people will hear you talk about struggling with mental illness and say “you can do anything if you just put your mind to it”. brother what part of the body does the mental illness happen in. what do you think is the problem
It’s funny how people who are perfectly capable of understanding “we have no choice but to become Nazis to secure our existence” is not a reasonable argument in the case of the Zionist Enemy are often incapable of applying the exact same logic to NATO, the largest neo-Nazi military organization in the world
I would have my homeland invaded by the sea peoples. I would be lain siege to by the sea peoples. My cities would be sacked by the sea peoples. I would make bronze tools and pottery. My shores would be invaded by the mysterious sea peoples. I would be mustering my armies to fend off the sea peoples.
Even Weird Al has had that™
experience with Tony Hawk
Tony Hawk IS Forrest Gump
So I looked up why and how this happened, and it turns out Weird Al hired a company called Birdhouse Skateboards to provide some “skate/punk” extras for the video. Birdhouse Skateboards is a company started by Tony Hawk, so not only did Weird Al end up putting Tony Hawk in his video without realizing it, he actually hired Tony Hawk’s company without realizing it! And then Tony Hawk just decided to go along as one of the extras himself.
BTW, he’d already won like 40 contests already, some of them international skateboarding contests. So it’s not like Weird Al cast some unknown skateboarder who ended up becoming World Famous Skateboarder, he was already well known and was running his own Skateboarding company.
Think of it this way. This wasn’t ‘Weird Al got Tony Hawk to be in his video’, this was ‘Tony Hawk found a way to be in a Weird Al Video.’
The chance that Tony Hawk has infiltrated your location or piece of media is low
Note: no boycott has been announced. Always listen to the strikers. They probably want to demonstrate how much it sucks when workers aren’t there to fulfil the demands.
Like, I tend to avoid ‘black Friday’ sales anyway, which are ludicrous outside the US where there’s no fucking Thanksgiving, but don’t just boycott whenever you see there’s a strike.
my bad! I assumed there was a boycott along with this
so many of the transfems i know spent their time pre-transition performing a kind of lifelong exercise in self-deprivation. the goal, for them, was to find out exactly how little a person needed to live. they starved themselves, dressed carelessly, shunned friends, and hollowed themselves out so as not to be burdens on anyone but themselves.
i see it now, too, in the girls around me. i’ll ask if they want care – a home-cooked meal, relaxed company, sex without the expectation of reciprocation – and they say no, no, thank you, i don’t need it; what would you like, what do you want, because in their head they’re still doing that awful calculus, still training themselves to disappear in the eyes of the people around them.
i don’t think i’d have died without transition – not in the conventional sense, at least – but to take that leap, i had to stop thinking of myself as a human experiment in fuel-efficient living and start nurturing the anemic, atrophied flame of desire in my heart. i had to learn to eat well, to exercise, to style myself beautiful, but harder than that, i had to learn to ask the people around me to work on my behalf in order to enrich my life and give me the things i wanted.
and i did it; i learned. and it was agony, but courage is a muscle you can train, and every day i get better at accepting gifts with the hungry gratitude i never learned in my years and years as a sad, scared, lonely boy.
so be patient with the trans girls in your life. better than that: be proactive, attentive, generous; be forceful, if you have to, and learn to distinguish real discomfort from the terrified reflex of self-deprivation that so many of us learned to rely on.
and if you are so lucky as to love a trans girl, you must insist upon her. you must insist upon her happiness, her comfort, her pleasure, and her rest, because she may still not yet know how to make those demands for herself. if you can devote any amount of energy to becoming an engine that nurtures the flame of even a single tgirl then there is a place for you in trans heaven, which as far as i’m concerned is the only one worth going to
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ITS HAPPENING NOW. HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP ME OH MY GOD HELP YOU GU;YS CANT TALK ABOUT WOMEN ONA POST ABOUT WOMEN OH MY GO DP LAEASE
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ITS HAPPENING NOW. HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP ME OH MY GOD HELP YOU GU;YS CANT TALK ABOUT WOMEN ONA POST ABOUT WOMEN OH MY GO DP LAEASE
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
talking about abuse when you’ve somewhat processed and come to terms with it is hard, because you don’t want to be all like “yeah they used to let me out of the iron maiden once a week for some fresh air and exercise” to the uninitiated, but the thing is. sometimes they DID used to let you out of the iron maiden once a week for some fresh air and exercise.
like my every movement and interaction with the world was heavily controlled and surveilled by another person unless they temporarily lost interest in me so i was essentially cut off from society beyond the unavoidable for most of my formative years idk what to tell you
Mozilla has the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now
It’s so fucked up that the “extreme” version of the punishment for using illegal methods to increase the value a business asset generates for your company at great cost to competitors and the consumer is that you get that asset taken away in a way that gives you the - again, illegally inflated - market value of that business asset and lets someone else occupy the market position that, again, it’s been determined is deleteriously advantageous and was created illegally.
I’m dead serious that I think the centrist position should be that Google does not get any financial compensation for losing the assets it’s losing, and that the code should be made publically available for any commercial or non commercial use so that anyone can meet the needs of users put out by Chrome no longer being a product that is allowed to exist (to the limited extent that being forced to migrate from a chromium based browser to Firefox could be described as being “put out”). It broke the fucking law, and to one of the most extreme and blatant extents in the history of this sort of law. The DoJ ruling is welcome because it’s the least extremely pro-capital ruling the wretched US is capable of, but let’s not pretend mandating Google get paid for losing its criminal enterprise is more than a couple notches away from Google’s radical cyberpunk government by corporation position of “governments don’t get to punish corporations for breaking their laws in any way ever.
