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The North Sea, by Patrick von Kalckreuth

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The Boston Symphony was performing Beethoven’s Ninth. In the piece, there’s a long passage about 20 minutes during which the double basses have nothing to do. Rather than sit around the whole time looking stupid, some bassists decided to sneak offstage and go to the tavern next door for a quick one. After slamming several beers in quick succession (as double bassists are prone to do), one of them looked at his watch. “Hey! We need to get back!”

“No need to panic,” said a fellow bassist.

“I thought we might need some extra time, so I tied the last few pages of the conductor’s score together with string. It’ll take him a few minutes to get it untangled.”

A few moments later they staggered back to the concert hall and took their places in the orchestra. About this time, a member of the audience noticed the conductor seemed a bit edgy and said as much to her companion.

“Well, of course,” said her companion. “Don’t you see? It’s the bottom of the Ninth, the score is tied, and the bassists are loaded.”

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I should draw rouge the bat. But in what circumstance

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ITS STILL FALINTINES DAY IN MY TIMEZONE WAHAHAAAA!!!!

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I try not to think about this too hard or at least tell myself a not insignificant number of these people have to live in Renton or Bellevue or something but the longer I live here the more I find myself unable to deny it. reddit city

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The rhetorical strategies against trans women can be generalized to just a bunch of different implementations of "blame trans women for things that are done to them"

There's fetishisation of trans women arising from their position as marginalized women ending up in survival sex work? actually trans women's fault for being a sex thing

Trans women have their gender presentation policed heavily by gender clinics? How dare trans women reinforce gender stereotypes!

The position of trans women as vulnerable targets of patriarchal violence means they require access to support structures intended to protect women from said violence? This must be a scheme by the violent men actually.

Trans women are hesitant to participate in debates due to the extreme risk of mass harassment at the hands of the audience? Must be censorship. From the trans women.

Trans women rely on healthcare, which is funded by the exploitative structures of capitalism? This is on trans women. nobody else is to blame here.

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Do you want your handjob crazy hand style or master hand style

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There were 0 donations on the Alhaw Family fundraiser yesterday. Please share and consider donating to them. They were verified at #12 on @/el-shab-hussein’s list!

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god gives his coolest girlfriends to his most loser reddit bros

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Naner video

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“why can’t the queer community be all sunshine and rainbows and never ever disagree with each other!!! let people do what they want!!! stop the infighting!!!” <- thing that only gets said when lesbians and trans women are upset about something

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Ancient Mew — Pokemon the Movie 2000 Promotional Card

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I see a lot of people bringing attention to Sam Nordquist's murder, and the fundraiser for his funeral. What he went through was horrible, and I wish he'd experienced this kind of support in life as well. Thank you to the community and our allies for speaking up for him.

Around the same time the news about his murder was breaking, a Black trans woman was also murdered in my neck of the woods. Her name was Tahiry Broom. Her family says she loved making people laugh, that she was full of energy and confidence. She was only 29.

Her murderer called 33 sex workers, several of whom were also trans women. He had no money on him. He intended to rob and/or kill at least one woman that day, who he felt society wouldn't rally for or miss. She was just the woman who fell into that category, for him.

Please donate to the GoFundMe organized by her aunt, Patricia Bender. Tahiry deserved so much better. She deserved a full life. Her family is trying to make sure she's surrounded by love in death. From the date of this post (Feb. 18, 2025), it's 4 days until her service (Feb. 22, 2025).