thomas @trappleton@wandering.shop

@trappleton new GMO mission, to introduce cobs into all types of food.

Men love hanging shit from their belts even though they're the ones allowed to have pockets

Every schlubby middle-aged white dude thinks he's a temporarily embarrassed batman

anyway the best case scenario is that when climate fuckery really kicks into high gear, all the billionaires will try and leave to build a perfect society on the moon and then all die horribly because Space Is Hard

dudes be podcastin'

From @cassidyjames in https://mastodon.social/@cassidyjames/102591605378315841
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This would have sounded like sci-fi conspiracy nonsense not that long ago, but: the US government has military spy balloons flying above my hometown, potentially watching and recording all vehicle movements. Umm, wtf?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest

- Some people put pronouns in their profiles.

- Some people get misgendered a lot when they don't put pronouns in their profile, and put pronouns in their profile so they get misgendered less.

- Some of those aforementioned people are trans people.

- Bigots like to pick out things that the subjects of their bigotry do as "weird" to justify their harassment and abuse.

- When cis members of a community put pronouns in their profiles, harassment for listing pronouns becomes less. Anti-trans bigots are more hesitant to do it because doing so feels less socially acceptable; pro-trans people are emboldened to speak out against any such harassment that does occur. Further, trans people feel safer putting pronouns in their profiles.

- Not every cis person is comfortable or safe putting pronouns in their profile. (Not every 'cis' person is cis.) For that matter, not every /trans/ person is comfortable or safe putting pronouns in their profile. For some people, it's a no-brainer to include them or not; for other people, it's a hard choice, and they're the only ones who can make that choice.

- We talk about putting pronouns in profiles because we want people who've never thought about it to realize that it's possible. We can't make a choice for them, but they can't make the choice if they don't know there's one to be made, or what they're choosing between ... so we talk about it.

the fediverse summed up