being the most left leaning family member means everyone will always think that youre insane and then in two years they will believe what you were explaining to them two years ago but still think youre insane now. and you do it anywaybecause you love them
mothers day cards: hey queen 👸😋! thank you for cooking 🍳 and cleaning 🧽🧹🧺 and shopping 🛍🛒 and taking care of our health insurance 🙊⚕️and just being a great beautiful lady! 🥰❤️ we love you so much mom!!!
Well you see minors under 25 years old should not be allowed to get gender reassignment surgery because what if they go to the clinic but instead of giving them a normal penis the nurses mess up and give them the evil penis. That’s irreversible
hey reminder to continue boycotting eurovision and instead turn your eyes on gaza where the last media outlet al jazeera has just been shut down so that Israel can launch its attack on the most densely populated area in the world without scrutiny. Dont stop talking about Palestine
the way my partner talks about my ocd is so hilariously on point. for context, i experience a lot of verbal compulsions (feeling like i Have to Say a Certain Thing to magically fix another) and he just told me. “most of the time it’s easy to spot a compulsion cause literally nobody asked”
i’ll tell him that i want to watch a movie and then I’ll specify out loud “you do not have to comply with my wish, but it was good to freely express it just as it is good for you to freely refute it” and he will look at me dead in the eye and say “who asked. compulsion”. it’s just brutal
this is genuinely such good OCD treatment partnership though. acknowledging the compulsion & refusing to participate in the OCD narrative & reassurance loop. we love to see informed support.
The look on my boyfriend’s face when I read this to him tells me I’m going to be hearing “Who asked? Compulsion.” a LOT.
Secularist society that takes the cigarettes approach to religion and it’s totally legal but all religious texts require a big sticker thst says “THERE IS NO EVIDENCE FOR GOD” or whatever. And at the start of every sermon you have to give a disclaimer thst you’re making it all up. Etc. Kinda based
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your parents catch you reading a bible and you have to finish the whole pack
Elon Musk bought the company. He has nothing to do with the development. #CosplayEngineer
No. I will not have you do this.
Dr. Nikola Tesla did not sign bad contracts. He signed an excellent contract with Westinghouse to bring AC power to America. Westinghouse was the big competitor against Edison Electric, which ran DC power. Thomas Edison was a massive prick and Edison Electric went around doing its best to convince everyone that AC power was dangerous, most infamously by electrocuting an elephant to death and developing the first execution-style electric chair using AC power. All of this cemented in the mind of the public that AC power was dangerous and deadly, while DC power was somehow safer.
By 1890, Westinghouse was in trouble. George Westinghouse went to Tesla and laid out the truth: if he honored the royalty contracts that he’d agreed to pay Tesla, he would go bankrupt. So Tesla tore up the contracts. He walked away from millions, maybe billions of dollars because he believed that wireless electricity should be free to the world. Westinghouse went on to bring AC power to homes across America.
Tesla wasn’t a bad businessman. He was an idealist who hated capitalism.
People talk about politics as if it’s this isolated, abstract concept that only matters at election time. Somebody’s politics is their world view. It’s whether they think certain human beings deserve rights. It’s how they think the world should be. And if somebody thinks that the world should be colder, meaner, less accepting and downright hostile to people that are different to them, then sure as fuck is the friendship over.
People who don’t let politics affect their friendships are proof that they have never experienced real hardship. A person who doesn’t like trump but can stay friends with a trump voter is the person who never has to worry about being beaten when they walk into a bathroom with the trump voter
The year is 2030 and they just remade Breaking bad but now… its WOKE!!! Its now called Breaking Trans and instead of cooking meth they cook estrogen. Walter White is now Walter Black. Jesse Pinkman is now Jesse Pinkwoman. Gus is now gay and has a boyfriend who was killed by the Salamancas. Walter now has a disabled son who he defends from harassment. Saul is now a femboy twink and is named Saul Twinkman. Walter and Saul have gay sex for half the episode in every other episode, in season 4 it becomes a threesome with Mike. Tuco is now a woman named Tuca and shes also gay. Halfway through the show Walter Jr transitions and names herself Madeline. Instead of dying at the end Walter also transitions and says “I’m Breaking Trans”
Why are Palestinians not allowed to have any allies? This is the same vein of people who lament about how “oh I only trust Palestinians to talk about Palestine” - we as Palestinians are asking you to speak up. It will always be just an excuse not to care or do anything. (And yes, what’s happening in Palestine actually does involve Americans!)
weird that palestine is this far off nebulous thing that can only affect you directly if your own family is being killed over there
but funding israel monetarily, sending israel weapons, sending israel munitions, sending police and military and robotics to israel, supporting israel killing palestinians daily as a irrevocable policy is just this thing that happens out of nowhere and shouldnt be stopped by anyone
Hi there gamers! Let’s play a quirky little exercise called “spot the differences”! Trick question, because there are none!
