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imagine the existential horror of being a lynn minmay hater on the macross

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you can taste the fucking irony

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Those who protest against Israel's genocide are punished for antisemitism.

But for some strange reason, authorities have never cracked down on antisemitism any other time. Any other time, antisemitism is considered free speech.

It's almost as if they know damn well that protesting against Israel is not antisemitism.

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“One of the reasons that I enjoyed Adama/Roslin so very much was the utter compatibility between Eddie and myself. There was never really a question of how do we do this. Sometimes you get lucky in your work. Ed and I had an instant and deep respect for each other that naturally grew into a fondness. I think that is what mature relationships are made of. They are completely authentic and earned through an experience of other as partner and soul mate. The audience (both the younger and more mature) loved this relationship because it created hope and because it was based on total acceptance of the other person regardless of differences.” ~ Mary McDonnell (x)

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ACAB doesn't apply to Patlabor. If you throw a molotov at noa I'll kill you on principle

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The cracking down on protests is such a losing cause these people think you are dumb as bricks

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I don’t even care who fucking wins the presidency this year look at this

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See this, this is what I like about TikTok. Little moments like this

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Too many flowers to pollinate

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Evangelion: I'm gonna make robots weird.

BBBB: Hold my pink raspberry cosmo.

"I'm back, Isami"

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I'm 50. I'm trans. I *beg* you to vote Biden. Not because he "deserves" it or anything so saccharine. Because that, sadly, is how "first past the post" voting works. :(

Voting is like catching the bus. Busses go where they go. You can only pick the bus going the closest to where you want.

But worse, to extend the metaphor, you're stuck on the bus with everyone else, and the bus only goes where the majority votes to go. So if the vote is for "Abattoir," that's where YOU go, whether you voted or not. It behooves us all to TRY to pick a good destination.

And even worse than that, we don't have ranked-choice votes or anything on this bus. Two established groups have narrowed the field to either "abattoir" or whatever French word means "where you get kicked in the gut, but then allowed to walk out alive." There's not enough consensus to add "hospital" or "farm" to the list. :(

And even WORSE, the "abattoir" fuckers plan to sabotage the bus at the abattoir and leave everyone stranded there. Because they've been told by the few abattoir workers on the bus that the abattoir is hiring. Not that it is. At least, not for folks working the line.

It's possible to change the metaphor, but that takes enormous effort, time, and organized grassroots work. That starts locally: your town, schoolboard, and so on. Get some kind of ranked-choice voting in. Create or take over a third party. Hell, take over seats with the "at least it's not the abattoir" party. This *shouldn't* be a zero-sum game where the two teams are "We all die screaming" and "We all live screaming."

But until we can change things at the lowest levels and push 'em upward, those ARE the shitty, sad, frustrating, insulting, demoralizing choices.

Write angry letters. Protest. Talk to your neighbors. Run for office. Join a caucus. Drive change. Hell, I won't tell you to revolt, but that has happened before. But meanwhile, VOTE. Vote angry. Make a huge fucking STINK. Rant at those TV reporters outside the polls about the vile enablement and feeble half-measures from Biden and the Dems. Make it clear WHAT you're voting for. But VOTE. Because the "abattoir" gang does. It's how they got where they are.

Voting holds the line while we try the other stuff to MOVE the line. It sucks. Gods, how it sucks. But hold the line.

genuinely cannot comprehend how democrats are gonna convince the youth to vote for them again in november after they literally let the police beat the shit outta them for protesting against genocide

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One of the best things I did for myself at work was tell my boss to watch out for when I'm quiet. I'm a giant, laughing, cursing, raving Muppet most of the time. You can hear me coming. If you realize I've gotten quiet, THAT is when you worry. That's when I might be in trouble or stuck and afraid to tell you.

Ironically, telling her gave me the confidence to start saying, "I might be late with this," or "I'm kind of lost on the current section."

Crazy as it may sound to say, as an anxious person, you can explicitly give others a Secret Knock so they can check in and say, "Things going okay?" without triggering All The Bullshit in your head. :)

*gentle hugs*

A surprisingly helpful bit of social maneuvering I've figured out from trial and error: Throughout your life, you are going to need things from people. Often, it's going to be on a deadline. And when that deadline passes, you generally want to know what's going on. So, you need to ask them.

There are two kinds of people, broadly, in this situation. The Shameless will tell you what the holdup is, with absolutely no regard for if the reason is "good enough". This is actually very helpful, because you get the real reason immediately, and can start working on a solution.

The Ashamed is trickier. People who are Ashamed are people who were often told they were giving excuses when they were trying to explain, and they'll often avoid you until they solve the problem on their own. This causes them and you a lot of stress, and often takes a lot longer to solve.

Long term, the strategy for dealing with people who are Ashamed is to provide a supportive environment where they're comfortable sharing any problems they're having with getting things done. But, there's a way to at least partially short-circuit that:

Provide an explanation for them.

One example might be "Hey Susan, I noticed that I don't have your report yet. Are you busy with other projects?" The readymade explanation signals that you're willing to accept an explanation, which is the big anxiety point.

Sometimes, you still won't get an honest answer- especially if the honest answer isn't "good enough" by the standards of the person who traumatized them. But, I've found that it often at least gets you a lie that lets you give them some slack or work around the problem.

Let's say that Susan has actually completely forgotten that she needed to do the report. She's horrified at herself, and completely unwilling to admit the real problem. But, she can now safely reply with "Sorry Jennifer, I've been swamped, and it got lost in the mix. I can have it to you in two days. Does that work?"

From there, so long as Susan gave an estimate for when she can actually do it, she and Jennifer can hash out a solution.

It's not a perfect solution, but it works astonishingly well for how small of a change it is.

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since the cowboy and the samurai were both dying out in the 1800s i want an action adventure historically wildly inaccurate comic about the last cowboy and the last samurai teaming up BUT one of them is gay and the other doesn’t understand what being gay is and there are multiple comedic mishaps resulting from this

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i shared this fanart i found for my bestie and now i made this shitpost

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Fur friends are friends.

A Tale of Nine Lives by Akimiya Jun