wait, you're telling me some "boys" didn't grow up feeling like a lesbian trapped in the wrong body? i thought that was normal!

get peer reviewed, because fucking. yeah.

hey. hey bestie. i have some pronouns over here you might like, come with me. you can leave that "he/they" over there, you don't need it anymore.

GIRL THE EGG COLUMN IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. YOU DO NOT NEED CONVINCING YOU NEED CONVICTION.

LOOKING FOR REASONS IS REASON ENOUGH. BE A GIRL TODAY RIGHT NOW

LOOKING FOR REASONS

IS REASON ENOUGH. BE A

GIRL TODAY RIGHT NOW

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Digital painting by Cassie Allis

Arrest everyone involved.

Money saved: maybe a couple million dollars.

People killed: around three quarters of a million.

Never forget that DOGE was formed so Elon et al could fumble around sensitive government databases in order to hamper multiple investigations into his companies and government contracts

He is now a trillionaire thanks in no small part to this fiasco

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people are so fucking weird about uncontacted tribes/peoples oh my goddddd you are not making it out of the colonialist mindset

fun fact uncontacted peoples are not ignorant they are fully aware of the "outside world" and are CHOOSING not to have contact because they (rightly) feel it would add no value to their lives and place them in an exploited position. it's voluntary. they are isolated on purpose.

sentinelese people aren't like some ignorant noble savages, or actual savages who are all about warfare and killing (wildly racist take i see very often), they are literally regular ass fucking people who have seen the exploitation of their neighbors (other andamanese people) AND the massive disease outbreaks caused by contact, and decided they want no part in that. they are literally regular people choosing to survive. that's it.

Good resource to start learning about uncontacted peoples:

For those in the notes arguing about whether "uncontacted" is the correct term; whether or not it seems the most accurate, it's the term that is being used. "Uncontacted" just means they reject contact with non-Indigenous society, not that they are isolated from all other people or don't know it exists or have never spoken to a white person before. From the link above:

At that link you can also check out "Voices from the Edge" which is a collection of interviews mostly with Indigenous people who have been forcibly contacted and whose relatives are still uncontacted.

Bank Vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) by phil winter on Flickr.

Each berry is very large to her….

An anti-elecricity cover October 26, 1889 issue of Judge.

to be fair, old timey electric infrastructure had its issues

I don't really blame people of that era for being a wee bit scared shitless of wiring that looked like it was designed by spiders on cocaine

The ornage plague bearer has returned

Will y'all admit that Biden bore the plague for four years, or are we just gonna talk about frito lay products for the next four years?

They both bore the plague but at least Biden didn't actively rail against vaccines

Both are iredeemably evil for the harm they've caused to all these people. But it's even WORSE somehow when Trump is involved because at least Biden was just old and evil. Trump is old, STUPID, and evil.

Biden completely demolished any test/trace/treat infrastructure, got rid of free testing and vaccinations for covid, encouraged people to unmask despite the lack of proof that vaccination alone would stop the spread of covid, did not speak out against mask bans, and didn't do a damn thing to combat vaccine "hesitancy" which is now leading to the massive flu wave that's happening when flu is normally dwindling. If you can't see the stupidity in Biden stripping public health and pushing "back to normal" during an ongoing pandemic while diseases like measles, tuberculosis, and whooping cough reach levels not seen for decades and keep rising, you're obviously not engaging with reality from a place of good faith. We're in a vax and relax public health strategy where not even a quarter of people are getting their vaccines updated, but at least he isn't [food product] man, right?

An excellent summation

See, we're criricizing past administrators for their quantifiable betrayals of the American people because... well it *happened.* Instead of attempting to scry what may come through the looking glass and goats bones and tea leaves, we are pointing to the things by which the democrats gave the massive potential to these anti-science actors on a silver platter by downplaying everything their voting base brought up or cared about and sprinting to the right to appease people they called fascists not two months prior. Discussing the recent past is in no way "downplaying" a future which is malleable and has yet to come to pass. The Yellowstone caldera could blow in 6 months. Covid could put Trump down for the count like it did Biden. Aliens could land in China and attempt to bring us into their federation of planets, only to betray us and use us as beasts of burden. All you can do is speculate until the present has become the past. Focus on what's in your control. Focus on what's recorded. Quit trying to pretend like consuming the latest breaking shit out of every white house press briefing is helpful and not literally a control mechanism. News as distraction and manipulation isn't a new thing. Ready this book.

