Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
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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Honestly I think a lot of cons want to do this…..But, but how will they take pre-reg, how will they take sign ups of any kind?
If they only do at-door, then they’ll make more money!
A friend of mine who also works in trucking told me this!
Google questionnaire.
Eventbrite and the like. It’s still a terrible idea.
You know, if they want to cut Lynn out of the equation then let them, Lynn don’t need to be part of their staff and she can watch them implode from the inside
I agree.
I mean, given how this con has been run so far this isn’t unusual, but shouldn’t cutting an entire department be discussed over more than one meeting? Especially if the head of the department isn’t even around to be consulted about it? Doing something this big this fast seems like an invitation to disaster.
That sounds like a great meeting to miss. One annoying drain on life energy cut loose in one swell foop.
I loved the rollover text!
ABORT ABORT ABORT ABORT