#Pride #AltPride
— AltSSA (@altssa.altgov.info) June 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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To those complaining about Pride:
Stop killing us. Stop discriminating against us.
Let us live safely and freely, and then maybe we won’t need Pride anymore.— Thomas Willett (@thomaswillett.bsky.social) June 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Here's a small good thing you can do all month long.
Two, actually.
1. Like, share, and comment on any library post featuring Pride books or messaging that's positive. You can influence the algorithm for good.
2. Write a letter to your library board thanking the library for Pride displays.— kelly jensen (@heykellyjensen.bsky.social) June 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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This image from HRC goes so hard
— Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com) May 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
?????? Happy Pride Month, friendos. Here's a spreadsheet roundup of Pride mods that can help you find some stuff to celebrate the occasion with. ??????
I'm hoping this resource will help people out! But they can be hard to find. Please repost so I can get even more mods on the list!!— a bunny of countless treasures (@quad-weave.etheirys.social) June 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Happy Pride. Don't stop fighting.
— Kasey Gifford (@kaseygifford.bsky.social) June 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Baud
What’s the difference between #Pride and #AltPride?
lowtechcyclist
What’s a ‘Mod’ in this context?
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@lowtechcyclist: Between the spreadsheet and the account description, it looks like “mods” in this context are fan-made game modifications for Final Fantasy 14.
Matt McIrvin
I’d been thinking that this was going to be the beginning of the end of Pride, and, yeah, a bunch of corporations opted out… but my city had a Pride parade yesterday for the first time. A little one. But we never had one before. We went to check it out.
What they’d had before was a flag-raising ceremony. This year, it was raining so they moved it inside to be a little keynote event, and it got the biggest crowd they’d ever had. One of the speakers was an ex-military trans woman who worked in national-security stuff and reminisced kind of wistfully about all the support she got from her commanding officer on up when she publicly transitioned–and about all the international cooperation she’d worked on to help keep us safe. No direct mention of Whiskey Pete’s purge or Trump’s foreign policy but you could read between the lines. But it was a reminder that there’s deep support for basic decency that the headlines about vibe shifts haven’t erased.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Stories about vibe shifts are designed to create reality, not reflect reality.
ETA: See also three straight years of headlines about the upcoming Biden recession.
satby
Yesterday at the farmers market, a woman vendor came up to the counter to buy the barley water lemonade David sells (it’s a Wimbledon thing). I realized she was about to pass out and told her loudly to sit down right now, but she was already too far out of it and started to go over. The two guys next to her held her up and walked her over to a bench across the aisle, stayed with her while she rehydrated and got her blood sugar up, chatting with her the entire time as if everything was just normal. Because of their quick action she was fine. I hope she realized and appreciated that gay couple as much as I did.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: They are. Most of the links are to XIVModArchive.
I don’t usually use mods, but I’m tempted to load a couple of these up for a screenshot or two. I think my Raen would look wonderful with Pride scales.
satby
Why all the “is the vibe shifting??” crap is so annoying. Can’t people grasp that it’s just manipulation?
Baud
@satby:
Gloria DryGarden
Saw a movie on Kanopy last week called “Pride” it’s also available on YouTube. It was so delightful and uplifting, I watched it twice.
During a miners strike in wakes, a group of younger gay people start collecting to donate to support the miners. Based on a true story. I highly recommend it. Has a few famous actors in it.
satby
@Baud: agree. It was a rhetorical question.
And I totally downloaded that HRC poster to share on FB. Great image.
Baud
@satby:
No worries. My response was a rhetorical answer.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Choruses of UC Davis: “Sing with Pride”
https://www.youtube.com/live/obPsAenDqUU
A short program of popular music followed by Considering Matthew Shepard
Kosh III
Happy Pride!
Hubby and I hiked yesterday with a group of gay guys that we regularly hike with and then we all went to a nearby brewery where the owners go out of their way to make everyone welcome.
And a good time was had by all.
We live in rural deep red Middle Tennessee and we rarely encounter bigots, even when they are Trump cultists: turns out everyone knows someone: niece, brother, uncle, grandma whatever. It’s hard to hate when Papaw has a husband.
Being out and open is the key.
zhena gogolia
That TikTok is channelling me.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
No lie told in that video.
