JonKramer, CIS-HET @JonKramer@qoto.org

I have a new business building one-page wedding web sites. If you are a same sex couple, the service is free. This is not a joke.

I don’t mind being just me. Average. Medium. Not always everyone’s taste. Quiet. In the corner. Spouting what I believed is eloquence. Occasionally opinionated and a little prickly. Gently honest. Doing what I can to spread what I believe is kindness.

It’s me. That’s ok. Only took 40 years to get there. Can’t imagine what I’ll have learned about myself by 80.

In 1952, the British government prosecuted Turing for what it termed "gross indecency."

He was gay, which to them was a crime. To avoid prison he was forced to submit to chemical castration. A few years later he took his own life by ingesting cyanide.

Turing’s codebreaking work at Bletchley Park during WWII had been critical to the war effort and saved tens of thousands of lives, maybe more. The British government repaid him with demonization and persecution.

Hottest outfit to catch a sugar daddy, 2023.

Here me out, Temptation Island: Best Friend Edition. You and your best friend go to Temptation Island, where you have to spend time with other good buddies. You have to resist falling into a bromance.

Still trying to find my people on Mastodon. Please boost if you:

-Like pizza.

-Enjoy watching movies.

-Have recurring dreams that you are a frog.

-Feel distraught when you wake up and realize that you are in fact not a frog.

-Spend your days studying ancient texts in search of a forbidden incantation that transforms humans into amphibians.

We say "read to kids"
...and they start fantasizing about sexually exploiting children.

We say "pee in a bathroom"
...and they start fantasizing about sexually abusing women

We say "follow doctors' advice"
...and they start fantasizing about genital mutilation.

Here's a thought - maybe it's not us who are the perverts and sex deviants.

The award-winning graphic novel #Maus (a Holocaust allegory) is facing new bans; it's author, Art Spiegelman, shares his worries in a new WaPo piece, gifted so y'all can read it: https://wapo.st/3qJALYR

Then, #NewJersey #Fediverse peeps: use this EveryLibrary form to email your NJ Assembly/Senate reps to support new "ban the #bookban" bills (A5499, S3893, S3907) requiring NJ #libraries adopt the ALA Bill of Rights or other policies prohibiting book bans. https://www.saveschoollibrarians.org/njaslbookbans

We are heartbroken to learn that our dear friend #DanielEllsberg, world-renowned whistleblower and Freedom of the Press Foundation co-founder, has passed away at the age of 92. https://freedom.press/news/daniel-ellsberg-an-american-hero-for-the-ages-1931-2023/

@Radical_EgoCom

Portland OR, spring of 2021 , me and my family were headed to the park on Shabbat, it was the first time we been out in a while (both parents are trans and 1 of our 3 children are trans). My partner was pushing me in my wheelchair and the oldest was pulling a red wagon that my trans child was sitting in, the youngest was walking beside me. Three men come up behind us and attack us and attempt to abduct my trans child. We were screaming for help while a group of 10 or more people watched on. NO ONE CAME TO OUR AID!! My partner (trans femme) used some tactics to get the men to back off and we went straight to the park where we were supposed to be anyway. I had data on my smart phone and was messaging a local mutual aid trans safe Facebook group telling them what happened and asking for back up to walk us home. I got some thumbs up and one comment: "I'm sorry that happened to you" and then nothing. No one came .

Cornflower

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