Kit Malone

Feral | Wartime Consigliere | Rouser of Rabble

#TransRightsNow #INLegis #StopTheBans #BlackLivesMatter #Hoosier #LGBTQ #NotOneMore #Trans

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2024-09-20 15:25:14

Last night I sat through a breakdown of a study of women voters where the speaker (who had a lot of really awesome insights, otherwise) kept referring to the set as "self-identified women."
Can we just stop using constructions such as "identifies as" or "self-identified" when we're talking about women?
Trans women are women, and to me those constructions always feel like a covert way of making our womanhood sound sketchy and inauthentic.

2024-09-20 12:55:20

Lord knows we are all excited for another chance to dunk on #MarkRobinson but I am *once* *again* reminding cisgender liberals that transphobic jokes are still transphobic even when they are made at the expense of another transphobe.
Please stop using our people as props for your boring, predictable sex jokes.
#trans
/1

2024-09-11 02:42:12

Concepts of plans
Spheres of terror
We're going to get some mileage out of these
#debate

2024-09-11 02:30:00

Yeah teach I've got like, concepts of plans and shit
#debate

2024-09-11 01:43:55

"she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison"
You
All
#debate

2024-09-05 18:06:20

Fedi isn't perfect, and I'm often highly critical of it and sarcastic about its users.
But for all of its flaws, I don't feel like I'm being owned by anyone when I use it and that's a big deal to me.

2024-09-03 12:16:38

It's kinda shocking how many people think social media is a good place to "debate the issues."
My guy, when I want to debate the issues I'll do it with one of my many smart friends and associates who I know are well informed people of goodwill. Not with @novax77655@trollfarm.rus or whatever the fuck.

2024-09-02 23:41:45

@npub1ku8…mdzp arranged a little bit of cake from our wedding baker and a nice little blanket in the park to eat it on. "Happy First of Forever" ❤️💕😍
https://cdn.masto.host/hoosiersocial/media_attachments/files/113/070/591/724/344/978/original/5f15ae04bc1c264e.jpg

2024-08-25 13:01:14

#20books that have had an impact on who I am. 1 a day for 20 days. No explanations, reviews, just the #book covers.
11/20
#bookstodon
#20books20days
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2024-08-20 12:30:52

20 books that have had an impact on who I am. 1 a day for 20 days. No explanations, reviews, just the covers.
7/20
#bookstodon
#20books20days
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2024-08-17 23:31:56

Whenever he makes that claim that he's the most persecuted elected official in history I think about how Senator Charles Sumner was caned on the Senate floor for being an abolitionist in 1856.

2024-08-15 20:15:30

Are you from #Indiana? Have you ever worked as a poll worker in an election?
Hit me up via DM. I may have a couple questions for you for a project I'm working on.
#HoosierMast

2024-08-08 21:16:22

tbh most mastodonians super need a character limit even if they don't know it

2024-08-04 00:54:18

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Adding on to say that a lot of readers here are getting hung up on the "first they came for" thing and honestly that old saw couldn't be further from the point here.
The point is that the post-2015 wave of anti trans activism is artificial and is far more about mobilizing suckers to build political power and then wealth than it is about any reasoned, legitimate position.

2024-08-03 17:47:51

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They'll keep doing this. They'll keep moving down the line to whatever group is viewed with some amount of suspicion and they'll use it to campaign on, build power, get folks elected and ultimately do whatever it is they already planned to do to enrich themselves.
... most of which has nothing to do with trans people, gay people, immigrants, black people, or whatever other group they've decided the polling data will allow them to gin up a moral panic about.
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2024-08-03 17:46:12

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They attempted this strategy around gay marriage - that's why you started seeing marriage bans crop up in states that had never even had legal gay marriage or even a public debate about it.
Marriage backfired on them, but polling data in like 2015 found that trans people where widely viewed with suspicion so out came the bathroom bans and that had some legs and gave them a start.
/2

2024-08-03 17:42:08

It's important to understand that the widespread anti-trans hatred you see today isn't organic.
It's the result of a calculated, well-funded campaign that capitalizes on biases to galvanize political supporters to build power and wealth.
People made jokes about us in the 70s, but they didn't run campaigns. That's new. And it's a political strategy.
Every anti-trans talking point you've ever heard - including the sports shit - was dreamt up by messaging experts in a board room somewhere.
/1

2024-08-01 19:45:18

After a weeks of writing, button-punching and mousy-clicking I'm proud to announce the launch of my monthly email newsletter: MUSE
MUSE is free and publishes every first Monday of the month. It features a rundown of stories I'm following, actions and events that can level-up your activism, and informal commentary from yours truly.
If you are one of the many amazing people who have supported my work in the past -- I'd love to have your subscription!
https://kitmalone.com/subscribe/
#HoosierMast

2024-07-21 21:45:43

Basically anyone in the media at this moment who is like "Obama/Pelosi/Whoever didn't immediately post a selfie with Harris and that is evidence they aren't getting behind her" is super sus, and possibly has bad intentions.

