writing & poetry. homebound thriving inside a body regarded as broken: MCAS HyperPOTS JHS.
Berkeley, CA
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Peter Ashbaugh retweeted
For too long, I've been told I “didn’t look” whatever age I was. It was said to me as if it were a compliment. It was not. It was instead the loathing of aging that we are socialized into. I refuse that “praise."
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ALT Text: I was not raised to be queer nor to be nonmonogamous. I arrived at both through a reckoning with myself that loosened the personal from the political; that wrestled free my lived reality from expectation. And I understand that the reckoning now is with taboos around age and the expectations that suffocate it. For too long, I have been told I “didn’t look” whatever age that I was. It was said to me as if it were a compliment. It was not. It was instead the loathing of aging that we are socialized into. I refuse that “praise,” and insist on standing in the power of my age.
Peter Ashbaugh retweeted
If you couldn’t stand against a genocide, there’s literally nothing you can say to convince me you’ll stand for anything, especially when presented with any sort of need for you to sacrifice or fight for it. Not even a non fight. Just rolled over like “eh, what can we do?”
Peter Ashbaugh retweeted
I’m sorry but why would I credit Biden with a ceasefire when everyone in the Democratic Party presented him as some poor widdle guy with no power to broker one?
Peter Ashbaugh retweeted
peak liberalism is being more interested in expanding your own future consumer choice in death than in protecting elderly and disabled people from being coercively culled by the austerity state denying them resources to live and offering only resources to die
Peter Ashbaugh retweeted
Hot Take but a NECESSARY aspect of the Trans Restroom Discourse needs to include the lack of public restrooms for the homeless:
As a formerly homeless Black Trans person who is also a pedestrian.
Nobody lets you pee (AT ALL)
It’s not a matter of “wrong 🚽”
It’s NO 🚽‼️
Peter Ashbaugh retweeted
The lack of accountability and transparency at the Pentagon is outrageous.
I fought to enact the legal requirement in 2019 that the Pentagon conduct and pass an audit. It's long due time we hold the Pentagon accountable to the taxpayers of our country.
Pentagon fails 7th audit in a row but says progress made trib.al/Un43RB2
Peter Ashbaugh retweeted
so sorry but the way many of you are on one with this election fatalism is actually so ugly & trite & just kinda dumb. Annoying to have to listen to everywhere i go in one of the solidly bluest states. Organize! Move forward! Like the man said, fool me once cant get fooled again.
Peter Ashbaugh retweeted
It is a really jarring moment to be a historian. To know what might be coming is alarming. To realize that no one around you sees it or acknowledges it is a weird place to be in. Its like time traveling without time traveling. 1/8
Peter Ashbaugh retweeted
But please, tell me more about how the Dem party needs to be more centrist or more progressive or more populist or more socialist or whatever the hell.
The shit they’ll let us shout while already controlling everything will be super interesting, to some, no doubt.
Peter Ashbaugh retweeted
Disappointed but never defeated.
Speechless but never silenced.
Heartbroken but never heartless.
Alarmed but never afraid.
Pushed back but never backing down.
We are queer. We are trans. We are warriors.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Peter Ashbaugh retweeted
The people who differ on strategy from you today may not be your enemies. Because this ballot won’t save Gaza in either direction. Our coalitions could. They are worth protecting, because we have work to do tomorrow. A lot of work.
Peter Ashbaugh retweeted
Y'all write about them creating "superintelligent" machines when they can't even have speech transcription tools that don't randomly add things.
apnews.com/article/ai-artifi…
Peter Ashbaugh retweeted
I'm 100% convinced that not only is Jill Stein a Trump supporter, but also a grifter and scam artist. #probablyforlegalreasons
