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Trans rights are human rights, regardless of the country.

Well fucks? Get to it!

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I needed to see this today.

really good tiktok

Transcript:

Girl, just do it fat. Don’t wait until you’ve lost enough weight. You’re worthy of taking up the space that you fill. Live your life now. Don’t wait for some future version of yourself that you think will be more deserving. You have every right to pursue your passions and dreams just as you are today. Your worth isn’t tied to a number on a scale or the size of your clothes; it is inherent in who you are. You’re allowed to be seen, heard, and celebrated in whatever body you inhabit right now. Don’t let anyone or anything convince you for too long. So go out. Do it fat! Wear the clothes you love, pursue the opportunities that excite you, and live unapologetically. There’s no reason to put off living the life that you want, waiting for a moment that you’re not even sure will come. You deserve to be happy and fulfilled just as you are, and the world needs you exactly as you are today. Everything good that has ever happened to you, happened in this body. Girl, just do it fat.

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If every leader stood up for what is right with Zelenskyy's courage, our world would be better.

My manager in my last workplace couldn't even stand up against petty racism, ablism and queerphobia in our office with any integrity or courage.

Why are we expected to let arseholes shout us down?

the transcript btw. It was hard to make it out on the video because of the blowhards yelling and me feeling incandescently blind and deaf with rage

oh, to have a leader with the moral fiber and strong backbone that Zelenskyy has

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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

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When I say I'm anti psychiatry, I'm not trying to take away your right to choose to rely on the psychiatric label, the psych medications or the therapy that genuinely helps you. I don't think you're wrong about it helping you either. I'm not anti you relying on tools based in psychiatry if they help. What I am against is capitalism forcing these treatments on people as universal solutions to completely individual problems while rejecting valid criticisms of coerced and forced treatment, bad science, serious medication side effects and therapy approaches that don't actually help everyone. I am attacking a system ripe with abuse and ableist, bigoted, capitalist ideology, but I am not saying that you shouldn't be allowed to use any of the tools based in it for yourself in a context where it's actually a free choice not being forced onto you as a universal solution by an authority

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Rejection sensitive dysphoria is wild. Someone will be like “hey just so you know the thing you did was a little bit loud/uncomfortable/insensitive but it’s ok I know you didn’t mean it” and my brain will instantly translate “you should be shot”

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this feels relevant

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Ayoo just to preempt the inevitable dumb takes we’re about to start seeing;

I am PRO-WOOL

I am PRO-LEATHER

I am PRO-BEES

Fuck the idea of replacing durable, sustainable animal products with cheap, flimsy plastic that doesn’t bio-degrade. Agave nectar and other artificial sweeteners are expensive, labor-intensive, and destroy the environment to be farmed.

Do not buy into pernicious marketing campaigns pushed by dickhead organizations trying to stay relevant, like PETA.

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https://www.tumblr.com/daftpatience/769916523777310720/this-messed-up-vintage-cat-sewing-pattern-has

i followed a sewing pattern that didn't have any irl finished pics of it, and the whole time i was like 'yknow this doesn't seem like it'll work very well, but i'm the novice so i guess i should follow the pattern' and well.

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There is also an intricately carved grasshopper on the cabbage. That deserves a mention.

sometimes you just want to look at the qing dynasty jadeite cabbage again

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I give things I don't need or want – that work, are complete, etc. – to my local charity shops. Charity shops stop items going to landfill. They give people on a tight budget a way to get something they need but can't afford.

Right now, I'm sick and I have a compromised immune system, so I can't volunteer my time (post-viral fatigue means I can get sick and/or injured easily) but I have volunteered in the past and enjoyed it.

When I had money, I donated regularly. I still give to the local food bank when I can, even though I can't really afford it.

I just don't give money online.

Don't ask.

I know this may sound harsh and cruel given... You know, the world we live in. But I do not endorse or proliferate gofundme or other fundraising campaigns for other people. I've been bamboozled in the past. So if I don't know you I am not comfortable with that.

I do, however, think everyone should be charitable. I will instead ask that people that follow me take 10 minutes to find a charitable cause they believe in and put 1-10 dollars towards it every month (maybe more than 10 minutes if you're serious about it, because, again, there are people and groups that are not in need that are acting as if they were). But it's good for your brain to do something when you feel like the world is on fire and everywhere you go the fire extinguishers are sold out. It's not for bragging rights, it's not to clear your conscience, it's not an excuse to not help other people, but it does do some good somewhere.

And, if not money, give some time. It's a bit more valuable than money anyway. And I don't mean a couple minutes here and there sharing posts. I mean try to find something local and see if you can spend an hour helping out each month or maybe every week.

That's it. That's my spiel.

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I love this one. It's one of my favourite carols.

DCU Holiday Special - “Good King Wenceslas” (2008)

written by Paul Dini art by Dustin Nguyen

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I have this problem too.

The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.

In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.

But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.

"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?

"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.

Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?

It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.

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I've seen lightning in a snowstorm, but there was no thunder. I was in Bristol, UK.

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I have some bad news.

If you find a craft pattern of any kind that has no illustrations, it was likely generated by AI.

If there is a picture of the finished result but nothing to show you what you're making step by step, it was probably AI generated.

I think you have followed an AI's designs beautifully and created something weird but wonderful.

The result was definitely not your fault and it's better than anything my dyspraxic self could have stitched together, AI pattern or no.

I'm sharing this information not to make you feel bad (I know there's a lot of hate being tossed at AI but you didn't know – and I'm not judging because I've been caught out by AI users too).

I'm passing this on to make sure you know what to look out for, so that in future you can decide if you want to try an AI pattern that will probably turn out weird. Some people test them for fun and that's fine.

It just isn't fair when new crafters try a pattern and are left wondering if they've done something wrong – or even if they're no good at the craft they're learning.

i followed a sewing pattern that didn't have any irl finished pics of it, and the whole time i was like 'yknow this doesn't seem like it'll work very well, but i'm the novice so i guess i should follow the pattern' and well.

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Gaol: original spelling

Jail: American spelling

That particular disappointment of the more literate-than-average child upon discovering that “gaol” is just pronounced “jail”