I CAN FEEL IT

@FenrirIII@lemmy.world - Two issues with this post: 1) it’s a repost from 10 months ago, and 2) posts should follow formatting guidelines, ala “Knox Goes Away (2024, dir Michael Keaton)”.

The repost thing can slide, but please do update the post title. Thanks!

Kogonada would have done this story right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQj2iZpTEo

That “see you tomorrow” scene was ridiculously sweet, too. MY HEART.

Context reminder: KOMO-TV is the Seattle ABC affiliate owned by “This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy” Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Really? I really liked the audio treatment in the trailer here. It’s doing splendid work cranking up the tension, and not something I’d heard before.

The old recording seems to be this one of Taylor Holmes reading Rudyard Kipling’s poem Boots.

No worries; happy to have some help with submissions!

@SagXD@ani.social - would you edit the post title to follow guidelines of rule #5:

Post titles should follow formatting guidelines: “Media Name (release year, relevant creator credit)”. Creator credits should be directors for films and games, showrunners for television series. Other details such as starring actors, writers, production studios, etc can be added to the post description.

Remedy is the same: report to the burn ward.

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I’ve gotta rant here a bit…

I just finished re-watching all of Deep Space 9 a few weeks ago. I’d seen most of the series as it aired, managed to miss a few very key episodes, but never really gave it a ton of thought since the show ended. All the memes about the prescience of the Bell Riots gave me the nudge to go back and give the series a solid second look (after 25-ish years of hindsight).

The introduction of Section 31 was one of DS9’s biggest controversies. The writers behind DS9 were more-or-less arguing that you can’t have utopia without someone having to do a little genocide every now and then. And while our heroes genuinely hate this idea, they can live with it.

This is all super interesting stuff to think about and debate both for the sake of fun fiction and how we should all endeavor to live and rule our reality. And this silly-looking movie appears to want utterly zero part of that complex conversation.

And that’s really disappointing.

Fight, yes, but it’s important to choose your battles.

Rep McBride is in a very precarious position. Flailing at every injustice is not going to serve her, her constituents, or the trans community at large well in the long term.

This is a lesson that the larger trans community needs to learn, and fast: strategic, creative political action that captures attention, makes the public consider our viewpoints and doesn’t harm the people we’re trying to talk to is the way forward. You don’t do that by blocking highways or burning storefronts.

We start by organizing.

Our last, best hope for peace.

To be fair, SB1 addresses medical function. Kids would be allowed to receive puberty blockers to address medical diagnosis of precocious puberty, but not to address gender dysphoria. The foundation of the state’s argument is that precocious puberty is a legitimate medical condition and gender dysphoria (which they repeatedly and dismissively refer to as “psychological stress”) is not.

Never mind that neither lawmakers or “the democratic process” is qualified to, or should be in the business of, determining what is and is not a legitimate medical condition.

What are the odds that the council appoints twice-defeated, nobody-wants-you-here Tanya Woo to fill her seat as a final piss off gesture?

As a District 2 resident, I dare them. I double-fucking dare them.

I listened to the oral arguments on U.S. v. Skrmetti this morning.

I couldn’t express how deeply disappointed I was when Justice Kavanaugh verbally fretted about the “risks” of unintended outcomes as a result of the court’s ruling (either way) and the petitioners didn’t drill deeply into that concern.

If the court strikes down Tennessee’s SB1 law banning gender affirming care for children, there is a risk that a child could receive puberty blockers and later regret it… AFTER specifically requesting it… AFTER getting the consent of their parents… AFTER receiving psychological assessments to ensure that they’re aware of the risks and effects… and AFTER finding a medical doctor or endocrinologist willing to prescribe the medication.

If the court upholds the Tennessee law, there is a risk that EVERY child seeking gender affirming care in the state will be prevented from doing so, categorically, with ZERO recourse, regardless of their own wishes, the wishes of their parents, medical care team, and disregards the preponderance of non-biased research on the matter (the Cass Report doesn’t count, and the author even argues FOR puberty blockers) that points to overwhelming positive medical outcomes.

These degrees of risk are NOWHERE CLOSE to being equivalent and it’s ridiculous to have allowed that reasoning to slide by unaddressed.

If your employer requires you to have a phone for official use, keep it separate from your personal phone; different device, different number, different networks if possible (ie: only let it join your home’s guest network). Don’t do personal things on your work devices, including logging into personal services, social networks or communication tools.

Cutting to the chase:

I propose that on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024 (the first day that both the House and Senate are back in session), all of us who are invested in this issue and have a platform (whether it be a blog, newsletter, column, podcast, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, etc.) publish a piece with the shared title: “LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back.” Yes, I know, it’s a cheesy title, but it holds Democrats accountable to their own talking points and makes it clear that backsliding on LGBTQ+ rights is nonnegotiable for us.

So… a blog post and social media campaign.

No fucking wonder we aren’t getting anywhere. This is some tragically weak-ass protest action.

We need to get creative and we need to get into people’s faces.

We need to set goals and consider sidelining a few issues that we’re getting beat on.

We need to show our allies how they can help. Hitting ‘like’ on a social media post doesn’t count.

Over the Garden Wall is pure essence of autumn.

It’s not a movie, but its complete runtime (ten 11-minute episodes) is under 2 hours and has all the eerie, melancholic silliness that your soul needs while dealing with family.