You know, here was a solid bit of time where you couldn’t post “The Average person is bothered by the sight of Innocent men, women, and children, being butchered and bombed on our tax dollars. this will cost Kamala Harris the election.” Without some Joe Biden/Kamala Harris Stan saying “Source?” and then immediately ignore the polling you show them that a majority of people have some modicum of empathy. Or call you a trump supporter. Or-
Those same stans, who do not mention or talk any politics when an election is coming up, would then accuse Palestine supporters of being russian plants who would stop posting.
The Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stans stopped posting or are just overtly racist on main now.
Just reflecting on that when you critize the democratic party for collaborating with the fascist party in power (after fascist/genocidal policies leftists were talking about for a WHILE) policy you get liberals who don’t pay attention asking for “source?” when it requires months and years of context and political understanding to know that the democratic party paved the way to get America here.
And you show them a source they assume you are purposefully lying or try and twist it while there is literal gestapo activities going on in the open. They are so desperate to keep that narrative going they refuse to reckon with what got us here and what’s going on.
The closest experience I’ve ever had to discovering “the vitamin” was buying a 100% wool outfit and wearing it in the winter.
Not only was I not freezing anymore, I was not sweating and overheating either. The horrible sensory nightmare of winter clothes disappeared.
In particular, I bought a pair of wool pants. They were a thrifted pair of fancy dress pants like you would wear at an important office job, and they were easily the most comfortable pair of winter-appropriate pants i’d ever worn. I wore them Every Single Day.
From that point on I realized a lot of my clothes were making me feel bad, and the common thread was polyester. Especially polyester blends.
It’s a trap because the polyester clothes are the ones that always feel sooooo silky soft when they are in the store, whereas cotton, linen and wool can feel comparatively rough and scratchy. But when actually wearing them for hours throughout the day, it’s the natural fibers that feel more comfortable.
Maybe the secret to sensory comfort is not about the presence of softness, but the absence of overloading sensations. Or maybe the sensory stress and agony is not triggered by texture of the fabric, but by how it breathes and regulates temperature.
Then there’s the problem of clothing life span: polyester blends, no matter how soft they seem at first, become rough and scratchy and covered in hard, itchy pills after wearing them 10 or 20 times, whether or not they have been tumble-dried or even washed at all. (I tested it!) Linen and cotton become softer and more comfy the more you wear them, polyester but ESPECIALLY polyester blends become a constant stressor. Polyester blend t-shirts I used to love for their softness now feel bristly and irritating.
So now I’m trying to change my wardrobe to as many natural fibers as possible, and the more natural fiber clothes i have the more I realize that the plastic fibers stress me out. It’s so easy to overheat or freeze in them and they’re always degrading and becoming less comfortable and it sucks.
So this was mentioned in the notes (and I mentioned it there, too), but I know that sometimes those just don’t get read. So here I will mention other natural fabrics.
The closest experience I’ve ever had to discovering “the vitamin” was buying a 100% wool outfit and wearing it in the winter.
Not only was I not freezing anymore, I was not sweating and overheating either. The horrible sensory nightmare of winter clothes disappeared.
In particular, I bought a pair of wool pants. They were a thrifted pair of fancy dress pants like you would wear at an important office job, and they were easily the most comfortable pair of winter-appropriate pants i’d ever worn. I wore them Every Single Day.
From that point on I realized a lot of my clothes were making me feel bad, and the common thread was polyester. Especially polyester blends.
It’s a trap because the polyester clothes are the ones that always feel sooooo silky soft when they are in the store, whereas cotton, linen and wool can feel comparatively rough and scratchy. But when actually wearing them for hours throughout the day, it’s the natural fibers that feel more comfortable.
Maybe the secret to sensory comfort is not about the presence of softness, but the absence of overloading sensations. Or maybe the sensory stress and agony is not triggered by texture of the fabric, but by how it breathes and regulates temperature.