I really struggle to understand anyone who professes to care about an issue then gets mad at posts like this.

What is the plan? Do you expect an issue to get sufficiently acknowledged if you're not consistent and vigilant? If you pick and chose when you care or when it's bad? If you essentially take the phone off the hook for years then put it back when you feel like you're now in danger?

Because fuck the people sounding the alarm bell on something like this for years right? Screw their incessant calls. We'll sacrifice them, it's okay. Disabled people in particular have been talking about this, but ignore them because them you had an election to win!

I just... do the people who care now really give a fuck? Or is this just some convenient criticism to you? Something you're now willing to admit is bad because you can lob it at a Trump. But will drop, ignore, or excuse it should we get another Democratic president?

Because that is a moral failure of epic proportions and isn't going to get us anywhere.

If can't engage with the government and presidency honestly? If you're not willing to admit any kind of president is going to do screwed up things that you need to address and hold them to task for? That Democrats too uphold the system in a way that sacrifices people and empowers Republicans?

If you can't hold everyone accountable regardless of their connection to you and what they do for you?

You're not ready for conversations like these. Stop entering them. Because it's disingenuous and you look childish.

"It's not that bad when my guy/team does it" is a child's logic. Enough.

I also want to add that a lot of people really weren't paying attention to the last four years if you can say that Biden is just "old/stupid/geriatric" or whatever.

First, Biden is a fascist. He is not a bad person because of concepts of ableism and ageism you tie to him. He is a direct actor in state violence and genocide. I really need people to stop picturing Biden as bad because he's old or "geriatric" or "stupid."

Democrats have also been very directly complicit in the eradication of public health and specifically with the pandemic. He makes fascist, genocidal, eugenicist decisions with a clear and conscious mind.

We have when the Biden administration and Harris specifically abdicated responsibility concerning the Delta variant:

We have that time Biden himself urged others to divert funds related to covid protections and public health to instead increase policing that directly kills disabled, in particular Black disabled people at disproportionate rates:

People have been talking about the criminalization of masking that has already been in motion now:

There's been coverage for years now about how Biden's policy on the pandemic has been abysmal:

This isn't even getting into the Biden administration rulings on testing and vaccination distribution, household counting, and so much more.

Biden himself got covid and repeated much of the same propaganda and disinformation surrounding the level of danger covid poses and pushed the "back to work" narrative for a reason.

Hell, for all the talk about the election outcome, it was repeatedly crickets when we repeatedly pointed out how the effects of the pandemic have changed the political landscape because so many people more likely to even vote democrat are now dead or disabled.

I'm barely even touching on the full extent to which Biden and other democrats have destroyed public health in the last four years, but I cannot emphasize enough that these are not "oncoming" threats nor are they exclusively republican threats.

Nuance lovers HATE the nuance in these tags

If this isn't the point you're getting from these critiques, you're fucking up. Real radicalism seeks to address the root of the issue, and the issue isn't just one party like so many of y'all demand, it's the whole fucking system based on white supremacy and greed.

100% skill issue

I don't understand why people think they need alcohol to have fun.

things I love about my country, because it's the 4th of july and why shouldn't i get to love this country where i have lived for all my thirty years. he's the one who sucks

most of these are wild but

is fucking sending me. this is the biggest attempt I've ever seen to spin a lack of standardised education as Good, Actually.

(also, op, most of the countries I can think of that base university entry on one set of exams base it in exams you take at 17 or 18. Highers, A-Levels, Abitur, AISSCE, baccalauréat, Japanese university entrance exams... I have no idea where you got 16 from, is my point)

I do believe OP is deleting comments.

Also you can become a "mature" student and go to uni through direct entry from 21 years old onwards over here, and I don't think that's unusual. You could fuck your exams as a teen so badly they burn the papers, and you can very much still go to uni

Like I get where OP was coming from with this post but it's amazing how quickly they used it to try shit on other countries to make America look better and they weren't even right about it.

I find the part about "no official national language or religion" pretty funny, given how US presidents swore their position by the bible, and actually it was a big deal that a couple of them have been *gasp* practicing catholics *the horror* instead of some flavor of protestant. I don't think there are a lot of countries that are not actual theocracies where religion and politics are son intertwined together as the US.

