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Please go watch Sex Explained on Netflix. Not only is it a great resource for the basic sex education that is sorely lacking in the U.S., but some of ya’ll need to take a deep breath and remember the difference between fantasy vs reality. This purity culture thing that we’re going through right now is directly harmful to responsible, healthy sexual expression. BTW this woman, Lisa Diamond, is a noted psychologist and has been pushing for greater understanding of womens sexuality as a whole.

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#yeah #my niece's family rented out a salón (like an event hall) for her birthday and she was like 3 #we all knew she was gonna have a fifteen and that did that end until the ams #mexican things

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#history

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Me, on the welcome desk in the library: Good morning, how are you today?

Customer: I have welcomed Jesus into my heart and so I am well today and every day.

Me, a little unnerved: Okay then! Is there something I can help you with?

Customer, digging around in his bag and pulling out an iPhone in a box: Unfortunately, Jesus can't help me with this fucking phone, so I came to the library.

#yeah #that's the magic of #public libraries

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A reminder not to watch eurovision and not to vote - even if you're scared israel will win. this is not about who wins and who loses, this is about the Palestinian BDS movement asking us to enact cultural and material boycott of a TV show that's plaforming a genocidal ethnostate. don't give them your money.

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chengxian antis saying it's gross because they're brothers as if wwx wouldn't be so, very into that

chengxian being siblings wouldve ruled the entire book. Jc suddenly calling wwx gege??? there would be no war, wwx ain't missing out on this opportunity to call jc his didi

#they are each other's first heartbreak #and first love #chengxian #mdzs #mo dao zu shi

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Gonna need yall to stop putting Biden is Just As Bad propaganda on my dash. Had to unfollow someone because I don’t want to a start a fight with them over it, but I’m about to bite the next person who puts that shit in front of me.

If you don’t like Biden, vote in your god damn local and mid term elections for third party or further left candidates so that we get better democratic candidates for future elections. But this one is already fucking decided, and I’m NOT ending up under a Trump led dictatorship because yall value protecting your personal sense of moral purity over the collective good. Whether it offends your personal morals to vote for Biden is IRRELEVANT in the face of the alternative.

This isn’t a lesser of two evils situation. One guy sucks. The other guy is LITERALLY PLANNING TO OVERTHROW OUR DEMOCRACY AND INSTALL HIMSELF AS A PUTIN STYLE DICTATOR.

PLEASE look up Project 2025 and stop acting like abstaining is some kind of personal ethical decision!

#absolutely vote #if you cannot stomach voting for biden because of palestine i won't tell you to #but you owe it to yourself and your community to vote in every other race because your local and state elections matter #in texas one of the few bipartisan things we had going on was the hatred for school vouchers #and it pissed off abbott because dems and a small group of rural repubs blocked all his attempts to get them passed #so guess what fucking happened #a lot of the anti voucher republicans have been primaried out by people that want to ruin public school education even more #so if i and my fellow texans don't vote at the state and local level children across the state will suffer #and remember #we have never had the luxury of voting for someone who would not condone the mass murder of civilians #that is a fact #biden is not worse than obama #who was only kinda better than clinton in terms of foreign affairs #vote #2024 election #u.s. politics

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You know those "if this gets 50k notes I'll xyz"? I don't believe in those. Because I could say something crazy like: if this gets 20k notes, I'll write my next book. And then it'll get zero notes. I do not believe.

#let the muse of chaos engulf you

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summer is coming up lads..

#anyone who's ever lived in a city THAT WAS A SWAMP #can tell you that humidity is the worst and dry heat is so so much better #everywhere in houston has AC because people literally will die otherwise #there are nonprofits that focus on helping low income folk get access to an ac unit because heatstroke during the 8 months of summer #is a real things #weather #humidity

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whats that story about this dude that really wanted to have sex with a clown and get a pie to the face while climaxing

#oh my gosh dude i'm so happy for you both #and for the people who were supportive and not dicks #hope you all have a great day

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this was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

#my angry child #yuri plisetsky #yuri on ice

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my favorite bit of "rich people are Like That" ephemera that I picked up from my Russian literature binge was from a noble character who was complaining about his serfs neglecting their duties, specifically the duty of staying up all night long slapping the pond water in order to prevent the frogs from croaking so that the nobleman could enjoy his sleep at his country estate with its adorable pond. whenever I hear wealthy people's complaints in this day and age the majority of it automatically filters to "the fucking serfs won't slap the pond anymore and it's honestly so destructive and cruel of them to deny me my beauty sleep like this" type statements

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#pretty sure chrome is fucking up my yt watching on firefox #i see you google #i see you #and you will never be my default browser again

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ITS GREAT LAKES AWARENESS DAY!!!!!

On this excellent day, be aware that this is the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world, covering over 95,000 square miles and reaching depths of over a thousand feet. They are beautiful freshwater seas.

Also when you die in these lakes, the very cold, oxygen-poor conditions at the bottom preserves you perfectly for all eternity. You will not rot and nothing will eat you. You will exist for as long as the Great Lakes do. Many shipwrecks still have the crew on board. Be Aware.

#it didn't occur to me how big these things are until a podcast i was listening to mentioned they create their own weather patterns #meanwhile in texas we have no natural lakes #we have rivers swamps and bayous #nature #the great lakes

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hot take incoming: revolt and revolution doesn't create a fair and equitable society. it creates a power vaccum, which is terrifying because it is incredibly fertile ground for all sorts of warlords, aspiring tyrants, paramilitary extremists, and imperial powers to swoop in and start doing atrocities over it. You can put a new society in a power vaccum, but so can anyone else, and most of those potential outcomes are going to be horrifying, not to mention to the hellscape interim period.

To create a fair and equitable society you need to know civics, administration, diplomacy, and yes, statecraft. Yes they're boring and unglamorous and icky and gross. But i promise that you need them. They are mandatory. Not optional.

#it's what people who shout revolution don't think about #my grandfather lived through the mexican revolution #the shit that happened to his family was horrible #a power vacuum is a terrible thing #and the people that suffer the most during all this is not the rich and powerful #it's everyone else

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what a good day to remember that butch lesbians (ESPECIALLY trans, poc, and/or fat butch lesbians) aren’t fucking predatory