Also there has never been a “good” US president. Each and every one of them has presided over unimaginable suffering. You only think they’re good because you were comfortably removed from that suffering and violence
ive found that partially treated mental illness can sometimes look to uninvolved onlookers like faked mental illness.
“someone who really has pOCD would be disgusted and horrified at their intrusive thoughts” or maybe i’m in therapy & am going by the books, being radically ambivalent to my intrusive thoughts instead of wasting energy mentally washing my paws of sin. i’m not going to perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed.
“I won’t perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed” is going straight into my permanent storage holy shit
kangaroos are like what if a scary muscle man occupied the ecological niche for deer
well I wouldn’t like that very much. is what
technically it’s more like if the scary muscle man occupied the ecological niche for horses, since we’re talking broadly grazing species here rather than browsing ones. isn’t that better. he’s a horse! we combined man and horse, isn’t that something humans like imagining
and he only has the scary punching hands because he needs to be able to climb to get what he needs :) unlike deer :) :) :) and horse
Official nature post
To be fair kangaroos started in trees i think? So it’s more like what if a squirrel decided to become a horse
To be fair, humans also started in trees.
humans are what happens when a squirrel wants to become a bear
Saying “voting doesn’t matter” might reach your younger peers online but it certainly hasn’t reached Clangus Hargbarg who was part of the kkk in 1951 and still sends in his ballot. He hasn’t missed a one.
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I encourage everyone to not only be aware of Project 2025, but educate yourself on exactly what is — a nearly one thousand page document by Conservatives that describes the creation of an authoritarian state and dismantling of major necessary agencies (EPA, Department of Education, etc), as well as including a plan to remove those who hold high government seats and replace them with loyalists who have little to no experience in that field.
An estimated 41 million Gen Z teens will turn eighteen before this election. Please make sure you are registered to vote by November, and be sure to get to the polls on November 5th.
New voters please help, you might for real be the only hope considering the various poll results with older people so far
Sometimes the media says “there are no words” to describe or justify horrific attacks on hospitals. Other times, the media has countless words to describe and justify horrific attacks on hospitals.
Soup eaters be like “ah i love drinking some food”. Pathetic
Yea ok go back to your fucking puddle of food you little weasel girl. Im taking your bones when youre asleep tonight. Youll be slurping soup for the rest of your life
You don’t like soup or mint ice cream??????
Soup isnt bad but its worse than any other type of food by 16 miles
What the fuck is a mile
Im just trying to make the americans feel included. They arent that far down their tech tree yet
Soup eaters be like “ah i love drinking some food”. Pathetic
Yea ok go back to your fucking puddle of food you little weasel girl. Im taking your bones when youre asleep tonight. Youll be slurping soup for the rest of your life
You don’t like soup or mint ice cream??????
Soup isnt bad but its worse than any other type of food by 16 miles
What the fuck is a mile
Im just trying to make the americans feel included. They arent that far down their tech tree yet
Found this because of @sanddoc06 . No clue where it originally came from, but I had to share it.
…Wow. :)
this is very funny and im glad it worked but also fun fact time: the US literally did this in the Philippines to try and make Chinese vaccine products less popular there
normalize my 12th grade English teacher, who admitted that his favorite TV show was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and when a male student suggested that it was because Buffy/Sarah Michelle Gellar was hot, wrinkled his face like he’d bitten into something rotten and dead, and said, “At my age (he was 53), there is nothing less sexy than a teenager. You’re all disgusting messes.”
It was 1999, I was 17, and I’d grown up in conservative Christian schools and churches. In my life I’d heard heard dozens of sermons from male preachers and teachers and even some older students, whining about how hard it was to be a dude and not commit the sin of thinking sexual thoughts, and how they needed women to wear long skirts and cover their bodies to not objectify them
and my bitter, misanthropic, atheist Brit Lit teacher, who hated my class because he was obsessed with teaching Tom Sawyer but got stuck with Shakespeare and Jane Austen, was the first, and this day the last man I have ever heard articulate a rebuttal from the depths of his soul to the idea that it was normal for teenage girls to be desirable to middle aged men
RIP Henry Dickerson, who passed away last night. I tried explaining to him once that he was a tumblr legend, but I’m not sure it took.
i got banished from the moon organ colonies for “improper conduct with the lab-grown corpses” which is frankly bullshit because they hadnt even implanted a consciousness in them yet so it’s not like they cared. but whatever. anyways as punishment I got transferred to go mine for sludge on Venus which I’m sure they thought was real funny since everyone knows there’s no sludge on Venus. So imagine my surprise when three weeks in my shitty secondhand laser drill broke through the bedrock and sludge started gushing out like a texan oil well. boy did I feel vindicated. there’s no way im telling the folks back on the moon colony cause I’m still upset at them, and the sludge creatures are way better improv partners than the corpses were anyways
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why is it when you go to a hair salon as a transmasc/nb person and go “i want something very short and simple. masculine. here’s a photo of a man. that’s how i want my hair to look.” without fail your middle aged hairdresser is like “yes. right. i know exactly what you’re looking for. let me just ….. snip snip” and you come out of there like 2007 kate gosselin
Ok so: I’m cis female but had this problem, in that I could never get them to cut my hair short enough. I eventually found ways to get them to cooperate though - and this was with hair I was sporting from 15-23, so you can probably get them to take you seriously. Keep in mind, though, that a lot of these tips will involve recognizing that you’ve already been misgendered and voluntarily running with that.
