a.k.a., I promise things will change (a.k.a, I sobbed on the bus home twice because of my team at work)
I work in New Zealand for a large (for us) corporate company, in a department with a team of 15. As far as I’m aware, I’m the third out person working in the office, and the first in that team specifically.
This year, our wider business formed a team for a national fundraiser that’s held every year for global Pride month in June, which supports about five local rainbow services, including support for rainbow youth and school outreach.
I, naturally, decided to get hypercompetitive and see if I could raise the most funds out of everyone in our company.
My reaction to romance is a lot like my reaction to moths. I can admire it from afar and say ‘hey, that looks cool!’ but if it tries to come near me I start screaming and flapping my arms.
String identified: act t ac a t act t t. ca a t aa a a ‘, tat c!’ t t t t c a tat cag a ag a.
Closest match: GET SCARED GET SCARED GET SCARED GET SCARED
I love when fiction makes the audience feel guilty about their role as the audience. When something fucked up is treated as a joke but later it’s recognised how fucked up it was and the audience feels guilty for finding it funny. When a character breaks the fourth wall to plead for help, and you can’t do anything so you just watch. And you know that the characters pain isn’t real, but they’re begging for help and you’re not helping because their suffering is entertainment for you
The other day Hind Khoudary said something so heartbreaking in response to being asked about what are Gazans’ reactions to news from that day, and she simply said “people here don’t know, they don’t have access to the outside world”.
But we can help change that. You can purchase eSIMs and Mirna’s team will distribute them to people in Gaza.
For now, NOMAD, MOGO and SIMLY eSIMs are urgently needed. You can follow the instructions in the post I linked and email the QR code to gazaesims@gmail.com
Hello, I am Ahmed. I am 22 years old. I study medical equipment engineering at Al-Azhar University in Gaza, which was recently destroyed due to the difficult and terrible war that Gaza City is going through.
I had one year left to graduate, but the war destroyed everything. I lost my education, my father lost his job and his small shop.
I hope that you will help me and stand by my side in saving me and my family, starting over, completing my education, and building my life and future after it was destroyed.
i bet i’d be happier and healthier by now if i could’ve been a furry when i was 17 drawing cute little critters with my friends. but no… God or some other nefarious power decided i should be on 4chan
by the way. with how much worse things have gotten since 2016 if you’re currently on 4chan during your developmental years you have to get out. my god please i’m begging you get the fuck out right now you have to live and be a person
Please just. Cook vegetables. Appreciate vegetables as vegetables. Invent new vegetable recipes or update old ones. I promise you it’ll make everything vegetable and non-vegetable taste better than this constant march of “SURPRISE! This meat dish actually has no meat in it!” stunts will.
i hate that so much of modern western non-meat food that you see or hear about anymore is just trying to ape existing meat dishes instead of exploring the thousands of years of non-meat dishes we have in the west or looking to the wealth of such things from the east no instead of those beautiful things we have to be assaulted by phrases like vegan bacon
i saw someone make “vegan bacon” with banana peels marinated in liquid smoke. i was appalled.
attention americans: it is the middle of winter for me.
this was not a brag i just had an american confused how i was so cold in july and thought they should be reminded other countries exist again. they forget that a lot around here.
if you’ve never engaged with a creative art on a regular basis you need to understand that it requires concerted effort to get into “the groove” to make something and every second that it takes to get into that groove causes physical pain, but the only thing worse than doing it is not doing it.
Feel like spent the last 20 odd years earning my PHD in Woman only to land a full-ride career in Boydude.
Like yeah I’m happier but what do I do with all these academic papers
Skill swap, anyone got boy performance knowledge? Willing to trade for girl performance knowledge
Lay a warm wet towel over your eyebrows for a few minutes before plucking them. This can reduce swelling, redness, and discomfort.
Use an eyelash curler, THEN use a waterproof pencil liner on the waterline of your upper lid, THEN use mascara, focusing on the tips of your lashes. Ideally an hourglass-shaped mascara brush. It’ll give you the effect of big, thick, natural eyelashes.
A crinoline is a skirt filler designed to make your skirts look voluminous and bouncy. It can also give you the illusion of wider hips.
To put on pantyhose without tearing, bunch them up into a bagel shape, stick your toes in first, and then un-scrunch them upwards. If they snag, don’t cut or pull the thred- hold the material away from your skin and cover the perimeter of the hole, or just the base of the loose threat, with a thin dab of super glue. Release when dry, THEN cut thread.
