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I think the hardest part about addressing child abuse is getting people to acknowledge, not just intellectually but actually responding accordingly, is that the biggest threat to children, the biggest risk of abuse, is family and parents.

it is of course most often parents who are crowing about needing to protect children (often against far smaller threats than family), and pointing out that they are, statistically, the biggest threat to their kids is not gonna be received well.

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Reblog to give the person you reblogged it from the energy to do one (1) chore or maybe many

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What if I chase the dream and it fails? I asked.

Maybe the more important question is - who do I become when I stop chasing my dreams? he answered.

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Hope it’s ok to send an anon to reply to this but I don’t really want politics on my blog.

As a non-tankie communist I wanted to add on to say that it kind of depends who it’s coming FROM too. Like yes a lot of rightwingers do genuinely use tankie just as a general rude word against anyone leftist. Like you can see in YouTube comments sometimes you’ll see someone say something as mild as “I think giving housing to homeless people would be nice” or something and there will be some guy called AmericaJohn373729 going “THATS NOT REALISTIC YOU TANKIE” in response. So like in that context yeah obviously the guy didn’t sit down to ask about their political beliefs first.

Also yeah Velvet, as much as I don’t make my politics a part of my personality, it does make me really bothered that I can’t just simply answer people if they ask me what I am politically, BECAUSE the tankies have made it so that there’s gonna be assumptions. It blows

That's interesting, because I really did not think "tankie" was used outside of leftist circles. To me it's always meant "the bad kind of communist, because we have to specify".

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I don't know how many of my followers are furries but we just lost one of ours.

He died because the medical industry in the US refused to help. He was murdered in a million little ways, with a million automated systems.

He was on bluesky no more than five hours ago, now he's gone.

Dragoneer ran FurAffinity, which is more or less the furry art site. It looks like its' from the early aughts, has no native pdf support, and has zero discoverability or algorithmic function. It's home to me, it's always been home.

No matter how often I moved or how often my life radically changed, there was FA. I met my husband on the forums. Through the majority of its' life, Dragoneer kept it running. He never sold us out, never tried to keep up with trends. It's a community.

And there is something bitter about losing someone who was key to keeping one of the relics of the internet before corporations took over.

We have our home, but it's lost its' keeper.

Good night, Neer. You kept the lights on.

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"Love taking an 8 minute route that takes an abled 2 minutes"

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Also, like, I'm sorry but if you've set up a free shelter, and people refuse to go because sleeping on the sidewalk under a freeway bridge is more pleasant, that's fucking on you, that's not on them.

You really can't compete with sleeping under the overpass so you are going to force people into shelter?

Unspeakably cruel and stupid.

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Just here to share the Italian judo winner kissing her girlfriend after the match, in front of our fascist, homophobic, disgusting prime minister.

We won this one🏳️‍🌈

Credits to: @apriteilcervello on instagram

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Youtube comments good sometimes

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One gets the idea, watching Gomez, that he delights in getting to be a man, short and boisterous and nurturing and bursting with hope and pocket watches. He's especially delighted to be a man married to a woman, particularly when that woman is Morticia Addams. It's hard to get the same idea watching Herman Munster, or indeed lots of non-trans men both on and off the screen; maybe Herman is willing to be a man, or simply resigned to the idea. Possibly he merely considers it sufficient compensation for also being a monster of Frankenstein, but it doesn't seem to strike him with renewed absurd glee every morning when he gets to wake up and be one. One can imagine Herman Munster waking in a spirit of tol- erance, at most willing to get out of bed and face another day as the head of a family. Whereas it's very easy to imagine Gomez's inner euphoria-driven monologue when he wakes up every morning: Ah, how wonderful! Another stormy day! Ahahaha! Once again, I'm a short and stocky husband and father, with a wife as tall as God! What luck! Why else would he spend a thousand dollars a month on cigars, or own so many bathrobes with exquisitely-designed lapels, or tend so carefully to such a thin mustache?

- Daniel M Lavery, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

(Gomez & Morticia are T4T and that's a fact)

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So I’ve been dealing with a sagging spot on my bed right where my lower back is for almost a year now and after seeing all your bed posts decided I should at least try to rotate my mattress so it’s closer to my feet and not directly on my back. Well when dragging everything off I happened to look at the frame beneath and it turns out a whole ass board had snapped, and that was what was causing all the sagging

Moved that board to the end of my bed until I find a new one but this is already feeling leagues better, so thanks for all the reminders waking up to horrible back pain isn’t just something beds do now days

This made me laugh out loud, I’m so glad your fix was easy and productive to better sleep. I’m also glad to be the bug in peoples ear insisting they deserve to sleep better.

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Can you say something about fat people that doesn’t involve the phrase “tummy squish” or any variants thereof. Quickly