There is a grain of truth in all of that.

It was essentially an IT department under the executive branch, that I don’t think anybody had even been staffed at since September. Trump basically renamed it and gave it a new mission statement.

They picked a department, and converted it into Doge. They did this essentially to bypass congressional approval, because the department was already there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service?wprov=sfla1

We still enjoy using the fireplace, even though our home is heated.

Rhyming words with pitch. I was in 2nd grade. And I wasn’t trying to get away with saying bitch, it’s just a word that my parents used and it popped into my head.

Girl who sat next to me told.

There’s no list.

It’s evolving and folks can make up new ones that suit them whenever they like.

Hexbear has a fairly large list users can choose from. As the admins will add new pronouns for one person if requested.

And yeah, ki is badass. Not human centric and reminds us of our larger family of all life on this rock.

Language is evolving. Especially around pronouns. Might be better to ask what folks favorite new pronouns are.

I like ki. It’s the singular of kin.

https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/an-argument-for-all-new-pronouns-we-are-ki-we-are-kin-d30674618eaf

15 years.

The time between losing my first child and having my second.

An individual can do very little.

Which is why we organize, strike, and practice solidarity, together.

If you want to help, look for left movements in your area. Food Not Bombs for example.

Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom.

Because Hyrule and I got to be both the princess and the hero. Plus being able to summon a royal bed whenever I want to take a nap is nice.

They definitely feed on each other.

And that’s not what the article says. It says that there is a correlation between the two.

I’m trans and not autistic. But I do see that correlation in a number of my trans and autistic peers. Up thread there were some very good comments on why this might be from posters that I assume are both trans and autistic.

And profit is based on the idea that I deserve more than other people do. Again hubris.

I’ve been meditating on this stuff and studying Buddhism for almost a decade. Pride is the root of a lot of dysfunction in our species.

And greed is based in hubris. Thinking that the individual is better than everyone else and needs more than others do.

Pride / hubris is the root of a lot of dysfunction. Greed is one of its daughters.

Well that’s what Trump is trying to do so.

I guess you and the fascist are getting your wish.

Seriously though, gender is older than Homo sapiens. It’s about division of reproductive labor and the classes that humans form around that

The gender binary needs to go. Gender inequality needs to go. But people are going to have gender as long as we have class distinctions and we are a long way from outgrowing that.

Yes, I literally feel the pain of others. Not as though it happened to me but enough to wince if I see most animals get hurt (aside from insects).

I’m more sensitive than normal though. Hyper-awareness from abuse. It’s also isolating and lonely, even though I’m not on the spectrum.

The view that we’re better than the rest of the life on this planet is likely one of the drivers behind climate change. It’s used to justify the destruction of entire habitats. Habitats other beings feel is their home.

A lot of folks may know that they’re animals, in a scientific sense. But they don’t feel it in their bones or really empathize. Folks are often raised to think of animals as potential food, after all. So, it runs a bit deeper than taxonomy. And is more like a cultural habit of feeling better than, because we often eat animals and don’t have many predators to worry about other than each other.