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i need to be put down like a rabid dog

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i fucking hate the “this is the good luck post.” Girl stop contributing to a superstitious environment with ur anecdotes there’s a million goddamn notes on it it’s statistically reasonable that a bunch of people remember the good things that happen after they reblog it

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you ever see a post and know immediately “oh i’m integrating this one into my vocabulary”

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I have a feeling I was manually marked red with shinigami eyes, considering the sheer amount of people who have marked me green has not changed me to display as trans-friendly. And, considering this, I can confidently say that the reason this was done was solely to silence my voice as an intersex activist, by intersexists who run the extension. And it's worked, considering my engagement has severely tanked since the mark was applied. I have not said anything anti-trans. Feel free to scour my post history, you will not find a single anti-trans post. I have actively fought for trans rights, I volunteer irl, I go to and help organize marches and rallies, I believe in liberation for the sex variant. Regardless of whatever intercommunity discourse caused me to be marked red, that is a fact.

I do a lot fucking more for the trans community than the example on their website. I actually do the work, I educate people, I do public speaking, I talk about the struggles faced by the trans community, I am in contact with my local queer advocacy groups and I do quite literally everything in my power to educate about both trans & intersex issues in real life. As in, I actually talk to people and don't rot in my bed all fucking day. I do this activism in addition to working two jobs, sometimes up to 70 hours a week depending on scheduling. I do this stuff because I LOVE MY COMMUNITY. I LOVE MY FRIENDS. I LOVE TO IMAGINE A FUTURE WHERE WE ARE ALLOWED TO EXIST.

But no, I guess I deserve to be ostracised and silenced because I had the audacity to... Let's see.. acknowledge the material reality of trans men, as reported to me by trans men? Talk about intersexism from perisex trans people? Condemn community infighting? Advocate for letting queer people speak for themselves and not yelling over other groups? Not believe any trans people have male/cis privilege? Not believe in 'AMAB privilege' or 'AFAB privilege'? Voice my thoughts about how demonizing certain groups of queer people is bad? Being inclusive of queer Identities that are difficult to taxonomize? Having a weird relationship with my cis/trans status due to being intersex? Yeah, all of these sound comparable to this.

No wait, I see it. It's because I think misgendering nonbinary people and calling them 'theyfabs' is in fact, bad. And intersex people regardless of AGAB can do whatever the fuck they want to express their lived experience. Yes, including being transfeminine 'despite' originally being assigned female. The devs are showing their entire ass for that one, refusing to acknowledge the fact that "AFAB transfem" is not a label but rather an intersex lived experience which was co-opted by TERFs and turned into a troll dogwhistle. Instead of attacking the co-opting, perisex trans people have decided to just group intersex people in with TERFs. The same thing happened with cistrans and other intersex experiences/identities, I wonder when they'll come for transfemmasc, considering, you know every transfemmasc intersex person is by nature of being both transfem and transmasc & having an AGAB is either AFAB & transfem or AMAB and transmasc. I wish people would stop believing TERFs when they talk shit about us, co-opt our language and experiences, and attempt to speak for our community. Do you know how many times I've heard "but I thought intersex people didn't want to be included in the queer community" from a trans person in real life? Too fucking many! and do you know where that comes from? That's right! TERFs! This asinine lie is actually what caused me to start talking with my local queer advocacy group about intersex inclusion; they were contacted by a little-known TERF group which claimed the intersex-inclusive flag was offensive, and urged them to take it down. Infuriatingly, they listened, having no intersex people to consult about it. So I changed that.

This extension being used to create rifts in the community is something I saw people predict when I first started using it, right when it came out a few years ago. I had a lot more hope in my heart that this wouldn't happen, but you know. Humans will be humans.

