“no trans guy wants to be a feminine boy twink some of us wanna be bears and jocks!!!” yes that’s ok and perfectly valid btw can you stop throwing feminine trans men under the bus thank you (ᵔᴥᵔ)
Homeless LGBT Couple is struggling and needs help!
Hello everyone.
My little family is struggling really bad this month and could use some support. We are still homeless and I’m still sick, and have been feeling much sicker with the excessive heat in our area. These last few weeks have been a train wreck for reasons I wont get into, but either way, I’m burning out quickly and could use some relief.
We need to eat but we can’t afford anything. We also need temporary shelter to keep out of the heat so I can rest (with a bathroom) while I recover from being sick. Any help keeping safe and covering food so I can focus on getting better and finding work again would be greatly appreciated. I can’t keep like this much longer.
(Please, no hate or unsolicited advice. I don’t have the energy to deal with it and I will block you.)
We have no food and could use help with shelter this week. Anything helps.
We have 24 hours to get enough for our motel room, or we will be without shelter in the morning. I’m still sick, my lungs are filling with fluid, and my body is wracked with fatigue and pain when I have to leave the bed, especially in the heat. We are broke, and very little has come in this whole week, so any help is appreciated.
We have about 20 hours left. Nothing has come in yet.
I’m in a very bad place and could use support.
We are without food or shelter today. I woke up sick to my stomach, and the first moments in the heat magnified this. Please, if anyone can send some help so we can get a new room as soon as one is available somewhere, it would mean a lot.
The article itself is fascinating, it’s such a long detailed list of statistics and facts about genocide, interlaced with a comical amount of attempts to insert the word ‘alleged’ by zionists.
Can we start writing out the full titles of things again pls like some of the shows y'all talk about sound so interesting fr but then you start abbreviating and shit like “man I love hgtysbks” and “you gotta go watch abcdefgh” like girl. First of all gesundheit second of all What am I supposed to do with that What does that mean!!!!
Everyone who plays around with Tarot cards long enough winds up with a “bad” card that they love. I just barely persuaded my husband not to get the Ten of Swords tattooed on his body; traditionally, it shows a corpse with ten swords stuck in their body and means “utter ruin,” but he thought that if it took ten swords to kill you, then you must have put up a pretty good fight.
honestly this is the most badass ten of swords interpretation i’ve ever heard. i’m stealing this
you join a discord video call at the request of your long time mutual and instead of the 23 year old art history student you thought you’d been friends with you are greeted by two dozen middle aged business men huddled around a conference table intently staring at you
“Did you like our text post about the flock of gay seagulls?” one of them shouts, “We thought it was going to do numbers.”
this post seems to have broken containment and if anyone’s interested in what they were telling me to stop, i found the og post with this song and was mass reblogging it at an alarming rate. ive done this multiple times but i think this was the instance i reblogged it 64 times in a row
[ID: Three panel “Pills that make you green” comic.
Panel 1: An olive green person and a leaf green person are having a discussion.
Olive: I am actually not green.
Leaf: Good to know, how should I refer to-
Olive: I am a chromatically dysphoric greyscale individual who does not deny the biological truth that I am grayscale.
Panel 2: Focus on olive green person as they elaborate.
Olive: “Greener ideology has gone too far now that people are being forced to say that chromatically dysphoric individuals can actually become green! We need to acknowledge that I am simply a mentally ill greyscale person whose treatment is to have my delusions affirmed! Pills that make you green should be banned for everyone except me, it was the right choice for me of course.”
Panel 3: Zoom in on leaf green person.
Leaf: “Is someone forcing you to say these things? Blink twice if someone you care about is being held at gunpoint right now.”
Recently there has been a fall in engagement with Palestinian content on tumblr, and for those of us who are helping Palestinians fundraise it is very obvious that this has happened directly after the very public smear campaigns, carried out by some racist users with significant followings.
It seems half the site somehow found it easier to believe in the horseshit about “belgian scam rings” and “russian botnets” in an effort to justify their apathy towards genocide victims, and the other half seems to think that everything is over and that the evil was defeated just because some racist bloggers got run off the site after giving half-hearted apologies that did nothing to mitigate the damage they had done.
