#it's all a lie

[sauraunderscore]

Henceforward it is forbidden for the USA to write/say anywhere "this is a free country".

It'll be like this until their women and LGTBQIA+ people can say it as well.

[that-mad-indian-woman]

Summer came. Summer went.

I didn't turn pretty. Nor did I meet hot guys with hot brothers.

[ijusthappentoexist]

i need to make preserves of fruit grown on the land, i need to smoke on a sunny day in shade of a tree, eating fresh fruit with my loved ones, enjoy their company in this beautiful life. the varying textures and tastes, the so called flaws, disappear in a moment of bliss, it's all perfect through appreciation and gratitude. i need to lead a life of leisure...

[reckless-lambert]

YOU JUST WAITED FOR SEGA TO PULL THE PLUG, DIDN'T YOU?!?

FINALLY!!!! IT'S SO FUCKING CATHARTIC TO SEE INFINITE DEAD AMIRIGHT

OH I WAITED 6 YEARS FOR THIS IM SO GLAD FINALLY THEY CONFIRMED THAT HE IS DEAD

[mortifiedandawesome]

P!nk - The Truth About Love (Official Lyric Video)

[insert-random-account-name]

Today, I was riding in a car when I saw a flatbed pickup truck pulling a trailer. In the bed of the truck were several bushes. I thought that was a little weird, but I didn't think anything of it. UNTIL I SAW ANOTHER FLATBED PICKUP TRUCK. PULLING A DIFFERENT TRAILER. WITH BUSHES IN THE BED OF THE CAR.

[ravynfyre]

the "brotherhood". it's always the fucking "brotherhood".

national fallen firefighters foundation shares a documentary about LAFD station 9, and suggests that every firefighter in the country watches it. started watching it, but only made it a few minutes in, because the whole intro is guys from 9 talking about the "brotherhood" and the "camaraderie" and the "closeness of the fire family" and how every day was just so awesome because of all that...

and that's not what i experienced in my 12 years as a full time firefighter. but i had tits, and i wasn't the "cute one" or one of the lesbians, but i'm sure that had *nothing* to do with how some days i dreaded going in to the firehouse so much i got physically sick. i'm sure that that has nothing to do with the scars i have from being assaulted with fireworks, or the joy of having one of my first captains tell me that he "didn't believe that women should be there", so I'd best "stay the fuck out of the way if I didn't want to die". for the record, the "cute one" was just told by him to sit down and shut up and keep to herself, rather than having her life literally threatened... but apparently i *imagined* those threats (yeah, that's what the "cute one" said to me... couldn't even get the other women to back me up). just like i *imagined* the third degree burns i got from my own fucking academy classmates setting off bottle rockets in my fucking lap. or the battallion chief that night *laughing* at my bloody injuries and walking away.

i wish that i hadn't been married at the time, so i could have pretended to be a lesbian. they were afraid of the dykes... afraid that they'd get their asses sued if they so much as sneezed in their direction. i was the only non-lesbian, non-attractive woman on the job, though. that made me fair game.

so, yeah. i won't be finishing that documentary. when my own "brothers" couldn't be fucked to so much as send me a sympathy card when my dad died, when my house burned down, when i lost everything... when i wasn't even allowed to attend the funeral of one of the guys i went through paramedic school with, and who really *was* a real Brother to me, because I "didn't belong there"...

nah. stick your "brotherhood" up your ass, folks. because it *is* a BROTHERhood, and *sisters* need not apply.

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(tonight brought to you by the fact that my shoulder is a worse aching ball of shit than usual, and all that "we are a family you wouldn't understand" shit was quite frankly triggering in a very real and painful way)

and as a post script to the women out there who are working at becoming firefighters... it's better now than it was 10+ years ago when i left. but just watch your six, because you have tits, which means that you really can't trust anyone else to watch your six, until you can. and if you end up in a shithole like i was? document. every. fucking. thing.

you never know when you might end up needing it.

[ladymazzy]

Holidays are a lie. There is never any time off

[lenbryant]

Ah ha! As always, follow the money. Republicans' clutching their pearls over "wokeness" is just a front. Their real ambition is to defund public schools and give the $$$ to privatizing education. Dumbing down the younger generations so they will maybe vote for them in the future.

(Times) ...Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, is hoping that fear of a “radical woke agenda” in places like this will help him secure a long-elusive goal: a voucher-style program that would award public stipends of up to $8,000 to parents who switch to homeschooling or private schools.

Abbott’s effort will test whether rhetoric about “wokeness” can convince Republicans to abandon even the nation’s most traditional public schools.

[j-emini]

f1 testing is like that friend you have that flirts with you all the time but has never actually made a move... and you're just so confused by all their mixed signals

[hxlcyon]

reading ceo/business manhwas/tropes hit different now

[ruporas]

don’t worry about me. goodbye, big brother

[hinamie]

10 years later

[typewriter-worries]

The New York Times did a piece titled 100 Small Acts of Love and these are some of my favorites 💕

[mortifiedandawesome]

P!nk - The Truth About Love (Official Lyric Video)