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Fiercely defending the Resistance from my couch. Data geek with pulmonary disease. Chaotic tired, runs on Dunkin. She/her. My kids don't think I'm funny but they're wrong.

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this corrosion@roguesecunit· 26d

Right? This lady fell off her bike, altho she was also smoking, which is ironic considering.

Covert art for Belle & Sebastian’s Dear Catastrophe Waitress. It’s funny because the the photo has a heavy orange tint to it, and the stupid sky has been stupid orange bc of the stupid smoke from the stupid wildfires. That’s why it’s funny.

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jul 12

Los gatos unidos jamás serán vencidos

A young brown and white cat sits calmly in an otherwise-empty waste paper basket, looking directly at the camera with a cat face. For the record, there is a perfectly lovely soft red blanket folded up on top of a box directly behind her. She could not care less.

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jul 7

Screenshot from Marvel’s Captain America. A bunch of 40s-era patriotic-looking showgirls are dancing around a stage. A speech bubble implies they are saying the quoted post (“NEVER TRUST A PERSON W/ A NAZI TATTOO”)

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jul 4

no more matches today so you know what time it is

still from the 1996 american classic “independence day” showing a big-ass alien ship blowing up the WH

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jul 3

Did things escalate quickly or? This is one location near-ish Four Corners:

Eversource outage map showing info for one location in Dorchester; outage started at 8:49 pm, says it’s estimated to be restored by 10:45 pm, and the “Customers Out” number is listed as 3,836

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jul 1

Ok but hang on. I clicked through to the actual article & found this. Unless I’m missing something, this means a trans girl who’s been on blockers & hormone therapy since puberty started could chose the testosterone blood test option and likely qualify for the team, no?

“According to the initiative, students would have several options to confirm their sex: a visual genital exam, a lab test to determine their genetic makeup, or an analysis of testosterone levels in the blood.”

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jul 1

So I’m Team Senegal 🇸🇳 all day long but Belgium’s 🇧🇪 kits said trans pride 🏳️‍⚧️ so it’s hard to hate that.

Artsy advertising image of the version of Belgium’s World Cup jersey you can buy for a lot of money. The photo shows three masc-appearing white dudes in soccer jerseys that are light blue, white & pink - exactly trans pride colors - in an abstract pattern covering the whole shirt. The photo crops the heads off the people on the left and right, and the one in the middle has a black bowler hat on and a green apple over their face like Magritte’s Son of Man. There’s no good reason why.

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jul 1

They're relatively infrequent but one can hope a Breaking News exception would be made.

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 24

Totes def 100% use A.I. when pushing your new subway plan, yes yes A+ idea Quick everyone we must train the children in this masterful tech, drain the reservoirs

Completely botched A.I.-generated version of the MBTA (Boston’s subway) map. Three stops (State St, Downtown Crossing, and Park St) are all on there twice in different places, and the Aquarium stop is somehow located on an island kind of between the North End and Eastie that doesn’t exist. All of these things are noted in annotations on the image.

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 24

I decided to let @prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social be my t-shirt proxy.

Photo of the book “Let This Radicalize You” by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba. It’s resting on super-standard waiting-around room chairs on ultra-basic corporate carpeting. A pamphlet titled “The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of Jury Commissioner JUROR INSTRUCTIONS” is stuck in it as a bookmark.

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 23

I want my I want my Insurrectionary material zines (Also I believe these comrades will walk with us under the sun far sooner than this announcement today indicates, and I hope they hold onto hope.)

Screenshot of top of mobile view of DOJ’s press release. Text as follows:

“…groups. For example, defendants Ines Soto, Elizabeth Soto, and Savanna Batten were part of a group that created and distributed insurrectionary materials called "zines," according to trial evidence.”

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 21

This was my comment to the FCC. I also had to write it because the image of the Idaho AG celebrating this sequence of events was so ghoulish I needed to remove it from my head with words. (It only partly worked.)

