2026-10-20T01:04:53Z https://nostr.now Artemis https://nostr.now/npub1hpk989vztnk8wg536j7zyld778nf8jd96j6u95hw95xq98ah8dmsum88gd https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/accounts/avatars/110/198/482/815/057/766/original/e3ec378705234ec5.jpg https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/accounts/avatars/110/198/482/815/057/766/original/e3ec378705234ec5.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9zh73znragy7j8erkrw6f3hh7c5vtkfsnc8f5y2e76axuau06emqzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwql4x4x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg4at9wvmqh3add3whp457z6e5tz2hjwy7k0p8jw7wusrgwurvgxchc32pw'>nevent1q…32pw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Intersex conditions are fucking normal.<br/><br/>Are they common? Not particularly, but neither is red hair.<br/><br/>It&#39;s fucking normal that not all human bodies fit a perfect gender binary. That&#39;s a simple, biological fact. It&#39;s just how it is.<br/><br/>But the gender binary is literally a cornerstone of our society. Gendered violence &amp; oppression requires gendered bodies. So bodies which violate the norms are not acceptable bodies to have. 2026-10-26T18:51:52Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg4at9wvmqh3add3whp457z6e5tz2hjwy7k0p8jw7wusrgwurvgxczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwhajsvy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0cvvwlh23ej2r3fzh9t2ze7zqqy7aj6y39rgdj0ske9gz5a48s0qtukxag'>nevent1q…kxag</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Everyone has a right to bodily autonomy. They have a right to make informed decisions about what is done to their body.<br/><br/>But we live in a society that says children&#39;s bodies are the property of their parents, so as long as the parents want to force conformity, it&#39;s a-ok to ignore a child&#39;s right to their own body.<br/><br/>Gender-essentialism is violence. Gender essentialism demands the sacrifice of intersex bodies in one way or another. Intersexuality cannot exist in a gender essentialist&#39;s world. 2026-10-26T18:40:20Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0cvvwlh23ej2r3fzh9t2ze7zqqy7aj6y39rgdj0ske9gz5a48s0qzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwckvu2k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvtpq6qd4x3veru74xmrfp789ekvy8vld727qw245s8rahht2ruqsm5ckdl'>nevent1q…ckdl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Laws against gender affirming care for trans children ALWAYS carve out a loophole for this.<br/><br/>These people are not against children&#39;s bodies being irreparably changed without informed consent.<br/><br/>They pretend that&#39;s a concern, but they defend the &#34;right&#34; of parents to mutilate their child&#39;s body so that they don&#39;t have to deal with the discomfort of having a child who is not &#34;normal&#34;.<br/><br/>It is so fucking fucked up. 2026-10-26T18:33:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvtpq6qd4x3veru74xmrfp789ekvy8vld727qw245s8rahht2ruqszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwxgv6ze In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs93jr2k9gyjw8c6exwwweqyzpj8kdf8c0p68c5gz24dj8fq824wssmf5nk9'>nevent1q…5nk9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Parents/doctors may decide a child born with non-standard genitals should have their body irreparably modified even when there is no medical need.<br/><br/>This can cause a lifetime of pain &amp; medical trauma. It often comes with a lot of confusion as well because the parents keep the child in the dark about their intersex condition. They don&#39;t think their child deserves to know &amp; understand their own body. 2026-10-26T18:33:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs93jr2k9gyjw8c6exwwweqyzpj8kdf8c0p68c5gz24dj8fq824wsszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwdee4qw It&#39;s intersex awareness day! Cool. I&#39;m not super knowledgeable on this topic, &amp; I&#39;m not going to try to speak for experiences I don&#39;t have, so I&#39;m not going to write a whole big thing.<br/><br/>BUT<br/><br/>Here&#39;s a thing: when conservatives write laws to ban gender affirming care for minors, they ALWAYS make sure there is an exception for unnecessary surgeries on intersex kids (including infants) which they are too young to consent to or even understand, just so they &#34;look normal&#34;. 2026-10-26T18:33:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp3u5y6l4a4s4ggxzwgfh7xs7v30j96t6uy88kmtn6wvzg8gu5jggzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw9s8t44 &#34;It&#39;s only a guillotine if it comes from the Guillotine region in France. Otherwise it&#39;s just sparkling retribution.&#34; 2026-10-21T23:38:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvewpehkz8ety97v9lpnx3hq08ncxmw5czn29ql94dc542x0rygvqzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw3fpe49 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz79pk3ht7c4usemp2scdcwt2zfxuq6j3ntaryd9jr2lvh5m847ng4ls8aw'>nevent1q…s8aw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Just... goddamnit.<br/><br/>It really fucking sucks that other people think they can tell me to shut up &amp; not express myself my way because I have a &#34;serious neurodevelopmental disability.&#34;<br/><br/>Gee, thanks, mister! Here I was thinking that I have a life of my own, but you reminded me that I should always stay indoors, talk to no one, &amp; have no fun.<br/><br/>And if I want to socialize I should probably learn to joke about &#34;neurotypical&#34; experiences as though I relate to them, huh? 2026-10-21T16:22:08Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz79pk3ht7c4usemp2scdcwt2zfxuq6j3ntaryd9jr2lvh5m847ngzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw7rws88 Ok, I&#39;m inflicting psychic damage on myself by returning to that comment section with all the people telling autistic people they are faking it.<br/><br/>Apparently autistic &amp; ADHD people sharing their experiences &amp; finding humor in them is &#34;trivializing serious neurodevelopmental disabilities&#34;.<br/><br/>Are we not allowed to find our own lives funny? Are we not allowed to laugh over a relatable experience with others?<br/><br/>Would you like us to just disappear?<br/><br/>Gotta stop reading. Gotta stop. 2026-10-21T16:18:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdxyuqhc9wfgvzp94500u2nx34cjsp7rrvcx62twn8vq6wvwukzyczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwuvqyl6 Oof. A YouTuber whose videos I kinda like decided to do a &#34;people are pretending to have ADHD &amp; autism because they think it makes them special&#34; video, &amp; let me tell you, that shit sucks.<br/><br/>People who do this *misunderstand* our communications (likely because we think &amp; interact differently &amp; have very different experiences) &amp; then tell us shit like &#34;What does that have to do with autism? Everyone does that,&#34; regarding experiences that they literally know nothing about. 2026-10-20T20:48:18Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsperc0av0scnxteq058aqc9wz6u8gz8r6utgu0ax43pf9tx77tqegzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwweevwa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswev2l8mc2k3y8dd44a36dlsxzpj5hpm5hqvvychh39afgm43nwzg3hpj70'>nevent1q…pj70</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And fuck, if they insist on a Christian religious text, I wish they would pick &#34;the Beatitudes&#34; (blessed are the meek, the peacemakers, the poor in spirit, etc.). Those are supposed to be the *actual words of Jesus himself*, but they don&#39;t want to teach kids THAT.<br/><br/>(I don&#39;t care how many times they say &#34;Judeo-Christian&#34;; that&#39;s still not a thing, &amp; while the text of &#34;the 10 Commandments&#34; comes from the Tanakh, there is obviously no fucking interest in Jewish interpretation of such a text) 2026-10-20T14:22:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswev2l8mc2k3y8dd44a36dlsxzpj5hpm5hqvvychh39afgm43nwzgzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwjw9cf7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsygkf7g4jk0e9rerueuchwxvlsxyla7fe6k062h0tg2p4g27ewphgye93zw'>nevent1q…93zw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>These people do not give a SHIT about the Christian religion, if by Christian religion we mean the actual sacred texts, their historical/theological interpretation, &amp; associated religious practices.<br/><br/>They aren&#39;t putting that shit in schools because they want kids to believe in anything in particular other than arbitrary authority &amp; because they wish to enforce participation in a cultural version of &#34;Christianity&#34;. 2026-10-20T14:14:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsygkf7g4jk0e9rerueuchwxvlsxyla7fe6k062h0tg2p4g27ewphgzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwmzsqjh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsylvnerenut7qrq47048qyxa0030yrqaxcjw49fl0w4ukqr6yf0zckqwzul'>nevent1q…wzul</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The fact that they are using the archaic King James &#34;thou shalt not&#34; version tells you how this is not about educating children in religion, but about imposing religious control.<br/><br/>If it were important to them that children should know &amp; understand that biblical text, it would not be in an unfamiliar form of English.<br/><br/>The incomprehensibility is likely the point. The thing about authoritarians is that they demonstrate their power by forcing people to submit to arbitrary &amp; illogical rules. 