2024-07-18 22:36:02

I know this is the most Mastodon toot I could possibly toot but I was stuck w/ Windows for some complicated reasons that aren't true anymore and after Copilot appeared on my computer without my permission I just threw up my hands and put Debian/xfce on my mediocre VivoBook and holy cow it is so unbelievably fast and basically everything Just Worked fine and all that old Windows data is still there and like SO easy to migrate.

2024-07-16 22:31:41

My mentor always had a sign on the wall behind her desk that said "My strategic plan is to get shit done."
I love that.
It's possible to go too far in either direction - but I think of that sign often these days.
To me it's a reminder that high and mighty principles are worthless if you aren't willing to get the kind of messy it takes to get anything of value done.

2024-07-15 23:57:32

It is not inflammatory to point out that the RNC agenda *is* political violence.

2024-06-29 00:06:33

The fact is that most of the people you are yelling at on Masto probably were going to vote blue no matter what they tooted out today or any other day and the only thing you are accomplishing by wagging your finger at them is to drive away a whole host of frightened, vulnerable, poor and not terribly plugged-in people who see that kinda stuff and just have their suspicion confirmed that they aren't welcome and that your movement isn't meant for them.

2024-06-28 23:58:56

A very close and very wise friend texted during the debate and said:
"...every single question, they answer about the past. They talk about the past. We are trapped cannibalizing our polarized perceptions of the recent past and we can't even imagine a future. That's Trump. This will never be over while we are stuck here with him."
And I'm thinking about that a lot today.

2024-06-28 23:10:25

THREAD.
Ok. I've unfollowed a few people. Let me be explicit.
I'm a blue voter. I actually work as a policy expert for a voter rights/democracy org and I'm heavily engaged in GOTV work. I personally devise and advocate for pro-democracy policy in our state legislature. I sit on the largest democracy defense coalition in the state.
I'm also trans, and I am very clear about what it would mean for me and my family if the U.S. falls into the grip of an authoritarian ruler like Trump.
/1

2024-06-28 12:34:48

My husband and I are trans. My family is full of queer people.
Trump has explicitly and repeatedly promised to use the apparatus of the federal government to go after families like ours.
He'll be aided by a state government in #Indiana that has shown that it has the appetite to help.
My family is so terrified right now. We're making plans in case we have to flee to someplace safer.

2024-05-25 20:51:07

America had its first black president and then went through a pandemic where citizens were asked to make some sacrifices to save their neighbors' lives and that was enough to make a significant number of Americans give up on this whole democracy thing and turn fascist.
Like, in retrospect it's not surprising at all but it's still a shocker.

2024-04-25 13:46:30

Never in the history of ever has the phrase "quell student protests" indicated a growing societal reverence for democracy and civil rights.

2024-03-27 17:15:19

The Campaign Legal Center is hosting a great panel on protecting #election workers from threats and harassment! You should join!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b9p3rfOUPo

2024-03-08 00:22:34

I just fixed my dishwasher's top rack with zip ties and I need someone to be amazed at my genius

2024-02-08 00:56:59

Ghosts are always, like, people. Nobody is ever channeling the spirit of a velociraptor who died in what is now someone's house

2024-02-03 18:09:35

It feels like everyone is dancing around the fact that the Vision Pro looks stupid and ugly.

2023-12-30 12:19:51

An antifascist IT collective that doesn't focus on ops but just helps local grassroots groups set up boring old web services and provides ongoing technical support

2023-12-23 16:44:47

Why does every single Ramones song seem Christmas music?

2023-12-21 19:51:10

It's Thursday, but it's my Eternal Friday and I'm spending tomorrow doing fun holiday shit with my family instead of looking at my phone. SO! #FollowFriday is coming early. This edition:
@npub1e3l…43lg -- politics, snark, fun. My favorite combo. Go follow her.
@npub1v2s…mqq5 - approachable, very timely political commentary. Rapidly becoming a fedi go-to for me on SCOTUS stuff.

