Sits on your dash

"Ok, ma'am that'll be $226.03."

I take my wallet out of my pocket and unfold it. It is empty other than a single moth that lazily flies out. The moth lands on the tap point of the card reader. There's a beat, and my payment is processed. The moth flies back into my wallet and I put it back in my pocket.

what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

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Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.

everyone wants masc carpenter trade until his rough calloused handjob sands your thing down small and smooth as a river stone

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

So I unfortunately just found out Google is building a massive data center (that we all know is being used for mass surveillance like all the other data centers popping up) right here in my state of Upper Austria. There is a protest this Friday, but without a car or money for public transport I don’t think I can make it. But I will try to see if there is anything else I can do in the mean time. This is happening right when the EU has announced their new chat surveillance law that none of the citizens wanted and actively fought against, and while new cars are now required in the EU to have facial recognition cameras for „safety“

It doesn’t take a genius to know what’s going on, and it’s clear our governments don’t give a shit what we want or not, so I don’t really know what to do here, but at the very least I’ll talk about it.

Mind you, this is happening while we’re in a drought, we’re being roasted by heatwave after heatwave, young people cannot afford to buy homes, our groceries cost up to 100% more than in neighboring countries, and the government still wants us to believe we’re selfish little peasants for wanting AC in our schools and hospitals.

Obviously a massive data center is going to use far more energy and water than normal people would, and it’s taking up 70 hectares of land.

And just speaking personally here, I find it utterly disgusting the way the Austrian government is constantly pushing and funding „tech startups“ „AI advancements“ and whatever but they actually purposefully make it impossible to have any other type of business. Whether you’re a small mom and pop shop that’s offering a service to your community or a craftsperson or what have you - there is no help. No financial support. They make sure everything is stacked against you, but THIS. This is what they’re choosing to invest in and encourage. Sickening. I’m so angry.

It’s been really hard for me lately to deal with just how awful things are everywhere- the increasing barbarism and cruelty all around us is stifling. But I refuse to accept that it has to be this way. If enough people wake up and CARE and fight back, they will lose.