2026-10-20T14:10:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsylvnerenut7qrq47048qyxa0030yrqaxcjw49fl0w4ukqr6yf0zczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwcweaet In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvsaz2h0mscq9khr2z3hd32307x8hwzq7w6r4xky569zzkus7e8rc4jznvf'>nevent1q…znvf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Looked up the Texas bill, &amp; it&#39;s the actual King James text specifically, because OF COURSE it is.<br/><br/>It doesn&#39;t specify numbering though...<br/><br/>Fun fact about the King James Bible: not only is the language archaic, but it&#39;s also a fairly shitty translation based on inferior manuscripts that in some places include known errors. It&#39;s pretty shit, I&#39;m sorry to say. 2026-10-20T14:06:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvsaz2h0mscq9khr2z3hd32307x8hwzq7w6r4xky569zzkus7e8rczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw0pp9g4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8y9d5ruj4wrxdvfykqrym7p5pe54lyqtthu8xr4khqy628lgweusw96lkg'>nevent1q…6lkg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Anyway, I guess if I were forced by law to put up &#34;the 10 Commandments&#34; somewhere &amp; the exact version was not specifically given, I would probably go with the Catholic version just because I KNOW that&#39;s not what they mean. 2026-10-20T14:00:50Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8y9d5ruj4wrxdvfykqrym7p5pe54lyqtthu8xr4khqy628lgweuszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwmtdanm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq4c29jjp4j4halgw3e08p0s0gpmc363450hm7d8hcqqj9q7xa0jsf0c0k6'>nevent1q…c0k6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I presume the people writing these bills/making these decisions are not educated enough to know that there is no universally agreed upon definition of which &#34;commandment&#34; is which.<br/><br/>Is this important? Not terribly when compared to the bigger problem of forcing a religion onto people, but it does irritate my brain a little.<br/><br/>Or do the bills contain the exact text &amp; format to be used? 2026-10-20T13:55:45Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq4c29jjp4j4halgw3e08p0s0gpmc363450hm7d8hcqqj9q7xa0jszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw4eu576 The perhaps silly question I always have is about putting up the &#34;ten commandments&#34; in schools &amp; courthouses &amp; stuff is do they specify in those bills that they should use the Protestant 10 Commandments or does the Catholic version count too?<br/><br/>For those who don&#39;t know, the original text refers to the fact that YHWH gave Moses 10 &#34;commandments&#34;, but it doesn&#39;t tell you where they are separated, so Protestants &amp; Catholics break apart &amp; number the commandments differently. 2026-10-20T13:52:34Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqqkzr8c9fs0uc8r4dfctlcttrenmlf8sms764yhdm2lz5esh74kczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwkaj9dt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfufckd8zehsf32jy59ltqjfshy206g68mnrndfa4td2agz65gwygzd7znd'>nevent1q…7znd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>WHEN is it ok to say &#34;we gotta fight the Nazis&#34;??? 2026-10-09T20:52:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfufckd8zehsf32jy59ltqjfshy206g68mnrndfa4td2agz65gwygzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwzkfwz8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq25q3uhktmyukkgdlrqprx6nxvprn7j4jzn3l47f59404ul62gdq8ygu24'>nevent1q…gu24</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Am I MISSING SOMETHING here? Are we not dealing with a murderous, fascist regime? Am I losing my mind?<br/><br/>Why am I out here saying &#34;we have to stop them before they kill us&#34; while other people are waiting to see the results of the midterms?<br/><br/>What could I possibly be overlooking that is a reason for us to keep doing everything &#34;all in good order&#34;??? 2026-10-09T20:51:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq25q3uhktmyukkgdlrqprx6nxvprn7j4jzn3l47f59404ul62gdqzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwdmyqaa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszn4vgpnc2wkrzu22nyz8urqqlltw42q7whwpjdfkhtvwrnmcwvscrnx90l'>nevent1q…x90l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I feel almost &#34;crazy&#34; saying this because apparently most people don&#39;t see it like this.<br/><br/>But I&#39;m really not predicting the future here. I&#39;m literally talking about the *present*. I&#39;m talking about what&#39;s happening right now.<br/><br/>Sure, we can extrapolate it out, &amp; I do, but I don&#39;t have to do any extrapolating at all to say &#34;they are trying to kill us!&#34; because the evidence is all the killing. 2026-10-09T20:45:50Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsr5uvwhrptwhayf7gmgcnpnau9czt8u6ph6het5wcatskfgt8u56gzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwz7znkr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrn593dneua93x09lgllwykyey4n2jvxgcm920a67krnyzfuylg9gqecmd8'>nevent1q…cmd8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And hey look, it&#39;s not always going to be direct state violence either.<br/><br/>When the Christian Nationalists &amp; all their fashy friends feel empowered enough, they are more than happy to do the fucking killing themselves.<br/><br/>You gotta understand we aren&#39;t talking about &#34;opposing viewpoints.&#34; We&#39;re talking about *lethal violence*.<br/><br/>Anyone who doesn&#39;t fit in their white supremacist, patriarchal world is a target. Anyone who pushes back against their violence is a target. 2026-10-09T20:41:20Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszn4vgpnc2wkrzu22nyz8urqqlltw42q7whwpjdfkhtvwrnmcwvsczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwnarrlp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr5uvwhrptwhayf7gmgcnpnau9czt8u6ph6het5wcatskfgt8u56g59muns'>nevent1q…muns</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Even a lot of the people who are saying &#34;it&#39;s starting to look a lot like Nazi Germany in here&#34; don&#39;t seem to understand what that MEANS.<br/><br/>It means fucking mass murder &amp; the violent suppression of all dissent, y&#39;all. 2026-10-09T20:41:20Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrn593dneua93x09lgllwykyey4n2jvxgcm920a67krnyzfuylg9gzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwwlkjtg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspz6jyv0chrsjf7j5af620z0mwqndpr4nw466hxhykkprvjffdavcxqrjgl'>nevent1q…rjgl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>They murdered Renee Good for *nothing*.<br/><br/>They have so many abductees who are dying in their prisons.<br/><br/>Ok kids, here&#39;s the uncomfortable truth: they want to kill us, &amp; they have already started.<br/><br/>KILL. Not just make our lives harder or make us poorer. DEATH. MURDER. That&#39;s the fucking plan. That&#39;s what they are doing, &amp; they are even telling everyone it&#39;s what they intend to do! 2026-10-09T20:25:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspz6jyv0chrsjf7j5af620z0mwqndpr4nw466hxhykkprvjffdavczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw2rdse9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9sd235qtklysxvt50nsux93rwdrlh9y2rm92wj2huwu5pmgeau4gxw55c7'>nevent1q…55c7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Regardless of what WE do &amp; how &#34;peaceful&#34; WE are, the other side is going to kill &amp; kidnap &amp; kill some more.<br/><br/>As they are already doing. 2026-10-09T20:20:36Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9sd235qtklysxvt50nsux93rwdrlh9y2rm92wj2huwu5pmgeau4gzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwvnuyn0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8rkdgfdx7998txukuu5708r07l5egdu4803kk5kelntyme2mxd7sz3n5pg'>nevent1q…n5pg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You can stick to the &#34;peaceful&#34; side of this if you want, as long as you understand that you may still be murdered for it.<br/><br/>There&#39;s plenty of shit to do that doesn&#39;t involve any direct violence to another human being. In fact, most of what needs to be done is not directly violent (if we want a resistance, we gotta feed people, shelter them, build alternative ways of living, etc.), but that won&#39;t save you from being a target of their violence. Understand that. 2026-10-09T20:19:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8rkdgfdx7998txukuu5708r07l5egdu4803kk5kelntyme2mxd7szyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwa5t74t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsglg39dv6ql5j8jhvaq0wfnaenhm2qg5s3q0q07h5hrhjapnwgwyqywa9ka'>nevent1q…a9ka</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What do the fascists have to do to prove they are actual, legitimate, &#34;we will kill anyone who opposes us&#34; fascists?<br/><br/>Because they sure have been killing a lot of people.<br/><br/>And they keep saying that they want to kill more. 2026-10-09T20:13:46Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsglg39dv6ql5j8jhvaq0wfnaenhm2qg5s3q0q07h5hrhjapnwgwyqzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw44lj08 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyrnhd3fen2rckuqgha605fnk7m7cx6xw8uhc6jgrtk3vx62t5e7gfsqkh3'>nevent1q…qkh3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m seriously not telling you to run out &amp; get hurt for no reason, but you may have to get hurt for a good reason, ya know?<br/><br/>They are trying to crush dissent. They aren&#39;t going to stop.<br/><br/>They&#39;ll declare more &amp; more people enemies of the state. There will be more executions &amp; abductions, more displays of brutal force.