Strife|Dissent

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans | San Franciscan | Kinky | Dollification | versa/switch | Photographer | Videographer | Writer Https://empressem.blog

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Trans Pride crosswalk on 6th St in SOMA, San Francisco part of the Transgender District!

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A pair of crow statues in the panhandle of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

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Alley in SOMA on a Friday morning in San Francisco.

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Hiked up Bernal Hill for my mental health.

Recommend!

Bernal is a fantastic neighborhood. Look it up for some fun queer history.

Met a big fluffy dog with sky blue eyes on the way up. Smiled at a few other people actually, it has been awhile. Glad to take some time to care for myself.

What a view to take in with a coffee and snack before the decent back into the city.

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Liberate Comptons

Trans March

June 27, 2025

Location: San Francisco, California

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Some context because I feel this post should be getting more recognition

The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot happened in August 1966 in San Francisco. Located on the corner of Turk and Taylor, Compton’s Cafeteria was a cafe that carried out transphobia, including staff calling the police to remove and/or trans women and drag queens for reasons of “female impersonation”. The riot began when a trans woman stood against police brutality and systemic discrimination

This historic landmark is now owned by GEO Group, a private prison company known for labor and human rights violations, in addition to being known associates of ICE and providing “migrant detention”. June 2025, their contract was up for review; independent groups such as Compton’s xCoalition and TurkxTaylor have been calling for the removal of GEO Group to restore the building as a historic space and return it to the trans community. In July 2025, the board of appeals denied this request, allowing GEO Group to remain

Why I am talking about this

111 Taylor is run by a for-profit prison company. Stonewall no longer recognizes trans and bisexual people on their website. Obergefell v Hodges is in consideration for reversal.

This is what pride is about. Pride is about speaking out against police violence, hatred, bigotry, and the routine erasure of queer history, while speaking up for the basic human rights and dignities for the queer community.

We are in dark times. Don’t let history be erased

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I have walked these streets many times, never without tears. I am not one to downplay Stonewall but this, Comptons Cafeteria is a moment more need to understand. “Screaming Queens” is a documentary worth watching, probably free on YouTube or Archive.org

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[moelambie]

Most of us are one paycheck away from being homeless.

[yipyipallyall]

[ID: Screenshot of Los Angeles Times headline: "Large majority of homeless people in California are not illicit drug users, study finds." Housing 4 All is Hot (@ahouse4all) attaches it to a social post: "I know its really scary for people to face the truth: A lot of the people on the street didn't make "bad" choices. Normal life things happened to them: Layoffs, death of a loved one, illness. That's all it takes and you're on the street." End ID.]

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I am homeless in CA, not a drug user but totally get why many are. I lost my job after coming out as 🏳️‍⚧️ and surprise, no job to be found for me. The PTSD and adjacent traumas are bad enough unhoused, I personally don’t want to have to figure out how to quit a drug habit.

I have a plethora of thoughts on the homeless situation but lack the energy much of the time to detail any of that out. Add on top, most would rather remain in denial than hear me out and just not do anything or have more fear of feeling bad by choosing to be complacent about it at the end of the day. So, I save my words for the time being.

Long story shorter, one has zero clue what it is to be unhoused until one is unhoused.

[glowcowboy]

WE HAVE ENOUGH DEAD FRIENDS by lena oleanderson [ID in ALT.]

[marxistcalvinisthobbesist]

death to all who stand in the way of freedom for transfeminine people.

rest in peace Juniper Blessing.

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I know a lot of trans people from every walk of life and every corner of the world. I am one of many who knows / knew a trans person murdered in a hate crime. If you look at the numbers and can directly place yourself in them… it scrambles the mind there is this much hate, ignorance and monkey see bullshit.

This is an absolute fucktastrophy! I want better words. I want a sane reason. Sadly there is neither. Seeing yet another person who was just living their life be taken… for what?

I give a shit about people. I care about the wellbeing of people I do not know, trans or not. Then add onto this the pain other demographics in this country have endured for generations. If we, as a people cannot climb out of this more compassionate, more caring and with a solidarity that would extinguish any sense of the inhumane actions currently being perpetuated on a daily, hourly and systematic basis against our neighbors and families, we might not deserve to get through this as humans.

