Babs [she/her]

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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • Anyone have experience with getting a passport? I changed my name many many years ago and don't know if my parents still have the court order, but I haven't changed my birth certificate because I didn't think it would be relevant. All my documents are in my legal name except for the birth certificate.

    I've tried looking up my case online but wasn't sure what court it was in (somewhere in WA) or what year.

    My state allows amending my birth certificate but it's a several month long wait and my family wants me to get this all done before anyone has a chance to fuck up the process.







  • Involuntarily, like with going through the whole court process and a judge committing you and everything. If you're depressed and cops show up at your door and make you go to the hospital "voluntarily" under threat of being committed, that doesn't count. Even if you stay a while "voluntarily". If you get taken in for a 72 hour "observation" hold (5150) but then the doctors let you free, that doesn't count either. If you didn't have to go to court or at least face a judge, you weren't committed.

    I've had a few grippy sock vacations when I was younger but it didn't impact my gun rights.



  • Super easy if there is a club nearby. Most will have loaner equipment while you get started. You'll eventually want your own mask ($75) and glove ($cheap, I used a gardening glove) at least, and then probably your own jacket and sword (like $50 each).

    I took it as a class in college, and outside of club tournaments everything was super friendly and casual and mixed-gender (cool and good for trans people). And yeah, really fun.





  • Babs [she/her]toaskchapoBest socialist org in the US?
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    22 days ago

    WWP are good comrades with good principles, but the organization isn't quite there imo. I tried joining as a candidate, found out that their candidate classes were only on a day I was unavailable, and they were like "okay, that's no problem!" Which seems like pretty poor standards to me. Also they kept asking me if I could be a delegate on international trips, on very short notice, despite being a new candidate and not having a passport.

    PSL seems to have standards for their members and are trying to form organizational infrastructure in the form Liberation Centers. Definitely strike me as a more serious party.