<br/><br/>Are you willing to oppose that or are you going to wait your turn &amp; let them take you away quietly when they get to you? 2026-10-09T20:08:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyrnhd3fen2rckuqgha605fnk7m7cx6xw8uhc6jgrtk3vx62t5e7gzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwp2khpk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswwkej55tl6k8tc2p7grf40kl4qzu0u8qnfxxaqfjsyj0890j07rgpr5rx0'>nevent1q…5rx0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Are we willing to actually take risks for a better future or are we going to submit &amp; obey as the noose tightens around our necks?<br/><br/>I&#39;m fucking scared. I say that I have to be willing to write things that could get me arrested, but I&#39;m a fucking wimp. I&#39;m terrified of that. I&#39;ve never even taken a beating once in my life. I don&#39;t know that I&#39;m cut out for that.<br/><br/>But I know that I want to be a problem for evil people, so... I guess we&#39;ll find out. 🤷‍♀️ 2026-10-09T20:08:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswwkej55tl6k8tc2p7grf40kl4qzu0u8qnfxxaqfjsyj0890j07rgzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw90wdt6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0quzdwwn9xzlgerxmjur4299vxcyy6887cqsxe4say4aydyfw69c2maszh'>nevent1q…aszh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Don&#39;t ever do things just for the drama. Don&#39;t put yourself at unnecessary risk. Be safe &amp; be smart.<br/><br/>But be a problem. 2026-10-09T19:57:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0quzdwwn9xzlgerxmjur4299vxcyy6887cqsxe4say4aydyfw69czyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwys6gvj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8tcd7e9zcy07u2ywezn63s4yjs48udx9qnmewcyhwes8af0v8egc7ghs0v'>nevent1q…hs0v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s me, of course. You can decide which things you want to do that will make the fascists want to arrest you or worse, but...pick something, ok?<br/><br/>If you aren&#39;t doing something that is a pain in their ass, figure it out. 2026-10-09T19:56:08Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8tcd7e9zcy07u2ywezn63s4yjs48udx9qnmewcyhwes8af0v8egczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwumlurh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvthch62vcg2d7ej3qk82e5a8td0ygu7sg8xsr4vzdzhzc563nhas0yrxwx'>nevent1q…rxwx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My goal at this point is to try to reach &amp; educate people however I can &amp; keep getting more radical with it until I actually fear I&#39;m going to get arrested or worse.<br/><br/>I mean, there&#39;s no point in *trying* to get arrested as such, but my ultimate purpose as a propagandist is to be *worth* arresting.<br/><br/>If I&#39;m not writing things that the fascists would like to silence, I&#39;m not getting it right. 2026-10-09T19:54:51Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvthch62vcg2d7ej3qk82e5a8td0ygu7sg8xsr4vzdzhzc563nhaszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw3nu4ac In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg7anwy8f078uf3x64nremjsfflape0y53m94c55kzfwkxv73clqcuch2pn'>nevent1q…h2pn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If you&#39;ve ever once in your life fantasized about what it would be like to stand up against evil, violent oppressors, now&#39;s your fucking chance.<br/><br/>You like Star Wars? Be the fucking Rebel Alliance, then. 2026-10-09T19:50:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg7anwy8f078uf3x64nremjsfflape0y53m94c55kzfwkxv73clqczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw2g32wx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrq5atvywfg3u4ehalnade72fyet2qegfsmgrtzxujyxxmjmsvmess0knnw'>nevent1q…knnw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Democrats would like you to believe that fascism is always around the NEXT corner. Just vote for them! Just donate money! They&#39;ll stop the fascism before it gets here. They *promise*.<br/><br/>Whatever happens, it&#39;s always the NEXT thing that is &#34;too far&#34;. Never what&#39;s happening now, no matter what it is that is happening. 2026-10-09T19:47:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrq5atvywfg3u4ehalnade72fyet2qegfsmgrtzxujyxxmjmsvmeszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw7xg4m2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgzldwvp0pvu6w586u36kv6aph7ch9eexay9ku69f4f4f644astuctn8uvq'>nevent1q…8uvq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s so fucking wild to be sitting here with people still unsure if things have gone far enough or gotten bad enough.<br/><br/>Have you forgotten how this year started? With mass abductions? With government agents executing people in the streets?<br/><br/>At what point do we acknowledge what&#39;s actually happening? Do we ever? Or does &#34;too far&#34; just keep moving a little further away so that we never get there? 2026-10-09T19:43:21Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgzldwvp0pvu6w586u36kv6aph7ch9eexay9ku69f4f4f644astuczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwvg7urf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvheqdepn8t6jfz75fcqvelk8jm0lrgqhdycn5ydpglkas7j36khcjn7jsn'>nevent1q…7jsn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I was complaining earlier about the right-wingers who can&#39;t even draw the line here, but I take it that MOST people aren&#39;t drawing the line at public executions, if we&#39;re still going with the &#34;vote them out!&#34; strategy.<br/><br/>So the question of &#34;is there anything that goes too far?&#34; is a question for *everyone* who wants to solve everything &#34;democratically&#34;.<br/><br/>Is anything far enough to make you say &#34;I will oppose this with my life, my labor, &amp; everything I&#39;ve got&#34;? 2026-10-09T19:38:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvheqdepn8t6jfz75fcqvelk8jm0lrgqhdycn5ydpglkas7j36khczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwtztf0e Speaking of &#34;drawing the line at public executions&#34;, here&#39;s one for the &#34;just vote harder&#34; crowd:<br/><br/>When the fascist regime is saying they are going to start live streaming execution (by FIRING SQUAD), do you still think we should submit to &amp; obey the state? 2026-10-09T19:34:37Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2xlkyqrypxupds69zpkq4x60vh7dzpv5h0qtyq269ggsjwjl7drszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwe3g4gm Destruction of rich people&#39;s property isn&#39;t &#34;violence&#34;.<br/><br/>I mean, I&#39;m not telling you to do anything.<br/><br/>But that&#39;s not what violence is. 2026-10-09T19:27:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsr5604nt74sah8u0u3lnc58h8v36phjqn525lznj6kd542lzjru3qzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwwc9hdf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspdgnt2sqn7l0ycdfgnjaemsww2fn4etsl84nnc55fmy7nmern87g3hfr0h'>nevent1q…fr0h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Goddess knows I didn&#39;t know I was precious like that when I was a child.<br/><br/>I didn&#39;t know that I should NEVER have been asked to kill all my own wants &amp; needs for the sake of the people demanding things from me.<br/><br/>I destroyed myself internally because everything around me seemed to be telling me &#34;you&#39;re not worth it. What you need doesn&#39;t matter.&#34;<br/><br/>Kids aren&#39;t born knowing that they matter, &amp; words will never be enough to teach them. If people don&#39;t show them with their actions, they won&#39;t know. 2026-10-07T20:16:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspdgnt2sqn7l0ycdfgnjaemsww2fn4etsl84nnc55fmy7nmern87gzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw2dsr8c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr04e4476kal0zlt0qs39lxv9fklz857zgct9r6vmcw0ha83hcczsffn34c'>nevent1q…n34c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Kids should know that they are worth fighting for.<br/><br/>Family peace is never worth the sacrifice of a child&#39;s ability to feel loved &amp; cherished &amp; protected.<br/><br/>Better if you don&#39;t have to fight. So much better.<br/><br/>But if it comes down to it, they should be able to see that they *deserve* to be protected.<br/><br/>They should know that they are so much more precious than other people&#39;s comfort &amp; convenience.<br/><br/>They should know that their own self-worth is far too big a sacrifice just to keep the peace. 2026-10-07T20:11:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsr04e4476kal0zlt0qs39lxv9fklz857zgct9r6vmcw0ha83hcczszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwnlcffk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg9htn030smvvp68hhmujpcv6uf7j4mnkp5qxcu37egrafk69m6ec8t3jk4'>nevent1q…3jk4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The good news with the niece I&#39;m most concerned about right now is that I don&#39;t have to worry that starting a fight with her dad will get me cut off from her.<br/><br/>Her mom would love it if I became a more active supportive person in her daughter&#39;s life. My brother can&#39;t cut me out of my niece&#39;s life. Ha! 2026-10-07T20:01:58Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg9htn030smvvp68hhmujpcv6uf7j4mnkp5qxcu37egrafk69m6eczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwscfsu9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyx2sgert0dt7hpk8s7hsdldqf78ctpyru9hpfjcyhx5alvmyppsctjkcn3'>nevent1q…kcn3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And the truth is, it doesn&#39;t matter which of my siblings with kids we&#39;re talking about, because while it&#39;s a sliding scale of behavior &amp; attitudes, ALL of them are raising their kids into an authoritarian culture that absolutely devastates people&#39;s psyches.