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tbh i didnt even have a problem with they/them until i told some people my pronouns were it/its and nothing else and they proceeded to use exclusively they/them for me

i literally had the exact same experience beat for beat. i used it/they for a while but people were only using they so i went to it only and it still happens regardless. people will deadass look at you and go "it's less offensive if i call you they" after you've told them you literally don't use they/them pronouns. misgendering you is 'less offensive'. what?

this isn't about respect for trans people, this is about the comfort of everyone else. no one wants to accept that there really are people out there who want to be referred to by it/its pronouns like it's baffling. there is so much pushback it's unreal. and for what reason, i'll never know. it's everyone else prioritizing their discomfort over treating us correctly. their comfort matters more than ours, always

none of us care if using it/its for us makes you uncomfortable. using it/its for us does not make us uncomfortable that's why we are telling you to use that. especially when that's all we use. it says a lot about how that person thinks and how they use the word it. this sort of person generally uses it when they're misgendering people which is why they're so antsy about it

i hope people will toughen up and respect you and address you correctly. people will pick any and every hill to die on if it means misgendering a trans person.

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While we continue to donate to personal evacuation funds, I think it is crucial to keep in mind that these individuals as well as millions more in Gaza are currently actively in need of basic necessities like food, water, shelter, and medical care. Keeping this in mind, and recognising that there is no way to know when the border crossing with Egypt will reopen, I think our attention should also be on raising funds for organisations currently on the ground who will have the widest impact on the lives of Palestinians who are still enduring the genocide in Gaza.

Below are some verified donation links of organisations that are currently providing assistance for the people in Gaza directly:

Food, water, and shelter

Taawon has launched a campaign to provide support in Gaza through food parcels, shopping vouchers, fresh produce, water bottles and shelter tents.

Watermelon Relief is a project initiated and implemented by a group of activists in Gaza, who work to provide aid to displaced families in Gaza through meals, support and activities.

World Food Programme (WFP) managed to provide assistance to more than 1 million people in Gaza in May by delivering food in shelters, makeshift camps and shops.

Life for Gaza is an initiative through which the Municipality of Gaza aims to provide basic necessities for the people of Gaza such as water projects, waste collection and the reconstruction of roads.

Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (APN) is working to plant farmlands in Gaza through their "Revive Gaza Farmlands" project, through which they had already started planting vegetables, fruits and leafy greens in Gaza.

Purchasing eSIMs is one of the only remaining ways to keep Gazans connected with the outside world, to get their stories out or even enable them to call for help after Israeli strikes.

The Sameer Project is a donation based aid initiative that provides tents, cash aid, diapers and formula for displaced families in Gaza.

Care For Gaza is an organisation that works to provide essential aid such as food packages and cash to deliver to displaced families in Gaza.

Palestine Children's Relief Fund, through their "Gaza Relief and Recovery" campaign, plan to provide essential medical supplies and treatments, as well as food and clean water.

Mutual Aid for the People of Gaza is a fundraiser managed by Mona in Gaza, who personally purchases and distributes basic supplies including food parcels to families in Gaza.

Help Gaza Children is another grassroots effort operating on the ground in Gaza to support families with food, water and clothing.

Medical care

Medical Aid for Palestine (MAP) provides medical supplies and supports healthcare services in Gaza.

Gaza Wound Care is a medical team in a tent in Nuseirat, providing care to children and supporting pregnant women.

Children Not Numbers is an NGO dedicated to providing medical care for the children in Gaza including delivery of medical aid and medical evacuation for children.

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Hello my friends I hope you are all well My account was blocked yesterday without any reason I have created this account instead I hope you support this account and support the donation campaign to evacuate my family soon when the crossing opens The link is here

My family support link

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three cheers for the NPC wolves Scrap and Famine. Took over the Elevation pack after the leaders got killed by me because they kept killing my pups. I put up with them for two years and then it was the final straw lol.

Scrap took over as pack leader first, then Famine just joined more recently. I met Scrap first as another dispersal wolf from the Salvage pack. I'm guessing that Famine is from the Calamity pack based on her ID number.

I was giving the elevation pack names after trees, so now they'll have to get a new mix of names with the new leaders. The newest baby I named Driftwood to combine tree + salvage so feel free to suggest other names.

Tree + salvage + calamity = ?

And feel free to use this as a writing prompt lol

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I really wish most people's ideas of wildlife did not jump almost exclusively between they're just like pets I should go and try to pet it and this animal is out to kill me personally.

No, the animal is not out to kill you personally but no that still does not mean you should treat it like your family dog and approach it and harass it and try to pet it.

