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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You're gonna hide this reply, but not before I call you a coward for what you said about "men in girls sports." Shameful stuff, Dr. Acton, and you know it.

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not that crazy, the ODP paid some fuckwit consultants who suggested she use GOP language to really align her transphobic nature. She's sure to pick up 5-ish rural voters. Or she comes by it honestly and really really fuckin sucks. Idk which and idc, still gonna call out at every opportunity.

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.

Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's a Garfield animated series where they go camping and Garfield nearly gets shredded by a puma. The line delivery of his "last words," the music and visuals were SO INTENSE for little me.

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're adding peanut butter, and you have cinnamon toast crunch available, you gotta try it. You wouldn't think it would work, but it really does.

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Diana's "I would've taken him in" is so incredibly fucked up, good on the trucker for nipping that White Savior horse shit.

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He's got the spirit. Rest of it could use some work.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They want you to think rape would be eliminated if women arm themselves against the random sickos on the street or we stopped letting in immigrants when in reality it has the backing of state and capital

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nacho Cheese Chalupa was great. Baja Chalupas was GOAT.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Finding out the Falconry Finance/"24 inert shotguns landlord action" guy was an active user in a Discord I'm in was something I had to sit with for a while. Just to evaluate my choices.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/10/2026

it’s become so normal for people to disclose their rapes to appeal to people’s humanity around rape cases that we don’t think about how disgusting the need to do that is put the worst moment of your life out for public consumption, so that half the comments can call you a liar.

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think from the sounds of it, you've already set this boy up for success. He won't be entrapped, he clearly has been taught consent, I don't see that else you can do that's healthy, y'know?

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How old do you suppose those college students were? I've got boys too. Set expectations, discuss situations they may find themselves in (which sounds like you've done) And then live your lives! Consensually! What you don't have to do is correct the record of survivors! That part isn't great.

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The staffer's cortisol. "There, I did it, fuck, that's enough"

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am cheered to know another case of, "What did Indiana even do for <x>?" resolves to, "Made good machines that work."

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Never been! Will make an effort next time I'm home

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'll bite! What have we got going for us besides Having Trees down at Crane?

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My bad! I was too entranced by the left to even zoom in on the right's badge, lol

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Few people *like* testing software proofs but hyper-inflated bizdev bros don't even accept it as a thing that actually exists.

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's even a 250 on the right and a 150 on the left! Was just pondering this last night after yet another person said along the lines, "I didn't expect someone so large to be in such a small truck" which is already a wild thing to say to anybody. It's just a D40 Frontier, learn your history, ppl!

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hope he's been well, since quitting this site

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been through two reorgs from rival acquisition and one that was fully internal. At every one of them, at least one person started lashing out about everything. Some of them self regulated, and a few didn't & left early. Which is to say/, hang in there, it might sort itself out 🤞

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've lost hours of effort because Gemini made things up from whole cloth that seemed plausible (but were outside of my AoE). Told me a product feature existed, and when go-time arrived it apologized, "that doesn't exist," and suggested a paid service. I wrote a job to do the connector work instead.

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The recruiter didn't have any further interviews for me after that.

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was sent into an interview by a recruiter at a really miserable looking warehouse space stuffed full of cubicles. Dim lighting, white noise piped from dozens of ceiling speakers. They asked if I knew the difference between a switch & a router. I sighed, and said, "About $50"

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hi Juni, this is Deb in HR. Just wanted to check in with you on the required training responses, specifically, why you felt it necessary to clarify "without consent" on each?

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Now this might strike some viewers as harsh, but-

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yea, feeld is so geoloc dependent that it probably saw you connecting to their servers from a data center & yeeted ya.

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Did you have a VPN running the first time you registered? Not that we're circumventing bsky geo checks over here in Ohio, nooooo, certainly not

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think he might've been given a print with cut off margins. Twice in that clip he accidentally a letter

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bottom line it takes us a while, but we do eventually get to a point where enough folks understand that mechanisms for these things that social consequences can finally catch up.

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think there's a historical precedent here when it comes to individual responsibility, and if it holds true actually gives me some hope for our collective savviness improving. Such as, Nobody in 2026 can get away with forgetting to send an email and claiming "gremlins" anymore.

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Boss: Did you secure a tray for presenting this thing to the Pope? Me: Sure did boss, lined with Silly Putty, just like you asked

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lxigh @dotorion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

99% of ruminators quit right before they would have had a life-changing epiphany

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yesterday I was at a parts counter, fellow Mid-40s Guy behind me rocking a Cramps tee. We both look exhausted, both buying parts for minivans. Hit him with the, "Still punk" on the way out.

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Duncan, we just met, you can't be talking to me that way 😳

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If we're lucky. I'm not a solar expert, but we aren't going to be the only country putting in purchase orders for PV panels and turbine blades. And until/unless there's a change in leadership, we aren't going to be early at it, either.

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Will "Grin & Bear It" Baggins @wbbaggins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Inshallah. This was always what it was gonna take to happen. Shame it took so long to get here, "old world refuses to die" ass prophecy.

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