#make sure your voice is heard

[supremeuppityone]

Just checked my mail-in ballot status - it's been counted!!

[supremeuppityone]

I voted by mail last week 💕💕💕

Trust me I'm about as lazy as can be and if I can make sure I voted so can you.

Kamala Harris 2024!!! 🙏

[notasapleasure]

Just blocking anyone clowning on that post tbh. Yes, fuck the Cass review. Instead of doom-mongering about something that's not been implemented yet, can we fight the good fight now we have a government that might actually listen, as opposed to a bunch of crazed bigots who think increased child suicide will win them votes?

[dittolicous]

i dont care where you live in the usa or w/e... if you dont vote for biden you are throwing away your vote and enabling trump. because *everyone* thinks their vote doesnt matter and piddles around because of that. hell, everyone thinks 'its only me, it wont make a difference' about THOUSANDS of things, like littering, picking seashells, taking stones from rivers, etc. and in all of those situations THEYRE FUCKING WRONG. if anything unites us, its our damn ability to think we alone are the outlier despite everything indicating otherwise.

and miss me with that 'biden is just as bad/is a murderer' shit. 1) cool, and how do you plan to change things in a mr. nazi-dictator trump world? how are you ACTIVELY making a difference? 2) CHANGE IS INCREMENTAL. the reason things suck so much is because the left keeps taking slow change as 'no change' and giving up before we can gain any momentum to make big change!

if you vote in hamas or w/e to protest... you might as well throw dirt at all those suffering innocent people. you arent saving palestine that way. that is not a helpful protest. you'll only enable trump to win by throwing away your vote. it is the one bit of actual power you have, so USE IT RIGHT! stop in-fighting for one moment! look at what is possible to achieve in reality! dreams arent fulfilled overnight!

when you feel like your vote doesnt matter, remember this - you have to try anyways

[captainjonnitkessler]

"American individualism has a lot of problems and can lead to a loss of supportive community networks" - true, a problem worth talking about

"Individualism is a poison and anyone who wants to maintain a level of independence from their family, culture, or community is suspect" - BAD. WRONG AND BAD. THIS IS EXTREME CONSERVATISM DRESSED UP IN A PROGRESSIVE HAT

[ghostlys-basement]

poetry to lift some of you guys up :)

he can try to remove our hope like dandelions from the sidewalks, but he can never remove our spirit. That's how we know we're alive!!

So don't lay down to die, stand and look death in the eye and make even him shiver at your determination.

Scream from the mountains if you must, so even god can hear you, no matter who you believe God is.

Hope, will and endurance is all that separates us from the animals, and until we give that up? We will die like the bold people we should be, like the bold people we are. Bright like the sun, and not sheep to the slaughter or ducks sitting in the pond.

And to the republic, for which it (SHOULD) stand, one nation, under God indivisible with Liberty and JUSTICE for all. Please don't let orange man take it away. And

Dont let your justice be taken away. Please, friends.

And remember,

The universe said I love you

Because you are love itself.

[anonymusbosch]

today after work i sat in the car in the parking lot for 30 straight minutes staring at my phone ("vegetarian options near me") staring out the windshield at the gray sky (slowly getting darker) staring at my phone ("hi [manager] i was not cool with") and staring out the windshield trying to swallow some seething and a headache to drive back with a cool head.

i don't - i don't get angry. not really. frustrated, grumpy, irked, annoyed - sure. i am not moved to out-loud anger: raised voice, yelling, outbursts. whatever rises I am capable of biting back.

kept my cool long enough to get a Vegetarian Options Near Me (note: bad) and long enough after that to go buy ingredients that i can make food with in a hotel microwave. took care of some of the needs of the flesh. called partner. could relay nothing but the insanity of the work conversations and, in speaking, heard again the words that had driven me to muteness earlier

"I would have just said 'what the fuck' out loud" says the phone.

and I had, alone, in my car, quietly, "what is wrong with you" and "what the fuck" and "what is your problem", but not in conversation.

for which i am giving myself several gold stars today and resolving for tomorrow:

* literally leave the conversation and walk away while they're talking to you if they don't give you grace to leave

* don't play their games

* data, document, propose solution. ask for nothing. especially permission to do your damn job

* buy a fucking soldering iron.