THERE ARE PEOPLE STILL IN DIRE NEED OF HELP !! There are people who are still getting death threats from zionists every day and have to stay on this godforsaken website because their gofundmes haven’t reached their endgoals yet…
I’m going to keep this brief:
Siraj’s ( @siraj2024 ) family including his parents, and his five siblings and their families were displaced during the recent attacks by IOF on deir al balah
This means there are now 23 family members that Siraj is thesole providerfor at the moment.
10 of those members are young children.
Siraj’s wife, Halima, is having a terrible flareup of eczema and his children are suffering from skin infections and badly need medical attention.
This whole family has been living in unhygienic conditions in 2 tents, packed like sardines during this heatwave, leading to spread of infections between them as well– all during a time where hygiene products have become unaffordable due to the israeli blockade, and when water has become scarce, and kids cant even receive life saving vaccinations during polio epidemic.
All this while everyday siraj risks his life trying to reach out to us from an internet point amidst violence and shelling from the IOF in what once was a “humanitarian safe zone”, even more desperately than before because–
THIS FUNDRAISER IS NOW THE ONLY LIFELINE FOR FIVE FAMILIES INSTEAD OF JUST ONE !!
Currently at $55,614/ $82,000 CAD
TIME IS RUNNING OUT!! We have to get to 60k by thursday i.e WITHIN THE NEXT THREE DAYS!! DONATE AND BOOST
what polls? whomst is being polled? i have never once in my life been polled. what is the sample size? what is the sample demographic? is it really 34% of americans or is it 34% of americans who answer random numbers on their landline??? poll this dick
As a statistician, these are EXACTLY the questions you should ask when interpreting a poll.
In fact, you shouldn’t HAVE to ask. A data scientist doing their JOB will provide that information UP FRONT. How the random sample was taken, who was polled, and what demographics were potentially left out of the poll.
what polls? whomst is being polled? i have never once in my life been polled. what is the sample size? what is the sample demographic? is it really 34% of americans or is it 34% of americans who answer random numbers on their landline??? poll this dick
As a statistician, these are EXACTLY the questions you should ask when interpreting a poll.
In fact, you shouldn’t HAVE to ask. A data scientist doing their JOB will provide that information UP FRONT. How the random sample was taken, who was polled, and what demographics were potentially left out of the poll.
[ID: Four-panel pills that make you green comic with people represented by stick figures.
Panel 1: A green stick figure and a taller, purple stick figure are walking along a sidewalk. There’s a car on the right, and on the left there is an orange stick figure touching some grass.
Purple: “Yeah I dunno, the stereotypes about purple people are really weird.”
Green: “I can imagine!”
Purple: “Like every time I argue with a chromophobe, eventually they accuse me of killing kids and stuffing them into restaurant animatronics? Specifically five kids, too.”
Green: “Huh!”
Panel 2: Zoom in on the two continuing to talk.
Green: “For us green people it’s this weird idea that we kill people, skin them, and make couches out of the skin.
Purple: "What the fuck”
Green: “It’s like where do they even get these ideas from? I wonder what they have for blue people.”
Panel 3: A view of the other side of the street, where a blue person with a pentagonal torso is being harassed by a greyscale person. Green and purple watch from across the street.
Greyscale: “Oh you’re leaving? You’re running away from me? You’re going fast? You’re a fast little blue person who goes fast? Typical!”
Blue: “Sigh…”
Purple: “Huh.”
Green: “Wow that’s a weird one.”
Panel 4: Zoom back in on green and purple.
Purple: “Do you ever worry that you’re getting desensitized to bigotry?”
[ID: Three-panel Pills That Make You Green comic with crudely drawn stick figures representing people.
Panel 1: Zoom in on orange stick figure’s face. They are saying:
“Huh. I… don’t feel bad right now.”
Panel 2: Slight zoom out, showing that they are laying down.
“I haven’t thought about spectral decompositions all day. Nobody’s telling me I’ll never be orange enough. This… is kind of nice?”
Panel 3: Zoom out further, revealing that the stick figure is laying in a grassy field drawn in a rough digital painting style, with mountains in the distance and a blue sky with sparse clouds.
Panel 1: A news anchor is next to a world map, implicitly in the midst of coverage.
Anchor: “…leaving millions dead in its wake and devastating the region. And now for more important things: Sports. The Worldwide Go-Karting League has taken a brave stand for fairness today, with a ban on green people at all levels of competition.”
Panel 2: A stick figure with a bulky torso wearing a cap is now on screen alongside the anchor, with the world map gone.