First of all, just go to a barbershop instead of a hair salon, if you can. It’s cheaper anyway, and you’re far more likely to get what you want from either a place where every employee has ten tattoos minimum, or from someone who’s mis-aging you not misgendering you
Barring that, e.g. If there’s only one shop nearby or your parents control where you go, pick the stylist with the wildest hair or most tattoos
If you can do so, make yourself sound like a huge lesbian the whole time. I could never get a middle aged white woman to actually take clippers my head if I hadn’t already talked about my (usually imaginary) girlfriend
If you like having your hair clipped/shaved, find out what numbers they use on you next time someone does it right, then tell everyone moving forward. Some still won’t believe you, but saying “I want a 2 into a 5” was always a lot more effective than “I want it shaved up”
Don’t tell them it’s fine until it is. I know this is something we’re socialized into accepting but this is true regardless of who you are and what hair cut you’re getting. If you’re not satisfied, say so. So what if they get annoyed? They’re not doing their job right. You’re paying for a service, you deserve it done the way you want.
On a related note, bribery will get you everywhere. If you live in a place where tipping is normal, and you can afford it, then come prepared with extra cash. If they do it right without you complaining, tip them well and say “hey, you’re the only stylist who’s actually listened, thank you.” If they need more convincing - especially if your parents are the ones paying and you know they’re trying not to piss them off - pull out a $10 or so and go “look, seriously, I will tip you extra if you just cut it boy-short”. It motivated a few ladies for me, when it was an option.
If all else fails, make up a reason you need it that short. You’re playing a character in the school play. You want to piss off your parents/ex/sister. Protest. “My friend has cancer and I want to make her feel less alone”. Yeah, lying sucks, but sometimes you gotta.
Hope that helps!!
Don’t tell them it’s fine until it is
As a real life stylist I cannot stress this enough. This is the most important part of the cut because if you’re smiling in the chair and crying at home it means I’m not doing my job.
And I also second the barber shop for the first haircut because once you come in with short hair and tell a stylist you want it shaved back down the majority of them won’t hesitate.
sorry yeah ive got a bad case of Thinking About My Friends. im afraid its incurable. symptoms include happiness and love and wishes that they will have the life they want to live.
you have to stay alive. you’re going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.
I made it. I made it. I made it!!!!
I am old enough to be a parent to a college-aged kid. I made it. It sucked. It was hard. I lost parts of my self I may never get back. But I made it.
You can make it too. You DON’T have to change who you are. You might have to hide things from time to time, but I want you to know that it shouldn’t be about shame. It’s about protecting those beautiful parts of yourself from harm and having the joy of them robbed from you. It doesn’t make you any “less”. Eventually all of those ‘secrets’ will be like spring bulbs. Beautiful bursts of color and life just waiting for a good, safe, warm day. You just gotta hold on.
You can make it. One day you’ll be an old weirdo with creaking, crunching, knees. You will live long enough to see your own crow’s feet. You’ll stop caring about what other people think and honestly other people will stop caring about what you do. Eventually you get the “adultier adult” pass, and barely anyone gives you a second look. And if they talk shit you’ve got decades of practice under your belt and you can verbally eviscerate them for it. You can make it.
I got gray hair!!! I never thought I would. I love every one of the little wiry motherfuckers. I made it. You can make it.
serious post but: seeing how quick white queers are willing to throw people of color who are queer (mainly black and brown folks) under the bus while spouting bigoted rhetoric is not only scary but solidarity only exists when it benefits them or makes them look good. tired of seeing trans folks of color be absolutely terrified and scared they’ll be exiled from community for even daring to speak their mind or because they sucked as a person in the past. people gotta realize the world wants to kill marginalized folks, especially if they’re poc. you either are with us or not.
I think people forget the LGBTQ+ community was literally built from trans women of color and queer folks of color. they helped kickstart everything only to get treated like dirt beneath the pavement(god forbid if you are a trans woman of color too) this has happened to me and my siblings and we are so tired. if you care about us please raise our voices instead of invalidating our experiences while simultaneously using us as a prop for talking points.
ELMO DOES NOT LIVE ALONE. HIS PARENTS ARE CLEARLY SHOWN SEVERAL TIMES IN SEVERAL PIECES OF SESAME STREET MEDIA. YOU’RE A FAKE FAN. HIS PARENTS NAMES ARE LOUIE AND MAE. HE EVEN HAS EXTENDED FAMILY.
So I just made a joke that “more women should poison their husbands” to my cool boss and then immediately found out that he got divorced because he was poisoned by his ex-wife
I’m apologizing profusely and he’s like “oh it’s fine it was funny” and then he offhandedly mentions that his next girlfriend tried to poison him also
“oh I’m too old for stuffed animals” skill issue. sorry you can’t appreciate little creatures made to hang out with you, I on the other hand am full of joyous whimsy and therefore vastly superior.
“kill them with kindness” wrong. ceaseless watcher gaze your eyes upon this wretched thing👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️
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is that piece of media actually bad, or is it just not following the blueprint you projected onto it? is that work actually not good, or are you just demanding something from it that is absolutely antithetical to its themes, genre, tone, and narrative goal? is that story actually poorly written, or do you just dislike that it is not the specific things you wanted from it that it never set out to be, never was, and never is going to become? is it actually bad, or is it actually well-executed and you just dislike the story it chose to be because it isn’t catering to your specific desires and expectations?
