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@pell.portland.or.us

Old trans chick from Cascadia. Ex-t.b, ex-soc.motss, ex-programmer, admitted bicycle framebuilder, actual socialist. she/her

Ancestors, looking down: Our exalted daughter sleeps among the clouds! Her palace towers over that of the gods! Me, trying to charge my phone in a 17th floor hotel room: ugh only one of the 6 outlets next to the bed works for my charger ugh fuck ugh FUCK

How do we get the media and the American people to understand that the only difference between surveillance and stalking is who is doing it and also understand that regardless both are doing it to coerce, control, threaten, and manipulate you.

A core reason why you need to enforce anti-corruption rules at the top of government is because they set the tone for everyone else. If the leaders of the federal government are blatantly, wildly corrupt, everybody else looks at that and goes “so why should I follow the rules of they don’t?”

Mardoch@mardoch.bsky.social · 5d ago

ethics rules for my wife, a community college teacher: ironclad. strictly enforced ethics rules for government: what? lol makes me the joker every time she tells me about turning away a thankful/appreciative student gift because hey, that's quite against the law!

You know That Guy on here? You know the one - look, his deal is that he's loud, he's clever, and he's persistent. I'm not sure he's as smart as he thinks he is. I definitely don't think he's as well-adjusted as he thinks he is. Those aren't crimes, and responding to him with literal crimes is *bad*

Stop telling people to remain peaceful when they are being killed. Stop telling people to comply with law-enforcement when they are being killed. Stop telling people that nonviolent solutions are the only option when they are being killed. That ship has sailed to the great beyond

As a teacher I have skin in this game, but from my experience, an extended break is actually beneficial. (We should have more of them in every profession.) Let's not contort childhood to replicate the misery of adulthood.