Anchor: “Joining us now we have… this person, who’s a famous go-karter I guess.”
Famous go-karter: “Thanks for having me on, so after my devastating loss of my rightful 12th place in the last world cup to some greenie, I realized I needed to fight.”
Panel 3: A view of the green trio’s living space. There is a window showing residential blocks outside, they have a drawer with a cup containing both a green flag and a rainbow flag, their couch is on the right and the TV is mounted on the wall on the left. Moss is face down on the couch, snoring. Lime is at the edge of the couch, hunched over in frustration. Leaf is sitting on the floor, petting a small grey creature.
Famous go-karter: “It’s honestly a travesty that this was ever an issue in the first place, I mean obviously green people have an inherent unfair advantage at kart racing…”
Leaf: “Was it always this obvious that they’re propaganda, or…?”
Lime: “Kart racing. Fucking kart racing. A biological advantage at that, too.”
[ID: Three panel “Pills that make you green” comic.
Panel 1: An ochre person with a triangle-shaped body is standing on a stage in front of a curtain.
Ochre: Hey everyone and thanks for showing up today. As you’re all probably familiar there’s been a lot of discussion about the green pride flag, and how lots of people in the community aren’t really represented by it. And while there are a lot of flags for subcommunities we’re really missing a unifying one
Panel 2: Ochre person pulls away the curtain, revealing literally just the regular real life Pride flag to the crowd of a variety of people with a skew towards a greenish majority
Ochre: So I’m going to suggest we use this rainbow flag, as a symbolic representation of the full color spectrum
Panel 3: Zoom in on the ochre person looking vaguely dejected, saying “oh…” as criticisms come in from the crowd:
“I feel that this does a poor job representing mauve people”
“Get better at vexilology” [sic]
“That looks so weird”
“There’s barely even any of the original green flag left!”
“Way too complicated”
“Orange people don’t even have anything to do with green rights”
“What’s next, charred brown with lava cracks in it for refugees from Former Italy?”
[ID: Three panel comic with crudely drawn stick people.
Panel 1: A tall purple person and an olive green person with a square head are standing outside the entrance to a building. There is a poster with a purple person on it.
Purple: “Ugh, can you believe they’re doing another FNAF reboot?”
Olive: “FNAF?”
Purple: “Yeah, Friday Night at Frank’s, the horror franchise from the 80s? With the really chromophobic caricature of a purple person?”
Olive: “Oh right, I think I’ve heard of it.”
Panel 2: The two enter into a hallway, Purple with some difficulty due to the door frame failing to accommodate their stature. There are posters for “Sundered Moon” and “Dulhaniyaa” in the background, as well as a soda machine labelled “Torment.”
Purple: “It’s so bad. That first movie alone has like all the stereotypes I get thrown at me.
Always with the ‘oooh do you always come back???’”
Olive: “They have to be addressing that in the new one, right?”
Purple: “No, they just 'clarify’ that the killer is just faking being purple and run with it.”
Olive: “Holy shit, they barely even tried.”
Panel 3: The two arrive at a counter, where a person with a baseball cap is working.
Baseball cap: “Woah hey has anyone ever told you you look like-”
Purple: “Yes. I know.”
Olive: “Yeah they get that a lot. Two tickets to Hades Calculus please.”
[ID: Four-panel comic with crudely drawn stick people.
Panel 1: Several people are sitting in a chair circle. One of them is visibly green, another is visibly pink with a bright blue jacket and orange pointy anime glasses. A third one is wearing a blue cap. The person in the middle, who is none of these things, leads the conversation.
Middle person: “All right everyone, time to do a hexcode circle! My hexcode is #000000, what are yours?”
Several people respond “#000000”.
Panel 2: Zoom in on the green person and the middle person, with a third in between them.
Green: “Mine’s #00FF00.”
Middle: “Oh, but we’re very inclusive here! You don’t have to fit into primary hexcodes!”
Green: “…I prefer #00FF00.”
Middle: “I’m just saying, if you want to go with something like #33BB33 that’s fine! It would suit you!”
Panel 3: Zoom on the one with the blue cap.
Closeted Blue: “I’m uh… Well, um, uh, you see-”
Middle: “Oh, looks like we have exciting news!2
Closeted Blue: ”…#000000. Sorry. I’m not uh. I’m grayscale. Can we move on?“
Panel 4: Zoom in on anime glasses.