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happy winter fellow cripples. please remember that your heated blanket/pad can and will burn you 😔

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I'm really tired of twins in fiction always having some kind of magical soul bond or telepathy. This is so common, that even in real life, people literally do not believe me when I tell them that that is not real.

I have literally had people argue with me to my face that twins have to have some kind of telepathy and I must be either lying about it to cover it up when I tell them that's not true, or we're one of the weird ones that doesn't.

Like, if it's a fictional setting where people form soul bonds at the drop of a hat, sure whatever. But even in settings that are otherwise free of magic they always have to do this crap and it's really flipping irritating.

And then there's things like how to train your dragon movies where they just treat twins like two halves of the same person so everybody else gets their own dragon best friend but the twins have to share.

albinos :handshake: twins -> People being weird as fuck about you to the point of many folk religions believing you have magical powers b/c you were born very weird

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albinos :handshake: twins -> People being weird as fuck about you to the point of many folk religions believing you have magical powers b/c you were born very weird

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One of the interesting things about pirate media in general, and especially children's pirate media is the diversity of race, body type and facial features.

Pirates are generally coded as both 'ugly' and 'chaotic', so designers and casting directors don't feel the obligation to make them rigidly and socially beautiful.

Which means that on the one hand, yes, you end up with a lot of deliberately "gross" "ugly" character designs, but you also end up with characters that genuinely ARE diverse-- fat, skinny, broad, muscular, tall, short, REALLY tall, REALLY short, any color that a character can be.

And actually distinctive facial features, instead of the "standard" "pretty" features. Big noses, huge jaws, small jaws, small eyes, facial hair-- lots of different kinds of facial hair. Piercings!!

Pirate character design!

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All i want to say that’s my brother is hungry and there’s nothing to eat just the bread

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The phrase sweet nothings implies the existence of bitter nothings, bitter somethings, sweet somethings, or possibly all of the above

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Mom seems to have an instinctive need to dismiss anything I say, because I mentioned that I had barely gone outside at all this summer because it seemed way hotter than any other year we've been down here and seemed outright dangerous for me to go out.

When I mentioned the fact that it was dangerously hot out, she just immediately dismissed it and said in a little patronizing voice oh no it's not dangerous

So then I had to specify I literally got dizzy from the heat.

And she mumbled something like oh okay.

Like Mom do you think I am saying that it was dangerously hot out to exaggerate? Because I think it's funny? You think I'm complaining about not being able to go outside because I'm being over dramatic? Like why do you feel this instinctive need to immediately dismiss anything I fucking say when you know that heat stroke is a fucking thing? And then we had multiple heat advisories? And that it is dangerously humid down here in the summer? Like just take five fucking seconds to not immediately dismiss everything I fucking say.

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Friends to lovers --> boo, basic, everyone's seen it before

Lovers to best friends with an even stronger bond because they both realized they were aromantic -> new, way cooler, yay, i would pay all i have (2 pennies and a button) to see it

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white ppl on twt be fighting for their right to say slurs as if they’ve ever faced material consequences for having done so in the past

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"what do you mean adopting children out of oppressed communities is genocide" bitch this was something white men in 1885 understood and criticized as being fucking evil.

How can you fucking defend this shit in 2023 when you have the whole of all the knowledge on the internet at your disposal.

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I think what people misunderstand when somebody says XYZ animal can smell at thousand times better than humans is that they think that just increases the intensity to the level of pain, and not that it increases the precision.

There's a lot of werewolf media in particular that says you get better ability of smell when you become a werewolf and then this means people can't stand in rooms with sweaty people or something like that but like dogs don't give a crap about that neither would wolves it's not just increasing the potency it's increasing the ability to differentiate things you'd still be able to stand in a room a locker room or whatever with sweaty people you would just now be able to tell every single person's sweat apart or something.

Also it it it's really freaking annoying when people do this but then they just neglect to mention that this would mean the werewolf can now smell people menstruating because everybody wants to never admit that menstruation exists and it's really irritating. They'll go on and on and on and on about all these things that the person can now smell including arousal because people can't stop being horny for 5 seconds, but menstruation? No that's crossing a line we can't admit that exists.

That part gets especially irritating when the werewolf person will be like oh I smell blood and the implication is that somebody is self-harming themselves? And menstruation is never even a possibilily. And if somebody had healing scratches or cuts, the thing you would be smelling would be clotted blood or scabs or disinfectant or something unless they are actively bleeding right now like come on.

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I probably already posted this but anyways, pro tip. Take a picture of your medicine bottle when you take it, that way when you can't remember when you last took it, you can just check your phone gallery and look at the time!