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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I thought there would be more intensity. But I argue with the guy in the black fedora, when you have girls, why would you want to leave.
Grin – back when my kid was in middleschool, the D&D club didn’t want her to join for some reason. She mentioned this to the gamers at the next con she attended. The universal reaction of the male gamers present “Are they NUTS?”
You guys wanna join Bork Con staff?
We’ve got HATS.
you only really need to run screaming from con staff when the con is only just around the corner. mine cruise parties and uni halls like old-timey royal navy officers trying to impress unsuspecting (and us suspecting) hapless souls.
Interested in the third guy… because he seems to have a clue, and moreso as looks kinda familiar…
I literally tried to make those three look like the most stereotypical three geek dudes I could think of.
I definitely see elements of myself in all three.
*shudder*
My jeans are black and I currently have a mustache. Elsewise, is like you worked off a picture. Guess I fit the ‘generic geek’ look. XD