As soon as you turn out the light, a thief takes your day and your night

[sovay]

Just because one of the speakers at last night's protest thought we were well past any use in calling on elected officials does not mean that I did not just leave messages with mine in the matter of Rumeysa Ozturk, my senators to encourage them to speak out further and my representative to thank her for doing so. I do not feel that I have so many levers available to me that I can afford not to pull all of them just in case.

In all of the articles I am reading about deported, disappeared, or threatened students, I understand the tactical importance of their good characters and I don't care and I wish it were not necessary to make anyone care. I don't want their civil liberties to depend on a referendum of their pro-Palestinian activism and the degree to which it may or may not have been antisemitic as defined by a government which platforms Jew-haters like there's any kind of shortage. I was in Boston for the Marathon bombing. I was so afraid that the Crusader roleplay of the war on terror which even then had been part of the American doomscape for more than a decade had shot due process out of a cannon in the case of a bona fide domestic terrorist. Nothing about this steamrolling of constitutional rights makes me feel safer and it is not meant to, but it does make me want to scream that the fundamental rights and privileges of the law are apparently no longer even a nominal cornerstone of the American mainstream. It should not get tangled with whether their free speech is your free speech. It should not matter even if they are a nice person. I have gathered to my perplexity that the fear of the Devil turning round on them motivates far fewer people than I had once imagined, but come the everlasting exceptionalism on. Disappearing people off their doorsteps, dumping them in black sites for profit should be a no-brainer no-no.

I am obviously having a bit of a fritz-out over whether any of the actions I am taking even rise to the level of grit in the gears or whether they are merely a garnish of historical interest on an unstoppable slide and I am well aware that on some level it doesn't matter, because there is never any excuse for standing there looking on with folded hands and in any case it doesn't feel to me like the better course, but I would feel a whole lot better if I could see even a little bit of resistance in the mechanical sense in action.

Comments

[selkie]

I think it's more visible here at the epicenter, where you can see the awful little pissy-faced zombie-stoats booed out of bars, tripped up the escalator, and confronted with lipsticked swasticars after leaving them parked around; where you can catch up with the feds stickin' their wooden shoes in the machine one spreadsheet at a time. I think the speed and breadth of the clown car shocked people, but it's still clear it's a clown car.

Your godson has just broken the dryer I spent $250 this morning to fix. He dropped a pencil down the trap and when he was unscrewing the door panel to get the pencil out, the door's locking mechanism dropped down after the pencil.
Yes, there is a load in the wash.
Did you want him alive I guess I'm asking or would you be fine communicating with him via his remaining fingerbones, nicely boiled.

[sovay]

I think the speed and breadth of the clown car shocked people, but it's still clear it's a clown car.

I am glad to hear that it is being treated as such where it is trying to make itself most at home. The seat of power should have so many tacks on it right now.

Did you want him alive I guess I'm asking or would you be fine communicating with him via his remaining fingerbones, nicely boiled.

I kind of was looking forward to seeing him in an animate state, but I am incredibly impressed with his method of breaking the dryer.

*hugs*

[selkie]

I kind of was looking forward to seeing him in an animate state

Hnnnnnngh. *twitches murderously* Preserve offspring yes fine nice nice.
Why is he some kind of magical Rube Goldbergian human? He just looked at the latch and it -- he was so round-eyed with -- he's a menace.

And as to the other uses of your time and their effectiveness, I won't stop you from going anywhere while you're here. Borrow my mittens if you want. I've even got an alpaca hat.

[sovay]

Why is he some kind of magical Rube Goldbergian human? He just looked at the latch and it -- he was so round-eyed with -- he's a menace.

I cannot answer this question, I cheap-ass Faraday-caged my dumb phone before setting off for a protest just in case.

And as to the other uses of your time and their effectiveness, I won't stop you from going anywhere while you're here. Borrow my mittens if you want. I've even got an alpaca hat.

*hugs*

I HAVE NEVER SEEN YOU IN AN ALPACA HAT.

[selkie]

My head's never been cold in my life and my hair stopped freezing when I stopped scheduling 8:00am classes. Also, hats touch your ears. *shudders*

[sovay]

My head's never been cold in my life and my hair stopped freezing when I stopped scheduling 8:00am classes. Also, hats touch your ears.

Well, they are going after the Smithsonian, so.

[selkie]

Weather that day is much more aligned with you borrowing one of my tichlech; I have one perfect and neutral enough and it’s a proper tichel cut so you’ll have a corner fold to spare for your lower face, if you go out anywhere.

[minoanmiss]

thank you both for having this conversation where the rest of us can delight in it.

[moon_custafer]

He dropped a pencil down the trap and when he was unscrewing the door panel to get the pencil out, the door's locking mechanism dropped down after the pencil.

As a high-school classmate said when I lost a pencil inside one of our lab benches in grade nine Chemistry: “There’s no going where that one’s returned to.”

[selkie]

With time and a very masc spouse who prides themself on this kind of handypersoning (this is an indication of their character energy and not who-should-do-what) the door mechanism came back to the light, but that pencil has gone the way of the rest of Andy Irvine.

[rachelmanija]

That is the most hopeful thing I've heard all year.

[selkie]

People in DC went extremely hard for Harris and it’s also essentially a company town where the company is Fed Gov. There are protests and sit-ins every day; tonight despite crap weather there was a small one on the Connecticut Avenue pedestrian bridge, mostly elders from the care homes at the DC line, all holding scathing signs about Musk; and there are always folks agitating at the Justices’ houses and the Naval Observatory. We have all vowed in our way to fill their days with tiny sufferings and expose their little victories to relentless scorn.
Also, I have this new habit of body-checking MAGA guys in the Metro. I am enormous, I’m white-looking, and I have a cane, so every single time I have the crip card in my hand. Oopsie-fucking-doodle.
Edit: now I am picturing sovay as the Laurel to my commuting Hardy, “Aw, jeez, Seal. Are you okay? Oh my God, dude, she has a CANE. She’s doing her BEST! Whoops! Was that your eye?”

[sovay]

Edit: now I am picturing sovay as the Laurel to my commuting Hardy, “Aw, jeez, Seal. Are you okay? Oh my God, dude, she has a CANE. She’s doing her BEST! Whoops! Was that your eye?”

Look, that Cronenberg makes your gait very unstable. I'm sure if the train hadn't stopped so suddenly, his foot would still be in one piece.

[minoanmiss]

I kind of want to give you a couple of sharp-edged queer brooches to wear on your bodychecking shoulder.