Everyone who has the extension, you can leave a review about its potential for misuse and developer bias; don't just give it 1 star and leave the review blank, as then it looks like bigots review-bombing it. Chrome web store link:

Firefox version:

Due to my engagement being severely cut because of this, I feel this post would be a good one to add a little reminder that reblogs help immensely <3

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we are never making it out of the cave

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Phil: “This place sucks. This place sucks. I hate Antarctica so much. It’s so shit. Nothing can spawn here, dude. Fuck, It’s just a death- death zone.

Also Phil: “But it’s home 🥺”

Bonus from Techno: “It’s terrible but it’s home. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!”

Source: Taking over the world

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minecraft server with systems is crazy what do you MEAN sadie and lars are building a donut shop right next to the community house. literally feel so stupid because i was busy finding iron horse armor in our chests for my horse and before i knew it they were like oh we can build it off the dock! and i was like. my dock? the dock my middle built? the one connected to the house i'm currently living out of? that dock?

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People are starting to call the tumblr dash a "feed". Stop 🛑 you're polluting the ecosystem

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worst part of being a system is the part where this guy just walked up to me and went "update on the gay beetles-" and i had to improv my way through the conversation without any clue what we were talking about

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ish state if it was WOKE

the PROUNOUN union

magicBIkey

QUEERhelm

the NONBINARY empire

fluxarata

THEY/THEMuelo

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A lot of people in the autistic and disabled community seems to think early diagnosis is privilege.

I was not privileged when i got diagnosed in an abusive psych ward just to get my needs denied because i needed to "be more autonom".

I was not privileged when my mother/carer said horrible things to me because of my autism diagnosis.

I was not privileged every time allistic people used my disability to make me suffer, i was not privileged everytime i was neglected despite officially needing a carer.

All the early diagnosed autistics who were abused, or even literally died because of ableism and abusive carers were not privileged.

Early diagnosis isn't a privilege, many early diagnosed autistics are also HrSN, and that makes them not privileged at all.

Diagnosis isn't a privilege.

What is a privilege :

- having access to good/safe care and support

- having access to good/safe therapy

- having understanding and safe carers or family

And a lot of early diagnosed people do not have all these privileges.

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The Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository is live!

You can find it at: https://www.animal-photo-references.com!

Here's how this repository works: all photos were taken by me, a human, at zoos, aquariums, sanctuaries, and other facilities with animals in human care. There is no AI involved in the photo editing or creation and there never will be. Right now there's 56 species on the site; my catalog has over 300 and I will be uploading the rest of them as fast as I can.

Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use these references. Yes, even for work you're going to sell.

All other usage/reproduction requires permission, but assume I'm friendly and please do ask! That's educators, researchers, the media, people who need images for a school presentation, etc. This is just to retain copyright/control in case they're scraped/reused unethically - it doesn't meant I don't want folk to have access! So please do reach out via the contact form on the repository website, I don't bite and I'm most likely going to say yes.

Please don't repost the repository photos to your own blogs: I've created @animalphotorefs as a dedicated blog to share photos from the site, and of course I'll reblog a lot of it here! That again just helps with retaining copyright and sourcing of the images. If you really want to repost some for a specific purpose, please just ask me first!

Also, folks, this project has no funding. It's just me and my camera.

There will never be a paywall on the site - I believe resources like this absolutely must be free for everyone to access. So please, please, please support the repository if you use it. Want sneak peeks at photos, cute videos I take, or to help choose what I photograph and what gets posted first? You can do that through Patreon (and there's a free trial on the most interactive tier!) If you'd like to just drop a tip, I've also set up a Ko-Fi.

I can't wait to hear what everyone thinks of the repository.

To whet your thirst for cute photos, here's an Indian rhinoceros contemplating a goose.

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there are breasts on my roof. scampering about. wretched

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Quick what are you doing RIGHT now (besides scrolling Tumblr)

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the idea that dressed boring/plain means a person is boring is well... uh. ok. i'm going to be nice. some of us don't live in outfit world.

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I think you can tell a lot about how rigorous and committed someone's belief in a human right is by how quickly they are able to name people who they think could or should have that right taken away.