Anyway I’m obviously not a centrist, I think corporations aren’t people (I can’t write the word "obviously” enough times here), and that you don’t punish “google,” you punish every single human person involved in these decisions, ban them from doing business again, and dissolve the brand system known as Google that has no actual material existence or intrinsic value and help the legitimate workers at the company use what physical assets do exist to form new healthier systems to provide the same services separately and by the direction of the workers. That’s obviously way too extreme to actually happen, just telling you what’s on the other side of “centrist.”
the weird radfem insistence that women do not have fetishes and kinks is kind of hilarious when you examine it. it has the same absurdity as “women do not poop” but the undercurrent of old school extremely scary misogyny seen in rhetoric like “women are inherently sexless creatures and do not enjoy or need it”
Do you guys ever talk to a radfem that isn’t a straw man in your head?
I still have my doubts that Luigi is really The Claims Adjuster, because I simply do not believe the cops at their word, but even if he is really the guy and he is a right-winger, then that means he chose to take all the hatred in his heart and point it against our oppressors instead of lashing out against the marginalized. That’s a good thing.
Let’s judge him based on what he chose to act on, and may all right wingers follow his example.
Hi! Do NOT donate to any fund claiming to raise money for Luigi, he is being held without bail, and his defense lawyer has also so far turned down offers for payment. All these fundraisers are scams.
Analysts said that keeping the whole Party and all officials in the government disciplined and united is also the key work of the CCDI and NSC, as this is a matter of the political authoritativeness of the CPC Central Committee and maintaining the close bonds between the people and the Party, because if the correct decisions made by the top leadership didn’t get implemented well among the lower levels, those problems in society won’t be healed and solved, and if the implementation goes wrong, and the people get harmed, the disapproval sentiment will rise and turn against the Party.
that’s the ideology in a nutshell: the leadership makes correct decisions but sadly the lower levels sometimes succumb to selfishness, laziness, or stupidity and fail to correctly implement them.
if the lower levels can be right while the upper levels make mistakes then the whole thing comes crashing down
As people say “ohhh luigi’s a right winger🥺” i will say, as a radical leftist, with all my heart: I do not give a fuck. My whole fucking life has been run by medical bills. My medication costs $300 a month WITH insurance. This dude has done more for national class consciousness than anyone has in the past decade. For the first time, so many people are realizing that it is not left and right. It’s up and down. Do NOT listen to whiny ass separatists.
if female top nudity weren’t viewed as inherently sexually explicit. oh brother. I would be letting those puppies hang like you wouldn’t believe
the thing is I would be okay with being viewed as sexually attractive while topless. like a shirtless cis man can be a considered a hunk beefcake eye candy etc but it’s not by nature r-rated. usamerican society at large is able to understand that toplessness can be sexually appealing but is not in itself a sexual act when a man does it. if I could be just casually topless on a hot day or something without the little flashing light over my head saying think of the CHILDREN I would be getting minoan with it
The gynecologist was surprised to learn I wanted an IUD because apparently another trans guy just recently told her, very confidently, that he can’t get pregnant because T makes you infertile.
Guys. Boys. Dudes. Folks… Don’t play with fire.
Testosterone can inhibit some of the other hormonal levels that trigger ovulation, making ovulation less predictable. Many peoples’ ovaries will release eggs less frequently, if at all. However, this doesn’t mean that ovulation entirely stops if someone is taking testosterone. This means that a person on T can still be fertile and get pregnant while on testosterone.
“The big learning is that if you want to kill someone, you can kill them. It’s really scary but true,” said the executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “It seems crazy that we’re just figuring this out.”
“Security is a sunk cost. It doesn’t make companies money, so it’s an easy place to cut at budget time,” said Krummrich, the Global Guardian executive. “You can ride the risk and hope nothing happens. But if it does, you have a much bigger problem emotionally, financially and optics-wise for the brand than if you invest in security up front.”
this is the quote that’s really sending me.
security is expensive, but being shot in the street like a dog is bad for the brand, so there’s pros and cons
I feel like now would be a good time to remind everyone that it is fully legal in America for the cops to lie to you and gaslight you in interrogation.
If they’ve decided you’re guilty and your lawyer hasn’t gotten there yet, they can and will say anything to make you confess and it won’t matter to them if the confession is true. Keep that in mind with any information that comes out in the next couple days. I’m not saying I don’t believe this is the guy. He very well could be. For now I’m neutral on the subject.
But I am saying it’s awfully convenient they found him with a butt load of evidence just on his person after a week of him evading them like a pro. And that the NYPD knows everyone thinks they’re chumps and they’re probably real desperate right now to look even halfway competent.
Neurotypical Person: “But if we give them to you, we’ll have to give them to everyone else too.”
Autistic Person: “Then do that. No, really. We would love it if everyone got these accommodations. Not only would it help to remove the stigma, but it would also help those who need them and haven’t been diagnosed.”
Neurotypical Person: “Hey! I was just trying to bully you! How dare you respond by making sense!”
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