nicole @nicole@myna.social

@hkcp123 My absolute favorite anime. 🥰 Gunbuster is _the best_.

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex.

Good book.

I greatly enjoyed the second half which focuses on how varied and complex relationships can be when sexual desire is absent, or, at the very least, not assigned prominence by all parties.

#reading #asexuality #ace #books

Yesterday was a long, grueling day, where I felt like I was trying to coerce an ancient steam locomotive up a hill by feeding tea bags into its furnace one at a time. 🚂

Progress was made, and we didn’t slip backwards, but by the time I walked out of my last meeting, I was entirely spent.

My evening was total debauchery as a result: tacos, tater tots, donuts, pizza, and a roulette wheel of multi-cultural television programming: high wuxia fantasies; danish supernatural slavery thrillers; bad, queer cartoon comedies; and a melancholic, long-lipped Korean uploaded-intelligence bullet ballet.

Today: a simple hangover; maybe some licorice cats and weak coffee. I am out of corn tortillas. I am out of fancy American cheese.

@RADC @futurebird When I was in law school, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to take a class on voting rights.

There is no simple answer to your question, but registration requirements, polling place locations, voting tests, re-districting, fear, coercion, and confusion all play a part in voter disenfranchisement.

Also, the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act, which was designed to protect against many of these vectors.

Recent article directly on point: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/21/1118503562/florida-black-voters-election-laws-redistricting

@tillybridges That’s it. I’m ordering donuts.

@MetalheadDana I’m a lawyer. I’m dying. 🤣

@Alexis @arthurwyatt Nooooooooooooooooooooo.

@davefischer This is gorgeous. Getting something like this straight from the camera is always an accomplishment worthy of celebration. 🏆

We’re just going to be here on the floor for a little while. It’s cool; we need it.

@danirabbit I’m so sorry! I had a surgery slip not so long ago and, emotionally, it felt like someone had died. Each one of these steps feels like an affirmation, and any interference cuts so deeply. 💔

I’m listening to a legal lecture right now, where the speaker just reminded us that we should advise clients to terminate seasonal employees annually to prevent them from earning paid family leave, and I am again reminded that everything is horribly broken.

@h5e 🥰🥰🥰💖 This is the best. Congratulations!

@thekimmy Sounds like you needed it. ☺️