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Hey everyone, please consider buying the 2024 itch.io Palestinian Relief Bundle- it's 373 games, game-making assets, tabletop roleplaying games, zines, and comics for a minimum of just 8 USD! They have a goal of 100,000 USD, and as of the time I'm writing this post, they have 8 more days to reach it.

Link will be in the reblog!

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i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

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this year (or maybe last year i dunno times fake) i painted these two for pride month!

lots of fun but i would like to lobby the gay agenda to have symbols with less stripes theyre a bugger to paint

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No one mentions how hard it is to have unsupportive supportive parents. Yes they say they love you and they don't kick you out of the house after you come out, they might even support your decision on transitioning and changing your name ect. But on the flip side they don't make an effort to use your pronouns or your name, they misgender you without a second thought and they even sometimes do it in front of people and act surprised when you correct them. There's nothing worse than going home knowing that you're going to face a whole lot of misgendering and deadnaming but when someone asks you about it you have to say "well they support my decision to transition" like it's an acceptable excuse.

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The main bundle has 69 (heh) games for $60. The sister bundle has 66 games for $10.

The sale runs Feb 10-24, 2023

Edited to add: the three games discluded from the $10 bundle are:

YOU ARE A WIZARD

Our Minerva, and

TOMBS: Toot on my balls skeleton

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I think tumblr attracts Neurodivergent people because this is basically parallel play and sharing interests or putting scripts with matching photos things which the autism and adhd community love to do

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This first thing I thought when I woke up from surgery was I am so hungry and I need ramen right now! but the second thing I thought was Oh my god, I'm safe.

I was safe.

I thought about having kids someday, but the thought was always divorced from the concept of having to grow them in my body. Whenever I thought about it, I would either start screaming or my mind would shut down. My worst nightmares featured discovering I was pregnant, and realizing I would have to keep it, and go through childbirth. I was terrified.

I got the surgery, and realized I was safe, and I never had those nightmares ever again. It was like finding out I was bulletproof.

Later, I looked at the broken condom, and I didn't see my life flash before my eyes. I didn't see my hopes and dreams turn to ash as I pivoted all my energy into a child I didn't want. I didn't see a possibility of starvation or homelessness because my already modest income went to a child I couldn't afford. I didn't see my disabled body becoming further disabled, or killed, by a pregnancy that I didn't want.

Read more between the pages commentary: https://www.patreon.com/posts/68216364 (free post, no paywall)

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bat at hornets nest maybe but "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" refers to low income communities needing to choose between survival vs being eco friendly. not you continuing to watch the harry potter movies

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US folks, go take the US Trans Survey!

Click here: https://www.ustranssurvey.org

Deadline: November 21st, 2022

Who: The USTS is for all trans people ages 16 years and older, including binary and nonbinary trans identities, living in the United States, a U.S. territory, or on a U.S. military base. The survey is open to trans people at any stage of their lives, journey, or transition.

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The last one was in 2015 and there were nearly 28,000 participants, and the results were very helpful! It’s available in English and Spanish.

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I hate that as Indigenous people, we have to slowly explain the concept of LandBack to basically every colonizer.

Like no we're not going to just throw you out, or put you in camps, or any of that shit. We just want to be able to take care of our ancestral land and be the ones in charge of protecting it.

Like I know these people were raised with a colonial mindset but after a while I just start to lose sympathy.

Like oh you're worried about having your home violently ripped out from under you?? What a fucking tragedy.

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it is very funny that the more you get into animal biology the sillier binary sex becomes as a concept. like not only is it a made up inadequate model for humans, it literally doesnt work for like any other animal on the planet. even other mammals! they all have their own, different complex of sexual traits and their own several bell curves, many of which are not very analogous to "human binary sex" at all.

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I’m enjoying the memes and all but dear lord I cannot get over how unfair it is that she had the best of medical care and will have a stupidly and outrageously expensive funeral when so many old people die alone and unmourned of completely preventable circumstances.

They were deemed expendable over Covid. They die in heatwaves. They die because ambulances take 14 hours to get to them when they have falls. They die in the cold. They starve. There’s a cost of living crisis, this country is a hellscape, and one old fucker with blood on her hands is going to fuck us all over one more time from her coffin while other old people -

die.

And yes I’m focussing on the old here! They’re the direct comparison and they just get. forgotten and left behind and ignored and disregarded. Their premature deaths are still tragedies. Everyone should get the chance to die mindblowingly old, with great medical care, comfortably and surrounded by family.

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I want everyone to know that there are queers in the hollers of Appalachia, in the bayous and marshland of the Deep South, in Southwestern deserts, through the Ozark mountains and up to the Rockies. There are queers in the Great Plains, there are queers in rural America, in trailer parks of the Osage foothills. In the places you least expect us to live, we are here, carving out community and fighting for liberation with pride despite it all. Stop forgetting about us. Stop overlooking our experiences and our impact just because we don’t live in a Big Gay City. And for the love of God, stop looking at us with pity.

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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Gender-affirming hormone access precedes ibuprofen by nearly forty years. Ibuprofen has also killed thousands (yes, thousands!) of people. It can cause “irreversible damage” to organs. Cis people have been using the informed consent model for decades for much more dangerous drugs than HRT. Politicians just don’t like trans people.