To keep your bra from showing through a thin shirt, a tank top that matches your skin tone will be more effective than a white tank top.
Sort of an old one, probably out of fashion but I was taught to put on lipstick first, then dab it with a flat tissue top and bottom to minimize transfer and the over-painted look, and then- optionally- take a little dot of the same lipstick and rub over cheekbones until it’s just a faint tint for a natural-looking blush.
Another one about pantyhose, but if yours tear often, a garter and thigh-highs can be a practical alternative. You only have to swap out the side that’s torn instead of throwing ‘em all out- and my grandmother uses strips of her old ones to tie plants to stakes in her garden.
If you buy one of those drawstring net bags for produce, it’s cheaper than a regular lingerie bag and works about the same. Great for washing stocking by machine without getting tangles, too.
If you don’t wash your nice underclothes by hand, at least wash them cold and hang them to dry. But if the elastic is stretching out, a quick round in the hot air dryer can put them back in shape a bit.
Conservatively, you shouldn’t cross your legs at the knee if you’re wearing a skirt, because it allows the possibility someone may see up it when adjusting. I was taught to wear skirts that covered the knee while standing, and to cross legs at the ankle if at all.
If you’ve never worn heels before, check the quality of the heel. If they can’t stand upright on their own, they aren’t stable for walking. Go with wide, low heels first to practice, and walk heel-first. That means that the heel of your shoe touches the ground first, not the toe. Only toe-walk in your heels when climbing stairs, walking over a grate, or handling other surfaces that may snag the tip
heh. *wipes blood off mouth* your panic attacks are strong. *gets back on feet* but are they strong enough to survive…. THIS?! *directs your attention to five things you can see*FIVE SENSES GROUNDING TECHNIQUE
I love the way the woman’s face goes from, “This is a little weird and probably a prank, but I’ll play along,” to “Wait, am I making music here?” to “Fuck yeah, I’m making music here!”
sorry if I don’t respond to message for the next 20 minutes I just ate a peach so ripe and juicy and soft and flavorful that I was in hog heaven and am now mourning the fact I inhaled it like a famished beast
nah y'all don’t understand that peach was so ripe every bite was overflowing with sweet juice that I was slurping up like a man stranded in a desert finding an oasis so it wouldn’t drip on me or my clothes. oh my god it was so potent with flavor I could not think anything other than about that peach, it was so firm in my hands but so soft as I bit into it too. I should have known how beautiful eating this peach was going to be when I was cutting it into fourths and the knife glided around the pit like it was nothing. oh my god it tasted so good like nectar from a goddess and I should probably stop carnally describing how good this peach was before someone asks what’s wrong with me
I don’t know man. The playplace should have been demolished, but I think it’s better to chew on gum until the flavor is gone than to get bored. Things fade, you know, like plastic in the sun. Half a tube of bright pink PVC turning pink, and white, and thin.
Do you remember the Nick hotel? How the baseboards were cracked? The water park? I never went myself. It’s the sort of thing that only exists in red-eyed digital photos that you printed at a Costco.
I wonder where laserdiscs ended up? Like physically, where did they all go? Iridescent sand, bismuth ozymandias. How come the speakers at the mall never worked? How come they always sounded so far away? At least the tile was clean.
Even back then, you knew you were late to something. So many rooms were too big. Not enough people showed up, I guess. I remember my dad telling me that one day TVs would become computers but it ended up the other way around. I never wore holes in my clothes, I had to buy new ones so often. He told me one day they would come in cans, you could paint a TV on the wall. Wouldn’t that be something.
I met a girl at the park once who was just like me. I had snuck my Nintendo DS out in the pocket of my hoodie. Hers was silver, mine was a shade of red you don’t see much anymore. We played Mario Kart under the slide where our parents couldn’t see. I never saw her again. I can’t think about her.
I honestly cannot believe how far T(W)ERF rhetoric has spread on this site. They used to be the ONLY ones I saw openly mocking the concept of identifying as queer, the ONLY ones I saw referring to people as ‘kweer’ in a mocking way.
You all are so 100% certain you know how to identify radfem and T(W)ERF rhetoric and can’t possibly fall victim to it but guess what.
They are nowhere near above pulling this shit. And you all are falling for it.