If you want a call to action besides the obvious political ones, here would be my advice: start stockpiling now. Know how to use sterile techniques for your vials for 1-2 punctures extra, and then keep picking up your other prescriptions. If you’re on DiY, make sure you have extra on hand. If you have a provider, see if they’ll support prescribing you a bit extra now.
Stay safe, please. This extends well beyond the UK. The world is watching.
some aseptic tips:
Wash your hands with soap and water or use hand sanitizer before each injection and wear gloves. Clean the top of your vials with an alcohol pad by swabbing in a circular fashion, then let it dry for about 30 seconds.
Prep the injection site by using an alcohol pad or chlorhexidine and, again, cleaning in a circular fashion. Go from small circles to big circles, moving out from the injection site and let it dry for 30 seconds. Once clean, do not touch your injection site
For intramuscular injection, Use a 21-23 gauge hypodermic needle, pull the skin tight, and you want to insert the needle at a 90 degree angle to the injection site (like when you get a shot at the doctor’s office). Your injection sites for intramuscular are the sides of your shoulders and your thigh.
For Subcutaneous injection, use a 24-26 gauge hypodermic needle and pinch the skin about an inch (pinch an inch!). You’re not aiming to go into the muscle, so you’ll insert the needle at a 45 degree angle to the injection site. Your injection sites are your belly around the belly button region, and tops of your thighs. Those will probably be the easiest regions for you to self-administer.
Feel free to add more advice
Better written than any advice I could have given. Thank you so much. Also, this should all happen for any injection, just make damn sure its also happening if you’re using extra punctures.
A small bit of advice I can give (although tbf, this is mostly from animal work) is to ensure that the seal on the vial is intact, and stays intact. The ways I use to help keep the seal in better condition are 1, use a slightly smaller draw needle than needed (I use a 22g for draw, 26g for injection), and also take care not to overpuncture from a single spot on the vial.
Keep good track of how many punctures a single vial has been used for, and make sure to note the date of the first puncture.
Immediately switch to a different vial if you notice anything wrong with the vial or the seal. This can include contaminants or abnormal particles in the medication (including pieces of the seal), leakage of the seal, or holes.
This equally applies to prescribed medication, as well as DiY medication.
I AM NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL, however. I am a transfemme that has an extremely limited orthogonal amount of experience from doing animal research in the past. Fair warning that I do tend to push some limits, and this is no exception. If you have the option of consulting with a medical professional, use that option, but do not hesitate to DiY when you need to.
if someone asked you directly, you would say that you love a little treat. you like iced coffee and getting the cookie. you drink juice out of a fancy cup sometimes, and often do use your candles until they gutter out helplessly.
but you hesitate about buying the 20 dollar hand mixer because, like. you could just use your arms. you weren’t raised rich. you don’t get to just spend the 20 dollars (remember when that could cover lunch?), at least - you don’t spend that without agonizing over it first, trying to figure out the cost-benefits like you are defending yourself in front of a jury. yes, this rice cooker could seriously help you. but you do know how to make stovetop rice and it really isn’t that hard. how many pies or brownies would you actually make, in order to make that hand mixer worthwhile?
what’s wild is that if the money was for a friend, it would already be spent. you’d fork over 40 without blinking an eye, just to make them happy. the difference is that it’s for you, so you need to justify it.
and it sneaks in. you ration yourself without meaning to - you don’t finish the pint of ice cream, even though you want to. the next time you go to the store, you say ah, i really shouldn’t, and then you walk away. you save little bits of your precious things - just in case. sometimes you even go so far as putting that one thing in your shopping cart. and then just leaving it there, because maybe-one-day, but not right now, there’s other stuff going on.
you do self-care, of course. but you don’t do it more than like, 3 days in a row. after that it just feels a little bit over-the-edge. like. you can’t live in decadence, the economy is so bad right now, kid.
so you don’t buy the rice cooker. you can-and-will spend the time over the stove. you can withstand the little sorrows. denial and discipline are practically synonyms. and you’re not spoiled.
it’s just - it’s not always a rice cooker. sometimes it is a person or a job or a hug. sometimes it is asking for help. sometimes it is the summer and your college degree. sometimes it is looking down at scabbed knees and feeling a strange kind of falling, like you can’t even recognize the girl you used to be. sometimes it is your handprint looking unsteady.
sometimes it is tuesday, and you didn’t get fired, and you want to celebrate. but what is it you like, even? you search around your little heart and come up empty. you’re so used to denying that all your desires draw a blank.
oh fuck. see, this is the perfect opportunity. if you had a mixer, you’d make a cake.
‘Deserve’ is a moral judgement more often used to punish than enrich.
'Deserve’ is a moral judgement more often used to punish than enrich.
'Deserve’ is a moral judgement more often used to punish than enrich.
some troll on reddit started dming me and telling me to kill myself and calling me a tranny and all that. and then, a half an hour in, they spring this on me
shoutout to when i got banned from being a dungeon master at age 15 because i kept putting gender tf traps in my dungeons and nobody could figure out why, including myself
“why do you keep doing this [deadname]” “idk it just feels like it would be really cool if all the characters became girls all of a sudden” she didn’t know, chat.
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