2023-12-20 22:42:29

It's really annoying that, when I see an obscure but suspicious looking piece of possible misinformation being posted to social media often the only critical sources I can find are behind paywalls. The misinformation pieces are themselves inevitably free.

2023-12-01 00:59:45

You'd think this guy would get tired of coming out looking like such a pathetic goober all the time.
"In June, U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady sharply criticized the lawsuit, saying the AG's one-sentence thesis statement was "stretched into a work longer than Kafka's The Metamorphosis." She added "more than 90% of the complaint was devoted to irrelevant posturing..."
😂😂😂
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2023/11/30/tiktok-lawsuit-indiana-judge-dismisses-todd-rokita-legal-challenge/71758726007/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

2023-10-27 12:43:51

I've been assaulted by Nazis twice at work. I've had Nazi guns trained on me at work. I've had my name, face, and place of employment shared by Proud Boys, who've shown up to find me. I get hate mail (not just email -- real letters) regularly wishing me death.
I don't think those facts make my positions more/less correct and I dislike how Extremely Online Activist Culture encourages folks to use Nazi Violence Bona Fides to sneer about someone else's ethical positions.

2023-10-26 16:18:52

What is it with people who just cocaine bear into the replies with insults out of nowhere?
I just don't really like "report" that stuff because I guess people should be free to be rude to strangers or whatever but damn it sure is an easy block.

2023-10-13 15:18:36

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@npub19fc…ay3c same as it ever was

2023-10-01 22:13:40

Listen I'm an avid user of FOSS but the know-how and confidence required to install, maintain, etc. is a privilege. Offering "just use Linux" blithely up every time someone complains about Windows or Apple or whatever the fuck is absolutely a weird and ugly display of nerd privilege.
Yes yes I know you don't need to be an alpha nerd to run Linux these days, but the disconnect between FOSS evangelists and most people's lived reality is pretty evident, particularly on the fediverse.

2023-09-29 22:50:04

It's an interesting feeling to happen upon a sidewalk party of cis people celebrating the opening of a business that will give them easy access to HRT in order to reduce the effects of aging during a moment in history in a state that is doing everything it can to prevent youth who will need it from ever getting old in the first place.
The music was thumping and the white wine was flowing.
https://cdn.masto.host/hoosiersocial/media_attachments/files/111/150/857/127/090/823/original/0fe44a710b339cc0.jpg

2023-09-29 12:55:38

#FediBlock
supernets.social
Users abusing LGBTQ mastodonians. The about page contains anti-LGBTQ slurs and doesn't conform to the masto covenant.
https://supernets.social/about

2023-09-20 17:53:17

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@npub1gg8…439g Not me! I'm def phoning it in.

2023-08-25 21:52:33

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 once, on a lark, I went to the Creation Museum thinking it would be good for laffs and instead this thought punched me in the stomach repeatedly the whole time.

2023-08-25 21:16:05

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@npub1ddp…2tax I never have a steady answer for those kinds of questions. Certainly his tone and phrasing will always be part the DNA of my playing. Like a lot of people who turned out to be assholes.

2023-08-25 20:32:00

I'm a guitarist, and I always admired Santana for his fierce dedication to making space for Latinx music in the mostly white-co-opted-blues-bro world of his era. And I absolutely love his playing. It breaks my heart that he has hatred for people like me, but that's the story of being #trans I'm afraid. Finding out your heroes hate you. I can hold those two truths quite well, as I have with so many people who were much closer to me.

2023-08-25 16:41:42

I call bullshit on "people don't want posts in languages they don't speak clogging up their timeline."
I think it's cool when I see people speaking other languages, because I like seeing people being people. I think being bothered by seeing other languages is extremely sus.
Translation tools aren't perfect, but are pretty good and it's fun to do And If someone is pushing a lot of content that I can't read out ... the mute button is literally right there.

2023-08-20 20:33:26

Everytime I do a captcha that requires me to identify things in a photo to prove I'm not a bot I can't help but feel like I'm also training a bot to help it prove that it is not a bot.

2023-08-17 16:41:39

The ban on #trans women in #chess is hitting me particularly hard.
I'm a chess enthusiast (in keeping with my careful curated rep as an expert strategist).
It's just this wtf moment that pulls the wind right out of my sails.
I know really well that lots of folks don't like us. But ... how are we ever gonna overcome a level of pure unhinged bigotry that says we can't be trusted play chess?
Obviously ALL women should be insulted by this move.