And if you think that screenshot is an isolated incident, think again!
There are countless radfem and T(W)ERF blogs that I’ve blocked that said ‘secret radfem sideblog’ in the description.
Like, it’s great that we’ve made being a T(W)ERF so unaccepted on this site that they can only be open about the most toxic of their views in secret side blogs rather than on their main, but it’s time to accept that they’re taking advantage of that in a really fucking insidious way.
Just a tip on how to recognize these blogs. If you follow someone and you start getting suggested t*rf blogs that’s a good sign the person has sideblog for that stuff. There was some cowboy blog I followed a while ago and I used to get follow suggestions saying “this blog is similar to cowboy whatever” and it was a ton of t*rf shit and low and behold they ended up outing themselves
This is why we learn about what actual TERF ideology is. Saying “trans women are women” and “TERFS not allowed” and putting “TERF destroyer” or whatever in your bio is not enough. Learn how TERFs actually work, and what they believe, and where it stems from, and how they express diluted versions in order to warm up non-TERFs to their ideas.
Do the fucking work. Unfollow/block people who express TERF ideas even if they don’t label themselves as TERFs, challenge those ideas in your community, and you won’t have to worry about secret TERF blogs anymore.
Just in case you happen to be unaware, some of the “radfem lite” they post to warm you up to their rhetoric, just off the top of my head:
Ace/aro exclusionism
Bi exclusionism or claims that bi people are “less queer” bc of “straight passive privilege”
Saying you have to be dysphoric to identify as trans
Invalidating nonbinary people
Calling queer a slur regardless of context, saying people can’t identify as queer, and saying that it can’t be reclaimed
“Mogai hell”, “kweer”, or otherwise mocking less common labels and claiming they are “just cishets who want to feel special”
Excluding sex workers from feminist discussions or claiming that sex work is inherently evil
Basically anyone who thinks they can determine what other people identify as
The following are some red flags I’ve seen:
Men are evil
Women are pure
Black and white framing
Talking about separating the communities
Only this group can use these words
Lesbians are better than bi women
Straight women deserve/should not be surprised if they get abused
Panphobia
Think of the children
Anti kink
Cringe culture/who let these weirdos in/calling people freaks
people saying white rice is a harmful carb.. they could never make me hate you my beautiful princess..
if white rice has a million fans, i am one of them. if white rice has ten fans, i am one of them. if white rice has only one fan, then that is me. if white rice has no fans, that means i am no longer on earth. if the world is against white rice, i am against the world. I love #white rice till my last breath.. .. Die Hard fan of white rice. Hit Like if you think white rice Best food & Good in the world
white rice has literally fed the world for thousands of years put some respect on her name
Listen dude, I knew we went on that magical adventure to nutritionland. We learned a lot from president cauliflower. But I’m gonna be real dude, I think nutritionland is an ethnostate.
I’ve spent my adult life watching the American right wing be all “I wish a motherfucker would,” swearing up and down they’re comfortable with violence and ready for their chance to cleanse the land with violence. Laughing at one of their demagogues getting a boo-boo on the earlobe is fine.
just saw a furry go “ugh pup masks are the worst thing to happen to the furry community” and it’s like what are you talking about those are your cousins, at the end of the day you’re both pretending to be gay dog men, i think it’s just an aesthetic choice at that point
I really appreciate everyone who has helped so far. Like seriously. You’re helping me stay alive.
I’m still not back to where I need to be yet; anything helps.
Vocational Rehabilitation is going to be helping me find a job soon as well so I’m really hopeful that things can work out soon. I hope the someday I’ve been hanging on for is just around the corner.
Anywhoozles, I really do appreciate each and every one of you. I hope you know that I’m still fighting and I plan to keep on fighting as long as I can.
children existing in public spaces is genuinely like. necessary for the continuation of society. it doesnt have to be your kids you dont have to volunteer at a daycare or whatever but you need to be able to tolerate the presence of someone who is learning how to exist as a human and interact with people
Door to door sales men aren’t a thing anymore but if they were they’d be highly sexulaized. Think of the potential. There’d be a whole genre of porn with them. Like the humble pizza delivery boy
Door to door sex tpy sales man who has to demonstrate t*gets so hard I pass out
door to door sex toy salesman who wears a tiny skirt so he has quicker access for demonstrating the toys
