marimo🌸

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders

the first movie was a pretty good space opera remake of Kurosawa hidden fortress

Here, hear it from the man himself.

honestly, no way I vote for that fuckin guy

eh, pay off my student loans and mortgage, buy a house not on a busy street and never have to work again? definitely would have to see the cash in advance tho

if it wasn't a world-destroying atrocity it would be kind of funny how much time and money and energy is being put into convincing everyone to love AI and still the general consensus is like "meh"

I’d do almost anything for 2 billion dollars

It can be possible 💁‍♂️

7/im kinda sick of repeating stuff so if anything’s unclear to you at this point, sorry 🤷‍♀️

6/ when shit gets so bad that they have no choice other than to leave, that’s a tragedy, not a joke and not the natural course of things.

5/ pretty much every place that people have made a community and a home is worth fighting for. that’s what I’m trying to say.

4/ looking at it in black and white, assuming the government is a full representation of the people and culture of a place, is shortsighted and ignorant thinking

3/ maybe they have kids or are sick and need help from their families, maybe they care for elderly parents, maybe they have a job they love, there are lots of possible reasons. maybe they think the place they’re from is worth fighting for

2/ the people living there may not have money to leave, of course. But moreover they may not wish to leave because they have family and personal connections there, or even just feel a connection to the place they were born and raised

1/ the culture in those places is more than just the government. just like the culture of America at large is more than Donald Trump and his cronies.

ok this is why I’m thinking you don’t argue in good faith cos I literally explained all of this in my previous posts but I will say it again I guess

lol frankly I didn’t dig very deep I saw them say that and went “nahhhh bye”

Brown cat Tosca with an old soda bottle

Tosca in a contemplative mood

I have friends who live in red states. Friends who are queer, trans, women, racial minorities, usually a combination of these things. Who have reasons to stay where they are. and I don’t like hearing them and people like them talked about like that. Is that so hard to understand?

But here goes:
I’m speaking to and about folks who claim to have philosophies that align with mine. Things like everyone deserving human rights, relative safety and medical care. But then they take this attitude that’s hypocritical and dismissive

I’m really starting to doubt you’re arguing in good faith

and if you are in a major city or a smaller city with a notable immigrant population you can also find ethnic groceries that aren’t even expensive, ShopRite may not sell zaatar but I definitely have a big jar of it I bought at some place in west Philly

Yeah the availablility of international ingredients in the standard grocery is highly dependent on the local demographics (my shoprite Philly has less Asian stuff than seattle Fred Meyer did but a whole Italian aisle, the one by the good h mart has a Caribbean section etc)

like are European/british groceries generally carrying better stuff sure, but our stores do have fresh food unless you only went to family dollar

I was tempted to reply to the og post but it had already descended into “fresh food is a specialty item in American groceries” euro circle jerk so I am staying away 🙏

I should hope it’s obvious why I would say something like “transgender people lose drivers license” or “abortions illegal” happening anywhere in the country should be considered a tragedy and shame on the whole country and not just a laugh because they live in a bad place with hicks

and contributes to kinda blaming or abandoning the ones who stay

and the solution folks often turn to is setting up/sharing funds or networks to get ppl out of those places, which is great if that’s what someone is looking for, but ignores the very real reasons people might not want to leave their homes and families

because there is a habit with USAmerican liberals and leftists to say “oh they got what they voted for” etc
Ignoring that people who didn’t vote for that shit still have to live under it if it wins
Which we should know very well

I was saying that queer people living in places like Florida or Texas or Kansas or what have you is in itself proof those places are not a monolith