did you guys know that when jd vance is home (in my city) they close the entire arterial road that he lives on and everyone has to reroute their commutes around him
and the other people who live on that street have to go through security checkpoints just to get into their own homes
for as long as he’s inside his house this is what we all have to deal with
also he bought the house in 2018, has no real ties to the area, and owns three other houses, but for some reason, he’s always here
HE DID WHAT?!
This is not news for us.
My family and my four children are living in a fragile shelter in the cold. We are trying to rent a small warm place to protect our kids. This is our real life, not a headline.
If you can help or share, it truly matters.
Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet
She’s so one dimensionally evil you guys 😭😭 how is she real
read this and remember it. read this and remember that she is going to use the profits of her fucking ego-stroking reboot to decimate trans rights. read this and remember that every time you pay into her IP, you are emboldening her to hurt us more.
our lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.
trans lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.
if you’re vocally anti-kink at this point you are not only an active danger to queer people, you are also very stupid. you understand the concept of play time less than a five year old. kink is, very literally, pretend silly time
Yeah I said something similar yesterday but we can NOT let what happened to Renee Good cloud what happened to everyone else at the hands of these SS Demons!!!
Because we can’t disregard one person if we’re for human rights!
ICE and their supporters claim to protect the public from dangerous illegal immigrants. But look at what they did to these people.
i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on "outward" signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don't know how to explain it but "do you make eye contact with other people" feels like a much less relevant question than "how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?"
while i'm here, the other one that always pisses me off is "do you interpret idioms literally, for example 'bull in a china shop'?"
well, no, obviously. i know what "bull in a china shop" means because that is a popular phrase with a clearly defined meaning. and if i hadn't heard it before, then i would still not interpret it literally, because it has the cadence of an idiom and i would probably be able to work out from context what it meant. what is the point of this question
third and final complaint: "are you good at noticing subtext?"
i feel like the problem with this question is best illustrated by a conversation i had with a friend a while back, where i said something like, "i feel very safe with you because you don't do subtle hints and you are always very straight-up with me about what you are thinking and feeling."
and he laid a hand on my shoulder and was like, look dude i'm gonna be straight up here. i am subtle with you constantly and you simply do not notice <3
@luckyybones hope you don't mind me screenshotting but you are actually so correct
i think its very important to discuss transmisogyny in trans spaces & in general, and how trans women are uniquely vulnerable in many situations. however. if you want these conversations to be at all productive you do have to stop peddling decontextualized conspiracy theories about trans men (& nonbinary people & trans women who talk about violence against trans men ("pick-mes") & intersex people. funny how this list of Problematic Groups keeps growing huh. i'm sure that means nothing).
not asking much here i think. just stop lying about trans men & the way trans men have been treated, stop being purposefully misleading with how you talk about trans men, stop assuming you know the personal experiences and motivations of trans men better than they do, stop taking everything trans men say in bad faith (while also talking about how trans women deserve grace & understanding while expressing pain; they do, but why do you assume that trans men don't?), on that note, just wholesale stop disregarding transmasculine pain as something fundamentally juvenile and privileged.
its not that whatever point you are making on transmisogyny is wrong per se, its more that if you are actively obscuring the reality of the situation by talking in depth abt transfem experiences with intercommunity transmisogyny & how transmisogyny affects people & why its so important to humanize transfems and understand how long lasting the trauma of being transfem in transmisogynistic societies can be, but then approaching transmasc issues with -100 depth and compassion and never ever extending the same humanization or compassion to transmascs? you are being a fucking asshole.
"you have to spoiler any posts about fauxcest" is already really funny but appending "except for mommy/daddy stuff" is absolutely hysterical. no you can't post this kink openly except for the part of it that is socially acceptable and i like
after volunteering at a harm reduction agency for a couple months i can confidently say that addicts and homeless people (and homeless addicts) are not the boogeymen people make them out to be. they all just want coffee and candy. there's all this fear mongering and meanwhile your local addict is just some guy drinking a double double with slightly smaller pupils than normal.
and before you bring up a bad thing an addict has done, please remember that sober people have also done bad shit and that the majority of addicts are totally safe to be around. if you want to talk about how scary addicts are, i will talk about all the customers i had at my old job who made me fear for my life. stop fear mongering and start actually meeting addicts. yes, they can be scary, but so can anybody. fear mongering about addicts only leads to discriminatory policies and policing, which increases violence against them and worsens the problem.
the scariest thing about addiction isn't the addicts. it's the blood on the hands of politicians.
does it really get better? I don't see it for myself, I see nothing but eternal unhappiness, I know I need help, I tried to ask for help, but I don't live in a country where mental health is considered important
everyday is a battle where I convince myself to just live for a few more days and I'm clearly doing a terrible job at it
If you tell yourself to live for a few more days, and you keep doing exactly that, you're doing an excellent job at it. 100% success rate at going on living.
It does get better. There's going to be days that you'll be living because you like to be alive, not because it's a chore you have to make yourself get through. Nobody believes that it gets better when they're in the bad place, and everyone who made it out will tell you it gets better because it's true. And people will keep telling you that, even though they remember what it was like to believe that life will be bad forever, because it's srill true.
You just gotta keep going forward. And if you don't know what way you're supposed to go, any direction except down counts as going forward.
