this week’s reading is The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

We have lived under a class of people who ruled American culture with a flaming cross for so long that we regularly cease to notice the import of being ruled at all. But they do not. And so the Redeemers of this age look out and see their kingdom besieged by trans Barbies, Muslim mutants, daughters dating daughters, sons trick-or-treating as Wakandan kings. The fear instilled by this rising culture is not for what it does today but what it augurs for tomorrow—a different world in which the boundaries of humanity are not so easily drawn and enforced. In this context, the Mom for Liberty shrieking “Think of the children!” must be taken seriously. What she is saying is that her right to the America she knows, her right to the biggest and greenest of lawns, to the most hulking and sturdiest SUVs, to an arsenal of infinite AR-15s, rests on a hierarchy, on an order, helpfully explained and sanctified by her country’s ideas, art, and methods of education.

  • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    13 hours ago

    The day I’ve been dreading has finally arrived. My computer no longer accepts a charge. It’s clearly a USB port problem on the device because my phone charges just fine.

    This creates entirely new problems. Now I can’t look for work or schedule anything. I understand the younger generations think phones are fine for such things, but I’m using speech to text just to write this because it’s fucking impossible to type on a phone.

    I have no idea what comes next.

  • 7empest@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Rather chill. Been chalking up some good wins, and have a trip planned for the end of the month that I am excited for. I live for these good phases.

  • 🐝bownage [they/he]@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Work is tough atm.

    Ordered some books by / about enbies, really excited for those! My first time reading something other than fantasy/scifi in ages, so we’ll see how that goes.

  • Alice@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    Rough as usual. Overworked, underappreciated. I have a driving test coming up for a new job, but my current job won’t give me the day off, and I don’t want to quit until I’ve passed that test. I’ll work it out, it’s just stressing me out.

    Multiple people online and in person have been unpleasant dicks to me when I honestly wasn’t trying to do anything wrong and it kind of depresses me. I want a social life but I hate people.

    • Chris Remington@beehaw.orgMEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      Hang in there…this too shall pass. I tend to rely on and hang out with immediate family members more than non-family members. My parents used to tell me “blood is thicker than water” and I now know that they were 100% correct.

      • Alice@beehaw.orgEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        That’s awesome, I’m glad you have people you can depend on.

        If I’m being honest, my family is more like an anchor. None of them ever learned to help themselves and that still expect me to do it. I’m just going to try to change the part of my personality that wants a social life.