Then there’s the problem of clothing life span: polyester blends, no matter how soft they seem at first, become rough and scratchy and covered in hard, itchy pills after wearing them 10 or 20 times, whether or not they have been tumble-dried or even washed at all. (I tested it!) Linen and cotton become softer and more comfy the more you wear them, polyester but ESPECIALLY polyester blends become a constant stressor. Polyester blend t-shirts I used to love for their softness now feel bristly and irritating.
So now I’m trying to change my wardrobe to as many natural fibers as possible, and the more natural fiber clothes i have the more I realize that the plastic fibers stress me out. It’s so easy to overheat or freeze in them and they’re always degrading and becoming less comfortable and it sucks.
So this was mentioned in the notes (and I mentioned it there, too), but I know that sometimes those just don’t get read. So here I will mention other natural fabrics.
i can handle one (1) Event™ per day. whether it be a phone call, an appointment, trip to the grocery store, play date with a friend, etc. only one, that’s it. any more than that and i am Stressed
someone fired a bullet through our bathroom wall the other day when we were gone, which is scary (but probably accidental), but the weirdest part is that we can’t actually find the place where it entered from outside… the wall inside is fucked up and you can see the hole where it came through, but there is no corresponding entrance hole on the exterior of the house. somehow the outer paneling was undamaged.
I think the exterior of the house is asbestos siding which apparently hides bullet holes really well.
There’s also a dent on the opposite wall where the bullet bounced off, and it looks like it had a really bizarre trajectory. Anyway, the neighbors say it was from a car chase where bullets went flying everywhere, so I’m not actually worried beyond “wow hope that doesn’t happen near me again”.
This is the most American post I have ever seen
“someone fired a bullet through my asbestos from a car chase” yeah fair
Really cute to me that had they decided to add credits to the documentary, Murderbot would have credited its intel drones. It really is an equal opportunist for all bots and drones
The chance that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files is much closer to 100% than 0%. Jeffrey Epstein’s contact book contained more than 15 different ways to reach Donald Trump. See page 80:
Democrats do NOT I repeat DO NOT embrace Elon now that he’s anti-trump!! Bc at the end of the day we’re all still anti-Elon and he’s still responsible for destroying countless lives with his wildly illegal fuckass doge cuts. We’ll never forget!
PolSci majors, what does it mean when judges want their own security service because the official security services are more loyal to a felon rapist than they are to the rule of law?
Thank you for your insight
I’m a radio frequency engineer and these are some bad signals
I’m also a fiction author and I’m afraid you can’t make this shit up
I’m also an event planner and we really need to organize and get a whole lot of people together about this
i used to have no hope for the future but now i’m thinking. i want rich people food. i want rare sirloin steak. i’ve never had sirloin steak in my life. i think i want to try it before i die.
i want to get some tattoos. i want to learn how to play drums. i want to go back to the ocean. i want to land a heelflip. i want to benchpress with big plates.
it crept up on me but i want i want i wanti want to live. i want to live
do you understand? i am living this life for the first time. nobody has seen the world through my eyes. i am alive. i want to feel the dry warmth of the sun in my bones. i want to breathe, again and again and again. maybe even forever.
do you understand? this world is a disgusting place forsaken by the one above and yet. it is beautiful. i want to live.
Hi i just started using tumblr to find a place for me to be and i found transgender people here and i think i may be just that but id like to ask are trans people always either transfem or transmasc? Most times when i see a nb person they are also either tmasc or tfem which is great but i wanted a confirmation if there is such a thing as not being neither of those, right? Sorry if the question is stupid i know really really few queer people irl 😓
there is absolutely such a thing as being non binary and not being transmasc or transfem <3 there’s so many non binary people just like that on here and they’re all wonderful and beautiful
Awww this seems like a really genuine and hopeful ask and I love this person for being brave enough to send it 🥹
Also it’s already been answered so I’m not gonna add anything but this was so wholesome I love it 💝
Because people have asked, here’s my theyfriend’s dog Huevo ✨🥚✨
Also the event was in LA 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
It makes me so happy that this post blew up and somehow didn’t attract the attention of transphobes?? Like, so many people out there just want the best for queer children and that’s everything TuT
I think we all knew Trump & Elon were going to break up at some point. And even though it was the most obvious conclusion in the universe—predicting two world class narcissists could not collaborate, you still feel a bit like you have psychic powers when the inevitable happens.