[faaun]

lmaoooo reading back over old crushposting posts is so funny . we are genuinely friends now and we met at a SWANA pride event thing tn w some of our friends and also i finally met their new gf (she's lovely and a singer and slightly angry always which i understand). they were ill and their gf is taking care of them for now but at some point their gf said they have a rly high temp so i asked them if its ok to feel their forehead and they said yes and i was like wow that IS very hot and their gf looked at me and said "now feel their neck." and waited until i did . the dynamic was so odd and so fun and anyway i'll never get to kiss them but they r genuinely a very good friend

[asundering]

mildly freaking out because i found the league wiki page holding the odyssey: extraction english announcer lines that I have been searching for. forever. for years. for these lines for both referencing and nostalgia purposes.

[foxstens]

if there's one thing i absolutely despise about my generation

it's that they don't go to vote

[clovisbrayai]

every time someone says transmascs are overrepresented I feel like they're telling on themselves in a huge way

[voidfell]

Low activity day but I've had some Sinday thoughts and since that's rare let's share a few shall we?

Ben has no qualms about getting freaky in his alien forms if his partner asks, it's not something he's explicitly into and he'd never bring it up himself but he's down.

Gal, bless her soul, has the male sex-drive because of her ring and it torments her every single day of her life. Girl get's horny horny.

Jaime and the Scarab?? I've read the fanfics, they get freaky, but they're after care kings, Jaime with the high emotional intellegence and the scarab with his invasive biological scans.

Angel?? Turned on by genuine care and romance, kinks, sex, flirting? Nah man, you be genuinely into him and soft with him and he's putty in your hands baby.

Evelyn?? Shapeshifter. Enough said. He can be anything you want him to be, doesn't really wanna change his shape full force but the equipment?? He's both your babygirl and your daddy.

I personally think Mk has had one night stands that all ended amicably because Mei would never let him leave a club with a weirdass, but he's sooo not a virgin I'm so confident.

[reformedmercymain]

hello. I think at one point a long time ago you shared the name of a good voice changer but I don’t remember what it was. I have some anxiety with ranked ovw as a woman so lol.. if you could please share it again I’ll be very grateful! thank you

I used to use the paid version of voicemod! At the time it was a cheap one time payment, so hopefully it still is today. There are presets but you definitely need to modify them yourself or else it won't be believable at all. Try to get a friends help. The goal isn't to sound like a guy if you're just trying to avoid harassment - the goal is to sound ambiguous but to let the subconscious assumption that most #Gamers are dudes fill in the blank from neutral -> just some dude. Also if someone notices just pretend you're mildly offended, that you're gay/young/whatever

[robertsbarbie]

“other people can’t read your mind 🙄” that’s nice hayden and i can quite literally read each other’s minds so maybe our soulmate line is just stronger than everyone else’s

[egobuzz]

I know I've been posting more about politics lately, and it's caused me to lose a chunk of followers.

But I'm a queer person with a degree in political science and its an election year. I'm old friends with several of my city council members. I've been to trainings on how to run elections. I spent my college years working for nonprofits (and being the world's worst canvasser). I'm close with more than one person who works for unions, and I have family members who work for government agencies.

I think about politics in a very pragmatic "I know how the sausage is made" kind of way. We're in a vice press, and there's only one way to release the pressure.

The revolution ain't coming. There is no one to save us but us.

So yeah, I'm going to be pissed if your answer is "let them tighten the vice -- there's no way out of the vice, it doesn't matter if they loosen or tighten it."

There's a difference, and anyone telling you otherwise is likely a psyop or someone who fell for a psyop. This literally happened before, and it's happening again.

Stop falling for it.