Suzanne
@Baud: Vibes are what you write about when reality is less interesting, which is often.
I am torn, because vibes or mood swings or atmosphere, whatever you want to call it….. it is a real thing, sort of. Shared feelings and narratives do come up and affect people’s behavior, and often they are not really based on measurable factors. Emotions are real things. Like this absolute brain-melting freakout about immigration, or trans athletes…. it blows my mind. And yet, the antipathy is real.
lowtechcyclist
@Suzanne:
Or when reality is all too interesting, but they don’t want to write about that.
bbleh
One thing I noticed at this year’s Philly Pride, and others also have remarked on, is how many women were there. At least during the afternoon, there were many more women than men. Used to be pretty heavily men but no longer!
Also noticed how racially and culturally diverse it was. Years ago it was pretty homogeneous (heh), but not now!
This is a very positive development imo.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Wow. I just really misread a headline. “Columbia presidential hopeful shot in head.” I immediately thought of Columbia University.
H.E.Wolf
Happy Pride Month to everyone… and especially to the Democratic winner of the San Antonio mayoral runoff yesterday, Air Force veteran Gina Ortiz Jones. She won 53+ % of the vote, defeating a reactionary Republican.
https://bsky.app/profile/the-downballot.com/post/3lr2u6semdc2f
(Click through to read the news article.)
I wrote postcards for this campaign! With *vigor*. :)
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Did the headline really misspell Colombia?
Baud
@H.E.Wolf:
Good news.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud: I could not say. All I could do was think this university stuff is really escalating!
H.E.Wolf
@Baud:
Good news indeed. Here’s a more detailed news article (with fewer ads), from the TX Public Radio website:
https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2025-06-07/gina-ortiz-jones-holds-early-lead-over-rolando-pablos-in-race-for-san-antonio-mayor
Baud
@H.E.Wolf:
Turnout was super low too. Not sure what that means, but a win is always good.
H.E.Wolf
Gotta hit the road. Solidarity and Pride to all!
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊 😊 😊
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Eyeroller
@Suzanne: And a lot of those “vibes” were in fact driven by media narratives, especially (in my opinion) the trans panic. The NYT published multiple anti-trans opinion pieces in the months before the election, as just one (influential) example.
Immigration is always a touchy subject but there was also a pretty strong media narrative there. I don’t watch TV but when I visited a relative for Christmas 2022, he had the TV on constantly with a preference for ABC news when it was broadcast, and every. single. segment led with MIGRANTS CARAVAN CRISIS BORDER CRISIS 1111 Then showed video of a line of a few hundred people walking. Reminder that this was in 2022 so they’ve been hyping it for quite a while.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Off-timed elections and low turnout are good things for us: another example of the world turning upside down.
The Denver Pride events over two days is massive: 500K people attend and there will be around 100K people at the parade alone–coming out of Covid, it was one of the most eagerly anticipated events here, a literal coming out party for everybody.
This year because of the massive clusterfuck of construction on Colfax, the route’s moving to the main commercial drag thru the neighborhood of which I’m president of the registered neighborhood organization. Heh heh, this will be fun. Actually, it will be because it means there won’t be businesses massively blaring their own music from their storefront which really conflicts with the parade.
The parade is massively corporatized but this year lost 62% of its funding from such sources and others are changing their approach to include the main name on the Pride parade, Coors. I still snort about Coors being associated with this given the brand’s contentios history in this state as being right wing assholes before half the country became right wing assholes. But their eventual merger that’s resulted in Molson Coors has definitely tempered that.
This year it’s an interesting corporate angle in that it won’t be the Coors Pride Parade but instead the Vizzy Pride Parade (the company’s hard seltzer brand). I know there’s a lot of grumbling over the years about the seemingly overwhelming corporate presence but it’s also been a source of, pride, among a range of businesses both nationally corporate (Southwest remains a massive sponsor) and locally corporate (like the local-yokel teeeeveeee news folks, they do a ton of basically free publicity vis a vis their reporting on everything leading up to Pride).
LAC
Happy pride, to infinity and beyond.
Are we at the point yet where this is a better response than hemming and hawing?
https://www.threads.com/@lillybeth_andujar/post/DKnxCPgsqPy?xmt=AQF0BhITAyJ9nLmMEddQBUR7w1Ahzal-LXXn15i4gG-3Tw
Nukular Biskits
Good mornin’, y’all.