(oh, also, I don't know about other countries, but in Spain, the university access exam / scores only really affect your chances to enter public universities... you can always pay your way into a private university and have a US-like experience if you messed up your scores and don't want to retake the exam next year)

Someone brought up freeways in the comments. I think they're joking because those are a failure of infrastructure that destroy primarily poor and racialized neighborhoods for the convenience of rich assholes.

When I think of things I like about living here, it's usually to distract myself from all the obvious bad like heat trapping stretches of pavement, collisions, and pollution that a guy like Robert Moses threw down over a Latin housing block. The fact that we pay exorbitant fees to travel daily in a dangerous manner is not a win for anyone but the police state and the auto lobby

I have just learned an amazing fact.

when Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, landed in a field and met a couple of locals who were understandably a bit uncertain about his whole deal, the first thing he said was: "Don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, but I have come from outer space and I need to find a phone."

the 'CCCP' on his helmet was hand-painted by a ground crewmember just hours before his flight because the U-2 incident was fresh in everyone's minds and they were concerned that it would be dangerous for Gagarin if he accidentally landed in enemy territory without any kind of national identifier

god that would look even worse to a normal person. imagine a guy parachutes out of the clear sky dressed in something no one has ever seen before and he's got the name of your country clearly written on him by hand at the last minute. like okay buddy sure you're totally not an alien

Reminds me of an article in an old Life Magazine I have from 1963, where an American crashed into the ocean and was saved by a Soviet fishing fleet. He reluctantly followed them onto the ship, but it was hot so he stripped down to his shorts, and then one of the Russians took off his own clothes to give to him. Then they brought him to a medical room and he began to panic thinking they were going to shoot him with “truth serum” and torture him for intel. In the end they just stitched up his injuries and called an American helicopter for him. And then when he arrived home, they sent ‘thank you’ letters to HIM! And he realizes that the Soviets were people just like he was. What a wonderful little article to publish during the Cold War.

This is missing the full context, which is even better/worse

"hey it feels like even amongst people who considered themselves committed to social justice and at the recent high-water-mark of that social current, it's never been fully & satisfactorily discussed digested & absorbed that trans women consistently get depicted this vile way in media"

"um people have definitely mentioned that out loud before lol you are young and therefore stupid and entitled and though i'm not saying it i'm also implying that you (trans woman) are being overly sensitive and nitpicking and nobody cares lmao"

she's obviously right. what the fuck is wrong with you people. this is funny? this is some kind of Epic Own to you? you dunk-brained shit eating peanut gallery motherfuckers are so twitter poisoned that all someone has to do is be snide, they don't even need to have a point, you'll all bark and clap like fucking seals. kill yourselves

But like, what films is she talking about

Psycho (1960) & The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dressed to Kill, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, this list is so much longer than you think it is no matter how long you think it is.

Online spaces have almost always been where asexual and aromantic people meet each other and organize. This is why the major online campaigns against us around ten years ago were so destructive.

It’s easy to say that cyber bullying doesn’t matter in the real world or whatever but targeted online bullying campaigns have the power to wreck entire communities and support networks.

It’s difficult to just turn off your computer when all the people who relate to this aspect of your life are in there.

I’ve definitely met other asexual and arospec people irl but it’s quite rare. And real life queer spaces are in fact often bars or kink spaces. And like bully for you if you like kink or alcohol or romance but when your entire identity is based around not feeling the feelings often associated with romance and/or sex that’s not always super fun.

And people got relentlessly mocked for bringing up this issue. Shut down. Called childish. Like okay. Fuck us for wanting a sober non sexual spot to meet other queers, right? So childish for wanting options.

I’ve been involved in the online asexual community and doing education about asexuality and aromanticism in both irl and online queer spaces for almost fourteen years now and that short period of time around 2016-2018 took a wrecking ball to my people that I feel like we’ve still barely recovered from and I’m still angry about it.

I think asexual pirates should come back. This time they’re here for your ass. And not sexually.

If this ain't me

Me, bleeding profusely from a missing leg as I’m being dragged onto the beach: THIS WAS A STATISTICALLY UNLIKELY OCCASION, IF THE SHARK WANTED ME DEAD I WOULD BE DEAD. SHARKS ARE IMPORTANT FOR THEIR ECOSYSTEMS I DO NOT CONDONE ANY ATTEMPTS TO HUNT THIS SHARK

if an animal kills me, that was on ME. it caught ME slackin. let it eat me