<br/><br/>They are doing &amp; saying soul-crushing things to their kids right now. Fuck them for handing down the trauma to a new generation.<br/><br/>They should have listened the FIRST time I told them it was poison. Why do we gotta go through this again? 2026-10-07T19:52:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyx2sgert0dt7hpk8s7hsdldqf78ctpyru9hpfjcyhx5alvmyppsczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw60rcr5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs94dr2g9mspfclgu8v8y4d92qw8ntsf6njr0aalkm0hya0xvxtepg9p29ha'>nevent1q…29ha</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m glad I have therapy today because I&#39;m going to need to SCREAM about this.<br/><br/>I&#39;m just now at a point where I feel I&#39;ve repaired the worst of the damage they did to me.<br/><br/>I&#39;m just now saying &#34;these people have no power over me,&#34; but now I look behind me &amp; see the little people that they do have power over, &amp; here we go again.<br/><br/>You fuckers. I&#39;m going to teach your kids radical self-acceptance, &amp; I&#39;m going to show them that they deserve to be protected.<br/><br/>Fucking hell. 2026-10-07T19:43:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs94dr2g9mspfclgu8v8y4d92qw8ntsf6njr0aalkm0hya0xvxtepgzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwar2qq6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd2upmk0qn7w9zsp076a5yehkh3pwa40sx8ekx04svw9eanrp59lq6r5p2d'>nevent1q…5p2d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>But fuck these people for making me deal with their selfishness again because they refuse to fucking grow up.<br/><br/>Fuck them for making me clean up their messes &amp; leaving me to try to mitigate the emotional damage they leave in their wake.<br/><br/>Fuck them very much.<br/><br/>It wasn&#39;t fair when I was a child, &amp; it isn&#39;t fair now.<br/><br/>Fuck everyone who forced me to become a fighter. I just want to love &amp; be kind to everyone. But sometimes loving people means you have to fight. 2026-10-07T19:35:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd2upmk0qn7w9zsp076a5yehkh3pwa40sx8ekx04svw9eanrp59lqzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwkawzq4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspln6gzfrh6lefy5ja5yl73wt4px6aepzzf98xe5f59qrduca70qgjpj77e'>nevent1q…j77e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Back to being the thorn in everyone&#39;s side I guess...<br/><br/>The &#34;peace&#34; was nice while it lasted. 🙄 2026-10-07T19:28:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspln6gzfrh6lefy5ja5yl73wt4px6aepzzf98xe5f59qrduca70qgzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwz889nd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspju6axc96t2ltgcats5nf6nqpmuc8xc3f3vl7gklzsg7aqd27rvsxz2duf'>nevent1q…2duf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I swear to goddess that all I want is peace &amp; kindness &amp; compassion.<br/><br/>I swear I don&#39;t enjoy conflict.<br/><br/>Actually it eats me up inside sometimes.<br/><br/>I swear I don&#39;t start fights for no reason. I can actually be a really good mediator &amp; often I am the one ending fights instead of starting them!<br/><br/>Right now I&#39;m just getting my bearings &amp; checking in with my niece. Doing recon, I guess.<br/><br/>But I WILL start a fight if &amp; when I have to. I&#39;m not fucking scared. I&#39;ve been fighting my whole life. 2026-10-07T19:22:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspju6axc96t2ltgcats5nf6nqpmuc8xc3f3vl7gklzsg7aqd27rvszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwqj6nlp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrldxza4rkaxmun5pzrupvl3cf24cn3pvsspwwcjr6n77eyjlzuuqy3nd83'>nevent1q…nd83</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Goddamn it.<br/><br/>Just...goddamnit.<br/><br/>I don&#39;t always enjoy being a fighter. It&#39;s really nice to get along with everyone &amp; forget &amp; forgive.<br/><br/>But I am a fighter. I always have been.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve always looked out for people younger or more vulnerable than me. I&#39;ve always tried to stand up for myself too.<br/><br/>I&#39;m not going to start any drama if I don&#39;t have to, but I&#39;m officially on standby. If I gotta fight a family member on behalf of a nibling, I&#39;m doing it. 2026-10-07T19:13:53Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrldxza4rkaxmun5pzrupvl3cf24cn3pvsspwwcjr6n77eyjlzuuqzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw3wm8ck RE: <a href="https://dice.camp/@artemis/117400924070477305">https://dice.camp/@artemis/117400924070477305</a><br/><br/>I was just thinking I was getting to be ok with my family, but as my niblings are reaching adolescence it&#39;s like &#34;ok, gear up for round two!&#34;<br/><br/>LOL<br/><br/>I fought for myself &amp; my little brother &amp; little sister. I can do it even better now.<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1a45s28ktctj4lac5pvgl45frhsg5kt00q5pyeu6has92pzjqjtdsyts269" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1a45…s269</a></span><br/> </div> I guess when I say I've always known that one of my niblings was going to someday need me as a safe adult that means I've always known on some level that I was going to become fucking furious with their parents, my siblings.<br/><br/>I've tried so hard to move on from childhood wounds, but then they went & had kids, & now those same things I was starting to forgive & let go are hitting a second generation of children.<br/><br/>The same carelessness & selfishness that hurt me hasn't gone away, unfortunately. </blockquote> 2026-10-07T18:45:26Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw66g9rm9u9e2l7u2qky066y3mcy2t9hhs2qjv7dt7cz4q3fqf9kczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw696n5p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy5v520zkdjzaj90txp2j3lr75akhztek2awhyxr3vqlzw9cg2h6c3m4j5t'>nevent1q…4j5t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I guess when I say I&#39;ve always known that one of my niblings was going to someday need me as a safe adult that means I&#39;ve always known on some level that I was going to become fucking furious with their parents, my siblings.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve tried so hard to move on from childhood wounds, but then they went &amp; had kids, &amp; now those same things I was starting to forgive &amp; let go are hitting a second generation of children.<br/><br/>The same carelessness &amp; selfishness that hurt me hasn&#39;t gone away, unfortunately. 2026-10-07T17:58:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy5v520zkdjzaj90txp2j3lr75akhztek2awhyxr3vqlzw9cg2h6czyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwa2rjqd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgcc0rw02utnmg32t453v77t4zmwz7ww8dlz7dtmchcxp2q3u39aqqgd9tr'>nevent1q…d9tr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It breaks my fucking heart to realize how much she must be suffering right now.<br/><br/>I know she has a lot of loving people in her life. I know this little child finds (&amp; creates) a lot of joy in her life.<br/><br/>But it simply is not possible that she is &#34;fine&#34;. It is not ok for a parent to treat you like an inconvenience or an accessory to their life. That is a deep wound.<br/><br/>A kid doesn&#39;t just stop talking to her dad whom she used to adore on a whim. She is hurt. 2026-10-07T17:52:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgcc0rw02utnmg32t453v77t4zmwz7ww8dlz7dtmchcxp2q3u39aqzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwdmlwuk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy737knqud66yx6le4c60fvw92dkjv7e3aldtv5rf0ras82v6y3pcuwt59x'>nevent1q…t59x</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It would be foolish to think she receives a completely different treatment than the rest of us.<br/><br/>And I&#39;ve been waiting for him to fucking GROW UP. I&#39;ve been believing it&#39;s right around the corner, but clearly if he&#39;s going to grow up &amp; get some perspective, it&#39;s not happening any time soon.<br/><br/>This is who he is, &amp; how he acts, &amp; I want so badly for that to be different. I have ALWAYS wanted to believe it was different. I&#39;m his little sister! Of course I did!<br/><br/>But there&#39;s a kid. 2026-10-07T17:45:57Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy737knqud66yx6le4c60fvw92dkjv7e3aldtv5rf0ras82v6y3pczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwsa564h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs27mk2jtmkr8sk2z5qns7tmn2k58frp3l2ws7cd72a47ep0ynvckcq3h7q7'>nevent1q…h7q7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And the truth is, I already know it&#39;s not an emotionally safe environment.<br/><br/>Any other red flags aside, it&#39;s not okay for her to be treated as an accessory to her father&#39;s life. The damage that a self-centered parent can do to a kid&#39;s psyche is massive. How many little ways does he invalidate &amp; de-prioritize her &amp; her needs?<br/><br/>Because like I said, the WHOLE GODDAMN FAMILY KNOWS that he has always been at the center of his own universe, the main character AND the perpetual victim. 2026-10-07T17:45:57Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs27mk2jtmkr8sk2z5qns7tmn2k58frp3l2ws7cd72a47ep0ynvckczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwdmr2p4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs83qusjx3d56jpus3lx7qd9y3xd74u2aaxh653z3p7vfrh94tq6hglem84s'>nevent1q…m84s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I always want to believe the best of everyone, but it&#39;s not an option to just assume things are fine when a kid is involved.