FCC Comment

You are asking me as a parent if I believe I should be warned before my children are exposed to material containing gender identity themes. You are asking me, then, if I should be warned before my children are exposed to one of my children. It is one of my dearest hopes that at some point it will occur to otherwise logical people that if they were aware of THEIR gender long before they had any idea about their sexuality, then transgender kids can ALSO be aware of their gender at that same age, with that exact same level of (non-)understanding. Gender is not inherently sexual. It isn't for cisgender kids, it isn't for transgender, non-binary, intersex, or any other kids. The concept of gender is not a dangerous or damaging idea.

But turning gender into a pathology? That IS dangerous. That IS damaging. Just this morning, I read a press release from the Attorney General of Idaho, celebrating that the plaintiffs challenging his strict bathroom ban in schools had dropped their case. He didn't mention why they dropped their case. He didn't mention that their daughter, who was not out as transgender, who had been told she could no longer use the girls bathroom at school, who had to try to find times she could get to the one single-occupancy bathroom in the school, hoping no one would see her, terrified someone would figure it out - he did not mention that she had died by suicide. He just crowed that the "law was now in full effect across the state."

The reason I bring this up here is because of a quote from her mother: “The option of a single-user restroom did not resolve her distress. Rather, it caused her to feel ostracized from others — ‘like I’m being treated as this other kind of thing’ — as she described in her supplemental declaration.” (https://tinyurl.com/fcc-comment-link)

"This other kind of a thing." That's what it felt like to me when I read the FCC Public Notice and tried to imagine what it would be like for my middle schooler to be watching T…

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 18

I feel like this first footnote should tell the judge everything they need to know. “We should point out that in their stuff, they’re referring to adolescents at or past Tanner stage 2. In these 120+ pages, we’re going to straight-up pretend they mean toddlers and up. Let’s go!”

' This Complaint uses the common definition of "children" throughout. See Child, Black's Law Dictionary (12th ed. 2024) (defining a child as "1. An unemancipated person under the age of majority" or "3. A boy or girl; a young person"). WPATH often uses a different definition of "children," and refers to a child as an "adolescent" when he or she "reach[es] Tanner stage 2 of puberty," which may occur as early as 8 or 9 years old. Eli Coleman, et al., Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8 S44, S64 (2022) (hereinafter "SOC-8").
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this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 13

…which is now legit a landmark used for giving directions instead of the name of the park or City Hall or any of the other major city landmarks LITERALLY right next to it. I’m pretty sure you can find Boston Cop Slide on Google Maps. Saints bless you, Boston Cop Slide.

Screenshot of when you look up a place in your web browser like a restaurant or a public park and there are photos and links for Overview, Reviews, Photos, and About except the place is “Boston Cop Slide”

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 13

so i haven't even seen what any of this is about yet but this has already been the funniest part of my day and i appreciate you

Screenshot of bluesky timeline where Liz (@catboss.bsky.social) has quote-posted me bitching about Mamdani throwing trans kids under the bus into another thread, saying "idk if you two know each other but i think you'd find some needed solidarity right now. i'm sorry shit's like this." thing is, every single post in the thread is hidden by bluesky's dumbass algo so it just says RUDE RUDE RUDE RUDE RUDE with the option to show the posts and I think that's both sad and hilarious

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 13

We got this a few days ago & are already arguing about what to try first. You had my younger kid at “if I were a betting enby.” You had my older kid at “guidelines re: food/eating.” You had me at “I’m not here to trick people into eating stuff they don’t like.” You had my partner at “cheeseburger.”

Photo of the cookbook “Color Taste Texture” by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt. It’s leaning against a grey couch cushion, and a fair number of bright pink torn post-it notes are sticking out of the top, marking pages that someone has indicated is a recipe they want to try

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 13

Well, people are not happy

Workers using tarps to cover the scaffolding they just finished putting up so the people who stood outside for 12 hours waiting to see Donald Trump’s name be taken off the wall of the Kennedy Center can’t actually watch it happen

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 13

LOL it legit looks like they’re giving solid consideration to starting with this T right here I don’t think they will. But I still think it’s funny.

