their trans children off from friends and support systems especially by taking away their phones and isolating them from contact with outsiders, this anti-phone push is an attempt to make that the default condition of queer youth
So, given that a lot of trans people are offended that Brianna's transfemicide is being turned into a crusade against phone use, when Brianna had a supportive online community and was murdered offline by her classmates:

Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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So, given that a lot of trans people are offended that Brianna's transfemicide is being turned into a crusade against phone use, when Brianna had a supportive online community and was murdered offline by her classmates:

Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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I'm sure a lot of trans people in the UK would love to spend more time outside! Can you do something about your party's contradictory and incoherent stance on the EHRC and Supreme Court's bathroom guidelines, which makes "outside" much less safe for us?
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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You are a member of a party that is dedicated to pushing trans people out of public life, and you are trying to 'champion' a cause that would deny many trans children access to the only supportive communities and peers they know and have.

I suggest you stop acting like you are owed deference.
November 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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literally some of the first things my parents said to me before subjecting me to transphobic abuse was "if you lived in the village and had a Nokia with no internet, we wouldn't have this problem"
So, given that a lot of trans people are offended that Brianna's transfemicide is being turned into a crusade against phone use, when Brianna had a supportive online community and was murdered offline by her classmates:

Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Drinking mezcal and listening to 90's Berserk theme on repeat, a tale of menstrual hormones
September 21, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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If someone objects, I pose them a question: can you legitimately not see why fascists love the notion of atomized rugged individualistic "adventurers" killing people and taking their stuff being considered normal within the game world?
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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And if you take this personally because *your* game isn't like that: have you considered reaching a level of functional literacy and not associating your sense of self with a brand?
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Reminds me of an old blogpost I read somewhere. OD&D isn't a medieval game, it's a cowboy game. The whole premise is around going out into a "wild frontier" devoid of "civilization" and killing the people who already live there. The manifest destiny and american colonialism are baked into the premis
If someone objects, I pose them a question: can you legitimately not see why fascists love the notion of atomized rugged individualistic "adventurers" killing people and taking their stuff being considered normal within the game world?
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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This one super old abandoned comic i did(n't) with the coolest looking revolver in the planet
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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imagine an archaelogist finding this in 1000 years
hardcore bondage people are so fucking funny look at this shit bro
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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im hearing now, that all the nerds who got their pants pulled down while distracted by the Northern Lights, will be charged as sex offenders
November 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Going to the library
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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The problem is that the far right sees the same thing the far left does: dnd IS built on a bedrock of racist fantasy! It is NOT doing enough to address that, if it even can!
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Primary author of that Democratic anti-trans "strategy" is Simon Bazelon, nepobaby son of anti-trans NYT reporter Emily Bazelon. The report quotes McBride, a nepobaby token whose purpose is to excuse transphobia and do private equity's bidding.

The attack on trans lives is a gentry conspiracy.
that new democrat strategy document cites sarah mcbride's transphobia as justification for everybody else's transphobia in the introduction :)
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Cop planet. Everything is cops. I hate this shit.
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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All that moral panic about trans women being in it to sexually terrorize other women, and of course it's a cop actually suing for the right to do it, notably, in a context that disproportionately victimizes other trans women. We called TSA Pre "the tranny tax" for a reason.
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM