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what pride means to me
by cobie, age 46

this started off as a mere toot but the more i wrote, the longer it surpassed mastodon's character maximum. and, well, i had to resort to other means of posting this and i don't have the patience to do a thread.

guess i had a lot to get off my chest. take from this what you will.

#pride #PrideMonth #lgbtq #EatTheHaters #RiseUp

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what pride means to me
by cobie, age 46

this started off as a mere toot but the more i wrote, the longer it surpassed mastodon's character maximum. and, well, i had to resort to other means of posting this and i don't have the patience to do a thread.

guess i had a lot to get off my chest. take from this what you will.

#pride #PrideMonth #lgbtq #EatTheHaters #RiseUp

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something struck me while i was scrolling through entirely too many homophobic instance timelines last night: they just don't get what the queer community means by pride. they think that we're saying that we're superior. that we're celebrating how different we are from everyone and, therefore, how much more value we must have compared to everyone. that we think that we are better than them.

they don't get that this pride is our response to generations of institutionalized shame and persecution. our pride is a deliberate act of protest, giving the finger to the society that has tarnished us for who we are. the same kind of shame responsible for suicides. the same kind of shame that’s been taught to us by others through lessons punctuated by physical violence, emotional trauma and, most of all, fear. this is us standing up to the kind of shame that has caused so many of us to deny who we are, forcing us to love in secret, languish in loneliness, and hide in the dark, terrified that someone might discover the filth that we were made to believe we were. 

our celebrating who we are is not a proclamation of superiority. it is a declaration of how we are worth celebrating and this after so many years of being told that we should be hidden away as a shameful aberrance. we're not saying we are better than you. we're saying that we are not less than you.

and we are saying that your assignment of shame to us is bullshit and its time is over. 

our pride is an act of defiance.

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homophobic/racist domains to defed from and block

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updated as my continued harassment continues. let's excise these cancers on the fedi:

wolfgirl.bar
freespeechextremist.com
poa.st
mugicha.club
annihilation.social
poster.place
nicecrew.digital
bae.st
detroitriotcity.com
crucible.world
sneed.social
shitpost.cloud
breastmilk.club
minidisc.tokyo

#FediBlock

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updated as my continued harassment continues. let's excise these cancers on the fedi:

wolfgirl.bar
freespeechextremist.com
poa.st
mugicha.club
annihilation.social
poster.place
nicecrew.digital
bae.st
detroitriotcity.com
crucible.world
sneed.social
shitpost.cloud
breastmilk.club
minidisc.tokyo

#FediBlock

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hello, #Mastodon! are you sick and tired of seeing all these goddamn links in your timeline taking you back to twitter, the very place you fled from to come to this place?

well, golly, i sure am!

but thanks to the ✨ maaaaagic of #filters ✨ i no longer have to! and if you filter your own timeline similarly, neither will you!

🎉 YAAAAAAY! 🎉

(...or, ya know, people could just stop fuckin' linking to twitter. but whatevs, people're gonna do what they're gonna do. bleh.)

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hello, #Mastodon! are you sick and tired of seeing all these goddamn links in your timeline taking you back to twitter, the very place you fled from to come to this place?

well, golly, i sure am!

but thanks to the ✨ maaaaagic of #filters ✨ i no longer have to! and if you filter your own timeline similarly, neither will you!

🎉 YAAAAAAY! 🎉

(...or, ya know, people could just stop fuckin' linking to twitter. but whatevs, people're gonna do what they're gonna do. bleh.)

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mastodon timeline UI but with content filtered out as desired

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mastodon filters UI showing how to keep toots with twitter URLs from fouling up your timeline.

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a pinned #metatoot instead of a bajillion pinned toots

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#Introduction https://connectified.com/@cobie/109332 980621861486

cat pic warning https://connectified.com/@cobie/109356 700967044771

science
https://connectified.com/@cobie/109523 864819343318
https://connectified.com/@cobie/109520 315075942945

🇫🇮
https://connectified.com/@cobie/109469 598848711760

cure for bad moods
https://connectified.com/@cobie/109479 149127252729

#songsormoviesaboutcorn
https://connectified.com/@cobie/109481 609969216180

be yourself
https://connectified.com/@cobie/109600 636633497367

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#Introduction https://connectified.com/@cobie/109332 980621861486

cat pic warning https://connectified.com/@cobie/109356 700967044771

science
https://connectified.com/@cobie/109523 864819343318
https://connectified.com/@cobie/109520 315075942945

🇫🇮
https://connectified.com/@cobie/109469 598848711760

cure for bad moods
https://connectified.com/@cobie/109479 149127252729

#songsormoviesaboutcorn
https://connectified.com/@cobie/109481 609969216180

be yourself
https://connectified.com/@cobie/109600 636633497367

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well, i think i've firmly established my identity as a dude who just randomly bullshits at (and sometimes with) equally random people on the internet. this is my life now.

or something.

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well, i think i've firmly established my identity as a dude who just randomly bullshits at (and sometimes with) equally random people on the internet. this is my life now.

or something.