i just wrote in "tamamita forcefem" on the ballot in massachussetts. i have submitted 24 billion of these ballots that the woke agenda will count just enough as to skew the results of the election. you will have a very interesting realisation about yourself on january 20th 2025 i think
Ey, I just wanted to say I absolutely fucking adore your work, especially the gardeners (I have a soft spot for Leshy, sue me), anyway, keep up the great work :)
Shoutout to characters that are both genuinely deeply kind and also genuinely terrifying and willing to spill buckets worth of blood to get something done. And neither of these are an act, they’re just both very true.
Instead of apologizing for liking “trashy” media, consider: what is it doing well? If you like it, if it’s making you feel pleasure and interest, then it must be succeeding at something. Is it shaping a set of emotional beats that you find satisfying to watch play out? Did it craft a character you find really compelling? Is something in the styling and aesthetics speaking to you? Did it unexpectedly resonate with a mood or experience you needed to see reflected right then?
However shallow or flawed a piece of media is, if you like it, it’s because of something it did well - at least well enough to affect you, on the day that you encountered it.
There are a lot of good reasons to acknowledge this. One is about gratitude and manners: someone worked hard on that thing, and if they provided something that gave you happiness and pleasure, it’s nice to honor that. Another is about breaking down the insidious habit of sorting everything into simple good/bad boxes. A piece of media, like a person, can do a lot of things wrong and a lot of things right, and the things on one side do not magically erase the other.
But the most important reason, I believe, is to get in the habit of celebrating what brings you pleasure and happiness. All your life there have been and there will be people telling you that you find joy in the wrong things, that if a particular thing makes you feel good it shows that there’s something wrong with you. I reject that utterly. If a particular thing makes you feel good then there’s something right, about you and about that thing. I’m not saying that pleasure is the only important thing or that every pleasure should be indulged indiscriminately. All I’m saying is that pleasure is in and of itself a good thing, and deserves notice.
A large part of housecat vocalisation toward humans isn’t goal-directed communication, but rather, affiliative signaling: a simple call-and-response protocol which establishes that the participants are part of the same social unit. Amongst themselves, most housecat affiliative signaling is non-vocal, but humans aren’t really physiologically equipped to respond to such signalling in a feline fashion, and cats, well, they’re adaptable.
Which is to say that when your cat yells, and you yell back, so the cat yells again, and so forth, what you’re really saying to each other is “hiiiiii~”.
This is why it is important to meow at loved ones.
A largish percentage of human vocalizations are this, too! When your human co-worker says “Workin’ hard or hardly workin’?” or comments on atmospheric conditions or other readily-observable features of your surroundings, or generally statements that seemingly convey no useful or novel information whatsoever, the true purpose of these vocalizations is to develop and/or maintain the social unit of the workplace! In effect, they are saying, “We are experiencing this situation together. We often experience situations together. Let’s be allies!”
Some humans will even make vocalizations of this kind to complete strangers, such as when waiting in a line or using public transportation. This behavior is especially common in situation that may involve some form of inconvenience or frustration, such as waiting in a long line or experiencing a delay. In these contexts, the vocalizations communicate, “We are both experiencing the same unpleasant situation; let’s not make it worse by being aggressive to one another.”
The state-run Korean Central News Agency ran an editorial after the former president said Washington’s relations with the East Asian country would improve if he was re-elected in November.
“No matter what administration takes office in the US, the political climate, which is confused by the infighting of the two parties, does not change and, accordingly, we do not care about this,” the state news agency said.
It rejected the idea that Mr Trump’s first presidency had a substantial impact on US-North Korea relations, and said personal connections and diplomacy should be looked at separately.
And it said it had no interest in talking to a possible second Trump administration if all it offers are “dialogue with sinister attempts and dialogue as an extension of confrontation”.
Via Bluesky, here’s a fun graph: Americans all think their local economy is doing much better than the national economy, an effect that really makes sense only through the lens of media (or social media) portraying the economy at large as being much worse than personal experience or local indicators might portray. They can’t all be right!
lol that looks like the classic Chinese GDP forecasts where every province boldly aims for 8+% growth but the country as a whole struggles to hit 5%
psuedomarxist eclecticism is a plague on the net. people will get a random correct view on something injected into them by rote-adopting a post they saw, but without the underlying theoretical basis that developed that view they end up using and combining it in absurd ways
proof I’m terminally online: I know the word ‘eclecticism’
progressive icon: the guy misgendering me and calling me a retard is trans <3
The right meds should not “alter you forever” I don’t care what facebook moms say. The right meds will lift the weight from your shoulders and you’ll get VERY ANGRY for a bit because everyone else had it this easy the whole time???? I highly recommend trying out some of the medication available for ADHD.
Oh hey btw: that period thing is directly linked to estrogen levels. It’s never been studied in transfemmes, but based on my own medication, discussion with my psych, and looking through primary literature, transfemme ADHD symptoms are 100% related with estrogen levels based on your medication schedule. Whatever you think about transfemme periods, that’s highly likely. Symptoms are typically worse when E is low, just like ADHD symptoms are worse during PMS.
