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Do you ever just… not want to talk?? like even texting someone back feels draining bc same

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Final Pre-Election 2024 Anti-Trans Risk Assessment Map

Erin Reed has presented a new version of her Anti-Trans Risk Assessment Map over at Erin in the Morning.

She writes:

The elections have tightened across the United States, and anti-trans ads have become a major part of the 2024 campaign cycle. As such, the risk has substantially raised for nationwide laws targeting transgender people in the coming years for both youth and adults. For states, the state of Texas has been upgraded to Do Not Travel, only the second state to receive such a recommendation. This comes as Odessa, Texas becomes the first city in the nation to pass a $10,000 bounty on transgender people inside of bathrooms.

Read the whole article here.

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breaking news! new beautiful photo of the best species of frog in the world just dropped

cochranella euknemos, 📸 nuqui_herping on instagram

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Alright everyone. What is your pets' life's mission? Robin's is to be inside the dishwasher and Sparrow's is to dig all the way through both the hardwood floors and my boots

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😭😭

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I have Onni cuddles

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why must reductress hurt me in this way

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Do you have any recommendations from your or loved ones' experiences on how to navigate overwhelming grief, devastation, and rage? As someone who has learned so much from so many of our queer predecessors I am interested to hear how you personally cope (unless you are uncomfortable sharing that level of personal details, in either case—sending love to you and yours).

I am assuming what you are referring to, and I want to face it head on. Can I quote myself? I am going to.

"Today, it became clear to me that the issue is not ignorance. It is not good people who don't understand the consequences of their actions. It is not a lack of middle ground. It is fascism. Fascism has been studied for its draw, and I can't say I understand it. What I can say is that I know what destroys it. Integrity, creation, and community. Integrity in not finding a middle ground to make people more comfortable. In being honest with the people who are most dangerous to be honest to. In knowing who you are and living that truly. It's time to learn to be uncomfortably truthful and not give a single inch. Creation does not just mean going on as you have. It does not mean creating for capitalism. What is needed is creation that upsets, disturbs, and liberates. Create in a way that is so radically truthful to who you are and your worth that the world can't look away. Community is where we find comfort now. Safety is in each other. DO NOT let go of a single person. Fill your lungs with whatever fire starter you need and hold my hand."

Hope this helps. It helped to write.

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Okay, so when people try to speak on BIPOC's involvement in queer history, it is often simplified into just being about individual people like Marsha P. Johnson. While I am never going to say we should talk less about Marsha, I think it would be worth exploring more how BIPOC have a queer history of their own and often it's outside of just the context of the United States of America.

Prioritizing certain stories from QTBIPOC, can slip fairly quickly into erasure. So here is a reminder: colonial powers benefit when we only focus on individuals and erase the long complex queer histories of cultures that have been colonized. Cultures and communities that have been colonized deserve space in our discussions of queer history.

Maybe next time you hear someone boil down queer BIPOC's impact on the queer culture to the same short list of names, maybe question that. Challenge yourself to learn about lesser known stories, and even try to open yourself up to learning about cultural histories of queerness rather than just reading stories that are individual based.

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Building a home for a toadlet

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minotaur costumes from the lion, the witch and the wardrobe

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I make my mother's recipe for sage and onion dressing. It's glorious and I love it (though it is very much not what a lot of people are expecting). She used to stuff the bird with it, and it is better when it's been stuffed in the bird, but I get a giant bird for friendsgiving and it's not safe. I make one batch just sage and onion how mom made it and another batch adding spicy italian sausage to make it how my spouse's family sorta did their sausage dressing. The sausage one is more popular with our found family but that's fine with me, I love having the leftovers.

Let's get some food positivity up in here. If you celebrate a feasting holiday this November, what's your favorite dish you make?

-Mod Worthy

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TIP:

This holiday season, if you know someone who likes house plants,

DON'T

get them a houseplant. DO NOT.

instead, get them a NICE, MEDIUM-LARGE, AESTHETIC, BOTTOM-DRAINING, INDOOR

POT.

that is what they want. that is what they dream of. ok? thats what will be most useful and appreciated. in fact, if you can, get them a CUTE MATCHING SET. OF POTS!!!! NOT PLANTS, POTS!!!!!!!!

they may be more excited initially about the plant. that is true. but a pot is a gift that they will go home and use to upsize one of their already beloved houseplants, and every time they look at it they will remember how much they appreciate you.

HOUSEPLANT:

- they already have so many

- needs to be watered

- takes up window space

- comes in a pot thats already too small, needs to be upsized, costing money

- can die

AESTHETIC POT

- lets them care for an existing plant they own

- they will be grateful every time they see it in their home

- does not take up window space not already occupied by a plant

- can be wrapped without dying or spilling dirt everywhere

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There's an open pit in the middle of our office plan that drops down into a bunch of very sharp spikes that kill you instantly. This is bad. People keep falling in there and dying. Someone put a sign up, the other day, all bright yellow so you can't miss it, that says "Beware!!! Spikes!!!"

The office immediately split into two factions over it. One says that if anyone falls in the spike pit it's their own fault for being so stupid and not watching where they're walking, so we should remove the sign. The other says that the sign is an insult, there shouldn't be a spike pit in our office at all, and having the sign up like that is just normalising the existence of the spike pit, so we should remove the sign.

We ended up removing the sign. Probably for the better. Still... for a while there it looked like it might have worked...