Take the time, take it from your employer or borrow it to drive a little slower but take time to care about others. All the others who are a sum of all of US and treat them better, even treat them better than you have the energy to, better than you assume they deserve, better than you have been treated. Give every last bit of love you got to someone else. If you do, with a big heart, I know you will find you have more love after you give everything to someone else. You see, love does not work like money. You can give and give and you will never have less. That is how love works. That is how people work for a better life for everyone.

Go show some kindness and start handing the love out like there is no tomorrow, or there may not be a tomorrow worth being a part of.

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R.I.P. JUNIPER BLESSING.

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Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity, and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.

As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show

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And a big reason I detest AI! I think and want to continue to do so. In many ways we are currently closer to Huxley’s interpretation than Wells as I see it.

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MY FRIEND IS FINDING OUT THAT HES COLORBLIND AND WE’RE ALL HELPING HIM THROUGH IT LMAOOOOOO

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UPDATE WE HAVE TWO COLORBLIND BITCHEZ IN THE SERVER

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what the fuck is going on

[alwaysabeautifullife]

On the last one Deuteranomaly and Protanomaly are identical though

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What I’m getting from this is that there are a lot more colorblind people in the world than even colorblind people know.

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Share to save [shame] a friend

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WAIT! DEUTERANOMALY AND PROTANOMALY IS THE SAME! IT’S THE FUCKING SAME! WHAT ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT?????

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The deuteranomaly and protanomaly ones are very similar but they are different. The purple section ranges out a little farther to the right in the protanomaly one. Not seeing the difference between might not indicate color blindness but rather difficulty with color differentiation.

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The green is also slightly more vivid in the protanomaly strip than it is in the deuteranomaly one.

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@skeletal-spire-man-aka-overfit

um

these are not the same

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They’re… They’re identical…

What’s… What’s the difference-?

[i-put-the-hyper-in-hyperfixated]

welp. one of the moots has tritanomaly colour blindness!

[finicillium]

I’m not colourblind, but like, on the last one, deuteranomaly and protanomaly are identical to eachother- so are protanopia and deuteranopia-

[naviofortido]

They aren’t different?

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I feel like I should add this

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AOkgKP__79w8

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ohoho >:3c nice

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As a certified visually impaired person who has spent waaaaay too many hours being tested by world class ophthalmologists, I cannot let this legacy post pass un-critiqued.

First - wherein colors are specific frequencies of light - color perception is a spectrum of mutually agreed upon words describing that light and subject to change.

Second - the inability to perceive certain color frequencies - i.e., to be colorblind - is a physical disability. It is genetic. It is being born without a normal piece of biological equipment. It is like being born with the wrong number of fingers, except it doesn’t outwardly show because it’s the cones in your eyes.

Third - the ha-ha tone of this legacy post is disturbing.

Finally - this is why visually impaired people often find themselves swapping stories of the smug, insensitivity of fully-sighted people. People can be unbelievably rude to visually impaired & blind folk, from disbelief & snarky side comments about the disability, to holding things up and demanding “Can you see this? What color is this?” What happens if i move this?“ We are - for some inexplicable reason - a source of humor unlike other disabilities. And this legacy post has that same tone.

Your colorblind friend doesn’t clap back because they, unlike you, are polite. And they, unlike you , are empathetic about another’s feelings.

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Of the countless things I think of when I make visual or auditory art is how to make it more accessible. I have started pondering other aspects that go beyond language as well. Transcriptions and captions are not enough in my mind.

As someone who has a love of art, not just pretty things or comforting art. I want to learn to bring a similar experience to more people in what I create. Limit this to one or two aspects is insufficient.

I have been asking myself: can I deliver multiple edits to a video that takes the various experiences into account? Color and vision are one of many. I would like to know and understand some of the ways people of various hearing experience the sounds in the world so I might bring more to them.

To be able to create and shift that into culture that is not like my understanding would be peak!

This all being as it is, please feel free to like or hate what I make. My taste is mine, but others should be able to fully detest my work in the space they arrive from or are at.

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As one who writes and dreams… words are so immensely dull and seemingly incomparable to thought.

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Love this type of vibe!

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Last group from an early morning light play photo walk.

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A few more from the stocking diffusion filter walk.