By the way, the southeastern USA is considered a humid subtropical climate. Alabama and Tennessee and Georgia and the Carolinas and Tennessee and all that stuff, that’s considered to be subtropical instead of regular “temperate”
For some reason I did not know this. Maybe it just seemed too “exotic.”
The funniest part of gaining plant knowledge is realizing that regular people in the states I’ve been in think the place they live is just, boring and normal.
Like, NO! You live in a paradise of rare, exotic biodiversity! Kentucky has the world’s most extensive cave system full of rare cave animals evolved to live in a sunless underworld! Do you know where these grow wild?
NORTH CAROLINA
that’s the secret! every place on earth is interesting, unique, and beautiful in a way no other place is!
Fucked up that you have to go to work during the winter. Should be curled up in a little nest with several months’ supply of food stocked up right now.
d'you wish tour vajEena was a Peengis or your Geegnis is vaGenGai. want Big Boober or titty explode of fuck. introducing h.r.t. destosteroast. estrager. whendysphoriain’t forya
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me when a character who was completely powerless gains power and proceeds to lose themselves in the intoxication of it before coming to and being horrified by their own capacity for bloodlust
remembering when the something awful forums made a word filter that changed the word “females” so it was surrounded by Ferengi emoji (we called em ‘smilies’ not emoji back in the day) so it looked like this:
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because someone was sick of incels using the word to refer to women
reading about serial killers in the 1800s and they had female incels I guess
hey everyone saying I just don’t understand marriage was important for women’s survival in the 1800s. I still don’t think she had to be a serial killer as a result if i’m being honest. I think you may have skipped the serial killer part
wait real. if I didn’t have this damn phone i’d start killing too probably
hi every trans girl in the world if you see this I want you to know you’re so pretty and I love you and I’m glad you’re alive I hope you have a good day
This is why I hate the like, casual ha ha aren’t men awful jokes that people like to casually throw around.
Like, men are victims of the patriarchy too, and loneliness and isolation is what brings out the worst in people.
I’m not saying you have to be nice to or defend wretched men, but don’t treat them as wretched just because they are men. Treat them as wretched because they are wretched.
umar khalid has spent 1400 days in jail as a political prisoner without trial.
Khalid was arrested in September 2020 over allegations of being part of a “larger conspiracy” to ignite deadly riots in the capital city New Delhi, which resulted in the deaths of over fifty people, most of them Muslims lynched in the streets by Hindu mobs. Saddled with charges ranging from “promoting enmity” to “terrorism,” the police have used his public speeches as evidence to prove the charge of incitement.
A look at what he actually said makes these claims rather dubious. One such speech, delivered in Maharashtra in February 2020, urged people not to respond to violence with violence, or hate with hate. “If they spread hate, we will respond to it by spreading love. If they beat us with lathis (police truncheons), we will hold aloft the tricolor (Indian flag). If they fire bullets, then we will hold the Constitution and raise our hands… . But we will not let you destroy our country,” he told the crowd, calling on his fellow Indians to peacefully protest the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), a discriminatory law that experts fear could be weaponized to strip millions of Muslim Indians of their citizenship.
But in the eyes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, it was a seditious speech. The only fitting consequence was turn Khalid into an example for other protesters.
But Khalid isn’t the only prisoner of conscience in Modi’s India. There are hundreds of people like him, locked behind bars as political prisoners. In the ten years since Modi came to power, he has decimated Indian democracy by punishing journalists, members of civil society, activists, students, and lawyers for criticizing him, his government, and his Hindu supremacist ideology.
Every summer I forget how much I fucking love spiders I’ve drunk one every day this week
Drinking spiders??!
You put ice cream in a glass and pour soft drink over it. It creates a thick layer of delicious foam on top of a sweet, creamy drink with ice cream in it.
And yes I did attempt to get a picture by googling “Australia spider” like a fucking moron.
I think that’s called a float in the states. Although we usually plop the icecream into the glass after the soda. Similar effect though.
We wouldn’t be able to call it that because the word is way too easy to confuse with a floater, which is a meat pie floating in a bowl of pea soup. It is every bit as delicious as a spider though. I should get some pies and pea soup.
I would like to announce that this is not a standard Australian food, it’s exclusively a South Australian one and the rest of Australia is just as appalled as the rest of the world.
It’s not our fault that the rest of Australia is incorrect about food.
“average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in South Australia and BADLY misinterpreted our survey question,,
best piece of life advice when you want to change a bad habit: you cant remove something without replacing it. otherwise, you’ll leave a hole that needs filled.
you want to distance yourself from that friend and interact less frequently? get closer with other friends, and talk with them more.
you want to drink less gatorade/soda? start drinking more water or tea.
you want to play less video games? play more card or board games.
you want to eat less junk food? cook more home meals or go to better restaurants where you can.
energy cant be created or destroyed, and that applies to your habits too.
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