timberwraith

Ideally, I'd be living in a mountain cabin on a remote planet with 10 cats, a raccoon, and a family of squirrels... but I’m stuck in this human city instead.

she/her • trans femme • bi • pagan
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2024-09-20 22:30:04

I've spent the last couple of days watching red squirrels chasing each other around the yard here at work.
I can't believe how much cuteness nature managed to squeeze into those little fur balls. 💕

2024-09-09 00:23:47

I'm looking at Republicans who are currently rejecting Trump very publicly in this election and I find myself thinking, "Look, you people who are rejecting this guy were yesteryear's favorite flavor among the white supremacist electorate. You enabled a decades long trajectory that lead us to Trump assuming office in the first place. It's nice that you woke the fuck up to how bad he is but you're also the architects of this mess. So, fuck you."

2024-09-03 21:23:55

As I think of all of the CEOs and all of the enablers in the tech world who decided to put AI into everything, I realize the meaning of "A.I." has changed.
"A.I." is really a tribute to the people who shoved plagiarizing, data corrupting software into everything.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/075/697/638/575/629/original/8e7f2e2fbd00c23a.jpg

2024-09-01 15:20:17

It really does seem like the Dems offer the same mass marketed McCandidate™ during every presidential election.
The packaging changes from time to time--a different sex or a different pigmentation of skin.
And people are understandably excited about what looks like a new product from the outside.
But it's the same processed, unhealthy ingredients as one might find in previous McCandidates™.
Because their corporate manufacturers like high profits on products made with low cost ingredients.

2024-09-01 14:39:42

I feel shittier about voting for H&W than I did voting for Obama at this point.
However, I'm more "wired in" regarding the news and current events than I was in 2008.
Although, I expected nothing more than a Clinton clone when I voted for Mr. O in 2008.
And well, that's what we got.
At this point, your choices in the electoral drive through are a McClinton or a McHitler.
It's indigestion either way.
But the latter greasy unhealthy menu option will probably put more people in the cemetery.

2024-09-01 13:24:53

I've now segregated off the few mainstream newspapers I follow into their own Mastodon list and out of my main feed. Half of what they post is sports related (ugh) and the remaining half is more useless fluff than actual news.

2024-08-28 02:47:45

I find each COVID surge to be a reminder of how incredibly stupid and socially dysfunctional our species is.

2024-08-25 19:06:23

OK, I never realized that Teen Vogue is way to the left of most mainstream publications.
Huh.
I guess I'll add them to the reading queue.

2024-08-10 18:38:04

If you haven't concluded that Israel is a racist violent country, forged by and entwined with mass oppression and genocide (not unlike the united states), you haven't been paying attention to current events for the past 75+ years.
Or perhaps, you think that sort of thing is an acceptable quality in a country.
And well, that just sort of speaks for itself I guess.

2024-08-07 18:22:27

I never watched Ted Lasso but I have a couple of cis friends who love the show who had been trying to get me interested in seeing it.
It's a show with sports at the center and I find sports to be generally alienating and boring. So, I never bothered with it, tbh.
However, I just learned that it has transphobic jokes in the show too.
I'm so glad that I never watched any episodes with them. Now I never will.
https://sakurajima.moe/@literalgrill/112921951102115767

2024-08-07 18:22:27

2024-08-04 22:20:34

At some point, I reached the conclusion that a large number of childhood bullies never outgrow their tendency to abuse others as adults.
They might grow quieter and more deceptive about their will to hurt others in adulthood but they also have an adult's access to resources that can inflict far greater suffering upon their chosen targets.
And the bullies still band together to gang up on others. We call those things political parties, the police, management, HOAs, etc...

