Congrats on the bravery and the piercings, that’s huge! To me there’s nothing better than the feeling of looking in the mirror and liking the person you see.

Quite a lot has happened recently that I could talk about, publically dead named and misgendered, started to accept being autistic (and finding it to be a relative positive process so far), made a bunch of progress with my music and I made the best brownies last night.

But honestly I’m just really happy because I have a pair of overalls now and I feel cute, the rest is just noise. It’s so awesome how affirming clothing can be when you get it right.

I’ve been super busy this month doing what I can to help prepare a grassroots trans rights rally, and I’m so damn excited to go to a trans music show on Saturday. It’s almost like a big celebration that all the hardwork is behind us, and I’m going to get to see a local trans folk punk artist that I really admire. I’m extremely tired, but in a good way I think.

He’s back and he’s been promoted to gulag manager

I have dexies for breakfast, where does that put me? I’m liberal left for lunch though.

Our representation has been incredible, there is the option to appeal but we haven’t discussed that yet. We had one successful appeal for a slightly different charge yesterday, so I suspect we’ll give it a go.

In my case the charges were entirely reasonable, my statement about them being inconsistent and political applies to those who are facing S214A which carries a maximum penalty of $22,000 and 2 years prison.

I had my court case today, and due to very different circumstances compared to these brave climate warriors, I plead guilty. The only tidbit I can really give is that they’re really leaning into the anti-protestor stuff and most likely want to make an example out of as many of them as possible (we were basically told this to our faces today). It’s unfair, the charges have been inconsistent, randomly changed and clearly politically motivated. I’d be watching this one closely, and please chip in to support them if you can.

It’s not good news for protestors in general that we’re actively watching a crackdown unfold all over the nation, but at least in the case of rising tide, it likely means they’re using an effective strategy.

This was how I told my friends I was in jail

I appreciate the question, honestly.

It is mostly about pink washing, we’ve certainly seen plenty of that sort of thing coming from Israel as they try to sanitise the genocide.

I think there’s an important point to be made on cops though. While in some communities, the police have been a positive presence that make people feel safe, there are many others where police represent only violence. To the indigenous and immigrant communities, police are a force who rip families apart, physically assault and even kill people in custody. Trans people face similar discrimination and violence, and there’s essentially no incentive for the police to change.

Yeah… Believe me I am not keen on it, fuck meta

We’re trying to get protection from discrimination and vilification while securing everyone’s right to gender affirming care. The Queensland government recently suspended it for minors and a federal review into gender affirming care was announced, in other countries this has lead to an increase in violence and scrutiny of people who just want to live peacefully.

If you’ve decided anarchy is deranged then I can’t convince you of why any of those points are important, but I will say that it’s simply that we recognise that our struggles are all bound up together, the intersectional approach is the only right one.

I assume more information will be announced on the Instagram page

Lancaster Pennsylvania, lots of folk punk stuff going on over there and LNL is throwing another folk punk flea market in late June.

Damn, this is incredible.

I haven’t had to use a noise generator in forever, but I think the one I had let me tune it like you’ve mentioned.

These days the only time I ever need to listen to something at night is when I’m in a real bad place mentally, I usually just blast loud music on my headphones until I get too tired to think or get over it.

Might want to consider a noise complaint then, that’s awful…

You probably won’t find anything that can do much better without adding in active noise cancelling, which you can’t do. Same problem for me, I feel your pain.

Earplugs can’t completely block out sound, even if perfect ones existed, noise will still make its way through your head.

In the past I’ve just covered up whatever was bugging me with some kind of noise, often pink noise because it sounds like heavy rain. Relaxing music works too.

If I ever have a week that isn’t all over the fucking place, I think I’ll either have died or been institutionalised.

Been organising a local rally for trans rights, it’s been good meeting other queer activists and being able to put my connections to use. I’m pretty excited to see it all come together and hopefully we can announce it soon.

Still finding my dosage of ADHD meds, but noticing small improvements which has been nice. First few weeks made me feel like I was going completely insane, I completely lost control over anything I was doing and spent almost every hour of the day playing guitar, despite the pain, hunger and people who needed me. Thankfully I’m past that.

Got court in a couple of weeks, they’re forcing us to go in person for literally no reason. I’ll have to spend several hundred dollars on travel and accommodation just to be there while our amazing legal team asks for another adjournment. Stressing me out a lot and I hate feeling like a burden for the overworked lawyers.

I once spent an entire evening removing nazi homophobic posters from my uni campus, wheat paste fucking sucks to get off even with water. I had a spray bottle with me and for most of them I had to just scratch off the worst parts and leave them up.

I’m realising now that my journey to becoming a radical leftist did in fact start with me getting a speedrun world record.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. I’ve been trying to learn to write lyrics for the last year or so, and the one thing I know for sure about creativity is that it’s not a switch.

Ideas come to me walking down the street and I have to jot them down for later. If I want to come up with something new on the spot, I just start singing without thinking about it and usually something good eventually falls out of my mouth.

Zack Freedman has a great video on training yourself to be creative: https://youtu.be/6r8-o2WpoCA

The phrase “we aren’t free until we’re all free” applies to animals as much as humans, and thinking otherwise is straight up bigotry. That so few extend leftist thought to the rest of the living world is a travesty, if you’ve managed to come around to leftist thinking then you’ve absolutely been capable of challenging your pre-conceived biases and this is just another step in that process.

All that said, I’m not one to judge people for not agreeing with this. It took me an exceptionally long time and the right circumstances to finally reassess my reasoning and to realise it was absurdly flawed, hypocritical and informed by propaganda.