🐈 @lieke@witches.town

POC - especially WOC and I see this happen a lot to Black and Indigenous women in particular - get told off for being "too political" just for talking about _the reality of their lives_. And now you want us to put such talk behind a content warning like it's a trigger? Do you know how often us talking about race gets fought back by White people as "omg you talking about racism is too triggering" as though racism doesn't affect OUR mental health? What's the cultural expectation here, geez!

Reminder: Socialism and communism necessarily fail unless they're implemented in a stateless society. In a society with states and nations, unless everyone involved is a perfect citizen, socialism and communism inevitably produce dictatorships that claim to be socialist/communist while continuing the exploitation of labor they claim to abhor.

#Linguistics Eventually, in the 13th century or whatever, someone invented a smaller canon that you could carry. They called it a hand cannon or, colloquially, a hand Guna. This is why we call firearms "gun".

So this one Danish immediate family's names are the origin of two words for technologies that are hallmarks of modern technology: the gun and Bluetooth.

Language is weird.

#Linguistics You know how sometimes we name weapons after women? Like we might paint "Big Bertha" on the side of a giant fuckoff artillery deal mounted on a naval ship?

Well when cannons were newish they did this, too. There was one particular canon that was famous because it was so big and the folks that owned it had named it Queen Gunhilde. So there was a lot of copy catting of that name. And this common name for cannons eventually got shortened to just Guna. +

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J'ai fait un petit dessin. Grosse débutante mais me suis bien amusée.

"make antifa sexy again"

how about we stop sexualising absolutely everything like commodities to be sold 🤔

I'm such a good pillow

I have a crush on every girl. Yes, this means you. you're all cute and great. 💖

Some of them want to boop you
Some of them want to get booped by you
Some of them want to mew at you
Some of them want to be mieuwed
Toot Cats are made of this
Who am I to disagree?

Freundliche Erinnerung: Es gibt die Begriffe Homofeindlichkeit, Transmisogynie, Diskriminierung, Hass, transfeindliche Gewalt, Heteronormativität, Intersexismus, Queerfeindlichkeit, erasure und Unterdrückung.
Es "Phobie" zu nennen verharmlost das Problem, verschiebt die Verantwortung, und diskriminiert Menschen mit Angststörungen.

Warum eins nie um eine Meinung bitten soll: "Mach das nicht, das steht dir vielleicht nicht!".

Warum eigentlich? Wer hat das zu entscheiden, was wem "steht"? Das Konzept is scheiße. Gehts doch nur um normschön sein. Wenn ich mir den Pony kurz und mit Ecken abschnippseln will, dann why not? Wenn ich mir knallgrünen Lippenstift aufmalen will, why the fuck not?
Ich bin echt nicht der Typ für solche Konzepte und halte nichts davon.

Mastodon is clearly not an American thing.

Help

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#cutewitches

please, if someone "comes out" to you, especially if you're not lgbt+, don't react by saying "oh I knew it :)"

it may seem like nothing but it is deeply unsettling to hear something like "yeah it shows and if I could know without you saying anything others can too, and those others may be really bad news"

so please don't say that "you knew"

your intention may be "don't worry it won't change anything since I knew after all"
but it is scary
or it can be scary

there are other ways to show your support
"I'm glad you told me" for example

hello any new witches! remember to #acab 🏴♥

Self-care isn't selfish.

Awww, just look at my adorkable baby.

In related news, getting cats to sit still for close-up pics is hard.

Waiting for me to get up and open the window.

[Picture of a grey cat resting on a box, eyes almost closed]

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