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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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the friendzone does exist Trae. You said so in your nerd dating panel. Plus I can prove it exists.
Actually, I used to quite specifically say the friendzone ISN’T real in that panel. Clearly you weren’t listening.
Because if you’re hanging out with someone just because you want to sleep with them, you aren’t really their friend. I could go on about this for paragraphs about emotional manipulation and passive aggressive behavior, but all of that is moot in this case.
Because Ruth hates Harry, making his use of the term not really work on any level in the first place.
Thank you, Trae, for your comments there. I find the entire concept of the “friendzone” to be offensive. I exist as a person, not a sexbot. Heck, I’m asexual to start with!
…then you have more in common with Ruth than you know.
I think the FriendZone exists, but is far far less common than popular media thinks. For the reasons already mentioned.
Regardless, the term does -not- apply here… he seemed like a potentially smart guy just a little while ago.
The friendzone doesn’t exist the way most people who say that term mean.
As for Harry, this is the first time we’ve seen him without Jerry keeping him in check.
I want to cosplay as Harry!
…actually, I just want a shirt like that.
Closest I can find : http://www.cafepress.com/mf/68333456/star-trek-terran-empire-logo_tshirt?productId=651149063
(Here’s another one that’s pretty close, although it uses the Enterprise era Terran Empire logo instead of the TOS era Terran empire logo: http://www.cafepress.com/mf/88121453/star-trek-mirror-universe-emblem-black_tshirt
Thanks, Trae!
(After he went through the trouble of finding those links, I don’t have the heart to tell him I meant the other shirt? What’s the term? Overshirt? Flaming Hawaiian shirt? Alohaaaah Eruption! shirt?)
Wasn’t so much “trouble” as “five seconds on google” 😛
Hmmm… the overshirt.
Y’know, I just went to google because I assumed it would be easy to find a similar orangish-red bowling shirt with flames on it… but wow. I haven’t found anything similar so far.
Closest I could find;
http://www.southwestbowl.com/RagingFire.htm