All movies are either about being trans or 9/11

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All right-wing politics is projection.

I love how the cat can simultaneously look really cute and tough/menacing.

I see a lot of good faith attempts to point out their issues from Hexbear.

I think they’re cool.

TBH, not that surprising. I haven’t watched her videos, but STEM faculty can be often be quite reactionary, especially in fields that are much more of a white boys club like physics. I have had numerous heated arguments with transphobes in my department and related departments and despite all this “universities are Marxist/Liberal bastions”, even saying pronouns in introductions is a very unpopular thing with the faculty (students and staff less so). And this is despite my department having quite above average number of LGBTQ people in it.

I recently, on a whim, decided to shave. I haven’t been clean shaven for a while. And between the balding and my black frame glasses, I think I kind of look like a younger Erich Honecker.

This was so frustrating, because the centrist Lib IRL friends were all telling me that this shows how practical and effective Democrats were. Because, even without adopting radical and unelectable stances like Bernie, they are causing these great reductions in poverty. And we shouldn’t worry about these built-in deadlines, because all entitlements and handouts are extremely hard to claw back like Social Security, because taking them away would be so unpopular with the voters that receive them. I told them that Democrats would claw everything back and find excuses for further austerity after they decide the pandemic was over, and everyone around me was angry that I would dare say that the Democrats weren’t doing everything possible to improve the lives of all Americans to the limit of what Republicans could stop them.

The “all leftists are doomed to be Cassandras” effect is real.

I have a similar thing, and I have found that certain shoes with the right lacing pattern work well. Basically, buy something with a big toe-box, but most of the lacing concentrated on the center of the foot so that you can narrow it by lacing it tight. I find that certain Xero shoes, and most iterations of Merrell Trail Gloves work well for this.

IDK, I used to really recommend Red Wing, but I have been repeatedly told that over the last decade (I have had mine for, I think, 12 years, so not from first-hand experience) their quality has very consistently getting worse. So maybe some caution there.