Nearly killed myself yesterday, working in the yard all day. Summer is here now, with heat indices hovering around triple digits.
Ugh.
Love those eyelashes on the eagle!
Nukular Biskits
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Same. Had to read further myself as well.
Geminid
@Dorothy A. Winsor: It was Miguel Uribe, who was campaigning for next year’s Presidential election on the main conservative party’s line. Uribe was hit twice in the head; the last report I saw said he survived emergency surgery.
I think Miguel Uribe is 39 years old. His mother was a prominent journalist who was kidnapped by Pablo Escobar’s drug gang in the early 1990s, and killed during a rescue attempt.
Trivia Man
I think PFLAG contributed greatly to social acceptance. In the olden days, anybody who supported gay people was assumed to be gay. Social pressure made supporters stay closeted, too. At parades and protests they were just a small group at first but eventually they really helped normalize the attitude that you could be a straight supporter.
oldgold
Almost four months into this corrupt assault on constitutional law and order and still no one has emerged to galvanize and rationalize the Resistance.
Damn! The resistance needs a leader.
Where is she/he?
Is there something about us and/or this time that has made it difficult for a leader to emerge in this moment of peril?
Trivia Man
@Trivia Man: and it also greatly widened the KNOWINGLY gay-adjacent circle. Very easy to hate “them”. Easy to not hate my friend/ neighbor, coworker because you have more details.
A gay stranger is 100% gay and that’s all the nuance you have so you default to whatever negative stereotypes you may have.
“I dont know any of the gays do they must be all the same and they are all scary.” turns into “i onow that person and they aren’t like THST,” then its “i like ralph and sarah, if they support their kid or neghbor or friend then ill will as well because i like ralph and sara.”
A slippery slope for good.
prostratedragon
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I had to check, because the spirit of comity around there these days is slighter than a wraith. Geminid is on it. Yes, Colombia.
Another Scott
Happy Pride, everyone.
For the undecided Virginia jackals – AlxNow.com story about Levar Stoney’s meet-and-greet in Alexandria on Saturday afternoon:
Forward!!
Best wishes,
Scott.
David Collier-Brown
Off-topic: Will there be a discussion of Mr Trump trying to send troops to peaceful protest in Los Angeles?
Layer8Problem
We were at the Washington DC parade yesterday. I had never been to one. Excellent parade; many groups local, domestic, and international, with tons of spirit; with a wicked long Pride flag (I mean really long) carried down the route; and good to see there was corporate sponsorship who had not been scared away. Although “Glamazon”? Nice try Jeff, I’ll just assume it’s the folks on the line.
And lots and lots of the community lining the streets applauding and cheering. One of those hopeful notes in these parlous times.
prostratedragon
Morgan Freeman making the key point with a highlights reel:
Trivia Man
PSA: if your workplace has a support council, please participate. Attend events, display the logo however your company does it, be an out and proud supporter.
Attend events as much as you can, especially be in photos at the events. Side benefit: you might help give cover to a gay colleague who isn’t Out yet. Help normalize support isn’t the same as orientation.
At my company i was the only male active in the group besides the management sponsors. I am sure there were whispers about my sexuality but not to my face. Happily straight-monogamous married so it was irrelevant.
schrodingers_cat
Drumbeat against immigrants and immigration is nothing new. Bush II could not get comprehensive immigration reform passed. Lou Dobbs had a very polemical anti-immigrant show in the mid aughts. Bernie Fucking Sanders was one of the regulars. Rants against H1-Bs by electrical engineers/programmers with nasty racist rhetoric has been around since the early aughts when message boards and blogs were the “social media”
It took almost 2 decades for the reactionaries to get a presidential candidate who echoed their rhetoric.
And immigrants were blamed for the housing crisis too, as people who were taking out the subprime loans to buy houses. I am so old that I remember when glut of houses was the problem not scarcity.
KSinMA
@Gloria DryGarden: That’s a terrific movie!
Trivia Man
@David Collier-Brown: *mostly peaceful. We can’t pretend that there was zero violence. Still a massive overreaction and almost certainly a cop/ soldier fueled escalation is coming.
the Hippie punching strategy was successful and never went out of style. “Hippie” has been successfully expanded to cover anything “liberal” like human rights, environmental protection, and justice reform.
