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stay still, i'm copying you to my pc

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Sooner or later leftists will have to deal with the issue that capitalism has made many people used to wanton excess and sooner or later we'll have to legit tell everyone we can't have plastic treats and luxury produce or cruises instantly available year round and it's gonna make so many people mad and call you a big meanie worse than stalin over it. It will not be popular at all but someone's gotta hold a firm no or the planet will never stop collapsing. We can't save the planet by living exactly how we do now just with a communist banner over it we have to take a loss sorry, shein product cycles shouldn't have been normalized to begin with.

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katniss really is the world's best pov character. she is: obtuse, cynical, unobservant, delusional, hostile, paranoid, and flat out not interested in what is going on around her. I'm not being sarcastic I sincerely love reading a narrator who is lying to herself and the reader constantly. it just brings me joy

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FROG OBJECTS

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Ask not for whom poob has it. It has it for thee

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when you go to bed significantly earlier than usual, a little menu should pop up asking if you want Wake Up Early or More Sleep. and then you should get what you requested. that's my human body UI improvement for the day.

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"he's like.. 12"

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if you concentrate really hard you can exude all of your microplastics into a thin waxy layer, not unlike that of a babybel cheese

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i actually think it's rly cool for people getting an abortion to joke about the abortion, and it's not tasteless or bad. btw. they are allowed to joke about it. and it's funny.

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Superhero concept where a hero can split their superpowered bodily systems apart and form a team.

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I remember when I first found out the truth about “Somali pirates” I got chills because of how horrific the truth was and how insanely creepily well the media had twisted the situation. Every single fucking article making it seem like these “pirates” were just after money or something holding innocent people hostage and I never gave it a second thought, why would I? There was no indication that people were trying to legitimately fight off disgusting imperialism that left nuclear waste in their waters, that over 300 people have died from radiation sickness, that Europeans have been stealing Somalia’s seafood because they overfished their own waters and the indigenous fisherman are starving and so these “pirates” emerged to deal with those stealing their country’s natural resources. The truth is enough to make anyone sick to their stomachs.

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there is an almost automatic transmisogynist reflex a lot of cis women have (particularly those whose main interaction with trans community as a whole is that one of their friends/family/partners came out as a trans man at some point) to attempt to be "trans inclusive" in ways that are fundamentally just excluding trans women.

like someone will be talking about "women's healthcare" and they will say "you mean AFAB healthcare!"

in their head, the math is "(cis women) + (the trans guy I know) = (common denominator is we were AFAB)" because they never once considered trans women as women in the original statement. the implicit transmisogyny just becomes vocally explicit in their attempts to clumsily "include" trans men.

and when a trans woman points out that the cis woman is being transphobic, the cis woman gets extremely flustered and defensive, because in her mind, she was going out of her way to include "trans people" (see: the one trans guy she knows) and that still isn't good enough for you people. now the cis woman is feeling vividly resentful of trans women (because the trans woman trying to gently correct her becomes symbolic of trans women as a whole) and much more likely to double-down on whatever implicit transmisogynist beliefs she already harbored.

like I just see this unfold so often.

it's extremely demoralizing that often the one trans guy the cis woman knows also does not give a shit about trans women and allows the cis women he's in community with to constantly reframe "trans inclusion" as "excluding trans women" simply because it's easy and benefits him.

it's especially disappointing to see this because it's not even that hard to challenge this sort of thing.

like I'm not a trans man, but I am a trans person, and I was assigned "female" at birth, and in my experience, when people do this, it literally is as simple as saying "no, this (e.g. medical misogyny) isn't about assignment, in fact trans women actually face much more acute forms of this kind of (e.g. medical gatekeeping, discrimination, and medical abuse) than cis women or tme trans people" and then we can talk about the mechanisms of sexgender hierarchy enforcement & how/why it impacts different demographics in these ways.

if you're TME and you're the sole person that a cis person is relying on for a "trans perspective" then, while that responsibility shouldn't be placed on you (it would be great if cis people learned about stuff independently instead of outsourcing their opinions to a singular trans person they know), it is placed on you.

and what you do with that responsibility does actually impact how this cis person will interact with trans women (individually and collectively) going forward.

like that is a level of influence that you have. you are making a difference here, whether you want that power or not.

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1$ flea market score. Tiny glass 1960s perfume bottles. I love them.

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Excluding the crucial fact that office jobs pay you an income….if staying home to raise children and do chores and bake bread was really so much easier and more joyful than working in an office on some objective level, why aren’t men doing it? Why aren’t they chomping at the bit to be ~leisurely house husbands~ to a working wife? Why aren’t they stepping up to depend solely on someone else’s income in exchange for round-the-clock domestic labor, if it’s really as blissful and their propaganda suggests? Curious.