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Tomorrow, April 1st 2025, we have a massively important State Supreme Court election here in the state of Wisconsin. It will decide the balance of the state supreme court, and it's vitally important that we get Susan Crawford elected. Elon Musk has literally poured millions of dollars into Brad Schimel's campaign, and we are fighting for our lives here. I've already voted, and if you haven't yet and you live here... make sure you do.
But no matter what happens tomorrow, no matter what the result is, the fight is far from over. ICE agents are grabbing people off the streets, our public institutions are being systematically destroyed, and our international and diplomatic relations with historically close allies are just, honestly, fucked right now. Today is Trans Day of Visibility, and trans and queer rights have been under steady attack by the right. As a nonbinary person and member of the trans community, I'm genuinely scared for a lot of my friends right now.
But we fight. We stand up. We survive.
If we accept defeat, we are handing victory to those who want us dead. By living and fighting, we carry on to the next day and then the day after that. I know I posted it right after the election last November, but there's a pretty famous Joe Hill quote everyone should keep in mind: "Don't waste any time mourning. Organize!"
Go out, hug your friends. Build a local community if you can, and get involved in your local politics. Make sure you call your Reps and Senators every day if you can, and for pete's sake fucking vote.
We can make it as long as we don't stop fighting.
Remember that on April 5th at 11AM Eastern/10AM Central you can join me for the Critical Thinking Witches' Collective's April Brew virtual event! Attendance is free, and you can register here!
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Nah, he just came across as a straight asshole to me. And if I recall right, he did refer to Lynn as “someone in charge” the first time we saw him when she brought those security guards along. My guess is some people thought the “someone in charge” line referred to hotel security, rather than Lynn.
And in this case, he does say “him or her” when he asks for the person in charge, instead of assuming the person is male.
I actually didn’t get that with this guy. I mean, you laid it on thick with the autistic kid last arc, but this guy’s straight out of the dealer’s room. Having had to deal with four or five guys like this, you realize it’s not about you at all. He’s just a nutter with an axe to grind.
“Autistic kid?”
None of the antagonists you could be referring to were intended to be anything other than neurotypical. Maggie, the (I guess now former) VGR head for Bork Con is the only character intentionally canonically written to be on the spectrum.
If it was meant as an insult, that has to stop.
Hey, thank you for this!
Love the chair’s (?) response, calmly call his bluff.
Heck, at this point in the con, offer to give him his table money back if he has to vacate the table. There would be another local artist who would love to fill in a last minute spot.
Might not be a back up depending on the size of the Con, but certainly an option to look into. Worse to worse, blank spots happen, someone can’t show up last minute, or can’t show until late.
We can regularly fill our Dealers Room vacancies with ready locals and/or Artists Alley people, or let people with a half-table expand into the space. Half-priced tables or upgrades go far to filling space.
Will we find out what this dude’s actual problem is or will it be like Terrence (?) where he’s a jerk who’s just a jerk?
Do love that the chair called his bluff. Will remember that in the future 🙂
I suspect that he’s the way he is because his methods tend to work.
…or at least they used to…
Ruth may have competition…
Twits happen – and when they volunteer to go away, by all means wave byebye! 🙂