RandomMonster
@David Collier-Brown: I for one am finding Trump’s naked attempt at inciting more violence really disturbing today.
Bex
@oldgold: Too bad Zelenskyy is busy right now,
Nukular Biskits
Given this is an open thread …
Acyn on Bluesky: “Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
Scout211
@David Collier-Brown: A discussion was started in a thread last night in real time. But more will be discussed today I am sure.
oldgold
@Bex: Yes, an effective Resistance requires a leader. Ukraine is fortunate to have Zalenskyy.
Where is our leader?
Matt
Great piece from A.R. Moxon on “Winning the Middle”:
https://www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-middle/
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Of course not; these people have talked themselves into believing Cal is a Deep Red State.
Anyway, it sounds insane, this over a Home Depot in LA. They send the troops in an ICE might be able to grab a dozen day workers?
JoeyJoeJoe
@schrodingers_cat: At least as far back as the 1850s, Millard Fillmore and the Know Nothings were railing against immigration, I believe
NotMax
As it’s ostensibly Open Thread —
Weekend engineering watch.
How NOT to build a plane.
lowtechcyclist
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
And of course this gives the lie to the notion that they’re after criminals and gang members. They’re going to a workplace, to grab people who are working.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Matt:
The clowns at the DC Wankfest last week basically floated just that with their opening speaker (Andy Rotherman) who said in effect “what if we allowed homophobia into the tent?”
If you watched the talkers, they were essentially advocating to remove every moral stand of the Democratic party–workers rights, civil rights, human rights.
They and their adherents are always yammering about a “big tent” (we hear that disingenuous statement frequently), and then led off with that piece that can be charitably summarized as “what if we allowed homophobia”?
Now there’s your Big Tent! Transphobia and Homophobia just hit better together!
Or such pearls from noted entitled white, privileged deep thinking MattY:
Identifying the Democratic Party’s electoral issues: school closures during covid, “paralysis on women’s sports” and “candidates running on late-term abortions”
trollhattan
This brightened my morning a little.
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3lqy3vwpd722w
Matt McIrvin
@Suzanne: A thing that encouraged me about local Pride events was a seemingly total lack of any inclination by gay people to throw trans people under the bus, which I *know* the other side was trying to foment.
H.E.Wolf
Everyone’s waiting for you to declare. Let us know when you’re ready!
schrodingers_cat
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: I am curious who else was there and what is the official name for this wankfest as you call it.
H.E.Wolf
Re: yesterday’s victory for Gina Ortiz Jones in San Antonio mayoral runoff:
It means when a municipal (tends to have low turnout) runoff election (historically, tends to have very low turnout) happens on a Saturday (say what?!), turnout… will be quite low.
I can report that the Postcards To Voters folks wrote a Rio Grande’s worth of postcards to Democrats in San Antonio. My contribution was barely on the level of what we used to call “a crick” (a creek, for non-Texans), but I hope it made some difference!
(Ask me about my Alamo story sometime….)
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Well kind of working, day labor is pretty miserable stuff.
Likely why ICE felt safe trying it, there is no deep pockets corporation telling them essential workers with day labor.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@schrodingers_cat:
https://archive.ph/Bj8Ac
“Watching hundreds of nerds get together to bash the left and gush about abundance was as off-putting as it sounds”
Abundance Coachella:
https://x.com/burkehenryt/status/1929957765537034707/photo/1
Read the comments. Love his characterization “the summer’s hottest centrism conference” and then somebody who points out the donor list.
Or that their political director worked his entire career for the “No Labels” clowns.
Their point is to basically narrow the political spectrum from Moderate Republican to Nazi.
Biden looks like a commie next to them.
Eduardo
@Gloria DryGarden: wow thank you — just reading the Wikipedia article below almost moved me to tears
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_(2014_film)
kwAwk
My thoughts for today start with how funny it is that despite Elon Musk fancying himself to be one of the smartest people in the world obviously fell hook, line and sinker for Republicans big lies. He obviously believed that Republicans believe cutting the deficit and wanting smarter responsible government. Nothing could be further from the truth. Republicans love the deficit. Their whole belief system is based upon convincing people that government is inherently inept and corrupt and wanting to strip away people’s trust in the government’s ability to solve problems and be relied upon. A government that is efficient and has a balanced budget or a budget that is in control, makes convincing people that government is inherently corrupt difficult to impossible. Republicans love the deficit and any sane examination of the evidence shows they have been cultivating the deficit since W.