<br/><br/>If red flags exist, you HAVE to follow up on them.<br/><br/>If you&#39;re in a situation where you want to give someone &#34;the benefit of the doubt,&#34; then it&#39;s your job to reduce the amount of doubt by learning more ESPECIALLY when kids are involved. 2026-10-07T17:33:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs83qusjx3d56jpus3lx7qd9y3xd74u2aaxh653z3p7vfrh94tq6hgzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwgskhj3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvz782d2p4cjy3cgrw5x9e9ru2dsx6rpv2zmcuftg0rgv3z80zfaqn7lgew'>nevent1q…lgew</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What sucks is having to deal with the distance between what I would like my brother to be—the person I think he could become—and who he actually is.<br/><br/>One of the problems is that in a certain sense I feel like I actually don&#39;t have much information or insight into who he is. I feel like he presents a carefully curated version of himself to me.<br/><br/>But there are things I *do* know, &amp; some of them suggest a pretty ugly picture, regardless of the other &#34;good&#34; things. 2026-10-07T17:33:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvz782d2p4cjy3cgrw5x9e9ru2dsx6rpv2zmcuftg0rgv3z80zfaqzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwqv0h0q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswfrr0psxmna06su5gapmr4l3wcnvl670pav0wlv3nujk3z2lcg0qlwvlz8'>nevent1q…vlz8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve always known the day was coming when I was going to need to be there for one or more of my niblings.<br/><br/>I haven&#39;t really known how to make myself more a part of their lives. All of them are 100s of miles away, &amp; I have so-so *at best* relationships with their parents.<br/><br/>But now that I&#39;m back in touch with her mom—who is eager for her daughter to feel loved &amp; supported by the family—I&#39;m sure I can work something out. 2026-10-07T17:18:57Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswfrr0psxmna06su5gapmr4l3wcnvl670pav0wlv3nujk3z2lcg0qzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwrxp63k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9jkh5f9h8qzrvnv26uw3p7wyk5t4qt02ez2tpxf3nrklw3vlztsgym8ejt'>nevent1q…8ejt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And don&#39;t think that I&#39;m missing the misogyny there. It sure seems like as she&#39;s reaching adolescence he&#39;s decided that this female person near him must be there to attend to HIS emotional needs. 2026-10-07T16:54:31Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9jkh5f9h8qzrvnv26uw3p7wyk5t4qt02ez2tpxf3nrklw3vlztsgzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw6jyr9d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfcfnefm8h3p0a75lrmfxnmfqedtn2d7tn953plhakyjmruypl4fcvfn7xm'>nevent1q…n7xm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m so angry at him.<br/><br/>I&#39;m so angry that he is always at the center of his own world. His daughter is just something in his orbit. He has affection for her, but...the center of his world is always him &amp; him alone.<br/><br/>He&#39;s complained to me that his 10 year old daughter should be more understanding that he&#39;s doing the best he can, &amp; it&#39;s like... she&#39;s already given you more understanding &amp; compassion than should be asked from a little child. 2026-10-07T16:54:31Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfcfnefm8h3p0a75lrmfxnmfqedtn2d7tn953plhakyjmruypl4fczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwynrwru In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgcydxn94ptmm8jztw7mllsl0qdwnsvrd0ac33ynrmtw5nrm65xvgstjhce'>nevent1q…jhce</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>But Bro2 has never paid much attention to anyone but himself. That&#39;s a trait that goes back to childhood.<br/><br/>So I don&#39;t suppose he&#39;s ever given much thought to what it has cost my parents to try to be good parents to their kids.<br/><br/>When he decided to have a kid, he didn&#39;t expect it to cost him much at all, I think.<br/><br/>But he expects people to do such difficult things for him. It&#39;s so frustrating. 2026-10-07T16:46:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgcydxn94ptmm8jztw7mllsl0qdwnsvrd0ac33ynrmtw5nrm65xvgzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwklsjsc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg6qad8p2z52p7svn5vqfqqlmt2f3c46x7ykl2nrd3kq920p0lq0gs8z4jr'>nevent1q…z4jr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know where he learned to be a dad, but it certainly wasn&#39;t from my dad.<br/><br/>Bro1, for all his faults, is a dad to his kids the way my dad was to us. It&#39;s not perfect. They will have some problems with him. But he loves them to the end of the earth. He would do anything for his kids. Actually my best hope of him getting out of the cult is that when his kids grow up &amp; start to challenge him, he&#39;s going to have to listen to them, because I don&#39;t think he could bear to lose one of them. 2026-10-07T16:46:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg6qad8p2z52p7svn5vqfqqlmt2f3c46x7ykl2nrd3kq920p0lq0gzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwg92xke In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs974d52uu2f0etcuaqhxqt8ss7zuxfuy7yu03u52amkl7538rpm4gtk4320'>nevent1q…4320</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The least you could do is be the same kind of parent to your daughter that you expect your parents to be to you.<br/><br/>But that would be haaaard, wouldn&#39;t it? That would cost you.<br/><br/>You&#39;d have to be willing to answer the phone in the middle of the night &amp; drive hundreds of miles just because your kid needs you. You&#39;d have to never stop trying to understand her. You&#39;d have to be willing to accept her no matter what choices she makes. 2026-10-07T16:38:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs974d52uu2f0etcuaqhxqt8ss7zuxfuy7yu03u52amkl7538rpm4gzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw8gx9f9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgusr3ll8j4auutv09nfzcped9yzuauy7k2dn7wq3n88aw4pel2mczr4srd'>nevent1q…4srd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Dude, you think your parents should continue to reach out even when you push them away &amp; they should be available to you in both emotional &amp; practical ways regardless of whether you value &amp; prioritize your relationship to them.<br/><br/>But then your 10 year old daughter withdraws emotionally from you &amp; you just shrug like &#34;there&#39;s nothing I can do!&#34; 2026-10-07T16:32:20Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgusr3ll8j4auutv09nfzcped9yzuauy7k2dn7wq3n88aw4pel2mczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwfg33n2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq2rsle463aq9pefuzsc2xhv6e2vja35wyka8jq2prg8xqhzg2ycg2xwpj2'>nevent1q…wpj2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Also, how the fuck are you expecting your parents to continue to give &amp; give &amp; help you &amp; never give up on you into fucking middle age, but you can&#39;t fucking be present for your daughter?<br/><br/>What he expects from HIS parents is NOT the same care he gives to HIS child. 2026-10-07T16:30:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq2rsle463aq9pefuzsc2xhv6e2vja35wyka8jq2prg8xqhzg2ycgzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwztdmkw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstz6q63yyfhanh85585rk8dpd7cx8c4lrs7t38kks42e4mtua3ypcqstmk4'>nevent1q…tmk4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is one of the things I mean when I say my older siblings don&#39;t seem to have transitioned to an adult relationship with our parents.<br/><br/>It&#39;s absolutely wild to be in your late 30s with parents in their late 60s &amp; still be expecting them to hold you up through everything like they did when you were a kid.<br/><br/>My parents have never stopped being there for us. They&#39;ve never stopped being willing to help us.<br/><br/>But I find it weird to treat them like a &#34;help dispenser&#34;. 2026-10-07T16:23:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstz6q63yyfhanh85585rk8dpd7cx8c4lrs7t38kks42e4mtua3ypczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwh0e77y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv6705cs545ykuz5k3h4k8g4p03r4n5graeg9682cwsvrn97wuuwg2ptyct'>nevent1q…tyct</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I dunno, dude, these particular people don&#39;t seem to burn out on helping me, but I think that may be because I am a positive presence in their lives.<br/><br/>It&#39;s not a &#34;transaction&#34;. I don&#39;t buy their help, but I don&#39;t forget about or ignore them when I&#39;m not in crisis. I don&#39;t have anyone in my life who I only go to when I need something from them. 2026-10-07T16:18:10Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv6705cs545ykuz5k3h4k8g4p03r4n5graeg9682cwsvrn97wuuwgzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwzdw9ex In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8x3xeuhc3kt09l3ku5qjkvf0hrqv7ccar8wlcx4w8xkr3e4ssg5sekvr3x'>nevent1q…vr3x</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Would my mom rather frequently get a phone call from her child or have them occasionally give her a nice gift? How is it hard to figure out that people you lean on for support would like to know that you care for them? 2026-10-07T16:14:19Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstlyzp979lxt3eq6jl7hlk6uvvy5zr83fxndlkg3nqrv4vyjfluzqzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwjealys In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdkezhpd8j5fq6w9wjz3lda7plpgqa05k2596wdsmwdmf44c40x5g9dmdee'>nevent1q…mdee</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>When he brings this up, I always ask &#34;well, what do you do to stay in touch?