2024-07-24 03:46:40

With the latest interview of Elon Musk expounding upon his deep hatred for trans people and his transgender daughter, I am looking at people who *still* frequent Twitter and I have this to say:
You're a bunch of assholes.
I'm not interested in half-assed excuses for supporting that horrible man via your patronage of his nazi platform.
Stop patronizing a social media site that Musk deliberately re-crafted to be an amplification system for bigotry and fascism.
LEAVE TWITTER

2024-07-23 14:12:30

As I came on shift yesterday, my coworker was expounding upon how disgusted she was that another coworker had used a bowl from the cupboard to provide water for her dog during an overnight shift.
She was so disgusted that she put the bowl next to the trashcan under the kitchen sink and freaked out when I went to pick it up.
I explained that the dishwasher gets so hot that it would be sanitized after a wash cycle.
She thought I was completely unhinged.

2024-07-17 16:24:47

I was taking another 9 mile meander around the wilder parts of west Minneapolis and I saw a delightful number of deer and rabbits.
I think deer and rabbits would make nice companions. I wonder if they'd mind if I moved in with them?
One day, I might not bother coming back from my walk and just spend the rest of my days living with other woodland mammals.
It seems like a sane response to... Well, everything right now.
This human thing is wearing a bit thin. Time to do something else.

2024-07-02 15:15:43

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@npub1nn8…8sed Oof. I'm sorry. 😞

2024-07-02 15:01:16

It's chilly and misty right now in the Twin Cities. I'm waiting for things to dry out so I can take a walk.
This has been one of the coolest, most wet early summers that I've experienced since moving to MN in 2008.
I feel kind of guilty because the rest of the world is on fire right now.

2024-06-29 23:10:30

As the human world grows more unhinged and edges toward losing its hinges altogether, years of nurturing the parts of myself that have never really felt human has become an exercise in maintaining my sanity.

2024-06-18 23:05:02

Some people on here seem to think that being condescending assholes to younger people will somehow provide the motivation to vote for a party full of condescending assholes who dismiss the concerns of younger people.
If you're actually trying to help, you're profoundly incompetent in your efforts.
But you're not really trying to help. It just feels good to act like an asshole to younger people.

2024-06-18 15:48:48

"Black Liberation and Palestinian Liberation Are Interconnected"
"We must come together to fight for justice at home and around the world, write Nina Turner and Rashida Tlaib."
By Nina Turner and Rashida Tlaib
Published in The Nation
June 17, 2024
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/nina-turner-rashida-tlaib-black-palestinian-liberation/

2024-06-18 12:08:17

I saw someone ask why people should bother turning off AI in their search engine's settings. There are at least two answers:
1) So you're less likely to get terrible, unreliable search results.
2) AI is consuming vast amounts of energy and is contributing toward accelerating climate collapse.
Don't support this mess.

2024-06-17 23:51:57

In the 1980s, there used to be a fundamentalist christian street preacher who would yell out sermons of condemnation and hate in the courtyard of Hornbake Library at the University of Maryland.
He was as bigoted and misogynistic as you might imagine. College was a pit of sin an evil and the preacher man was there to warn us all of eternal damnation and torture if we refused to live by the patriarchal fascism of his religion.

2024-06-17 23:42:42

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It doesn't pay well, though.

2024-06-17 23:41:41

I tried to be a well adjusted adult but it just didn't work out.
Then I took a close look at the people who society considers to be well adjusted adults.
And I decided that being a misfit was probably a more humane option.

2024-06-15 21:45:24

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In this example, women are an oppressed group, but are seen as better/superior to trans people, who are excluded from the cis sex/gender binary and are placed into a category of "other."
Cis women are therefor accorded justification and social approval in their oppression of trans people, another oppressed group who exist lower in the social hierarchy of ranked oppressions.

2024-06-15 21:37:08

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I can go on. There are SO many examples which I have seen in real life.
This happens regularly and people are often afraid to address the issue because the response is to be reflexively accused of bigotry by the person who is engaging in bigoted behaviors against another oppressed group.

2024-06-15 21:35:30

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Another example: An atheist might use their experiences of oppression in christian culture as cover for their hatred of Muslims and Islam.
Another example: A queer/trans person might use their experiences of oppression as cover for their xenophobic hatred against people immigrating from non-Western cultures.

