Olivia @aradinfinity@girlcock.club

I am once again asking you to stop calling people "crazy" or "lunatics" when what you mean is that they're ignorant, cruel, bigoted, violent, and/or fascist

We get it, you conflate me and people like me with everything that is terrifying and monstrous (ESPECIALLY over the last 4+ years). I'm so tired of the constant, escalating reminders of that fact. I guarantee those people want me dead even more than you do.

Put away your WebDSM and fix your critiques of power.

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If you call yourself a leftist, please at least try to have some common decency when it comes to that. There is plenty of people (especially women) for which sex is a traumatic experience. Not shoving that down there throat is basic feminist 101.

Hey Mastodon, especially English-speaking Mastodon, can you please, for the love of the stars, CW your sexual shitposts? Especially when they parody sexist behaviors.

can we stop normalizing that nonbinary people have to be twinks and skinny and white thanks

ok i'm going to try to say something without opening up the whole pandora's box of cw discourse hold on to your butts folks.

if you find yourself tempted to go down that route, here is my advice i am begging you to take.

please, at this moment, try not to frame using CWs or not using CWs as a grand moral issue where one side is always right and one side is always wrong.

are there some people trying to use it as such in bad faith because they're assholes? absolutely.

but that's not going to be everyone or, even i dare say, the majority.

please, at this moment, on this issue of USA politics that is far-reaching and worth paying attention to but also clearly something that can send people into panic attacks... i am begging you to reframe the issue in your mind as one of clashing accessibility needs.

it is ultimately more like someone who needs a service dog, and someone else who is terribly allergic to dogs. there person with the service dog needs that service dog. the person with the dog allergy needs to not be somewhere next to a dog. they are not morally bad and wrong for either having a service dog, or having an allergy to dogs. they just need to be in different spaces. and that is okay to admit.

and if you're going to ask something of someone, please do so with kindness. please ask them for a favor as a friend, instead of demanding they adhere to something as a sign of their morality.

and part of asking kindly means that you will have to accept that the answer may be 'no', and that the person may have good reason to tell you that. and that is okay, too. that is their accessibility need. it might clash with yours.

that sucks. but we have timed mutes. we have blocks. we have filters. we have the ability also to log off if needed.

and that last one is going to be the sure way to stop doom-scrolling, too.

as best you can, go forward in kindness. kindness to yourself, and kindness to other people.

and please remember part of that kindness is being willing to meet them as a person and a friend. to ask them something as a personal favor. to be polite and to be kind to them. be okay with an answer of no, because that's how you can also respect their different needs.

we can get into the discourse of the overall trends and how they get wielded in bad faith another time. there are a lot of important and good discussions to have on that.

but right now mostly what i am seeing is people who are traumatized getting ready to lash out at each other, because both sides are carrying that trauma and affected by that trauma and genuinely need different things for that trauma.

so: please be kind to yourself, and to others. go forward with compassion.

ok? ok. good talk. 💖

Not about the politics:

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Hey

You know your own situation best

But you probably don't need to watch the news

You probably can't help, and it might just make you feel bad

If you need someone to give you permission to turn the radio off or stop watching what's going on

Here it is, take care of yourself

For real though, if you're in the USA and near state capitals and are visibly of color..VISIBLY....pls be safe!

stay away

hey y'all so please keep each other and your POC friends and family neighbors safe cause it's very apparent that the nazi's are just out here going buck fuckin' wild and my heart is in my stomach thinking about what's gonna happen on a community level ya know