&#34; and I never get an answer.<br/><br/>Also, a big difference between the rest of us calling our parents vs them calling him is if WE are the ones calling THEM, we are expressing to them that they are valuable parts of our lives.<br/><br/>Does he just expect endless support from our parents for the rest of their lives while doing nothing to affirm their importance to him? 2026-10-07T16:14:19Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8x3xeuhc3kt09l3ku5qjkvf0hrqv7ccar8wlcx4w8xkr3e4ssg5szyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw9q84kv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstlyzp979lxt3eq6jl7hlk6uvvy5zr83fxndlkg3nqrv4vyjfluzqygqplz'>nevent1q…qplz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is why when my older siblings want to do fancy things to &#34;show appreciation&#34; to our parents, I can&#39;t take it seriously.<br/><br/>You know how you show appreciation to people who are always there for you whenever you need them? By being there for them &amp; by showing them that you want them to be in your life even when you are NOT in crisis. 2026-10-07T16:14:19Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdkezhpd8j5fq6w9wjz3lda7plpgqa05k2596wdsmwdmf44c40x5gzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw492vfx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8n5htae6xzn0tvcytnv882jp6qrhkxx47prgpwr75mszcf4w9r0gfrvvdp'>nevent1q…vvdp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>But it wouldn&#39;t occur to Bro2 that maybe people have been putting in extra effort *just for him* for a long time to keep him connected to the family &amp; make sure he&#39;s safe.<br/><br/>If he *feels* alone, it must be because he&#39;s been abandoned. If people stop reaching out to him when he doesn&#39;t welcome it, they must have stopped loving him. 2026-10-07T16:04:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswauvc6lyrl2tecturusz76d9sqtyyeqlmh9vkfphhrxkxa8a4pnqzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwvzm3h0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9c50lppuh7v9g9jyze88zg9qte44p7hy9fmjev6fa3g8q02p0gqchadj6g'>nevent1q…dj6g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So if my dad is not ignoring calls from him (&amp; I know he is not), then how could my dad be &#34;not talking to him&#34;?<br/><br/>Well, it occurs to me that maybe my parents have been in the habit of calling Bro2 to catch up &amp; chat, &amp; perhaps my dad is no longer doing that.<br/><br/>Here&#39;s the thing: my parents don&#39;t call any of the rest of us. WE call THEM when WE want to talk. That&#39;s been true at least since I went to college. They will always pick up, they&#39;ll talk as long as you want, but it&#39;s entirely on our terms. 2026-10-07T16:00:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8n5htae6xzn0tvcytnv882jp6qrhkxx47prgpwr75mszcf4w9r0gzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw3a9fjn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9dy3cyt0drcvjsv7k4w3cc67fj4u00z3w85j8nht2zrhaymxrg9czf2lux'>nevent1q…2lux</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So yeah, I think he is interpreting the fact that they have withdrawn some of the EXTRA EFFORT they have put in JUST FOR HIM as if they were cutting him off.<br/><br/>He called my dad the other day, &amp; wouldn&#39;t you know it? My dad picked up &amp; talked with him.<br/><br/>It didn&#39;t even occur to me to ask the clarifying question, wait, do you mean that in the past Dad was calling you?? He doesn&#39;t do that for any other of his children! 2026-10-07T16:00:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9dy3cyt0drcvjsv7k4w3cc67fj4u00z3w85j8nht2zrhaymxrg9czyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwa5rx86 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswauvc6lyrl2tecturusz76d9sqtyyeqlmh9vkfphhrxkxa8a4pnq5whw4r'>nevent1q…hw4r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So...uh... If he thinks my parents not calling him is proof that they don&#39;t care, um... they&#39;ve evidently been putting a much higher effort into staying in touch with Bro2 than they do with ANYONE ELSE. Likely because they are concerned about him AND because he doesn&#39;t get in touch if they don&#39;t.<br/><br/>But if Bro2 is acting annoyed or frustrated or like he doesn&#39;t want to talk when Dad calls him, of course Dad is going to back off. 2026-10-07T16:00:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9c50lppuh7v9g9jyze88zg9qte44p7hy9fmjev6fa3g8q02p0gqczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwu88q3a My brother has been saying he doesn&#39;t feel supported by family, &amp; one of the reasons he gives is &#34;I think Dad isn&#39;t talking to me,&#34; &amp; I&#39;ve never quite gotten a straight answer on what that means, but I think maybe I&#39;ve figured it out.<br/><br/>There&#39;s no way that my dad would not pick up the phone when my brother calls.<br/><br/>Bro2 is constantly teetering on the edge of crisis, &amp; my dad is our crisis line (call Mom for chatting &amp; catching up; call Dad if you need help NOW). 2026-10-07T16:00:46Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqw49w32ch75zaru2gu967s3ac3qst4sj840s8e5pzmge4844hjxgzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwwa9s7l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqg8c8k47murgph2ead98h2mm6hfrlar0xdmxunfmjju23pdfvw6s4yrwmr'>nevent1q…rwmr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The child is not &#34;confused,&#34; &amp; no one else could tell her who she is.<br/><br/>I legitimately think it&#39;s one of her greatest strengths, &amp; Spouse independently observing that helps confirm my opinion.<br/><br/>I have never gotten the impression that this child wants to pretend to be anyone other than herself.<br/><br/>You want to talk indoctrination? ALL of my other niblings go to church every single Sunday &amp; get told EXACTLY who they are &amp; what will happen to them if they don&#39;t fit that mold.<br/><br/>That&#39;s indoctrination. 2026-10-07T13:16:58Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqg8c8k47murgph2ead98h2mm6hfrlar0xdmxunfmjju23pdfvw6szyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwdx6zp3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrcwl4fymyuscvs0t9cllu44ntu6t8ak49cc0urse4pgs9t0wn26c64t4wg'>nevent1q…t4wg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Seriously, we had almost my whole family together recently, &amp; what did Spouse remark to me about that he thought made this Niece different to my siblings other kids? Self-awareness. He said he was impressed that a child at her age had such a clear idea of who she was &amp; how she wanted to be.<br/><br/>He looked at my other niblings &amp; saw a bunch of sweet kids, but it was this particular child he noticed &amp; said &#34;THAT one knows who she is.&#34; 2026-10-07T13:11:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfq4ajla6tmthtsvhvu08n2j32zetcj2zpmefjlj76umjmx5mq0kszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwx5q9n7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx4ah33chx3dkvn8aatf0xcwtg4ffpcyt0923w3qlkpjqgkf7xassr20f93'>nevent1q…0f93</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Of course, he thinks his daughter has been indoctrinated, but when I talked to her mom she told me that while she had never heard the word &#34;therian&#34; until Niece brought it up to her, Niece has expressed that she identifies very strongly with wolves since she was about 5 years old.<br/><br/>So sure, she learned a new word for it &amp; found out that other people feel a similar way to her, but no one taught her to feel that way about herself, &amp; it&#39;s a feeling/identity that has persisted for a long time. 2026-10-07T13:08:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrcwl4fymyuscvs0t9cllu44ntu6t8ak49cc0urse4pgs9t0wn26czyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwhe4fwu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfq4ajla6tmthtsvhvu08n2j32zetcj2zpmefjlj76umjmx5mq0ksz4ts9u'>nevent1q…ts9u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And it&#39;s like...DUDE. She&#39;s not confused about her status as a person! Like, the child clearly knows &amp; understands that physically she&#39;s a human being &amp; that she needs relationships with other human beings. She&#39;s not running off to live feral in the wilderness. She just feels a kinship &amp; something to relate to there.<br/><br/>Human beings strongly identifying with a particular type of animal is so not new. Pretty sure there are examples going all the way back to the beginning of recorded human history. 2026-10-07T13:08:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx4ah33chx3dkvn8aatf0xcwtg4ffpcyt0923w3qlkpjqgkf7xasszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwtxreey In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspj6jazh88fns6hf0pkm5vcavr0jq6jrwa5zadqpwrc8m6hpyr97g6kf7fq'>nevent1q…f7fq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Apparently kids don&#39;t have any say over who they are &amp; they don&#39;t get to ask other people to see them as they see themselves.<br/><br/>FUCK THAT.<br/><br/>You don&#39;t own your kids. You can&#39;t control who they are &amp; how they will express it. And if you&#39;re &#34;worried&#34; for them, worry about whether other people will allow them to exist freely &amp; safely as themselves. 