2024-06-15 21:15:20

If you think:
a) your particular experience with oppression has somehow made you immune from treating other oppressed groups unjustly
b) and furthermore, you believe you can use your experience with oppression as a shield from criticism
c) and you can use your own oppression as justification in abusing another oppressed group...
You're as rotten at your core as any other bigot.
Using your own oppression as cover for abusing others is cowardly, dishonest, and absolutely reprehensible.

2024-06-13 22:14:38

I think I'm going to refer to publications like The NY Times and The Washington Post as "asspapers" instead of "newspapers."
Slightly fewer letters and far more accurate.

2024-06-12 00:05:42

When you see someone who feels such a strong connection to a country, that they will consistently deny that the country has behaved in the most brutal of ways regardless of blatant evidence, you have to ask yourself if that sense of connection has served as an avenue toward becoming completely reality challenged.

2024-06-06 20:37:04

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@npub15eq…96sv Oh my. That's hilarious and frightening at the same time.

2024-06-06 20:05:44

Just a little reminder:
The christian god is a massive dickhead.
Christians built him that way, from the ground up.
It's kind of a thing.

2024-06-05 13:36:38

I don't know about other bi women's feelings on the matter, but just seeing a dating app that calls itself a "lesbian dating app" would be a turn off for me because I'd assume they didn't want my bi sapphic ass there.
And this app is a TERF dating app, so it's out of the question anyway.
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/transphobic-dating-app-sucks

2024-06-05 00:47:09

Biden's border "crackdown" is the usual Democrat pandering to racist, xenophobic voters.
Is this not obvious?
It's a little reminder that even though a few bones are tossed to marginalized groups and women for good publicity, the Democratic Party still caters to racists.
They don't offer as much to racists as the GOP but the Dems remain ever hopeful.

2024-06-05 00:19:10

Petition to turn the acronym USA into Unhinged States of America.

2024-06-04 20:46:17

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@npub17z6…4mp8 Thank gods Jude Law was there the help him through the awkwardness. 🙄

2024-06-04 20:38:24

You know, I think maybe Existenz was actually just a movie that explored David Chronenberg's fear of penetration.

2024-06-04 20:18:47

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@npub1z36…n0u6 Reminds me of this image.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/560/196/839/132/150/original/b63ec0736a512716.jpg

2024-06-04 17:58:46

Heads up to people who have problems digesting dairy:
Thanks to modern science, corporations will be marketing ice cream that has lab-created dairy ingredients which didn't come from cows. These products will be marketed as vegan.
These products might make you ill because there are STILL dairy-related ingredients present.
https://veganism.social/@beforewisdom/112559602141695069

2024-06-01 21:17:37

There is one group who absolutely does NOT belong at Pride: cops.
Absolutely not. Cops have been the state sanctioned thugs who have served as enforcers for the state's and society's hatred of queer people for ages. They still serve that function. They also bring racist violence with them wherever they go.
ACAB
NO COPS AT PRIDE

2024-05-30 18:45:58

I'm also going to point out what might be obvious at this point:
You know that tendency that some people have where they accuse others of racism in the hope that nobody will notice how racist *they* are being?
That's a primary underlying factor in more than a few political actors' discourse around antisemitism. It's a political ass-cover to distract from massive amounts of Islamophobia and anti-Arab/anti-Palestinian racism.

2024-05-30 17:10:42

"Astronomers help find most distant galaxy using James Webb Space Telescope and it looks like a radioactive tadpole"
https://channels.im/@ufofeed/112531129308809000

2024-05-27 20:45:43

Hoping for a Mad Max movie where they run out of fuel and vehicles and they're forced to chase each other on bicycles.

2024-05-27 19:49:13

I have the window down and I'm holding out hope while doing 90 down this desert highway, waiting for a bug to smack it in the face.

2024-05-26 21:05:37

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If you want a sci-fi analogy, it's like seeing someone travel from this universe to a different universe with different physical laws, firing off a plasma pulse rifle, and igniting the atmosphere for 30km in every direction.
"OMG. Wait, what happened?"
Different universe, different set of physical laws, you dolt.