2023-08-17 12:38:06

Some days I truly believe we can make progress. That the world is full of good people. That we will eventually be able to live among them as true equals.
And some days I wake up to find that we've been banned from chess.
#trans

2023-08-16 13:23:43

We got a user report of some DM spam from mastodon.social today and suspended the account.
Remember, #HoosierSocial-ites, you can report offensive or spammy DMs and we will see those reports and take action. Thanks for remaining vigilant!
Live shot from my desk chair this morning:
https://cdn.masto.host/hoosiersocial/media_attachments/files/110/899/507/675/281/045/original/dd794bf892c6bdf0.jpeg

2023-08-13 05:33:51

I didn't know that I was capable of partying to this degree at my age but my bachelorette weekend has been epic and I've just had the most fun with my favorite women in the whole wide world!

2023-07-25 00:51:06

#degoogle update:
I spent three days installing #NextCloud on a VPS and all I have to show for myself is an entire personal cloud storage platform with photo management, contact and calender syncing across my devices, collaborative document editing, and a bunch of other rather cool doo-hickeys that I don't yet know what to do with.
Apparently it even does fedi stuff but I'm still understanding that.
Here's a breadcrumb trail I left, if anyone wants to follow:
https://vps.wadeandkit.com/index.php/s/NCkktYGZ5i7YdTf

2023-07-22 14:20:18

So I'm going to begin the likely to be quite long, multi step process of disentangling myself from Google. It's going to take me a really long time, I think. And I will likely have many questions for the nerds here but the first is:
What browser will offer me a similar experience to chrome (shared settings across laptops, tablets and my Android phone, etc.)?

2023-07-20 01:19:53

I often vibe more with liberal faith leaders than with other atheists. Tonight I finally realized why.
I was chatting over pie with the nice Episcopal minister who agreed to be the officiant at our wedding. He's consistently rolled hard with us fighting anti-LGBTQ legislation and has become a good friend.
We have in common a real deep love of community and a desire to be of service that is more interesting to me than the details of his belief system or my lack thereof.

2023-07-20 01:19:53

2023-07-17 19:56:08

Turns out planning your dream wedding is really fucking hard, people.

2023-07-12 18:22:16

I'm less interested in excoriating people on any side of the Great Threads Federation Debate than I am in investigating how we, as communities on the Fediverse, are working to make this place a viable option for people who rely on legacy platforms as part of their survival strategy.
I'll say one thing though - telling them they have to move based on an ivory-tower moral argument isn't going to put a penny in their pocket or find them a couch to sleep on.

2023-07-11 17:26:09

Because I'm a community organizer, I tend to think of every problem as something that can be solved by organizing people.
Here's the thing. I think I'm right about that.

2023-07-06 22:25:21

#LibsOfTickTock was on #Threads and actively harassing trans people within minutes of the launch.

2023-07-03 16:57:28

So - I know about the HRC's "Corporate Equality Index" ... but is there, anywhere, a resource for tracking businesses (small and large) who refuse to serve #LGBTQ people?

2023-06-30 20:03:28

Rage on.
It's important to rage.
I believe in leading with kindness. But the hardest and therefore most important part of kindness is allowing people to feel their feelings.
Rage can bolster us up and prod us to take action when we need to.
I don't believe in the sort of kindness that silences people who've been harmed. That strikes me as unkind in the extreme.

2023-06-29 19:27:08

How's that "perception of the legitimacy of the court" thing going for you, Mr. Roberts? #SCOTUS

2023-06-28 13:59:51

I like to think of tactics as a toolbox - some problems call for a wrench, some for a hammer.
Imagine saying "you must never use the wrench, the hammer is the only effective tool."
There are situations (like whether we tolerate Nazis) in which ONLY the hammer will work. There are also situations (like whether we find common ground with decent people who are imperfectly aligned with us) where only the wrench will work, and where the hammer will just break everything.

2023-06-23 23:31:13

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Check the public timelines on all the "free speech" instances. They aren't having convos about controversial concepts. They are posting racist memes and telling people to kill themselves for being gay.
Maybe it's not actually "free speech" that they are into?

2023-06-23 23:23:42

I'm a big believer in the first amendment but it is depressing how many people on the Internet think the height of #freespeech is getting to spit racial slurs in a house where nobody can ask them to leave.

2023-06-20 19:28:54

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If you tell people that your enemy is mutilating kids, it hardly matters if that's true or not.
A certain percentage of people are gonna believe you, and because they believe you -- a certain percentage of *them* are going to feel comfortable using any imaginable level of violence to stop what they think of as a credible threat.
When we talk about "stochastic terrorism" as one of the products of hate speech, this is what we mean.

