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every ad is a personal insult to everyone who sees it and i’m not kidding

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Love is in the air 🖤🗡💀

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Ok, I've seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I've been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-

Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.

Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.

Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.

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Watching the trends of trans advocacy on tumblr has been strange over the past… more than a decade.

I remember the initial push to de-gender-segregate spaces because that was the safest way for trans people to access safety and resources. And then something changed at some point and tumblr started shifting from that to what those of us still intent on de-gender-segregation are pushing back against now, which is… like… the use of the systems cis people put in place as a way for gender validation at the expense of other trans people being able to access a space they need.

It’s been… yeah… very strange.

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Uh um uh

ENGLAND DURING THE MIDDLE AGES

Yeah that’s funny

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seeing Bella through Edward's eyes in Midnight Sun is proof that people are better when viewed through the eyes of someone who loves them because we get moments of Bella's kindness and reach the conclusion that she's good but when you read Twilight Bella clearly doesn't give a fuck about anyone other than Edward and his family lmao

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every shitty book now is called something like a court of shit and fuck or something equally stupid. books used to be called frindle and we liked it. we liked it

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By the way, for anyone wondering how you get involved in your local community: Like this.

Depending on their schedules, three of us will be meeting this weekend for the first time.

"What if they don't like me?" Then you try again with different people.

"I have nowhere to meet!" Libraries. Parks. Cafes. Your living room.

"I'm too scared!" And the longer you stay scared, the harder it will be. If you're so anxious you literally can't leave your house for a cup of coffee you need psychiatric help, not a Tumblr post, because that is not normal.

If you want community, MAKE IT. It's as simple as asking a question on Nextdoor. I did.

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:)

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Please please please don't click those phishing texts

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"i'm mr sterling's right hand arm. man." is to say: i am the unutterable wisdom that precedes and gives rise to verbal understanding.

"i'm mr sterling everything" is to say: i am the undifferentiated matrix through which the phenomenon of "mr sterling" is apprehended.

"his confidant. his best friend. his silly rabbit." is to say: the unity of the two, differentiated and undifferentiated, quiescence and clarity, produces a third which is motion, who then goes on reproduce itself indefinitely.

"does he call you that? no." is to say: the name which can be spoken is not the eternal name.

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just an FYI for trans people in the US right now

[id: reddit post by user spaghettishoestrings titled "(UPDATE) Just lost my healthcare !" with the flair "Celebratory."

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Original post is viewable through my profile. Apologies, since I’m on mobile, I couldn’t hyperlink. The TLDR: my doctor called me on Monday and informed me that their practice would no longer be providing treatment for gender affirming care as a result of a recent presidential Executive Order, even though the EO was for people under 19. Even though I’m 25.

Also, because it was asked a few times, this happened in Michigan, and I’ve been on HRT for 5+ years. It’s a practice that includes like 15+ physicians, and I think that the decision was made over my PCP’s head, given that she once told me that she literally moved states to be able to provide gender affirming care here.

First off, genuinely, thank you so much for all the replies and messages. I genuinely felt frozen after that phone call and didn’t know where to start, and you all really helped me get my feet off the ground.

A couple people mentioned contacting the ACLU, which, truthfully, I thought, “there’s no way that the ACLU will get back to me” but I sent a message anyway. They actually called me a few hours after my post and we talked about the Executive Orders and my rights. They offered to fax my provider a letter reminding them of my rights and some other legal terms. It’s crazy how a post on reddit resulted in my name being on the official ACLU letterhead.

Anyway, today my doctor’s physician assistant called me and shared that their practice is reversing their decision and they will continue to provide gender affirming care. I’m still keeping a bunch of the resources that y’all shared saved, including Planned Parenthood, Plume, and looking into a private endocrinologist.

This whole experience just reminded me how great this community is. I appreciate y’all <3"

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[id: reddit user copurrs commented:]

You should contact Chase Strangio from the ACLU, I believe he is looking for reports of folks being denied their GAC due to these EOs. He's @chasestrangio on IG and Threads.

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