This is a rhetorical fallacy I’ll call a Steel Man argument though I’m sure someone has put a name to it before. A Steel Man argument is one where you put forward an argument that at face value is almost impossible to defeat to deflect from the much weaker argument you’re really trying win. This is why Republicans always campaign on combating waste, fraud and abuse. No reasonable person is for waste fraud and abuse. Combating waste, fraud and abuse is an instant winner. But it’s obvious that the real goal of the right isn’t to combat WF&A it’s to gut the social safety net and to gut the government entirely. These aims aren’t as easy a sell.
Nobody is in favor of the free flow of fentanyl or violent criminals across the border to the country. So when Republicans say they’ll fight these things it is a Steel Man Argument. Surely, it you were in favor of securing the border, you’d have supported the border security bills put forward by W, Obama or Biden. They may have been flawed but each was a step in the right direction. However, if you’re real position was based upon stopping white replacement, and reversing the immigration trends of the past 40 years, then opposing these bills makes sense as the bills didn’t require repatriation of all those who came here illegally.
BTW. Something liberals could do to tamp down some of the bullshit surrounding the immigration issue is enforce upon the national dialogue that Hispanic is not a race, it is a culture. Hispanics can be white, black, Native American, or any mixture there of, but Hispanic itself is not a race. And honestly, if you don’t speak Spanish and don’t celebrate Spanish holidays and traditions, you’re not Hispanic just because your last name is Gomez. Your ancestors were Hispanic. This isn’t a racist tirade against Hispanics either. If I went into a pub in Edinburgh and claimed to be Scottish they’d laugh me out of the joint. I don’t know the language or the culture.
Harrison Wesley
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: That “WelcomeFest” name made me think of the MC’s greeting to the audience at the beginning of Cabaret.
Sister Golden Bear
Went to two local Pride celebrations yesterday. One was quite small — more like a half-dozen community org booths in a neighbor park — and lightly attended, but it was the spirit that counted. The other, a first for that city, was much bigger and better attended. While there wasn’t an official Free Mom Hugs delegation at either, I wore my FMH t-shirt just to show the flag anyway, and ended up being asked for—and giving—several mom hugs to attendees.
Sadly, there was homophobic hate crime at a nearby Pride event on Wednesday night, where two 13-years-old threw fireworks into the crowd, causing minor injuries. On Thursday, three children between 8 and 12, severely injured a 23-year-old trans woman in acid attack while she was on her way to a Pride event in West Philly. This is how pervasive the hate has become.
Sister Golden Bear
Also too, highly recommend reading JoeMyGod’s essay about the meaning and importance of Pride.
kwAwk
Another way of looking at our political dialogue in this country is one side is trying to cultivate a garden while the other is trying to plant a meadow. One side is trying to maintain the garden we’ve built over the past 90 years while the other is planting weeds and then declaring that gardening doesn’t work, because look at all the weeds.
Gardens are better at feeding people than meadows.
Kim Walker
So these Welcomefest abundance people are more like a bund.
Ruckus
@Matt McIrvin:
My sister was gay. (She passed some years ago) Came out a long, long time ago. I’ve met a lot of her friends over the years and it finished opening up something for me I didn’t even know was closed. For anyone that doesn’t know, there really isn’t all that much different between gay and not so much. Both can have partners, friends, jobs, they eat, sleep and poop just like the rest of us. My sister was an award wining landscape designer, which her gayness had zero to do with. Over the years I met a lot of her friends, and the reality is that they were ALL HUMANS. They worked in a wide variety of jobs and no one knew they were gay unless they told or showed them. They are humans. Now some think they are bad because they are different. What made those that questioned them bad was that, the thinking that no one can be different. Which of course makes zero sense as we are all different in many ways. And all the same in that we are human. Well most of us anyway. And all of this led to a question that I’ve not seen an answer to for well over half a century.
