backalleycoyote

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[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago

“This shit probably what they did when it happened in Nazi Germany.”

If you’re unaware of fate of opposition groups in Nazi Germany, what they did or didn’t do, you could always read up on history. It’s out there, right at your fingertips. Everything from their mistakes to their successes. It’s one of the great things about history, it already happened so you can learn from it.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 28 points 4 days ago

While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Everyone who get in gets a butt-snipe.”

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago

Goth mommy Eva Green is generally the biggest appeal. I’m not sure one can make an unwatchable movie with her in it.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It’ll be volunteer checkers, we have no shortage of them here. They’ll use it to harass anyone who doesn’t meet their expectations, which also means that cisgender women who aren’t conventionally “attractive” and effeminate but cis gay men can be hounded as well. It’s all their favorite victims in one and they can avoid consequences for false reporting by pretending like they did so in good faith. Interestingly, the Idaho police lobbies spoke out against this legislation because even they could see that it’s so aggressive and so difficult to gather evidence they didn’t want to deal with it. Shocking, I know.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 7 points 4 days ago

Historically whether to have all gender restrooms or specific ones has been at the discretion of the business, and Boise has a lot of all gender ones. However, other legislation has been pushing to force out the right of business owners to choose what they want to do in their own businesses, probably because they planned on this legislation all along. Because, you know, party of small government.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Truly, shit for brains.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago

Haywire. Musically they might not hit me as deep and profound as say, Bad Religion. But for live show intensity… Fuck, it’s like the 90s again. A sweaty crush of humanity getting their eardrums blown while someone back-flipping off the balcony knocks their teeth out. Fun for all ages!

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I’m in a strange boat. My bio mom was young when she got pregnant so I was put up for adoption. My adoptive mother was a cold, cruel woman who was emotionally and physically abusive; adoptive dad just ignored it and told me to not upset her. She did things like withhold medical attention to extract confessions about things I’d done she didn’t know about, destroyed personal objects like toys/clothes/cds, told me she didn’t love me but was legally obligated to take care of me, left me on the side of the road when I was 6 so the coyotes would eat me, stoked fears of a werewolf under my bed so I wouldn’t get out of it after she put me in it (needless to say, I pissed the bed well into elementary school because of that, which I got beaten for).

I had a lot of rage as a youth, though almost exclusively self-harm. Found punk in my teens and channeled the rage for my mother into rage at authority in general, and eventually found productive means of achieving that rather than mindless violence at whatever I think oppresses me. Still, 30yrs later, I love to thrash and be thrashed in a pit and the measure of a good night is “am I bruised and bleeding”.

But, I found my calling in dog rescue and training, a career where cruelty, heavy-handedness, and force are ill-serving. It’s a field a lot of men struggle in (unless they just beat a dog into submission) because the mannerisms and bravado the define how western society tells men they should act will make a scared, under-socialized, untrusting dog reject them. The terrified, the deaf, blind, wheelchair bound dogs are my specialty because I have an inner gentleness the, by social standards, would be called effeminate. I’ve helped hundreds over the years and it is one of the proudest achievements of my life.

I found my birth mother well into adulthood. She’s a hospice nurse and cat rescuer whom I share an uncanny amount of personal quirks with despite zero association aside from genetics. We’ve become wonderful friends and I have integrated into my bio-family after 20yrs of no contact with my adoptive one. I did get one boon in my childhood though. One set of grandparents were the kindest, gentlest, most loving grandparents anyone could hope for and quite likely the reason I didn’t end up a total sociopath or suicide.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I grew up watching that and was stoked when I heard Burton was making a movie version. Alas the film is B-tier at best, around the time Burton/Depp/Helena were getting into a rut of “it’s us, it’s dark, it’s spooky”. Visually it’s fun though, great cast of Burton and horror regulars.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Satan’s a known schemer and needs love too.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago

Trump has never been much for requiring consent, especially when spreading herpes.

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