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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 1h

We have good risk reduction treatments for cancer and one of the best is not smoking...

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 3h

This is trolling, right? Nobody is really that stupid. They're just doing another hype cycle. Gotta be. Yes?

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 8h

I know, I'm glad you're doing this. I struggle to keep the snark under control, and the last couple months have been a series of punches that make me at least sympathetic to the fears of people who say leaving is hard.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone in Washington, Minnesota, and whatever the other states are that offer them PLEASE get and carry an Enhanced ID especially if you are trans. This is not the time to be tough and dream of _Red Dawn_ (1984). Keep your meds and paperwork in an accessible bag and keep gas in the fuel tank.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 8h

Be trans? I dunno. Being trans and cooking for Food Not Bombs seems to be a place to start.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 8h

Be nice. Minnesotans remember Paul Wellstone.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 8h

The dream where a policy is proposed, discussed, amended, adopted, submitted, enacted and enforced as a means of social progress died at CECOT if not on the banks of Ossawatomie Creek. Those are the politics of safety, of discretionary time. The job now falls to NATO or China, not you, me or Ilhan.🧵

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 8h

I'm old and come from a Jewish family, I have no faith that divisions within the majority will save anyone, nor can I indulge the fantasy that an armed refuge or a domestic guerrilla movement will do any good against the US. Passports over guns, etc. 🧵

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 8h

The Confederacy, Germany, Italy, Manchuria, Romania, all the wars of decolonization that were proxied by the US and USSR, required some invasion. There's some history of generational change- Spain, Portugal, South Africa, East Germany- but only after decades of unopposed murder. 🧵

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 8h

To quote John "the war nerd" Dolan the rules are: you murder me, I murder you, and the last one to die wins. The historical record of ending a regime that deploys this kind of power internally almost uniformly involves foreign military or intelligence services. 🧵

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 10h

Are you being sarcastic? Mostly I'm trying to get trans people to safe countries, without a whole lot of success. You could help.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 10h

I meant to say funding but got autocorrected, if you're trying to figure it out.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 10h

No offense to @onanrulz.bsky.social here but this is the point. Nothing is going to be fixed by party platforms. That just isn't the game in play anymore.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 10h

Since we can guarantee that she will be called to question I WILL NOT BE RANKING MARY PELTOLA FOR SENATE IN NOVEMBER. I am sad about it; like many other Alaskans I have social connections to her family. I don't expect anything to go well for trans people but I'd rather be attacked than sacrificed.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 10h

I did not get the sense that she would independently pursue the disenfranchisement of trans Alaskans but her answer makes it clear to me that she sees us as unpopular enough, and few enough in number, to be an acceptable sacrifice when called to question by others. 🧵

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 10h

#Alaskasky I was able to talk to @marypeltola.com and also to another elected who has confronted her on her position on trans kids' healthcare and sports. Her responses were that this is a top priority for very few voters and she can't let the charges from opponents and the media go unanswered. 🧵

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 10h

I am reminded of the "2-vector foil" scene in the third Three Body Problem book where an order is given to collapse the universe at the speed of light, with the commander and the deployer confident that at their distance from the epicenter they will have time to adapt.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 11h

I'm struggling with a stack of uncomfortable truths: There is no internal bloc in the US that wants to restore citizenship for trans people and immigrants. There is no way to overthrow the US government without military occupation by a peer force. The rest feels like cope this morning.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 20h

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Botanist: it coincides with glaciation but there's been no fucking to collect samples

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 21h

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Paramedic: <sigh> Interviewer: it's ptsd isn't it

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think casual readers misunderstand how many of us actually consider this criminal hate speech and want to see her prosecuted. Losing her election is not enough.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If the deciding vote is cast by a Dan Sullivan or a Ken Paxton, a political party of 45 million people with a budget to match will rise up to punish them for it. If the deciding vote is instead cast by Peltola or Tallarico, that same party will punish us for complaining. That's the difference

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There's a protest against the Trump rally this week but the theme is "corruption is not welcome here" That's... we are rounding people up by their apparent race and disappearing them in concentration camps. Doncha think "corruption" is aiming a bit low?

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's your choice if you want to move on to pastures new and leave the UK. It isn't for everybody. If you're young (18-35) you can often go to Australia and Canada on a working holiday visa for UPTO 3 years. Maybe this would work for you? transrescue.org/how-to-get-out

transrescue.org

How To Get Out - Trans Rescue

Practical information to help you survive. While we often gain attention here at Trans Rescue for our work directly extracting trans people from particularly dangerous places, much of what we do invol...

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hoping it works out for me and I hope you find a space too

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Moving towards an irl community is taking me out of existential despair. I tend to see calls for "more trans joy" under wartime as uncomfortable and forced but "trans distraction" is really working for me this week.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Is that K-Beach? Cause there's always moose crossing K-Beach.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wrote back in the first week of January that this would be "the century-long year," and I regret to inform you that the mayhem will likely be even worse this month. So buckle up to get through it, and let's make sure these are the death throes of Trumpism and everything it stands for.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If Turek, Andrews, Peltola, Tallarico, and Sherrod Brown all win, and Fetterman stays, the US Senate could go 55-45 to the democrats and a youth trans healthcare ban would still pass. Just a thought.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kids in sports is the hill we die on because that's the hill where they're shooting us. Simple as. Who cares about kids in sports? Who cares about lunch counters? Who cares about the Sudetenland?

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hey just so people know, your post history is visible. If I see you saying "trannies are 1% of the population vote blue no matter who" I better see your entire post history working tirelessly for single payer healthcare or right-of-return for deportees. If it's all "Trump is fat har har" fuck you.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In a city last week I went to a dinner party with more trans women than both years I went to Camp Trans combined. And just... Grief. Rage and grief. 19 years of living in small towns where I had nobody and nobody knew. I could've had this all along. What. Why. I'm moving here for the winter.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Boxing Day is the day when you can get a really good deal on George Michael's heart.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

*- ...in the US (Sorry just stanning the UK greens right now)

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is an uncomfortable symmetry between the calls for democrats who support the deportations to be "primaried" and republicans and ice agents to be "barred from government jobs" on the one hand, and the Cornell response on the other. For a certain caste, loss of career is the ultimate sanction.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yesterday I saw a post claiming AfD was a Putin op. I know Americans struggle with the idea that the USA could natively build and support a fascist state, but I'm sorry- Germany?

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This. I kept waiting for the article to call out the anti-Semitism but maybe it's generally lost or something

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Arlen Specter is dead and I still haven't forgiven him

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finally, the "democrat winning in a red state" that the NYT is so exercised about is our former house rep. Like three years ago. Very few Alaskan voters today -haven't- voted in an election she won! Anyway. Leave us alone.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We are also very small in population, to the point that everybody knows a few politicians personally, or at least their families.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Most importantly our institutional politics are unlike yours. We have a constitutional right to abortion, for instance. We have enormous Native corporations with very different interests than anything you've seen. We have MAGA MatSu Borough but mostly small very independent municipalities.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For another thing, as individuals our politicians are -weird-. Everyone knows about Lisa Murkowski but look up Mike Gravel some time. Or the wild swings of the Begich clan. Plenty of governance nerds, like the late lamented Gary Knaupp, always treated partisanship as an irritating joke.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For one thing, our state legislature is run by a "governing coalition" of some, but not all, members of the Democratic and Republican parties. For another thing, independents are taken seriously, including our frontrunner for the US House.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Alaska is nominally a red state. Right now we have declared republicans in both Senate seats, our house seat, and the governorship. However parties in Alaska are not the same as your parties.

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