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just invented something at dinner called soundboard storytime where i explain the plot of hamlet to my younger sister & her friend while our other sister punctuates every sentence with a choice sound bite from her phone

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I work retail, and have for many years now. I'm not an easily fazed person and have a Talk No Shit, Take No Shit mentality. However, I also have a pretty intense anxiety disorder on top of other mental health issues and when I started 6+ years ago there were some customers who got to me.

So, to all the workers facing Karens and Kens out in the wild, here's my advice - cry.

If you have the type of relationships with your coworkers and managers that will support you, don't try to hold it in. Cry like the overworked, underpaid peon you are.

Nothing terrifies an asshole Karen like the indisputable proof that their actions/words are affecting you as a real live person. They feel perfectly entitled to cuss out a cashier over a wrong order/no cash policy/ face mask mandate but when that person starts to cry and asks them why they'd say such mean things? A whole other story, my friend.

There's no way to make that situation look good to the manager they demanded to speak with, either. My manager literally got a security guard fired for being so verbally abusive he made one of her employees cry.

This strategy has multiple benefits -

1. You're not standing there trying to pen up your emotions, crying is a great physical release for negative emotions and you may very well feel somewhat better afterwards.

2. The person who precipitated the situation is forced to not only see you as a person with feelings, but also has to confront the fact that their abuse has consequences beyond themselves.

3. It can actually give your higher-ups leverage to address these situations. 'They yelled at my employee' is one thing, but 'They yelled at my employee until they were in tears' is a waaaaay worse offense. A good manager can use that. Hell, it can get a security guard fired!

tl;dr: We live in a capitalist hell but we can work the system and cry at work to shame awful customers

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while you’re here, please have a look at the @alklilifamliy’s campaign and consider donating!

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At Beihai, Guangxi

[eng by me]

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“what if kids identify with something and it ends up just being a phase-?” good. stop teaching and expecting kids (and adults honestly) to formulate permanent traits and ideas of themselves. everything in life is a phase. that doesn’t make it any less legitimate while you experience it. let people explore themselves and know it’s okay if what you think about yourself changes.

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My current favourite tiktok trend is the one where people wrap presents to look like something they're not and some people get ridiculous with it

Like:

✨The dedication ✨

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Firefox is a gateway drug to realizing you can do whatever you want with computers. It starts with getting adblock and then you start thinking about what else is possible

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bitches hate me for my earnest whimsy and my pathological degree of avoidant behavior

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Bronze age ship discovered

look inside

made of wood

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English added by me :)

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spiderman. opinions on rhode island

your mom rhode my island last night

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Blogging this tweet because this explains SO MUCH about the mindset of pretty much all the folks I’ve known who’re against single-payer, it’s not even funny…

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any statistic that shows that trans men are more oppressed than trans women or vice versa feels irrelevant because the difference is always negligible and changes between studies. i've seen studies that say trans women are sexually assaulted more often, that trans men are sexually assaulted more often, that trans women are more likely to live in poverty, that trans men are more likely to live in poverty - you get the gist - both while doing my own research and from sources i've been given by other people

the majority of the time the full picture is trans people do not have wildly different experiences from each other. the majority of the time race is more of an influence in the violence trans people face than their gender. unfortunately, people use statistics to fuel their confirmation bias over petty "trans men are more oppressed" and "trans women are more oppressed" discourse that does nothing but make talking about transphobia an active minefield.

i see this especially when people argue against statistics that don't fit their own narrative of one kind of transphobia being worse than the other argue that it's because hyperinvisibility makes it go underreported, while simultaneously ignoring or downplaying the invisibility that the other side faces. it's all blatantly biased

this isn't to say transmisogyny and antitransmasculinity have no meaningful differences, they do, but the idea that one is provably "worse" is almost never backed up by in-depth research and usually stems from the biased perspective of one person who only experiences one kind of oppression and not the other, and automatically assumes that the other one isn't as bad because they haven't seen the full extent of it

it's inherently a losing battle and ultimately just takes away from discussions of transmisogyny and antitransmasculinity by turning what could've been valuable essays and theory into pissing contests that barely even talk about transmisogyny or antitransmasculinity

the moral of the story is you people need to listen to each other more

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I would still use my turn signals in the Mad Max Wasteland. They'd call me "Signal" because I'd hit my blinker before ramming the enemy hot rods into the side of a desert ravine. I'd use my turn signal every time. They would respect me for this.