Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)
I like coffee, Philly, Pittsburgh, Arabic language, anything on two wheels, music, linux, theology, cats, computers, pacifism, art, unity, equity, etymology, the power of words, and getting high off airplane glue. Will use Adobe Illustrator for food.
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Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceto
Political Memes@lemmy.ca•"Make America Healthy Again"English
9·3 months agoMy understanding is that he’s hooked on ephedrine. Seriously, the guy is like the essence of the entire 80s, frozen in amber for all eternity. Can’t even abuse stimulants right.
Guaranteed, Trump has a Members Only jacket in his closet.
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceto
News@lemmy.world•Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men - In the Last Year, the County Prosecutor's Office Has Filed Charges in Four Such CasesEnglish
2·3 months agoThey’re all over AliExpress and TEMU. People use them mostly to cheat bridge tolls, lol.
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceto
News@lemmy.world•Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men - In the Last Year, the County Prosecutor's Office Has Filed Charges in Four Such CasesEnglish
2·3 months agoAlways how it is. Philly is an amazingly, deeply progressive place that started what we would consider today’s interpretation of “progressive” way way back in 1812. Racists and bigots absolutely exist in the city but for the most part, every instance of political violence in the past 10 years has either been actual Nazis (Patriot Front) shipping in via U-Haul, or goobers from the outer counties driving in specifically to shoot guns at windows and signs and drive out of the city with their plates covered, using one of those friggin remote controlled piezoelectric tint plate blockers
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceto
News@lemmy.world•Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men - In the Last Year, the County Prosecutor's Office Has Filed Charges in Four Such CasesEnglish
4·3 months agoNothing can prepare you for what it’s like when gross dudes suddenly think they’re in good company and let slip some shit that is so heinous that you can’t even react for a few minutes.
Conscious cismen and transmen know what I mean.
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceto
News@lemmy.world•Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men - In the Last Year, the County Prosecutor's Office Has Filed Charges in Four Such CasesEnglish
7·3 months agoI am genuinely not sure how that kind of outreach would work, or how to protect anything that is out there from bigots weaponizing it, but I recognize that there’s a need and that cis men like myself (especially those of us with some height on us) have a surprising amount of power to prevent other cis dudes from fucking around.
I am not much for toxic masculinity, but I’ve spent enough time embroiled in it to know that groups of guys will back off anyone who they think might have a weapon. Hell, I’ve personally seen gangbangers actively ward other gangbangers off from cat-calling a woman wearing a wedding ring. I learned later that this is common wisdom because the potential damage that a scorned husband can cause is ridiculous. I think there is something to just utilizing that effect for, y’know, good instead of evil.
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceto
News@lemmy.world•Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men - In the Last Year, the County Prosecutor's Office Has Filed Charges in Four Such CasesEnglish
202·3 months agoI wish there were a group of cis men who would be willing to open-carry where it’s legal, on demand, and accompany any trans person to and from anywhere they gotta go. I’d do it if I weren’t a pacifist, but maybe it’s still useful even to just have a walking buddy.
It’s a shame that this is where we are as a society, but then again, I’m just using the same argument I’ve been fed my whole life about guns being critical towards creating a more polite society.
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceto
Television@piefed.social•‘Bob’s Burgers’ Creator on Why the Show Still Soars After 300 Episodes: ‘Optimism Is an Underrated and Complicated Thing’English
181·3 months agoI saw Loren say once that the basic premise of the show is that “Bob can’t win.” Like, that’s the rule. He has to lose, because that action is what endears us as an audience, but also creates a plyable space to inject the kind of schmaltz that the Simpsons used to be known for in its earliest seasons.
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceto
News@lemmy.world•‘How dare you!’: Florida council meeting erupts over renaming road for Charlie KirkEnglish
38·3 months agoY’all, the denial of power happens on every possible level. We gain power with every single Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway sign that gets “accidentally” knocked down with a car bumper. Or every Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway offramp sign that gets suddenly redesigned overnight with a can of black spray paint. Deny them quarter on every single front.
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceto
News@lemmy.world•‘How dare you!’: Florida council meeting erupts over renaming road for Charlie KirkEnglish
11·3 months agoThe Wheezle! Propaganda, buuuuuuuuuudddddddy.
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.sciencetoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•*Permanently Deleted*English
8·3 months agoThere is no ethical consumption under Capitalism. Just do the best you can with what’s available to you to reduce suffering and heirarchy. All of this is a fight fought on many, many fronts, some of them mental.
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.sciencetoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•*Permanently Deleted*English
5·3 months agoMan, this is just going to encourage people to just watch it on YouTube. I know I will.
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•App for outing Charlie Kirk’s critics leaked its users’ personal dataEnglish
43·3 months agoMostly because it has been variously DDOSed or reported to different companies for hosting doxx. :D Great work everybody.
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceto
Science Memes@mander.xyz•proof of wormholesEnglish
13·3 months agoI am autistic and I can understand it. When stressed, autistic people can exhibit disordered thinking or just naturally pick up on relationships and patterns that neurotypical people do not. We can also have the appearance of unpredictable volatility when facing things like burnout or abuse.
Especially in an era where mental health treatment was really just sending you you to a prison.
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•ConsequencesEnglish
17·3 months agoFinno-Urgic Chad: “haha hey guys watch this”
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceto
News@lemmy.world•FBI Readies New War on Trans PeopleEnglish
4·3 months agoMy suggestion personally is that trans folk start taking boating lessons. They might not let you leave by plane, but they can’t stop a small boat from leaving shore somewhere, anywhere, along the 28,000 miles of coastline along the East Coast. Purchasing an old fishing trawler will be helpful, as if your boat obviously has fishing equipment onboard, drone strikes are less likely and less justifiable — especially given how many wealthy, white Americans regularly pilot their little boat-houses to Bermuda every year.
Additionally, in less than three days’ voyage, you can reach several sovereign overseas European territories through which to claim asylum, such as St. Pierre and Miquelon (France), Bermuda (Britain), Sint Maarten (Dutch), and Greenland (Denmark). Stay out of public, and stay safe everyone. Now is the time to use all of those social-avoidance skills we have been practicing for decades.
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceto
196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Me reading ruleEnglish
31·3 months agoYou, my friend, would probably enjoy the magazine ‘AdBusters.’ I have been a subscriber since college, 20 years now.
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceto
politics @lemmy.world•Jon Stewart to Host Tonight’s ‘The Daily Show,’ Presumably to Address Jimmy Kimmel’s SuspensionEnglish
91·3 months agoyou know what the worst part about the creeping nature of murderous, paranoid fascism is? the hypocrisy!


Shooting pistols while high on Oxycontin is in the Constitution!