How are they hurting anyone? Now their relationships can go bad, but then that is humanity. I mean how many male/female relationships have any of us known that went bad/ended? I’ve known of far more than any of the gay relationships I’ve seen. And I’ve known more than a few of those in all those decades. They are human, and just like a lot of other differences we all have, they have their share. One thing that seems different to me was that because they are outside the “norm,” they do like a lot of other minority groups, they hang out with their own. And that is because humans can be extremely cruel to anyone that doesn’t meet their standards of behavior – which as a prior mental health counselor, I’ve seen as a huge detriment in humanity, the need to reenforce the concept that we ALL have to follow the exact same guidelines of being human. Which, if we actually look at history has been one of the prime generators of war over the centuries. The concept that we all have to follow very narrow guidelines of being human. And I ask why? We don’t look the same, some of us have more melatonin than others, while we all have some. And on and on and on….. We fit into groups, which we as humans often rate as one over the other, for nothing more than asinine reasoning. WE ARE ALL HUMANS. Now some have worse behavior that doesn’t help anyone, but that doesn’t make them better in any way shape or form. Some are weak, some are strong (and often far stronger than any current need…) but we are ALL human. Some are just better at it than others. And some are far worse. It’s humanity.
Ruckus
@Baud
Some people want to be manipulated.
They often don’t know any better, maybe have never really been in charge of their own lives. It happens – control is a side of some of humanity. It sometimes is necessary – it often isn’t or is carried too far.
Ruckus
@Sister Golden Bear:
That hate has ALWAYS been there, it’s just more out in the open now. With the gain in population, there will be a gain in the number of gay humans. I’d bet the percentage is about the same, maybe a slight uptick because as more come out, more get to ask themselves the question. But with more communications – such as we are doing here, we all get to see that this is not an uncommon part of life. But it also shows up to those that always ask themselves the asinine question of “How can I be normal if there are so many sides to normal? Therefore I have to remove, at least hurt those that aren’t “normal.”
But it’s humanity, and it has far more sides and points of view than many can accept. We are often taught that there are two sides to humanity, and on an extremely basic level that’s true. On a reality level, nothing can be further from the truth.
schrodingers_cat
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: I hate these fucks, and Berners as well. Its all a bunch of privileged white dudes saying pay attention to me.
Darkrose
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: I agree—he would look good!
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Sister Golden Bear: thank you. Great comment.
Gloria DryGarden
@kwAwk: I don’t understand your metaphor. confusing.
Bison thrive on prairie. Meadow isn’t necessarily weeds.
also, the meadow has more medicinal plants. It used to be the purpose of a green/ lawn.
which side is which in your metaphor?
.
Gloria DryGarden
@Eduardo: Wales.
you’re gonna love the movie. Andrew scott. Bill nighy, Imelda Staunton. Paddy considine. Andrew scott, I adore him in anything. And, the story..
Gloria DryGarden
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: could be miserable, no benefits, no ties to the company, no consistent camaraderie or community, very isolating ( imagine, plus being an immigrant)
but they work hard. Very hard. Sometimes they have jobs de lunes a Domingo, Monday to Sunday.
super good point, they’re being pickeD up from jobs. Or from immigration court. Working, complying with the system, going through the process, honoring it.
the ice thing, it is without honor. It is a breaking of honor.
Matt McIrvin
@Ruckus: I’ve got a huge number of family and friends and acquaintances and coworkers who are in some way LGBTQ+. But even if I didn’t, I think I’d be on their side right now just on “liberty and justice for all” grounds. It’s abundantly clear there are a lot of people in this country with a really twisted view of what that means– for them it’s all about who gets to oppress who and they can’t conceive of anything else.
kwAwk
@Gloria DryGarden: Meadow grass in a garden is weeds except planted for specific effect in a flower garden.
Humans are not bison and can not survive by eating meadow grass.
The metaphor was an illustration of two different philosophies, a vegetable garden is purposefully cultivated by human hands to provide food and such for human consumption. A meadow by contrast is not a designed ecosystem, rather it is what happens when nature is left alone.
A garden or even a tilled and cultivated field will provide more food fit for human consumption than a meadow.
Darkrose
@Sister Golden Bear: Thank you for sharing this. We’re here, we’re trans and queer, and we’re not going anywhere. Let’s dance, indeed.