Workers on scaffolding outside the Just the Kennedy Center Thank You, conferring near the T in Trump

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 13

I mean, shit is happening

Wall of the Kennedy-not-Trump Center, showing that the scaffolding being set up to remove Trump’s stupid name is probably 90% complete

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 13

Weird. They panned away to the side for a while, not clear why. Showed like three or four tour buses and a line of people watching, including a stunning drag artist in pink feathers and someone else wicked psyched about their American flag. Then a bus left & they panned back. Whatevs.

Outside the Kennedy-not-Trump center again, but the camera is not pointing at the wall with the name on it, it’s to the right where there’s a line of people watching with some white tour buses behind them.

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 13

OK LIGHTS Roar of approval from crowd, who presumably had dinner and a drink or two during that brief rainstorm and pathetic legal flopabout from the president of the united states

Still frame of livestream of the from of Kennedy Center where Trump’s stupid name is eventually going to be removed by very very safe workers on scaffolding moving very carefully. They just turned the outside lights on so it’s fancy now.

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 12

Then maybe he shouldn't have made providing it a central focus of his goddamn campaign. If he had not spent months saying he would never do EXACTLY WHAT HE'S DOING we would not be having this conversation.

Screenshot of part of Zohran Mamdani's "Delivering Care, Opportunity, and Protection for LGBTQIA+ New Yorkers" campaign platform. Portions are underlined or outlined for emphasis, as indicated.

Expand and Protect Gender Affirming Care Citywide

A private institution operating with a quarter-billion dollar public subsidy should not have the ability to sell out _young trans New Yorkers_ to the Trump administration. Yet, that's exactly what happened when NYU Langone decided to stop providing gender-affirming care for trans youth. Soon after, other private NYC hospitals also stopped providing necessary _lifesaving healthcare for trans youth_. These decisions are in direct contradiction with New York state law. The _Mamdani administration will protect gender-affirming care immediately by investing $65 million in public providers_ to provide gender-affirming care to New Yorkers who seek it and will hold private entities abetting Trump's attacks to account.

The Mamdani Administration will budget $65 million in funding to explicitly support and expand access to Gender Affirming Care (GAC) in NYC. It will direct $57 million of to public hospitals, community clinics, federally qualified health centers, and nonprofits providing GAC. In the face of the Trump administration's proposed elimination of federal support for GAC and his threats to care for adults, this infusion will protect GAC access for [outline begins] both transgender youth and adults [outline ends] $8 million will be directed to:

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 10

My sister just got two 10-week-old kittens & is freaking out about them almost as much as when she had her kids (one kitty fell! Off the side of the bathtub! Does she have a concussion? This one’s tail is shaking a little bit! When she’s eating wet food! Is the wet food ok??) I sent her this.

Screenshot of text messages I sent to my over the top anxious sister. The first is an old, slightly blurry camera phone pic from about 20 years ago of a kitten standing on top of a toilet lid looking up at the person taking the photo. She’s got a skinny body and a big head and a weird chunky tail. She looks really cute and really dumb and she was both of those things.

Under the photo is this text:

“I am not saying that you do not need to be concerned with kittens' safety bc you absolutely do, but they are NOT infant humans. And, again, this fruitbat was living in an autobody shop drinking water with antifreeze in it and eating the ends of dudes' sandwiches, so.”

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 10

TRUTH. This headline was run by ESPN by choice. The media invites violence upon others and brings shame upon themselves by choice.

Screenshot of preview of ESPN article:

Headline: U.S. official: Somalia's Omar Artan had suspected terror ties

2 hours ago | A United States official said Tuesday night that Omar Artan, the Somalian referee who was denied entry into the country ahead of the World Cup, was refused admission due to "association with..."

this corrosion@roguesecunit· Jun 10

she has SUCH toxic christian energy through this whole thing i almost couldn't get through it but cheers to the person who called it a crock of a shit and walked out. DM me if you're ever in boston, friend, i'll buy you a drink