Notices by Hein 🍋 Ragas (heinragas@mublog.nl)

@baiteh @Gargron @fesshole Yes, certainly do that. If it was my cat, I would like to know too, and have the option of getting it back.

@fesshole Congratulations on adopting a cat!

So many profile pieces in the media about MAGAs after Trump won in 2016. Did they become milder? No, they disgusting fascism just became mainstream. We know where this ends.

_They_ are the bullies, and _we_ get to decide if we want them at our birthday parties. And we don't. I have no empathy for those who lack it completely. 9/9

When I returned home, I reported that I did go through with it. Later, my dad told me that they had not expected me to actually go through with it. They were impressed as well -- but if you think about it, it totally makes sense: you shouldn't invite someone who bullies you to a space you curate, that is about you and about the way you want to treat people and be treated by other people in return. 6/

Later, after the birthday party, we sort-of made up in that casual way children can do. We never spoke of it again, but I don't think he ever forgot that incident. He never bullied me again, but our friendship never was the same as it was before. Because he had broken my trust, and you can't just casually get back from that. 7/

Now that a fascist party won the election in the Netherlands, there are calls to not treat everyone that voted for them as a racist, because maybe they voted for this party for other reasons. "Love and understanding begets more love and understanding" and all that. To which I say: fuck that. They decided that the racism, homophobia, islamophobia and fascism was not a reason to vote something else. 8/

Let me tell you a story of long, long ago.

I grew up in a suburb, and right in front of our house was a field of grass surrounded by houses. Traffic was light, the houses were new so owned by young families (yes, it was so long ago that young families could afford a house) and so there were lots of kids always about outside. Across from us lived a boy my age who was also in my class, and I played with him a lot -- we were good friends. Eating lunch at each others' houses, etc. 1/