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american leftists seem extremely focused on anti imperialism (good) but rarely- if at all- discuss decolonization in their own fucking country, despite acknowledging that it is a settler colonial state.

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i hate to do this, but i'm in dire straits financially right now and could really use the help.

hi, i'm candy. i live and support myself entirely alone. i'm really struggling with rent, bills, and paying off the thousands of dollars of debt i've accrued trying to stay afloat. i'm about $600 short on rent at the moment and work doesn't pay me until after the deadline. please help me out, a buck or two (if you can) would make a world of difference. i would gladly draw you something for any amount.

thank you all so much.

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hey @staff why the hell did you ban a trans woman for saying that trans women belong in women's shelters?

@medusadyke was reported by terfs for saying that trans women need and deserve to be in women's spaces for their safety and wellbeing, and subsequently banned by staff.

trans women belong in women's shelters, bathrooms, dressing rooms, and i don't care if it makes some cis women uncomfortable. their safety takes greater precedence over your discomfort. terfs eat shit. it's 2025 and we still have to fight over basic shit like this.

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"get fat! eat more to grow boobs! you need to eat!" i know asshole do you wanna pay for my fucking groceries?

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What words move you?

My mother is suffocating before my eyes, and her condition worsens every day. Your donation, even if it's 10 cents, could save her from death. Every breath my mother takes is a battle with pain... Help us, even if it's just a little, because a little today could become a whole life.💔🙏🏻😔

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This campaign is from Sudanfunds! Help the Umbada Community in Khartoum! £7,183 / 14k ≈ 51%

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I really don't know what to write or what to say. Should I mention the bombing that didn't stop, or should I mention the lack of food and famine, or should I mention the genocide and massacres that happen daily, or should I mention the situations in which I may have escaped death? I am really unable to describe my life except in two small words (like hell).

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They need to make me shut up so I can actually finish working but the idea that self esteem being negatively impacted by viewing/being compared to others is unique to the internet is going to be my joker arc

Like okay the majority of people old enough to have been told about this know that much of what they see on the internet is glamorized and heavily edited. Most people know about photoshop and instagram filters and whatever else and it's not that this stops people's self esteem from being effected.

But compare that to IRL where so many people seem to be worth so much more than you, they're more accomplished, more attractive, more celebrated and you have no reason to think anything other than you're just not good enough. And that's because no one has sat you down and explained wealth/privilege and the plethora of other factors that are way more nebulous and nuanced than "this is edited/curated to look perfect for the internet"

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I also find the way that people conflate dependence with addition to be deeply concerning.

I depend on my pain medication to be able to sit up and move during the day, if I don't take it the result is that I cannot sit up and move for sustainable periods. A doctor still refused to treat me unless I gave up the addiction she decided I had so I now have to get healthcare two towns over because there's no one else.

I depend on my phone and laptop because it is the primary way I can find human connection and general stimulous. Without those things I would be upset because I am cut off from my friends and from comfort. Sugar isn't addictive. It's another thing your body depends on.

So many people thinks being addicted = wanting something to be happy and this effects not just people who aren't struggling with addiction but also makes it harder for addicts to find acceptance/understanding and perpetuates the idea that they cannot be happy without their addiction. It's literally anti-recovery to do this.

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internet "addiction" truthers are so baffling to me because the things they point out as harmful effects of the internet are things that exist everywhere all the time inherently no matter what you do????

"kids will be bullied" where in the world WON'T they be bullied?

"You're constantly compared to others and it negatively impacts self esteem" and what is the alternative? What spaces will this not happen in??

"Likes, notifications, and shares make people want instant gratification" ah yes the same way that interacting with others rewards people? And makes them want to participate in activities?

I'm not going to pretend the internet is some utopia but it is literally just an extension of the real world and all the same problems of that real world exist.

Except on the internet if you're somewhere you aren't being treated well you can find another space. IRL you're limited by the physical places you can go so we get a landscape where most of the people who fit in IRL but feel they have no space on the internet are people who are conventionally appealing/predisposed to acceptance.

Like. and before it was the internet being blamed for societal problems it was something else, people reading too much or being in their own head or just not socializing. Like there are problems unique to the internet but every time someone in a paper or whatever starts talking about how it's ruining the helpless younger generations I just hear that they want to isolate disabled and neurodivergent people and want queer and POC who live places without a strong community presence should be in isolation.

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🪆 dollgirlthing-txt Follow

i love being a doll. dolls are the best thing in the world

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Personally I'm an action figure and not a doll but I support you ✌️ You do you man

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I love being an action figure. action figures are the best thing in the world

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i couldnt stand being a doll lol. love being an action figure so bad

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can you all make your own post

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okay, can we talk about the infighting in the toys community?

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The weird intersection between fatphobia, sexual puritanism and fake progressiveness that breeds the idea that a skinny person attracted to fat people is a "chubby chaser" or a "fat fetishist" and not just like. Someone who has the hots for fat people. The idea that only another fat person could be attracted to fat people, otherwise it's sinister. Secretly you think any skinny person who'd want to fuck a fat person is debasing and devaluing ourselves, but you've pivoted into pretending you worry about a fat person's dignity.

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Gazan Fundraisers

These are the fundraisers that folks have consistently reached out to me about. As I should be gone for a bit, I'll have this queued up once a day for sharing 🙏🏾

Fadel ( @fadel-dani )

Mahrah ( @mahrahpalestine )

Ibrahim ( @aburakhiaibrahim )

Zeina ( @zinaanqar16 )

Nader ( @abdalsalam2000 )

Ahmed ( @ahmedaldaniii )

Ghada ( @ghadanabil2 )

Esraa and Qais ( @save-the-child-qais )

Nour ( @nooralanqar3 )

Just take a second to look at the page, share their pinned and maybe even donate to one of them! Their GFMs are directly linked with their names.

Remember: You might not be able to fix EVERYTHING, but you can DO SOMETHING. I know y'all hate "guilt trips", but let's be honest with ourselves: the reality is that even by donating the bare minimum here you will have done SOMETHING, SOMETHING good, other than watch Gazans starve to death and claim "there was nothing you could do" later on. Because there would have been something you could have done, you knew that, you made a choice. You don't have to sit with that on your spirit! Guilt is ineffectual against action!

Donate if you can, share if you cannot 🙏🏾

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What to do if you find yourself homless- written by someone who has actually been homeless

Most important: Spend the money you have on a motel. Churches probably will not actually help and shelters can be dangerous or turn you away. At a motel you have free breakfast, access to running water, and a lockable place to sleep. Do not waste money on a gym membership like the popular version of this post says to do, YMCA memberships are like $40.

2. Contact family and friends. Now is not the time to worry about being a burden. Your survival and safety comes first and that is all that matters, anyone worth having in your life will agree.

3. Start a gofundme. Even if someone can’t offer you a place to stay, they might be willing to toss out $5 so you can eat today.

4. Libraries have free wifi. Apply to any and all jobs you can think of if you aren’t already working.

5. Any home is a good home. Even if it’s a dingy apartment in a bad neighborhood. If its cheap and you can afford it, snatch it up. 

6. Pancake mix and peanut butter are filling, cheap, and last a long time.

PLEASE SHARE THE FUCK OUT OF THIS

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sex and gender are different in that gender is an elaborate series of superstitions that arises around the reproductive process in the context of class society, while sex is a form of pop science that arose to legitimise those superstitions