2024-05-26 21:01:07

Whenever I see a lot of cis people talking about issues regarding sex and gender, I tend to assume that there will be some kind of negative fallout for trans people.
Cis people usually assume that whatever brilliant conclusions they've drawn, they apply universally, never recognizing or caring that trans, nonbinary, and intersex people tend to have very different experiences.

2024-05-26 20:25:46

I think one of the things that separates liberals from the left is that liberals, to a fair extent, adhere to the "great man" theory of power and wealth, in which people believe that many of the people in political power or who have wealth wound up in that place because they are people of great skill and talent.
On the left, people tend to adhere to the "great bastard" theory of power and wealth, in which one has to be a rotten, abusive person to wind up with political power or wealth.

2024-05-26 20:19:17

Whenever I see pictures of rail travel in other countries, I'm reminded that the united states is run by chucklefucks.

2024-05-26 02:22:21

I am once again mentioning that for 55 of my 55 years of life, I have largely not given a shit about sports.
But cis people being bigoted fucks about trans women in sports has forced an activity that I have always found to be loathsome and boring into my awareness.
And they've left me with the conclusion that far too many cis people are as loathsome and boring as their bigoted, obsessive opinions about sports.

2024-05-26 00:25:33

"Most species have two sexes."
I'd like to think that my life took a wrecking ball to that and resulted in people crying and screaming.

2024-05-25 18:59:03

Every morning, I feel like I wake up in a universe that was designed to be malevolent satire for the gods.
That's right. I think we're all actors in a bad cosmic TV sitcom and our divine viewing audience is choking on their popcorn, laughing at us.
https://mastodon.social/@tofugolem/112503220217487807

2024-05-24 21:45:24

You know, I've been a vegetarian for so long, that I see this picture of tofu and it looks tasty to me, LOL.
https://nrw.social/@_BLONDES_GIFT_/112495053746021477
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/498/245/520/954/102/original/290632363c6e60e5.jpg

2024-05-24 19:21:32

If scientists need a source for negative mass to power the warp drive that they've just devised, they need look no further than Washington, DC, which happens contain the galaxy's strongest concentration of negative matter.

2024-05-23 02:05:54

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@npub1tel…4v4v This is truly evil and I applaud your deviousness.

2024-05-23 01:10:28

I never noticed this before but Scientology headquarters in Los Angeles looks like an abandoned Montgomery Wards warehouse in Gotham City was revamped as an evangelical megachurch.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/487/722/420/434/951/original/8744d11ddb010077.jpg

2024-05-21 22:27:22

Hmmm. I just saw a picture of a leaf that reminded me of sassafras trees that grow in the Appalachians.
I miss sassafras. It grows wild, in great abundance, in the mid-Atlantic region of the Appalachian Mountains. You can pull up young plants, strip the bark off the roots and a fragrant smell reminiscent of root beer issues forth.
You can chew on the roots and they taste like root beer as well, although I learned later in life that they might be mildly carcinogenic, LOL.

2024-05-21 18:44:45

The White House condemned a video on Trump's Truth Social account which referenced nazi imagery as antisemitic.
It's nice to see the White House *finally* condemning actual antisemites for their bigotry, rather than students demonstrating against war and genocide.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4676730-white-house-trump-shared-video-unified-reich-sickening/

2024-05-18 19:56:26

Well, now I'm wondering:
Was Lorena Bobbitt's story ever turned into a country song?
https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/112461822105798640

2024-05-15 22:44:19

I am now convinced that "The Special Hell" is actually Kentucky.

2024-05-15 22:39:54

I just saw the first mosquito of the season. (For me, at least.)
The Minnesota state bird lives on.

2024-05-15 00:14:59

What I've learned from watching repeated, widespread public support for u.s. military aggression across the decades is this:
Most americans are happy to support terrorism if it's not their families who are being burned and bombed to death.
And that's a reeeeeeeal sobering and sad realization.

2024-05-15 00:08:59

If you think killing 35,000 people and completely razing every bit of infrastructure necessary for supporting human life is justifiable in going after the bad guys...
Chances are, you're ALSO one of the bad guys.

2024-05-14 18:17:19

It's weird to spend the sixth decade of your life with the persistent suspicion that you picked the wrong planet to be born on.

