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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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I’ve become very endeared to Ruth’s perch on the bins at every con she works.
Part of me wants to know where they get such durable bins. A different part acknowledges that Ruth is a heck of a lot lighter than I am.
You can get bins strong enough for oversized people to sit on, we had them. They’re expensive though. Those bins in the comic are pretty big if you look at how high two of them stack and how long they are as compared to people’s legs, so they could be industrial versions.
I have bins that can support my weight.
I weigh 300lbs.
Ruth is significantly less than half of that. 😛
You lucky, lucky bastard. All the ones I could ever find for sane amounts of money would maybe stand a couple other bins on them, if they were full so the lid couldn’t flex at all. At that, they had to be not full of insanely heavy shiat like books. Bah. Development in technology is a good thing, but from time to time it creates a, “Dammit, why couldn’t I have that stuff back in the day?? “/ ” reaction.
I’ve had some of these bins for decades…
Are you sure you’re not just cheap? 😛
Man I hope this is not all foreshadowing.
I just never found any that weren’t either too lightweight to handle heavy stacking, or too heavy material-wise – they added a lot to the overall weight. Apparently, I stopped looking way too soon. I think the problem may not be so much that I’m cheap as I’m easily discouraged. Shoulda kept looking it seems. So umm – you… not so easily discouraged bastard!