Anime Glasses: ”#LEG3ND.“
Middle: "That’s not a real hexcode!”
Anime Glasses: “I don’t give a shit.”
Middle: “I’m sure you can find a valid hexcode that suits you!”
Anime glasses: “You dipshits can’t handle a visually green person using #00FF00, I’m not playing this game.”
Actually my favorite replacement for both ‘kill myself’ jokes and jokes about reacting violently to things/people that upset me is “I’m going to end up on the news” like it’s versatile, it’s vague, it’s not going to get me in trouble with any censors or websites that take joke threats seriously, it’s family friendly while still getting the point across, what’s not to love???
The word ‘rural’ is in the public consciousness again and every time people start going in about the 'rural values’ 'rural way of life’ I remember just how subjective that word is.
I have a friend that lives in LA. He considers Columbus, OH to be 'rural.’ A population of over 900k. Thriving arts community, tons of culture festivals, every kind of restaurant you can think of, one of the most annoying college campuses ever, several smaller colleges, lots of queer spaces, comic book conventions, huge concerts… rural.
The town I live in considers itself 'rural.’ 38k population. Arts festival every year, a small pride celebration, monthly gallery hop, big Halloween festival. Five ice cream shops, three coffee shops, a couple fancy bars, so many grocery stores. Huge library, conservation and sustainability advocates, queer spaces, a hospital, one private college. Rural.
The town we nearly annexed, but lost the deal considers us 'urban’ compared to them. Less than 5k. They have a limited hospital, often send their surgeries here. Downtown has hardware store, bars, craft supply store, a couple grocery stores, pizza places. There’s some farmland, but much of the square acreage is golf. Mega churches. The houses here are 500k. Most people drive ATVs. They have a handful of festivals in the summer.
A town I would often get sent to to cover their high school sports- a little over 2k. There’s a Subway, a Domino’s, Family Dollar. Some bars, some corner stores. Some local crafts. All the students grow up knowing each other, most of them stay there. But they have craft fairs and art galleries, still.
Less rural still than the town I go through to get there, population of around 600. Houses, farmland, post office, general store.
Who would still look down upon the town of about 400 that I would go to sometimes- post office. Gas station. Bar. The school is the only big thing there.
And yet still, I have seen towns with population in the double digits that have a church and a post office.
Even just looking at the numbers doesn’t lend accuracy to what 'rural’ actually looks like. Because this is what it looks like in ohio, but it’s different in West Virginia- where your closest neighbor might be a mile down a hill. Or in Montana, where your town might be planned very tightly and your neighbors are very close, but the nearest grocery store is an hour and a half away. These are places I’ve been, friends that I’ve talked to. I’ve never been to Missouri or Alabama or Louisiana- I’m sure they have a unique experience of being 'rural.’
So my point is that when people talk about 'the rural experience’ or 'rural values,’ they are talking about millions of people across the entire country who all have lived unique lives- and who may not even agree on what 'rural’ is.
Think about who is talking, and who is being talked over, and who isn’t even being asked to join the conversation.
every so often this starts circulating again and every time i remember that people tried to come for me for “spreading medical misinformation” with this post
Transfem oppression: yeah the other day this jealous cis girl told me I have an obvious adam’s apple and that I’ll never be a real woman and now I wanna die because I’m not pretty like the other girls!!!
Transmasc oppression: yeah the other day this guy that had a crush on me in high school found out I transitioned and now he keeps texting me begging me to detransition for him, and he somehow found out where I live and where I work, and he keeps sending me rape threats. Also yesterday I went to the men’s restroom and I almost got raped but thankfully my friend walked in before anything happened. Thank god nothing happened especially because if I got pregnant I’d get no treatment cause I already changed the gender marker on my birth certificate.
See how stupid that was? See how when I talked about “transfem oppression” I cherry picked a specific issue that mostly affects white binary trans women, completely overlooking the experiences of trans women of color and non-binary transfems. See how this post willfully ignores the very real violence that happens to transfems? See how this doesn’t help transmascs at all and only undermines transfems. See how this implies that cis men only target transmascs, and that cis women are incapable of violence?
Wow it’s almost as if we don’t have to gaslight one group and undermind their experiences in order to talk about the experiences of the other… Funny that.
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