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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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Artist Alley Table Rule #17: You will always get busiest exactly when you really need to be something else.
Rule #17-A: Acting busy to deliberately invoke this rule doesn’t work
Rule 17-b; The number of people coming to the table will be directly proportional to the need that one has to go to the rest room. The more you gotta go, the more people show up at your table.
Rule-17-b-2: Again, trying to use this deliberately doesn’t work.
Rule 17-b-3: You’ll stop being busy if you start peeing on people.
Mostly because you’ll get arrested.
But sometimes you do what you need to.
I feel there’s yet another layer for people who won’t go away when peed upon, but I don’t want to think about it too much…
Thats rule 34
She said the thing…
Even when i worked retail we knew better then to say the thing (was a joke at first but we quickly learned better) and id warn every new hire they always laughed…they learned
As a Dealer, I’ve long known that the best-ever “Summon Customers” Spell is to dash off to the restroom when the Dealers’ Room has been *dead* for ages. There’ll be at least half a dozen impatient folks clustered in your booth by the time you get back… :-}