Drífa Jónsdóttir @[email protected]

One thing I really hate about my culture is its fetishization of competition. We create needless competition in business, sports, politics, etc. Why? It is destructive, it creates more losers than winners, and it wastes resources that could be better used to solve our collective problems. Proponents claim it spurs innovation and achievement. Bullshit: it spurs cheating and gaming the system. Competition of *ideas* is better served by *cooperation* to study them.

I should probably pin Britt's ref sheet.

If you're trans, remember: the point of changing your appearance and presentation is to feel better living in your own skin. Anyone who gives you grief for not meeting some arbitrary standard is welcome to go shag a cactus.

This should be applied, mutatis mutandis, to whoever replaces that awful Huckabee person.

New rule: Trump must conduct all future interviews wired up so that when he sneers "scuse me" to steamroll the interviewer a corrective electric shock can be applied to his balls.

I just saw a web commercial about a father protecting and supporting his trans daughter and I’m too wrecked to complain about capitalism. #goodtears

Birb frens came over for lunch.

Got the car serviced and ready. AC in two and a half weeks. Wooooo.

No, Apple, ‘regex’ is not a misspelling of ‘regret’.

Spotted tiger-themed seat and steering wheel covers and a plushie on the dashboard of a car. Cat furries unite!

Gal at Krispy Kreme spotted my nails and new what they meant. Woooo!

More birdsite buzz about US concentration camps on the border. Details horrific, but we all know that. If I didn’t already think this country was corrupt beyond saving, this issue alone would do it.

I need to find a way to scam some capital owners so I can afford to set up a colony for queer folks.

Good evening.

The city figured this out and tried to move the Nazis to Lee park, which is open and away from downtown so they could have exactly that kind of separation. The ACLU fought the city to let Nazis rally and show force in an uncontainable downtown space, and someone died as a result.

I cancelled my sponsorship after that. Let someone else fund Nazis’ dirty work, I’m done.

In case I never told the story of why I gave up on the ACLU, it’s this: they were massively in the wrong on Charlottesville.

I once lived a few blocks from where Heather was murdered. I know those streets very well. Lee Park is open on all sides; it’s just a small park in a tight downtown area. It’s a really shitty place for a demonstration that could violently clash with counter-protesters because you can’t separate the sides.

I have something to confess.

I was a CompuServe user in the late 1980s.

There, I said it.

Monch, monch.

A friend just came over for dinner.

I feel bad about feeling good that a human is losing her job and wishing she never finds another. But Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a misuse of oxygen.