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On my first day in Germany I got to my hotel and I couldn't get the lights to turn on. And I was like "Eh, fuck it, I'll just take a shower in the dark." And then the shower wouldn't get hot. I waited and waited and it stayed ice cold.

So I go down to the front desk and I'm like "My lights won't turn on and my shower won't get hot" so they send this guy up with me. We get into the room and I flick the switch and nothing happens so I'm like "See?"

And he goes "You must put your card in the slot."

"I... what? I have to put my room card in the light switch?"

"Of course!"

Now I have been in many hotels in the US and never encountered this concept, but apparently it was something most of their guests already knew. So I'm looking like a fool at this point. I feel like an idiot. The dude is fully grinning at me. I put the card in the slot and voila, the light turns on.

Then he's like "Ok, let's see if the shower works. You know you must wait for the hot water?" and I just know he's thinking I'm an idiot who also can't use a shower. This stupid American can't wait for the hot water! She can't even use a light switch or a shower!

And I guess he was distracted by these thoughts of my stupidity, because this dude fully stepped into the shower. In his nice dress shirt and slacks. He just. Gets into the shower.

And turns it on.

Have you ever seen a playing field get leveled instantaneously

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I hate when an artist gets exposed for being a bad person and people start the narrative “why would you even want to listen to their shitty music” when are we going to be freed from the idea that only good people create good art and bad people create bad art. It just makes it harder for these types of people to be exposed because now you got people thinking “how is this possible, his music is so good!”

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As much as I want to support ethical farming practices I will be buying the cheapest bag of frozen chicken thighs as much as the next frugal/poor person which is why animal welfare needs to be legislated, not left up to the invisible hand of the free market or some bullshit. Invisible hand of the free market finds itself around a lot of throats.

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have the last five years been just a complete blur for anybody else

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it's so fucked up you cant start working on your life at 3 am. when it most matters

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sorry i'm back at it... janeway calling tuvok her moral compass... girl that man is NOT a neutral observer that is your defence lawyer. your ride or die best friend. your checks and balances are not checking and balancing.

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“i asked chatgpt-” ohhh ok so nothing you are about to say matters at all

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Ideal work schedule:

I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks

I complete the list

I leave immedietly

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He’s listening to his tunes :)

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HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL (2006) Dir. Kenny Ortega

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L'Extraordinaire Voyage de Marona (Marona’s Fantastic Tale) 2019, dir. Anca Damian

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When you're young, instilled ideas can feel a lot like instincts. That's part of the reason it is so vital for queer youth to be connected to queer elders. The process of unlearning queerphobia is a lifelong journey, and it can't be taken alone. There have to be people who are challenging you to grow, people who can look at what you are doing and know the history behind the first response. Knowing even recent queer history provides so much context and can unveil closely held beliefs to be rooted in bigotry.

Intergenerational connections within the queer community are necessary and worth fighting to find.

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I try not to participate in generational mockery, when I know it invites Grandpa Simpson "It'll Happen To You" and when I know that most people of all ages are terrible for reasons that have nothing to do with the generation they grew up in

But periodically I see lists of "fashion do's" from Gen Z and I feel like I'm being punked. So you want people to dress in muted, neutral, straight-cut earth tones, part their hair down the center, and wear opthalmic (non-sunglass) aviators?

Make way for the Gen Z fashion icon everybody

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Has anything actually gotten better, for all the work you talk about doing? Or is it just treading water in misery forever?

Anon, ten years ago gay people couldn't get married in large parts of the US. AIDS was an almost certain death sentence when I was in high school. I was looking at job boards the other day and found a part time gas station job that had health insurance as a benefit, which NEVER would have happened 15 years ago. When I was a kid, hitting your child was extremely normalized in the US and my parents were the weird ones for not doing it. There is a vaccine for chicken pox. I didn't meet anyone who had transitioned until my 20s because it was so uncommon to transition in the aughts, and now there are some states that protect your right to have gender affirming care provided by your health insurance. It's not all states, but it's better than the number of states that had it in 2010, which was zero. THERE ARE TENANTS UNIONS NOW. WE HAVE A VACCINE AGAINST CERVICAL CANCER.

And all of that has been the work of a lot of individuals and organizations and research teams and activists.

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Don't let anyone tell you that seeing someone like you on television isn't important.