That said, I was expecting something way more bombastic. I did not expect Elon to get sad, take his ball and go home, and then call everyone a bunch of stupid heads from the safety of Twitter.
Pundits and news people keep trying to work out why Elon is so bummed about this and why he is speaking out about the One Big Beautiful Bill.
I keep saying this but…
His primary motivation is always Mars.
It’s always going to be Mars.
If you’re trying to decode his behavior, the options are:
Mars
Mars
Giving people sperm
The woke mind virus
Mars
Elon genuinely thought he was a genius who could infiltrate the government, cut 2 trillion dollars, and people would be so thankful for him rooting out all this fraud, they would bankroll his Mars shit.
Now this Big Beautiful Bill monstrosity is not going to cut trillions but rather ADD trillions. And Elon is all, “HOW THE FUCK DOES THIS HELP PAY FOR MARS???”
He always says we’ll be on Mars in ten years—no matter how many years have passed since he last said that. He claims Starship will get us there. But the real problem isn’t the rocket. It’s the trillion-dollar price tag. Elon knows that being the richest person on the planet cannot fund a project like this. Only a government has the resources.
And I’m pretty sure his big brain plan was…
Buy a president. Get a seat at the table. Cut $2 trillion. Funnel it all into colonizing a dead planet.
So, if it doesn’t involve impregnating someone or being annoyed that he can’t say the r-slur… It’s always Mars.
He genuinely thinks going to Mars will save human civilization and that will be his eternal legacy.
He dreams of one day stepping out onto the surface of the red planet, looking up at the Martian sunrise, and with a tear in his eye, he will say…
“I am renaming Mars to X.”
I love this so much
And honestly this adds a bit more to the story than what I was going to say
Which is, elon is the equivalent of a guy getting hired onto a slapstick comedy routine, and then being mad that people are laughing at him.
Like …elon dawg, what did you think was gonna happen?
Trans women protesting outside Scottish Parliament.
I love it when trans women protest topless. If they’re arrested, the state must admit they’re women. If they aren’t, it shows the glaring contradictions of labeling trans women as legally male. It helps their cause either way.
One weird experience of transitioning is failing at ur assigned gender role the whole time and everyone constantly deriding you for it but then u come out and it’s like we lost a beautiful gender conforming warrior today. Must grieve for my wonderful child who pissed me off by being ugly and weird since day 1
How many times I heard someone in my young life say “you can’t do that, that’s gay” or “you can’t do that, it’s girly” is frankly ridiculous. Especially for people who would later claim I showed no signs of being feminine or queer
Sweet lord the signs were there and the fact that people didn’t see them makes me happy that they’re not in my life
[video description: Tiktok titled, “Colourblind person reacts to paint color mixups.” User @/colourblindreacts is on the left half of the video, dueting with another user. They are filmed from the shoulders up while they talk very quickly and animatedly. The other video shows paint being mixed with no audio to the request of a commenter that reads, “I’ve been asking for ages can u plssss do the color u think is my fav.” colourblindreacts says, “Yo guys, welcome back to color blind person reacts tooooo paint color mixups! And today-” they read the comment on the paint video. A hand opens a can of white paint base and puts it into a paint machine under the nozzle. They add more white, a lot of dark blue, and some mustard-colored paint. colourblindreacts says, “Alright, white in white that makes… white. Plus black, okay okay okay! Plus green, no, wait, no- every time I say it’s green people always start in the comments with “it was yellow, but you were so close!” so I’m saying that’s yellow. Okay. So, what is it then? Black plus yellow, that’s just like dark- what color even is that? Uh, plus white, he’s going- he’s going too fast. I’m going to say, light blue?“ “Light blue” appears as a caption with a light blue background. The paint mixing video reseals the can and puts it in a paint-mixing machine. When they pry open the can again, the paint is a robin’s egg blue that almost exactly matches the guessed color. colourblindreacts says in a surprised voice, “Oh, it was purple. D'y'know what I wasn’t that far-” /end description]
If you’re a disabled young person, you’ve most likely been hit with the “pfft you think you’re in pain now? Just wait til you’re my age” bullshit from older people at least once. Everyone talks about how invalidating it is
But I haven’t seen anybody mention how it’s terrifying, too. Yes, I know health deteriorates with age. I know that old age is a disability unto itself. I know that the healthiest person alive will start getting aches and pains past the age of 40 and may even need mobility aids
I know all this stuff. And it always makes me think “yeah, if I can’t walk without joint pain even while using mobility aids AT AGE 21, how painful will life be for me at the age where it gets painful for everyone?”
