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raphaelmorgan

@raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

Any neo-pronouns or he/him if you must.
Not new, I've just had bad luck with main instance picking.
Boosts are seldom a reflection of what I think of the person posting (because I don't check unless I see red flags), but usually a reflection of what I think of the post itself.
I block random people who tag me out of nowhere (but replies are usually fine).

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raphaelmorgan, to random
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LB anti-maskers at the beginning of the pandemic: bodily autonomy!!! You can't tell me what to do! Everyone should have free choice over what we put on our faces!
Anti-maskers now, when most immunocompromised people have given up on trying to get others not to kill us and simply avoid people and wear masks if we have to go out in public: no not like that

MicheleV_AK, to random
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@Hunterrules0_o @TheBierFrau No, I don't give a damn if a trans woman uses a bathroom that I am in. Just ask the fucking question! I am not a transphobic bigot. Trans women are women.

raphaelmorgan,
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@Hunterrules0_o @MicheleV_AK @TheBierFrau the answer is that there is not a biological difference that makes men prone to violence. There's a societal gender role that allows and expects men to be violent (not that I'm saying we should make assumptions based on that either). But trans women are usually rejecting the societal gender role of man. They aren't under any pressure to be violent, and face violence themselves.

raphaelmorgan,
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@Hunterrules0_o the patriarchy, if it wasn't obvious. The patriarchy hurts men, too. Feminism is for everyone, and dismantling the patriarchy would prevent you from getting your fee-fees hurt when women don't feel safe around you. An idea for the meantime is to simply be someone they feel safe around, perhaps by quitting the misogyny trolling.
In case it wasn't clear, I agree that we shouldn't assume men are violent. But I don't blame people for prioritizing their safety over (y)our feelings.

meganL, to random
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I wish progressives could believe as much in their power together as regressives do. Yes, the regressives have that right-wing $$$, but if the $$ alone could have done it, they wouldn't have bothered trying to create disinfo campaigns to hook people through social media.

If things could turn around relatively quickly like this due to right-wing suscepts' belief in people power, they can turn the other way as well. Remember '60s counter-culture came about in reaction to repressive McCarthyism.

raphaelmorgan,
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@meganL it's been reassuring to see universities divesting in Israel in response to protests (even though many are dragging their heels). Kind of shows that when a lot of people care about something and organize they can make a difference. And we all know those student movements aren't absolutely rolling in money, at least not at the public universities
(Note I'm not trying to direct this post at a specific issue, just using the most recent example I can think of)

GeePawHill, to random
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Reminder: Trump is accused of fraudulently hiding an in-kind campaign contribution.

He is not accused of having sex, which is legal. He is not accused of paying hush money, which is legal.

It does not matter whether Daniels is telling the truth. It does not matter whether she had sex with Trump. It does not matter what Daniels's motivation was. It does not matter whether Trump paid her to keep quiet.

If he knowingly conspired to hide an in-kind campaign contribution, he is guilty.

raphaelmorgan,
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@peterainbow @GeePawHill meanwhile the rest of us are being bombarded with news about the trial too and it's just like... We get it. We've gotten it for like a decade now, for some of the younger of us. We don't want to hear more about him unless it actually affects us or the good of the people, and we're tired of seeing his face.
As you mentioned, it must also be annoying af for people who aren't even in the US /gen

chinicuil, to random Spanish
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Finally Homeless friendly everyone else hostile bench

raphaelmorgan,
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@chinicuil disagree. I'm not homeless right now and I would love to sit in that bench

skinnylatte, to random
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I truly feel that the moment I liberated myself from the ideas of ‘doing / learning things for productivity / success’, my relationship with everything changed. Like wdym I can learn typography without becoming a designer, learn to play an instrument without ever performing, and just.. be?

There’s a lot of info about ‘perfecting a craft’ but I’d bet it would help most people to just ‘dabble in a craft’

raphaelmorgan,
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@skinnylatte I love dabbling in many crafts. I wish I lived in a world that was accessible to that

raphaelmorgan, to random
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I'd love a job in treats, prizes and extra credit!