2023-06-20 19:20:48

Smaller Pride events in #Indiana have always attracted some protest - typically local church folk who think they are out "preaching to the unsaved."
This year, they've gotten measurably darker. I'm hearing more slurs and threats.
Recently I worked a festival that was circled for hours by a man with AR-15
& full battle-rattle, calling us pedos and child mutilators.
This alarming escalation is due to increasingly vicious anti-#LGBTQ political posturing.
People are following their leaders.

2023-06-20 19:20:48

2023-06-16 10:46:21

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@npub1trd…ussx I'm not.

2023-06-15 12:02:43

"Don't like posts, boost them."
"Don't block people, it's antisocial."
Babies, use this service however you like and in ways that bring you and your friends the most joy and the best sense of safety. Hammer the like button if you want. Block whoever you feel like, for whatever reason you want.
You don't owe anybody else engagement in the form they might prefer - or at all.

2023-06-03 13:18:23

Turns out the existence of the First Amendment is going to continue to be a problem for the existence of these extraordinarily stupid #drag bans.
#LGBTQ
https://www.losangelesblade.com/2023/06/03/federal-judge-rules-tennessee-drag-ban-is-unconstitutional/

2023-05-27 12:24:36

"Just a day after #ElonMusk and David Sacks hosted #RonDeSantis on #Twitter for an exclusive and disastrous presidential announcement, the #Florida governor signed a bill shielding Musk’s #SpaceX from liability if workers are killed after his rockets blow up."
#Birdsite
https://newrepublic.com/post/173040/ron-desantis-signs-bill-protecting-elon-musk-rockets-explode-kill-workers

2023-05-25 13:17:32

#CaitlinBernard's hearing before the Indiana Medical Licensing board is starting now.
Updates in this thread. 🧵🧵🧵
#CaitlinBernard has been referred to the board by AG Todd Rokita as part of a blatantly publicity-driven persecution of Bernard for a lawful abortion she performed last year.
You can follow here:
https://www.youtube.com/@StateOfIndianaProductions
#INLegis #HoosierMast #Indiana #Abortion

2023-05-24 14:00:53

It's a genocide. Don't call it a "culture war." Or an "ideological difference."
The goal of eradication isn't even whispered anymore. It is regularly stated, loudly and proudly, by powerful mainstream conservatives.
Violent threats are being used, successfully, to intimidate institutions that support us into withdrawing that support.
They are successfully driving #trans people out of public life while folks soft pedal about terms and dismiss this as a fringy wedge issue.

2023-05-22 13:27:23

🧵 ALERT
As more and more states explicitly target #Pride celebrations with unconstitutional bans that also endanger the sponsorships that power most Pride orgs ... I want us to prove that #PrideIsAProtest isn't just empty rhetoric nowadays.
We must reinvigorate the spirit of #queer people in the 70s and 80s who faced similar repression and marched anyway.

2023-05-17 13:45:31

Last night I spoke to a group about the Indiana #SlateOfHate.
It was a lovely group, but I'm amazed at how insulated cis folks are. A few well-meaning questions along the lines of "is this really about hate or just lack of understanding?"
And my internal reaction is just shocked that cis folks either aren't aware that major political figures are now openly calling for the total eradication of people like me or else don't think that counts as hate.
#HoosierMast #Trans

2023-05-08 16:42:56

"The #Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Monday that an Indianapolis man accused of having a 'Glock switch' attached to his handgun was in possession of a machine gun, a decision that sets a precedent for how the courts will handle cases going forward when a person is accused of having the firearm accessories that are showing up more frequently at scenes of gun violence."
#HoosierMast #News #guns
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2023/05/08/indiana-appeals-court-decision-sets-precedent-for-glock-switch-cases-devun-york/70180058007/

2023-05-07 18:07:35

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@npub1fzm…w0hr thank you for the kindness but I love my current instance and its admin is really awesome and welcoming. The issue I experienced appears to be a structural problem with ActivityPub

2023-05-06 13:46:19

So like - what do you do when a user on an instance (noagendasocial.com) can see/interact with your content but you can't see/interact back?
This just happened and it was p alarming -- it turns out they are an actual nazi on an instance with a lotta nazi content.
I could see their replies to me on their instance page. They were unsearchable/unfindable/unblockable here AFAIK.
Do I just hafta deal with the occasional random unblockable nazi???
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Fediblock #Feditips

2023-03-08 12:37:58

Takes a drag on a death stick. "Yeah, I fought in the Gender Wars."