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Having tendonitis is a BEAST. I can't pay attention to anything because I can't do any of my usual fidgets. Can't fold paper, can't knit, can't doodle, can't even disassemble and reassemble pens. I'm out of the splints and bandage combo now, but if I look at my knitting for too long I hear my Voice of Reason (sounds a lot like my brother) saying 'don't you fucking dare'. He's right too. Even typing hurts if I do too much of it.

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Oklahoma is attempting to pass a bill that would ban explicit romance novels. Authors, narrators, and sellers could all face fines of up to $100,000 and up to 10 years in jail for each instance.

If you live in OK, call your representative and tell them this bill should not be allowed to pass.

This is likely a test case. Republicans will try to pass it in OK and if it passes other states will likely try to pass similar laws.

In the meantime, get physical copies of books you like. Download those pdfs. Archive your AO3 stories and keep them on a physical hard drive. (Storing those files in the cloud could be problematic in the future as the company managing the cloud service can see what your files are)

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Sir Christopher Lee met Rasputin's assassins, saw the last guillotine execution, hunted Nazis, recorded a heavy metal album, spoke 9 languages, was Ian Fleming's cousin (James Bond) & was the only actor in “The Lord of the Rings” to have met J.R.R. Tolkien

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Ugly is Evil: The Dystopian Legacy of 2000s Makeover TV

A video essay breaking down 2000s makeover TV, the politics of ugliness, and the impact on today's beauty obsessed world!

"When we say “everyone is beautiful in their own way”, is that based on a genuine belief in universal beauty, or in a genuine belief that everyone is worthy of the things “ugliness” might keep from us?"

Watch here!

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GET GRUFFALO'D, BITCH

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So do we think eliot had the eyeliner at home already or he stopped in a cvs before the con?

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What’s a food from your culture that u HATE #hatersonly

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for those who need doomscrolling distractions:

tetris

card games

minesweeper

suika game but with animals

poke rogue

neal.fun

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People don't actually grow out of their emo phases. People are forced out of their emo phases by employers who get a raging boner over controlling how their employees dress, cut their hair, whether they mod their bodies and so on

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I have made some memes to commemorate the day

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"I'm going to teach my sons to respect women."

A lot of women say this in response to all the sexism they see and experience. But it only works if you teach him to question all sources of power. If you're a single issue feminist and you want your son to question his privilege as a male but uphold your privilege as an adult, you'll fail miserably and it will be your own fault.

If you spend his entire childhood demanding that he obey all adults no matter how abusive and you call that "respect", then when he's a teenager and you teach him to "respect" women, he'll think women are just one more group of people who he has to submit to, and he'll easily fall for propaganda that feminism is a female supremacist movement. If you call him "disrespectful" when he says or does something sexist and you've also called him "disrespectful" for backtalk, eye rolling, muttering, or breathing loudly, he'll think you're just being an unreasonable authority figure once again. If you spank him and try to teach him that domestic violence is wrong, he'll see you as a blatantly obvious hypocrite.

Single issue activism is useless, and your child will see right through it. You can't just add "women" to the list of people your child must respect on command. If you want to prevent your child from becoming a bigot, you have to teach him to recognize bigotry in all forms, including when it's coming from you. You have to teach him to recognize that the way children are treated is bigotry. You also have to teach him to recognize ableism, racism, classism, and other ways that you may be privileged.

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If you are a British/UK citizen, there is currently a petition running (with only 125 signatures) that ends in June 2025. The petition calls for the government to make it so that you do not need a diagnosis of gender dysphoria to change your gender.

If you are a British/UK citizen, and would like to sign:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701159

If you're not a British/ UK citizen it'd be much appreciated if you could share this post !! :)

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it used to be 2007 you know

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Womens rugby gets me all kinds of unnecessary. Yes delightful lady tanks please crash into each other, I will cheer and clap and stand up from my seat to dance because you are phenomenal. Please keep being phenomenal.

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Reminds me of an unhoused person I saw, holding a sign that read 'the difference between us is one missed pay cheque'. We're all closer to disability, sickness, and disaster than we like to admit.

There's even an ongoing propaganda campaign to hide how dangerous and disabling pregnancy and childbirth can be, and many people will vehemently argue that it's perfectly safe despite knowing someone with permanent injury from it.

Some rando: You should think about stopping your prescription

Me: My pills make me not want to die tho

They: You shouldn’t want to die, that’s not normal

Me: Yeah that’s why I’m taking my pills