let me know if you find any countries who will take us in please.

it makes you a harder target. think of the SovCit and cult groups that squatted on Federal land for years. the government popped a couple (Waco and Ruby Ridge) but in others (e.g. the Bundy standoff, Malheur) the fringe groups were somewhat successful. sure, maybe in part because they were white male conservatives, but I think also because the government knew it’d be a bloody mess, and likely cause them casualties too. most cops are cowards. will they risk life and limb to bag a trans person?

basically, the goal is just to make it hard to round us up, not impossible. it’s harder to sweep us up if we’re strapped.

the brain worm was Substance D all along…

rare NRA W, imo.

I think this kills it. NRA is one of the sacred cows of the Republican party, they don’t dare defy them.

I’m holographic 🤗

oh absolutely. I’ll take a full gun safety class and practice target shooting at the range.

we’re not all network engineers! there’s also uh… rust and haskell programmers, reverse engineers, hardware engineers, category theorists and topologists, uh… biochemists and physicists probably?

also there’s not like, loads of trans people. that’s why we’re so easy to attack.

we’re a good deal, if anyone wants to take us. a lot of us are reeeaaallyy good at science, math and programming. like the Jews fleeing Nazi Germany were pretty great for the countries who took them in as refugees.

watch the Court decide that the history-and-tradition framework justifies restricting guns from seditious groups, citing slave rebellion laws as precedent, while ruling that discriminating against trans people satisfies strict scrutiny. 6-3, with Alito writing for the Majority.

we’re so fucking cooked.

hugs from a fellow trans woman. <3

this sucks. living with transphobia and dysphoria sucks. I can’t promise it’ll get better. hold your community tight, help them and let them help you. we’re all we’ve got.

welp, that tears it. time to buy my first gun, while I still can. I’m not a big fan of guns but fuck if I’m going to let myself and my community be disarmed by the fascists. I’m not going quietly if they send us to the camps.

oof.

(I say, as though I don’t use my phone 4x more than my laptop, which is honestly a bad habit I need to break because programming on phone suuucks.)

curl | bash for the Windows crowd.

honestly it’s exactly as secure as running a binary you downloaded from their website. no more, no less (since https.)

the only computer user?!

whoa, an actually well-researched r/conspiracy post. like, incredibly well done.

I would have applauded!

right you are, I confused my Times columnists!

I ran across the Good Work skit about it first and thought it was taken out of context. nope… dude was dead serious.

remember when he struggled to say that he supported the survival of the human race? it was during that Ezra Klein interview.

i did not!! thanks for link!