2024-05-14 18:06:30

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Reason: Because you're human!
Me: I wish I weren't.
Reason: Because most people are good?
Me: That has yet to be confidently demonstrated. Depends on your criteria and people's criteria are usually highly selective.
Reason: Because not liking humanity makes you antisocial and a bad person!
Me: Humanity seems pretty bad to me. So, that's an untrustworthy assessment by a questionable source.
Reason: People won't like you.
Me: I don't care.

2024-05-14 17:59:46

I don't like humanity because it has yet to provide a good reason for liking it.
I'm still waiting.
But I'd prefer to do my waiting at a safe distance.

2024-05-12 22:38:45

You know, human beings have a habit of referring to other people as animals when they are in extreme disagreement with them.
However, I don't see animals regularly killing each other in organized mass slaughter, and I don't see animals destroying their own planet, and I don't see animals killing each other because they have sex with the "wrong" kind of individual, or believe in the wrong religion, or have the wrong color of fur.

2024-05-12 20:38:15

A small chance of thunderstorms for Minneapolis this afternoon.
I want a storm!
I want a storm!
I want a storm!
(I'm sure the clouds are reading this right now.)

2024-05-12 18:08:54

Hey queer campers,
Just remember, categories and labels are just linguistic/conceptual placeholders that try to clump the world into conveniently manageable chunks of generalizations. They are NEVER the full reality or experience of being whoever we are.
Words and categories are tools. They are artificial constructs.
Don't try to bend yourself to match the tool of language. Be whomever you are and fuck the words and categories.
You are valid as YOU.

2024-05-12 16:26:01

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@npub1tel…4v4v Gosh, Mom's looking kind of buff these days.

2024-05-11 16:20:09

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@npub1tel…4v4v 😂

2024-05-09 21:56:23

Jack Dorsey left Bluesky because they want some way of moderating awful posts and he is opposed to that. He thought Twitter banning Trump was a terrible idea.
He said he has always liked how Musk uses Twitter and seems to agree with the general direction Musk has taken Twitter in.
He wants to monetize social media with Bitcoin transactions.
Jack Dorsey is a libertarian, nazi piece of garbage who doesn't care if he burns the planet up with Bitcoin profiteering.
https://mas.to/@kissane/112413009263744330

2024-05-09 01:49:20

Piers Morgan is an absolute, lamentable pile of fermented excrement BUT he totally went after Avi Hyman, an Israeli government spokesperson, for his BS answers to how many civilians the IDF has killed.
https://mastodon.world/@mapache_tico/112408514373654534

2024-05-08 20:28:23

I'm probably pointing out the elephant in the room that others have already mentioned but...
Has it ever occurred to folks who are currently expounding upon the (supposedly) unjust and prejudicial reactions to Israel's brutality in Gaza, that maybe, just maybe, there are high levels of Orientalism, Islamophobia, and anti-Arab prejudice in parts of the Jewish community which have made it impossible to engage in much honest reflection on the horrific actions of Israel across the decades?

2024-05-08 00:55:39

During a protest outside the house of a Columbia University trustee, a local real estate developer ran into a 55-year-old woman who was trying to prevent him from directing his car toward the protesters.
The commanding police officer at the scene called the protesters “fucking morons” and said, “There’s consequences as an adult.”
https://jalopnik.com/real-estate-developer-allegedly-drives-car-into-crowd-o-1851462303

2024-05-07 23:27:11

Capitalism is an economic system where the most violent, brutal people from the previous social/economic system, retained their access to wealth and political power but managed to convince people that they earned their power by hard work, ingenuity, and saving money, and that any poor peon could become a violent, brutal person with wealth if they worked hard enough for it too.
It's all a lie but being brutally, violently wealthy is tempting enough that most people went along with it.

2023-03-18 15:56:07

After all of the violent shit it is currently accomplishing, I hope conservative christianity, and all of its fascistic variants, wind up deeply scorned and marginalized in a generation's time. Preferably a lot sooner.
Too much of christianity is a hate group hiding under a religion.
No tolerance for fascism, in any form.