2026-10-07T12:54:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspj6jazh88fns6hf0pkm5vcavr0jq6jrwa5zadqpwrc8m6hpyr97gzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw3959sw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp8wgpe887huyf7r68ev3eglywwggfcpz4uevjrrxupwtaym7q59qewd7rm'>nevent1q…d7rm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t even think there is any particular reason to think my niece is gay. He&#39;s just panicking at the idea that there might be things he&#39;ll have to accept about his child, &amp; he doesn&#39;t get any say in it.<br/><br/>She&#39;s 10 years old &amp; has not really expressed any interest in people of any gender yet (although I presume it would also not be acceptable if it were to turn out that she is asexual).<br/><br/>But the wolf-girl thing proves she&#39;s got a non-standard identity already, so anything could happen. 2026-10-07T12:54:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp8wgpe887huyf7r68ev3eglywwggfcpz4uevjrrxupwtaym7q59qzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw68dwq7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfg7z5yjq4884072xwrs3ywpa8r8xadg4ruhlzxplcp5ugp8hyunc3serc2'>nevent1q…erc2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And you want to know one reason why abuse *can* get very bad in queer communities or relationships?<br/><br/>Because if you are queer &amp; being abused, there is no one safe to turn to. I mean, are you gonna go to the COPS? 2026-10-07T12:46:52Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfhzmj955pwupdeptlp3ldguh5fl2m99py8v22veesdex6c572whgzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwzuzwrc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszz2sr2ry7nqcn3w9g877mm37vqe69wwq5s29sjf4tr9w5ltmve3q2nvz5r'>nevent1q…vz5r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Like, my dude, queer people experience more violence because we are more vulnerable in this society.<br/><br/>Some of it is directly because we&#39;re queer, &amp; some of it is because we&#39;re more likely to be in poverty &amp; other factors like that.<br/><br/>Either way, we experience violence because we live in a society that makes it possible for people to commit violence against us &amp; get away with it. 2026-10-07T12:44:45Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfg7z5yjq4884072xwrs3ywpa8r8xadg4ruhlzxplcp5ugp8hyunczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwnl6c06 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfhzmj955pwupdeptlp3ldguh5fl2m99py8v22veesdex6c572whgx2lcn0'>nevent1q…lcn0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So he&#39;s worried his daughter could hypothetically be gay because he thinks other GAY people would abuse her?<br/><br/>What about the religious fundamentalists in the weird little libertarian campsite you live at, bro? Do you think that maybe just maaaaybe, people like that are more likely to do violence against queer people? Maaaaybe?<br/><br/>Additional reason he can&#39;t accept her as a wolf-girl: he lives among people who would be disgusting &amp; horrible about it. 2026-10-07T12:44:45Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszz2sr2ry7nqcn3w9g877mm37vqe69wwq5s29sjf4tr9w5ltmve3qzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwapsa84 Here&#39;s another fun one: apparently (according to my ex-SIL) my brother uses the statistics about the higher level of violence that queer people experience as evidence that queer people are extremely violent to other queer people.<br/><br/>I suppose the assumption is that we never have contact with anyone but each other? 2026-10-07T12:37:25Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswk0nwuljm2ypp3snawjh5hjznskjjxruqm4q8002ycm25uduvuaczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwxez0n0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdkfsj9srs7ztt8z4x29s6n7llxt07hmtpp7a0a9s78202ypcvf8shlmnvz'>nevent1q…mnvz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Your child has been through enough. She can be a fox if she wants to.<br/><br/>It&#39;ll be fine.<br/><br/>Maybe it will be better than fine. Maybe it&#39;s something that helps her love herself &amp; feel secure. She was always going to have to find her own sense of belonging in the world.<br/><br/>I guess this is the degeneracy that the left wants: people wearing fox masks &amp; cute little tails because it makes them feel at home with themselves. Oh the horror! How can society possibly survive this? 2026-10-05T14:56:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdkfsj9srs7ztt8z4x29s6n7llxt07hmtpp7a0a9s78202ypcvf8szyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwlmjejp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy5u325t7zgxyt7csl44quzg78xwkjc34eyqf8r0hckza4cqzh2zqhvhgf8'>nevent1q…hgf8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>But to him it&#39;s an &#34;ideology&#34; that she&#39;s been captured by, &amp; I don&#39;t quite get that. I mean, I do, because I know about his right-wing influences, but...<br/><br/>Is the &#34;ideology&#34; that you can exist however you want to as long as you aren&#39;t harming anyone? In principle, he of all people ought to agree with that.<br/><br/>I haven&#39;t talked to my niece, so I don&#39;t know her feelings except through his lens, but I&#39;m going to encourage him to stop seeing &#34;ideology&#34; &amp; see his daughter &amp; her feelings &amp; experiences. 2026-10-05T14:46:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy5u325t7zgxyt7csl44quzg78xwkjc34eyqf8r0hckza4cqzh2zqzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwg2xy3s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrxn5hc0wr8xlm3s2v6l288phuhl9yxlepwz8vtw6g3hpkatmpadcn6fnzm'>nevent1q…fnzm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Either this is just a phase of her adolescence that she will look back on later as the time when she felt most comfortable as a fox OR this will continue to hold meaning as an enduring identity.<br/><br/>Both of these seem plausible. It&#39;s really common for autistic children to feel like they are aliens or fairies or robots because they feel fundamentally different.<br/><br/>Either way what&#39;s the harm other than &#34;some people will reject you for being different&#34; (something she ALREADY experiences)? 2026-10-05T14:46:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxqeqlh572u87usw46d3x0809f8utjwqrqcnnqvapd6u4qmwjaydczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwy8dhjd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyveedrx689y527f7yq69th2autqyv8q0rq72sxt37chnm0nmsmagd6fk85'>nevent1q…fk85</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I guess she wants to wear a tail &amp; a mask when she goes out some places. I can&#39;t see the harm he sees in it.<br/><br/>A lot of people will perceive her as &#34;weird,&#34; but she IS weird. She is not like most other people. People see that.<br/><br/>Some people are actually drawn to her weirdness because she is so charming, &amp; clever. Those people are unlikely to be thrown.<br/><br/>It&#39;s not shocking that she&#39;s a therian when I have always looked at her &amp; thought &#34;if you told me that child was fey, I would believe you&#34;. 2026-10-05T14:46:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyveedrx689y527f7yq69th2autqyv8q0rq72sxt37chnm0nmsmagzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwyzh66m So apparently my niece has told my brother she&#39;s a therian (the identity of an animal), &amp; he thinks she&#39;s been indoctrinated by an &#34;ideology&#34;.<br/><br/>I guess I should ask him what the ideology is, but I&#39;m not sure I want to know.<br/><br/>I don&#39;t think it&#39;s surprising that my neurodivergent niece whose life experience is extremely different from her friends would feel somewhat alien to other people &amp; want to express that, which is what I told him. 2026-10-05T14:46:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrxn5hc0wr8xlm3s2v6l288phuhl9yxlepwz8vtw6g3hpkatmpadczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwsn3zfw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxqeqlh572u87usw46d3x0809f8utjwqrqcnnqvapd6u4qmwjaydc0uhlyz'>nevent1q…hlyz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My brother lives in a fucking van &amp; has a kind of &#34;wild man&#34; look going. I don&#39;t think he should be worried about her perceived weirdness.<br/><br/>The bit that gets to me is that he wants to be allowed to live &amp; exist in the world however he wants, so why not show her the same courtesy? What are the fucking rules she needs to follow? 2026-10-05T14:46:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxqqjpxpjs66982qu8greqwal04wvq2269ycr4t88ytjq6jwyukrszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw6wfg8q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswqydul87kmgkh2ms2n3xcs6ptmnsy9ut33jks2lfv83ydz7743tsnrhjnz'>nevent1q…hjnz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Spouse &amp; I concluded we should be watching more foreign films.<br/><br/>We are so bored &amp; disgusted by much of what passes for a Hollywood film, but we could be looking elsewhere for good films that are worth our time &amp; effort.<br/><br/>We will be seeing at least one more new Japanese film this year, as you better believe we will be watching Godzilla Minus Zero in November (in IMAX of all things). 2026-10-01T14:10:53Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswqydul87kmgkh2ms2n3xcs6ptmnsy9ut33jks2lfv83ydz7743tszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw7p8wru In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsws4euxgn0pymzhvw6f0egs2kz662zc3qy25q6xxfpnl8rmyj03uggma374'>nevent1q…a374</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>When I got to the theater, I braced for a long, dry movie.