Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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not just my work, the org, but the kind of work I want to push and advocate for

I talked with @mlemwebDr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber about, what's the condition on which we could just hunker down if things got bad? but it seemed to require not being out there if things kept escalating

I'm not interested in being out there for popularity, I'm interested in being out there because I believe strongly that certain kinds of things should happen and I do think I have success in using my skills and work to push the needle in the direction I think it should go

and I wouldn't be happy giving that up, and I don't think I am the kind of person who can go quiet

and I do think that secure communication tech has never been more important

so I dunno

here I am

Joe Brockmeier (jzb) @jzb@hachyderm.io
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@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @mlemwebDr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber "and I do think that secure communication tech has never been more important"

Amen to that.

I hope things will improve. They might. I sometimes think that they will, but only by small enough margins that prevent real change.

When Trump was actively threatening Greenland, I felt like we were at a tipping point ... and then he walked back a little and it seems that the world at large took that as a cue to also walk back rather than to keep pressing.

Same with what's happening in Minnesota. They keep turning up the heat and then bringing it back down when there's a sign that things will boil over to the point that the public won't accept the new status quo anymore. But it never gets turned back down all the way. (To abuse an analogy badly.)

Hope you keep finding happiness in Canada and someday feel like returning (if you choose) is an option. I hope that someday it *is* an option and we finally have a society in which trans people feel and *are* safe and welcome. Lastly, I really hope that I live to see it.

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