And it’s hard not to feel like I’m doomed, y'know? Where most people get a period of health that they wish they appreciated more when they start to lose it, my starting point was a body that doesn’t work properly and it’s only gonna get worse from there. It’s worse every fucking year.
TLDR stop telling disabled young people that their pain will only get worse to the point of being unimaginable as they age, WE FUCKING KNOW
I was a 21-year-old using a mobility aid and in horrible amounts of pain. I’d just been diagnosed with a degenerative genetic disorder, and the number of people who told me things like the above…. Hoo boy. There was a good stretch of time where this was a major contributing factor in the persistent suicidal ideation that plagued my early and mid-twenties. OP is absolutely right that no one should ever fucking say this shit to young disabled people. It fucks you up real bad, and chronic pain and chronic illness already do a great job of that on base.
But ALSO: It’s not necessarily true that your pain will only increase as you age.
I’m 32 now, and I am actually in significantly less pain day to day than I was at age 21. My condition hasn’t really gotten any better, nor have the treatments for it really improved. But as I’ve gotten older, my ability to manage my condition has improved by leaps and bounds.
I’m kinder and gentler with myself. I’ve learned what it feels like when my body is about to pull a Shenanigan™️ and how best to take preemptive action. I know what pain meds I need to take and when. I have learned what the indications are for “I need to rest now” and how to enforce my boundaries when someone tries to push me beyond my body’s limits. I know what mobility aids work best for me under what circumstances and the most effective ways to use them. I now know the ways in which I can safely move my body. I’ve had the chance to stock just about any kind of brace I might need, and I’ve learned how best to recover if I overdo it or have a flare. Over the years, I’ve accumulated a huge repertoire of tools and resources that vastly improve my quality of life.
When I was 21, I dreaded getting older because I thought it could only mean more pain. I was wrong about that, and so was everyone who condescended to “joke” about it. Getting older also means gaining more wisdom, experience, and knowledge to help make the pain and illness more manageable.
Not to start Disk Horse but my two cents on the whole “misandry is real” thing is that most forms of inequality that men face are still the result of a society that views them as superior. Which is misogyny.
Men are sent to war because they’re seen as bigger and stronger and better.
Men’s emotions aren’t treated seriously because they have the expectation of being in perfect power and perfect control.
Men succeed in suicide more often because they choose more lethal methods, but women attempt suicide more often in less lethal ways- because in their final moments, they still think about being the demure caretakers of other people in their lives.
All of these situations are still the resulted of giving men societal power over women, and forcing them to be in that role of “protector”. They’re still all results of ways to control women.
Whether or not you agree “misandry is real” is always going to come down to what exactly you’re defining as misandry. Are there women who hate all men? Yeah, they’re out there. Are there enough of them to define the driving direction of society, and the prime societal influences that are internalized by people as a whole? Of fucking course not.
Also if a woman says “men are trash” instead of “pardon me good sir, but I do believe society has normalized behaviors amongst men that make me cautious around them, to the point where I must carefully analyze situations in which I trust men moreso than I typically have to do with women” and call her a bad person if she says the first thing then maybe analyze the increased standards of “clean” morality you’re holding women to
Any further commentary I give on this will be time wasting to this and unproductive. Please think critically about how this applies to transphobia, however.