raphaelmorgan, to random
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Begging my sister's dog to understand that just because the kid is a threat to the cat does not mean the cat is a threat to the kid

raphaelmorgan,
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My nephew when Odo is just sitting there: throws shit at him, chases him, etc
Odo when he notices that my nephew has noticed him: leaves
My sister's dog when Odo curiously approaches my nephew: bitch if you hurt him you die

raphaelmorgan, to random
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Why can't we just have old people in movies ffs https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-william-shatner-open-to-de-aged-captain-kirk-1851458429

raphaelmorgan, to random
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Spouse and I are gonna be visiting the PNW this summer, anyone have suggestions for places to go? Especially near Portland but we might go as far as Seattle while we're up there

raphaelmorgan, to random
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We chose as Odo's birthday as a bit, but what a cute coincidence that his first falls on

wxcafe, to random
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people complaining that {academic papers, ttrpg rulebooks} are PDFs that you can't read comfortably on a phone are turning me into scorsese

raphaelmorgan,
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@wxcafe considering sometimes a phone is the only way people can look at digital text, maybe we should simply have multiple options (so you can keep your PDFs) instead of gatekeeping academic papers and TTRPGs for people who have computer access? Especially the former bc education is a powerful tool

davidho, to random
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I find it weird that newspapers characterize students as being “pro-Palestinian” as opposed to anti whatever you call this.

raphaelmorgan,
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@sickmatter wow u got me, the thing I said is true and that's a moral failing somehow

puppygirlhornypost, to random
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This is a thread, it was originally on twitter posted on tumblr and i found it in my export. I think that this is a very important thing for people to hear, especially in regards to alt text on fedi. Please be mindful of the people around you, and try to make things accessible. I think that the people around me can relate to this, I have had a lot of times my short term memory would just blank out and I would have to ask over and over again for someone to repeat themselves.

raphaelmorgan,
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@bug @puppygirlhornypost as someone included in the thread but who can see images, I think we can talk about the same isolation in other disabled people. We're all in this together and I love my vision impaired siblings and anyone else who needs accommodations to get involved in the conversation :disability_flag: :neurodiversity:

ChrisMayLA6, to ai
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Tom Gauld on the AI (investment) bubble

raphaelmorgan,
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@wrench @ChrisMayLA6 @NikTheDusky not AI. No money.

raphaelmorgan, to random
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I hate the term "hysterical pregnancy," not only because "hysterical" is usually used for misogyny and sanism, but also because etymologically it means something to do with the uterus and boy do I have news for you about normal pregnancies

raphaelmorgan, to random
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I always find it very funny when I see an ad that tries to invoke FOMO, basically saying if I want the thing I gotta buy it now, but doesn't actually tell me what the thing is or why I should want it. Cool, I guess I'll go without whatever the fuck you're talking about lmao

Andres4NY, to random
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For better or worse, the past weeks has mastodon becoming a proper source of breaking news for me. This happened for me w/ twitter during the boston marathon bombing. It's often not direct sources using mastodon, but people reposting direct sources (originally from twitter, or IG, or others).

So I'm glad that we have an open protocol that can bypass traditional news media to show what's actually happening in real time, but I'll also miss scrolling through mostly cats and moss instead of doom.

raphaelmorgan,
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@Andres4NY maybe we should all create separate timelines with a few hashtags like caturday/catsOfMastodon and whatever they call the mossposting one
Because I'm kinda in the same boat

raphaelmorgan, to random
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LB many parts of my body crack like a glow stick all the time but I don't actually glow unless u give me treats

AnarchistArt, to random
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raphaelmorgan,
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@AnarchistArt just so you know, the alt text misquotes him! In the alt it says "is political language..." Rather than "political language is..."

TheJen, to random
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So we have dumbfucks here today on the fedi claiming the holocaust wasn't that bad, actually. And why that fucking account hasn't been banned everywhere, I don't know. Everyone I know has blocked that trash, but yet he persists.

Almost as if mastodon.social is extremely poorly moderated. Gee.

raphaelmorgan,
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@voxofgod @TheJen according to most WASPs, it's not anti-Semitism unless it's humanizing brown people

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Columbia telling protestors that if they're students they have until 2pm to clear the encampment they've set up or face suspension.

So exercise of free speech and assembly rights going as well as can be expected in the face of corporate academia.

raphaelmorgan,
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@MylesRyden @Adam_Cadmon1 universities are made for the purpose of serving the billionaire class, sure. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be getting educated at them if we can while we work on dismantling those systems, because for every shitty admin (aka every admin) there's a professor who refuses to serve capitalists more than their students

tjdungeonmaster, to random

Doomsday prepping, except instead of doing it by yourself you do it with your neighbors, and instead of building a bunker you build a just, compassionate, and sustainable community.

raphaelmorgan,
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@tjdungeonmaster I was pleased to discover that Portland has a lot of community gardens that are cheap to get started on, and I'm sure they're not the only place. For a while I've really wanted to find a community to build infrastructure with. If capitalism and the US come crashing down (🤞) it's a nice backup. If they don't, it's perhaps the only way to survive them.

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