Gwen Snyder is uncivil

I post primarily at Bluesky these days, but I'm bridged!

So you can find me on Mastodon here, now:

@gwensnyder.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy@mstdn.social

The Mr. Rogers advice for moments of crisis is a useful thing to remember right now.

Look for the helpers.

Look for the people organizing to protect the most vulnerable.

Look for the people who have been concretely planning for how to respond, and are ready to implement.

Join them, if you can.

My hot take on Beetlejuice is that it's HIGHLY inappropriate for a grown ghoul to attempt to force the ceremony of matrimony on a teenage girl

Is his strategy to talk to Maggie Haberman and have her launder his narrative by reciting it on CNN, by any chance

There is one (1) actual grand conspiracy among birthing people and it's to collectively "forget" to take cat litterbox cleaning duties back from our partners after we give birth

I refuse to believe that the most interesting thing Iran could find in Roger Stone's email was just a pdf of JD Vance tweets

If ever there was a person who could help Trump dig a deeper hole for himself, it's Mr. Advertisers Go Fuck Yourselves

Teaching my kid that gender and Santa Claus are fun games we can play, games that some people take a bit too seriously

"Ursula Le Guin wrote whole novels while caring for three children," I tell myself, as the toddler climbs me like a jungle gym and the baby somehow manages to double-space my entire document using only her gums

In addition to all the reasons this is dystopian for birthing people, this would be disastrous for infant health.

Folks who aren't sure about keeping the pregnancy would likely avoid prenatal care.

Which would be dangerous for the infant if they later chose to carry it to term.

Women: Josh Shapiro appointed a disgraced abuse enabler to his transition team and attempted to cover up a sexual abuse case that occurred on his watch as governor

Shapiro apologists: "nobody is interested in these ridiculous bimbo eruptions"

Trump's strategy-- and it's a bad one-- is to try to convince Black people that Kamala isn't Black.

So that Trump can say racist anti-Black stuff about her to his racist anti-Black base, then say to the young Black men he's chasing, "it isn't anti-Black because she isn't Black."