<br/><br/>It was long. It was not dry. My ADHD meds were wearing off around the time the movie started, &amp; although that meant I occasionally missed reading a line or two of dialogue, it was not hard for me to stay engaged even with a film that was asking a lot of me. 2026-10-01T13:41:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsws4euxgn0pymzhvw6f0egs2kz662zc3qy25q6xxfpnl8rmyj03ugzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw5jyqqg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz2j8ngkqzaukvgrvk55k3k0783w34wffvl2g08ne7f46lv7ynmwqmc49ph'>nevent1q…49ph</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The murder mystery elements bring so much intrigue into the story. I was always watching closely &amp; thinking hard about what I was seeing.<br/><br/>Kanbei (played by Masaki Suda), the titular prisoner, was an especially enigmatic character whose loyalties &amp; intentions are always in doubt.<br/><br/>Meanwhile Masahiro Motoki&#39;s Murashige—the samurai—is so engaging to follow as he tries to unravel what&#39;s going on around him.<br/><br/>The dynamic between the two is especially choice. 2026-10-01T13:36:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz2j8ngkqzaukvgrvk55k3k0783w34wffvl2g08ne7f46lv7ynmwqzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwqw97r0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp9yg5fxwr702fjn4jt8th54e3mvnhwu4qpepvh32hdslkxd4j8hcrndf04'>nevent1q…df04</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Apparently the film is a fairly large departure from director Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#39;s* usual work, but I will have to look at his filmography &amp; watch some others, because I was just so engaged &amp; delighted.<br/><br/>*no relation to Akira Kurosawa 2026-10-01T13:27:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp9yg5fxwr702fjn4jt8th54e3mvnhwu4qpepvh32hdslkxd4j8hczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwymsrdq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrmy09yfj4r6rf66640dfztqcrt7yyx7qjvm9rtry5f5agq9g68fskhj4ru'>nevent1q…j4ru</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>While watching The Samurai &amp; the Prisoner Spouse &amp; I both kept thinking back to the last costume drama we saw in theaters (the Odyssey). None of our comparisons were favorable to Chris Nolan.<br/><br/>I kept forgetting I was watching actors. I got so engrossed in the film &amp; performances that I had to remind myself &#34;that&#39;s not a 16th century Samurai. That&#39;s a guy playing dress up,&#34; because I was so completely sold on the whole thing. 2026-10-01T13:21:26Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrmy09yfj4r6rf66640dfztqcrt7yyx7qjvm9rtry5f5agq9g68fszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwu6n2ks We just saw the film The Samurai &amp; the Prisoner, &amp; it is a delight.<br/><br/>It reeled me in &amp; kept me questioning everyone&#39;s loyalties &amp; paying close attention.<br/><br/>I just had a lot of fun with it. 2026-10-01T02:12:50Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyuek38dvyepalca5emruedqcwh9gqtx4zrflcm8f5uxfnqy3thlqzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwquawfx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd7vc3jwtsyg3ymf0lsdgg3gd9gw89pv40zf6h6pwnrvrjhz6lh4cuwdt7v'>nevent1q…dt7v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I consider my time on here time well spent because I know that words have the power to change lives. I know that people respond to the shit I talk about.<br/><br/>How do I know that?<br/><br/>I did. Other people do.<br/><br/>When we can hear each other, incredible things can happen. 2026-09-29T12:59:26Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd7vc3jwtsyg3ymf0lsdgg3gd9gw89pv40zf6h6pwnrvrjhz6lh4czyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwam5cs5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqtlnayfzqxmz4juvevupkr6u7cexdvmzdj05srk9tlamddj4zc3qdm3smt'>nevent1q…3smt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So the negative is that people with money &amp; power are actively working to shut down &amp; dilute our ability to communicate with each other.<br/><br/>The positive is that they are doing all that because communication WORKS &amp; people ARE capable of change. 2026-09-29T12:56:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgx974vkcqtsc8hj2wldnsxewdl6grrmw6lee0yz5xfygr8regvnszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw6wty0r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyua0yc2cfqxse8dch7plsw63j8tclklsy7a2j8ccz6uq74hw9rzq7vfl6z'>nevent1q…fl6z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m excited to read Stories are Weapons though.<br/><br/>I expect it to be incredibly depressing in some ways but also expect it will contain a few rays of hope.<br/><br/>It is horrifying to think about how propagandized &amp; psychologically worn down we all are, but it tells you something. It tells you that is what it took to get us where we are. 2026-09-29T12:53:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqtlnayfzqxmz4juvevupkr6u7cexdvmzdj05srk9tlamddj4zc3qzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwkssmqq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgx974vkcqtsc8hj2wldnsxewdl6grrmw6lee0yz5xfygr8regvns5j20xh'>nevent1q…20xh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Every time information becomes more readily available to people, the oppressors have to work even harder. Every time we have new opportunities to communicate with each other, they have to double their efforts to keep us from hearing each other.<br/><br/>Whether it&#39;s the printing press or the Internet, when people can hear more from each other, the oppressors have to try to shout us down. They can&#39;t allow free communication because people ARE capable of learning &amp; it threatens their power. 2026-09-29T12:53:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyua0yc2cfqxse8dch7plsw63j8tclklsy7a2j8ccz6uq74hw9rzqzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwvt9j8z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0dmq6gl27u4g2fzgdheq73uq6mn9yuf5shqy67uuz2vs3pfhq2uce2u7ux'>nevent1q…u7ux</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Re: the CIA &amp; the advertising industry<br/><br/>I started reading Stories are Weapons (Annalee Newitz) &amp; had to set it down pretty quickly because in the moment I was in, I was not prepared to handle the story of the psychological warfare breaking our brains.<br/><br/>I realized I was going to have to prepare myself emotionally to read the rest of the book. 2026-09-29T12:42:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0dmq6gl27u4g2fzgdheq73uq6mn9yuf5shqy67uuz2vs3pfhq2uczyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwlpjfcd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfgtza73y8tqd6r84gylja4r8gc7lpptzmc8s30tv6vl6tr6xep8g6qutw3'>nevent1q…utw3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It takes effort to keep people this ignorant. It takes decades of psychological warfare to break people&#39;s ability to understand each other to this degree.<br/><br/>It didn&#39;t just happen. It&#39;s a fucking psy-op. Here in the US especially, our brains are cooked.<br/><br/>Did you know that historically the advertising industry &amp; the CIA share real overlap? Corporations have been working in tandem with fucking intelligence agencies for about 3/4 of a century to fucking learn to manipulate our minds. 2026-09-29T12:38:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrhy3j926zh0j55yxsrjwrqagk8hvgrskwaa4cqj2c37ma84qw8qszyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahwkz5mak RE: <a href="https://dice.camp/@artemis/117350782099539164">https://dice.camp/@artemis/117350782099539164</a><br/><br/>I say &#34;I am a different person now,&#34; but perhaps even more notably: so are my parents.<br/><br/>I gave my mom the book &#34;An Indigenous People&#39;s History of the United States&#34; (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz) for her birthday, &amp; she thanked me, &amp; sat there reading the information on the dust jacket &amp; flipping through the pages, &amp; seemed pleased &amp; excited about it.<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1wu23htu9q35fxy4qcnq40hywd9ga5khc4wrhlzazdldupzxdzsss4rytaw" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1wu2…ytaw</a></span><br/> </div> I am a different person now because of the information that became available to me when I reached adulthood.<br/><br/>The fucking decades of academic research & poignant accounts of lived experiences of oppression opened the entire world up to me.<br/><br/>I really do think I came of age at the peak moment where it all started bubbling over, where marginalized & oppressed people's voices finally punched through culturally in a way they never had before. </blockquote> 2026-09-29T12:31:57Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszcy38lwdjw970z70fltaw4uwdcwhhc75mas4vrqu7z238jnlftsgzyzuxc5u4sfwwcaezj82tcgnahmc7dy7f5h2ttskjackscq5lkuahw8nmg49 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrhy3j926zh0j55yxsrjwrqagk8hvgrskwaa4cqj2c37ma84qw8qsd4wn37'>nevent1q…wn37</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My mom. Raised Southern Baptist. Went to grade school at fucking Bob Jones (of segregated education fame), took ACE classes for highschool (Accelerated Christian Education: right-wing Christian indoctrination), went to Baptist Bible College, &amp; homeschooled us in the same religious &amp; political indoctrination that she received.<br/><br/>That woman.<br/><br/>Excited to read a serious text about indigenous history in the US.<br/><br/>Lots of stuff had to happen to get there, but she did get there &amp; brought my dad with her. 2026-09-29T12:31:57Z