2026-10-28T18:27:45Z https://njump.me Gwen Snyder is uncivil https://njump.me/npub18jcmw98jz4q48a2kc3z00hernuzm32xsx2sdml5ylt3cd5rn4e4q29xwpz https://files.mstdn.party/accounts/avatars/109/327/319/182/728/702/original/f605f2e79f725141.jpg https://files.mstdn.party/accounts/avatars/109/327/319/182/728/702/original/f605f2e79f725141.jpg https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyln2yxtv9nnyyaqcvt3kw2t757kt84z3zt56pfnj62wk8cm93luqzyq7trdc57g25z5l42mzyfa7lyw0stw9g6qe2ph07snaw8pkswwhx5nce05h The Mr. Rogers advice for moments of crisis is a useful thing to remember right now.<br/><br/>Look for the helpers.<br/><br/>Look for the people organizing to protect the most vulnerable.<br/><br/>Look for the people who have been concretely planning for how to respond, and are ready to implement.<br/><br/>Join them, if you can. 2024-11-06T17:07:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv0udpxkrt7uwkcxa9vts9s2z0r5786rrlwcdzkpsszc2a3zvuezszyq7trdc57g25z5l42mzyfa7lyw0stw9g6qe2ph07snaw8pkswwhx5jrc74k &#34;Ursula Le Guin wrote whole novels while caring for three children,&#34; I tell myself, as the toddler climbs me like a jungle gym and the baby somehow manages to double-space my entire document using only her gums 2024-08-05T17:49:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspqj2ehfkgg2lnwm9d68ygk0whpmwx2tdwdke8raergrd2p97ed4szyq7trdc57g25z5l42mzyfa7lyw0stw9g6qe2ph07snaw8pkswwhx54y5lu3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqhxa0fv65wheadm7dzclqp0qhkch8hxwk2gypxwlly2ah8fuh48g3ksx5v'>nevent1q…sx5v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Our weird is self-acceptance of our difference.<br/><br/>Their weird is a desperate yearning to eradicate anyone different from their outdated, repressive notions of normal.<br/><br/>Which is why our naming their weirdness-- the fact that their ideal norms aren&#39;t norms at all-- terrifies them. 2024-07-31T12:55:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqhxa0fv65wheadm7dzclqp0qhkch8hxwk2gypxwlly2ah8fuh48gzyq7trdc57g25z5l42mzyfa7lyw0stw9g6qe2ph07snaw8pkswwhx5uqw0fx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs83wuwnrx584fk0z9w68vk772ga8455dtncnppx4d85v6a8kh0cdg5emn9j'>nevent1q…mn9j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh, you think that lib&#39;s purple hair is weird?<br/><br/>Well, guess what, no one dyes their hair purple in a desperate quest for comformist normal.<br/><br/>We&#39;re fine with our weird, whereas the far right just desperately wants to have their weird be a lauded, rewarded normal. 2024-07-31T12:55:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs83wuwnrx584fk0z9w68vk772ga8455dtncnppx4d85v6a8kh0cdgzyq7trdc57g25z5l42mzyfa7lyw0stw9g6qe2ph07snaw8pkswwhx5tjf7ha In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrlu39fgk7vr4ka9f3gvsqstgf6xadwv0ermmahndjlsh22vzs99qcuuh66'>nevent1q…uh66</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And the far right is trying SO hard to &#34;I am rubber and you are glue&#34; us on weirdness, and it isn&#39;t working.<br/><br/>Not because plenty of us aren&#39;t also different from existing norms, but because we don&#39;t give a fuck. 2024-07-31T12:53:53Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrlu39fgk7vr4ka9f3gvsqstgf6xadwv0ermmahndjlsh22vzs99qzyq7trdc57g25z5l42mzyfa7lyw0stw9g6qe2ph07snaw8pkswwhx50ru4kn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdgnscu4x8qcl0tku0qejm8u8d0mh9jh4j09mkc6q6au5n7m8yufqg04ycu'>nevent1q…4ycu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The &#34;weird&#34; thing lands because more than anything what these people crave is conformity.<br/><br/>They abhor individual expression that might be read as &#34;weird.&#34;<br/><br/>And yet it&#39;s that very desire for comformity and disgust at nonconformity that MAKES them weird. 2024-07-31T12:53:46Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdgnscu4x8qcl0tku0qejm8u8d0mh9jh4j09mkc6q6au5n7m8yufqzyq7trdc57g25z5l42mzyfa7lyw0stw9g6qe2ph07snaw8pkswwhx5dmh4e4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstr7ql5wyclvgqahwcch276w76rqqjkp4p493f2ygnrkwccpryjyq6v57xp'>nevent1q…57xp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s weird to joke about corrective rape.<br/><br/>It&#39;s weird to want to inspect kids&#39; genitals to enforce archaic notions of gender essentialism.<br/><br/>It&#39;s weird to want women trapped in abusive marriages.<br/><br/>They WANT these things to be the norms, but they simply aren&#39;t. 2024-07-31T12:53:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstr7ql5wyclvgqahwcch276w76rqqjkp4p493f2ygnrkwccpryjyqzyq7trdc57g25z5l42mzyfa7lyw0stw9g6qe2ph07snaw8pkswwhx50rqaxv What the Friedman NYT crowd misses about the &#34;weird&#34; thing is that it names an ugly irony of the far right.<br/><br/>They want SO MUCH for their regressive creepiness to be an enforcement of norms.<br/><br/>But the norms they violently try to enforce are outdated and gone and, well, WEIRD now 2024-07-31T12:53:26Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2ekcfc5dmh2xn80c365ppl07h7ertq9ym8hsarvklakhvjf3h8nszyq7trdc57g25z5l42mzyfa7lyw0stw9g6qe2ph07snaw8pkswwhx5tp6qnw Oh look, the &#34;defund the police is a luxury belief&#34; guy platformed by the NYT Opinion section today is a transphobe eugenicist who quotes Jordan Peterson on IQ and retweets literal phrenologist Claire Lehmann.<br/><br/>NYT is a far right rag, part nine million<br/> <img src="https://files.mstdn.party/media_attachments/files/112/762/089/199/871/567/original/075d58e6e359c86f.png"> <br/> <img src="https://files.mstdn.party/media_attachments/files/112/762/089/282/536/171/original/049780b2a5daa186.png"> <br/> <img src="https://files.mstdn.party/media_attachments/files/112/762/089/489/829/220/original/7d3dc38cfadbc5e4.png"> <br/> <img src="https://files.mstdn.party/media_attachments/files/112/762/089/595/615/639/original/3e51856c951e4db9.png"> <br/> 2024-07-10T12:03:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswpjdjrj2h0tfnhexf4scnuc45nfr8lkn5vkqzuz23qpjkx7nq0sqzyq7trdc57g25z5l42mzyfa7lyw0stw9g6qe2ph07snaw8pkswwhx5y562e9 Turned on the radio and the first thing I hear is the phrase &#34;anti-sunblock influencers.&#34;<br/><br/>This timeline is a parody of itself 2024-06-17T11:52:39Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqfuqfsm2q0xny36jx2u5vweag7hyxyfhf2kx9z76uzwk6v7ad2jszyq7trdc57g25z5l42mzyfa7lyw0stw9g6qe2ph07snaw8pkswwhx5nvswpw The cops are threatening to arrest the journalism school deans for trying to assert student journalists&#39; right to cover the protests.<br/><br/>If the journalists about to be honored at Columbia&#39;s Pulitzers have any fucking spine, they will boycott and refuse the award this year 2024-05-01T02:46:54Z