Brie Brie giving a little sploot!

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#Caturday

It is insulting that abdominal muscles can cramp

ow ow ow

Queue. #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #TuxedoCats #OrangeCats #Caturday

Welp I finally crossed that one off the list!

I've seen worse. Felt a whole lot like Jurassic World: Rebirth, weirdly. I'm not really sure why they bothered making this a live action film when it could have worked better animated. Definite hints of Alita Battle Angel (2019), though I think that was the better film.

Didn't feel like a waste of time! Just not one I expect I'll think about very much. I should watch Prey (2022) though.

Happy #Caturday

As Canada’s 🇨🇦 hosting duties come to an end, data found that there was little economic benefit

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/economic-impact-toronto-fifa-9.7258589
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Maintenant que les responsabilités d’hôte du Canada 🇨🇦 tirent à leur fin, les données montrent qu’il y a eu peu de bénéfices économiques

// Àrticle en anglais //

#Canada #Toronto #vancouver #FIFAWorldCup #CoupeDuMondeFIFA

I'm seeing a lot of reposted photos of white nationalists calling themselves Patriot Front marching in Washington, DC today, including one haunting image of a black woman on a bus looking directly into the camera while surrounded by white men in masks.

I'm going to do what I always do in this kind of photo burst: refrain from reflexively boosting what might or might not be current affairs info, and link to a primary source instead.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/masked-patriot-front-white-nationalists-stage-july-4-march-through-dc-2026-07-04/

(It is as bad as it looks. Worse.)

There's a few pictures currently going around of a group of Patriot Front fascist paramilitaries on Washington DC public transport.

A lot of people are worried by this. Some have talked at length about their worries.

As someone who spends a certain amount of time in black bloc, let me talk you through some things I haven't seen said about these pictures but that I think are very relevant.

(EDIT: people who know much more about PF as a group have commented below, please read what they have to say.)

@researchfairy

Ozymandias “Fozzie-Bear” Jenkins would like you to know he's finished his margarita and he'd quite like another.

#caturday

#Caturday afternoon

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It didn't work, maybe I can update the firmware?

potato

Björn checkin' in for Caturday.

Björn was born in a flowerpot together with his sister Frida in the northern part of my hometown Nijmegen. They were located together with their mother. But some days later just the two of them were found and brought to a shelter. Now, since the last few months, the two of them are my new amig@s de la casa!

Support tour local cat shelter. Adopt, don't shop.

#Caturday #CatShelter #AdoptDontShop #CatsOfMastodon #Nijmegen #TakeAChance

I write a lot about my ongoing discovery of just how good cis women are to trans girls when they have not been preemptively made to fear us.

I write about how easy it is to get accepted as a trans woman, because I think a lot of transfems really have this fear of imposing. Because we have impostor syndrome for womanhood as social performance.

It is something that newly transitioning women need to hear. Our struggle and hangups and fears are parallel and often the same as those of cis women's.

They do not always understand the specifics of our circumstances, but the underlying struggle? They know.

And that's an important message.

But there's another angle I'm realising.

Cis women don't know that we don't know they know.

I'll give you a second to parse that one.

I think cis women do not fully understand our fear. They are welcoming, but I've seen them react to me gushing about how welcome I feel with slight surprise and minimising the things they said and did to make me feel welcome.

The reason is that they do not fully understand how fucking STARVED I've been of this stuff all my life.

A few years ago, here on Fedi, I read something that stayed with me. About how people who've been in an abusive relationship can burst out crying and have a huge outpour of loud gratitude after something absurdly trivial like their new partner offering them a glass of water or something. They act like nobody ever did something like that for them, to the bafflement of the other person. It's just a glass of water.

The reason being, of course, that in some sense they never DID receive this kind of small kindness.

A person that's been abused has a completely broken barometer of what is "normal". Treating people with basic kindness is the baseline, but to a person that's been victimised it feels like extreme, saintly goodness, at least initially. Because it's hard to realise that no, the horrors were not how people normally interact.

Same has been written about people leaving cults, abusive families, abusive communities.

Why am I mentioning this? Because trans people in general, and trans women in the specific, are kind of a demographic-wide example of that.

Like any abuser, a transphobe will make it seem like there's nowhere and no one to run to. Like they are the best we can get. Heck, some transphobic rhetoric will pose as the 'phobes doing us a kindness.

Here's the thing. Cis women do not necessarily fully realise that we never had a normal girlhood or, for many of us, any interactions with women in women-dominated settings, AS women.

I mean, sometimes they know, but they don't KNOW, know.

Yesterday I wrote about a nice time spent with a few girls that I am only getting to know. And I was gushing, both here on Fedi and to the girl that invited me to the thing. And I thought about that and I am realising that she probably doesn't understand how big a deal this is, *even* when I say how big a deal it is.

Because she, presumably, had a relatively normal time being a woman. So she doesn't understand why women interacting in a friendly and casual way is blowing my mind.

Because it's hard to convey that all my life I was primed to think cis women would reject me and treat me like not just a man, but a predatory, dishonest man pretending to be a woman. I know it's not true, but I've not *experienced* it being untrue.

Transphobes badly need to convince us (and themselves) that all, or most, cis women do not want us to live as women.

Most cis women don't *know* these words are being put in their mouths.

Anyone: So, do you like synthesizer music?

Me:

caught mid mrowr loafing on my jorts

The strawberries and cherries from the farmers market are amazing right now, and I expect the peaches to show up any minute now

Napping is always a good idea when it is very hot.

#caterday #cats