Notices by Laurelai Bailey (laurelai@mastodon.starrevolution.org), page 14

@Alda

"Wake up human"

I groan, trying to tune out the sound when i feel a soft paw step on my face

"I said wake up, this is important."

"What?" i say, growing more confused.

"Look human you can wake up or i put a claw up your nose, your choice"

My vision slowly comes into focus and the realization dawns on me that the source of my annoyance and involuntary wakefulness is a cat.

"You are a cat?" i say "How can you talk?"

"Ill explain that later, but right now i need your help, like i said its important"

"Uh what do you want from me?" i spit out.

The cat, a medium sized calico looks at me and says with a sigh. "I need you to be my human"

"What?" i say, still not fully awake.

"Look animal control has been following me all day and its been all i can do to evade them, if they catch me, its bad, really bad. What do you think they would do to a talking cat?"

"Oh, huh yeah that wouldn't be good" i reply.

"Exactly, look its not forever just until they leave me alone. Plus, ill pay you."

Sitting up fully i say to the cat "I didnt know cats had money"

"We dont" said the cat. "ill pay you with two dead mice and half of a bird"

"Are you kidding me?" i retort

"Ok ok, and a lizard tail, but thats my final offer"

I rub the sleep out of my eyes and look at the weird talking cat and reply "Look you can stay with me as long as you want, just dont bring me any dead things please"

"Are you sure human? I know you all are terrible hunters and it amazes me that your whole species doesnt starve"

Standing up, i begin walking. "Yeah im sure. Just follow me ok, my place isnt far"

Believe me or dont at this point i dont care, just please realize that the admin of that instance is trying to create a harassment engine here

@aral Because people only seem outraged when this happens to white cis men and nobody does anything when it happens to trans women, poc, the disabled etc. This has been an ongoing problem on all social media sites since forever.

Also it was trans women who had a problem with this guy, and cis women because of the things hes done to hurt us and his defending of an abuser.

Do i like that it had to come to this? No. I dont. Id prefer this never happen to anyone. However when people run out of peaceful options for justice this sort of thing is going to happen. If you want to prevent it, ensure justice is done.

All of the things people are worried about in relation to what happened with wil, were already going on, already happening to marginalized people, already being used to dispose of the oppressed.

This is why i literally cannot take most peoples concern seriously because folks only seemed to care when it happened to a white cis guy who has money

All the white men crying how disappointed they are in mastodon didnt lift a finger when women were being harassed shut up white men forever

@paulfree14 He promoted a blocklist made by rani harper that had trans women on it for no other reason than we were trans, and he knew this and didnt care, i know because i was on it, please listen to me

Someone can be legitimately bad at the same time that someone else is trying to exploit that outrage for *also bad purposes*

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