Subversive Soviet Squirrel @xmakina@mastodon.technology

Excellent background here:

https://jill.substack.com/p/the-racist-roots-of-the-anti-abortion

"But the religious right also needed a more respectable issue to hang their advocacy on. Yes, their most fervent adherents were angry about Black students mixing with white ones and getting to attend white schools, but as the 1970s and 80s chugged on, that was an increasingly unpopular position to take publicly.

'So how did evangelicals become interested in abortion?' Balmer writes. “As nearly as I can tell from my conversation with Weyrich, during a conference call with Falwell and other evangelicals strategizing about how to retain their tax exemptions, someone suggested that they might have the makings of a political movement and wondered what other issues would work for them. Several suggestions followed, and then a voice on the line said, ‘How about abortion?’”

Evangelicals were still angry they couldn’t racially segregate their institutions and still get tax breaks. But 'the right to segregate' no longer had the wide appeal it once did. 'The right to life,' though — that was a winner."

@InternetEh The broom is red and black, laying down refusing to do work. It seems like a political statement to me. :3

Threescore and two dicks ago, I fucked your dad so hard that the twin towers came crashing down

The Riddler's wacky scheme in "Batman Forever" (1995) - sell vast quantities of a consumer device that entertains its users but makes them dumber, while extracting vast amounts of information from them and using that to artificially boost his organization's intelligence - sure seems pretty silly and alarmist in retrospect now after 30 years of the egalitarian, wealth-levelling World Wide Web, doesn't it.

cat:

me: You are good at one thing, cute little kitty.

my partner: Being a pain in the ass?

me: Okay, TWO things.

cat:

what if hope isn't in space *or* off in the forest. what if hope being embodied by some Other Place is a necessarily colonial mindset. what if hope has to exist with what you can do where you are in order to even be hope.

Hi everyone, it's my birthday today!! & I've discovered a twitter pal who has a fundraiser for top surgery. If you could send over a few £ as a birthday present to me to help them on their way I'd love that so much 💜💜💜

https://gofund.me/5f612575

A cis friend in Scottand just phoned and reported they were walking with a cis mate when they unexpectedly saw a tiny terf protest in the city centre.
The terfs were not paying any attention at all to the banners they'd hung everywhere, so my friend quietly removed *all* of them and binned them except for one.

This is the kind of cis allyship I want to see more of in the world.

#startrek I think I finally understand why I love the Klingons so much. It's because they bring a space-operatic, mythic character to the franchise that it doesn't really get anywhere else. Klingon arcs are always about something fantastical, something legendary -- saving the Empire, resurrecting the dead Emperor, getting Jadzia into Sto'vo'kor, visiting Gre'thor. Big, theatrical, legendary stories is where they shine. They're right out of Shakespeare, who was, of course, Klingon.

graphic design is my passion #drinking #water #waterDrinkers

Have you considered, ork shaman riding a giant vulture?