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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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“no matter how badly you think you’re doing it, someone else has done it a lot worse and been fine” is applicable to a wide, wide range of things and i say it to myself all the time

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Frothing at the mouth every time I see a sex ed resource that says "use condoms" without any further elaboration. "Condoms prevent STIs and pregnancy in the vast majority of cases when used correctly" but then they don't talk about what correctly IS

Correct use of a condom means

Using the right size, because if it's too big it can slide off or leak and if it's too small it can break or come off. Condoms usually come in 5 sizes, I'm sure you could find others outside of that as well but in ten years of sex work I found they covered everyone

Using lube, even if you think you don't need it. With the exception of oral sex, condoms should always be used with lube, 100% of the time. Most important lube should be applied to the outside but a drop in the tip of the condom before putting it in is also a good idea

Being mindful that latex is prone to wearing out, being damaged by heat etc. Condoms should be kept somewhere cool, not folded in wallets or sat on in back pockets and should be changed between activities and after about 15 minutes of any vigorous activity. Ask me how I know (a condom snapped on my leg when a client was pulling out, because I didn't change it when I should have)

The penetrative partner should hold the base of the condom when they pull out, and should do so immediately after they ejaculate so the condom doesn't leak or come off as the penis gets flaccid

Bonus: a lot of people think hand stuff can't transmit STIs. Wrong! If you give your partner a handjob and then touch yourself you can get HPV, herpes (low risk), and infections like chlamydia and gonorrhea

This isn't meant to be stressful, and the most common STIs are the most treatable - and often curable - but getting gonorrhea in your eyes after a facial still extremely sucks and yet no one talks about the fact that any mucous membrane can be effected, not just your genitals (yes this includes your mouth and throat)

In ten years of doing sex work where I saw 10 clients a day most of the time I've had 4 condom fails ever. One was what I mentioned above when it snapped on my leg, one was a client on top of me didn't get off fast enough after he finished and the condom came off, and the other two were a Glyde brand magnum that was inexplicably twice the thickness of a regular condom and didn't stay put on anyone so I suggest just avoiding Glyde entirely (their water based lubes also stain fyi). With all other brands correct use = extremely safe

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Low key sounds like they think of trans names like sign names? (My understanding is that) sign names are given by members of the deaf community, and you don’t get to pick it necessarily. It sort of sounds like they believe when you transition other Trans people pick your name.

no more characters who are nonbinary just because their species doesnt have gender. more characters that species dont have gender but still read up on human gender theory and realized they were still not into this shit

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@mrchicsaraleo @britomartis @el-shab-hussein @paintedwiththecolorsofthewind @stephanemiroux

this is vile

STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. — Ray Taken Alive had been fighting for this moment for two years: At his urging, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council was about to take the rare and severe step of banishing a nonprofit organization from the tribe’s land.

The Lakota Language Consortium had promised to preserve the tribe’s native language and had spent years gathering recordings of elders, including Taken Alive’s grandmother, to create a new, standardized Lakota dictionary and textbooks.

But when Taken Alive, 35, asked for copies, he was shocked to learn that the consortium, run by a white man, had copyrighted the language materials, which were based on generations of Lakota tradition. The traditional knowledge gathered from the tribe was now being sold back to it in the form of textbooks. 

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So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom

It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education

602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡

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Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

VIDEO

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eveeyones got it wrong your mid 20s arent for going to the club or partying or picking up new crafts. your 20s are for discovering how much more autistic you are than you thought you were in high school

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After the Batarang incident Jason Todd wakes up in a wagon with a bunch of strangers.

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An ode to meeting normal people in real life: I cannot do art I am looking at beautiful works selling for thousands of dollars (for prints!) But for $35 I can take a one-off class To paint a whale and some fjords And someone in my class Is asking in a panic For the teacher to repeat the instructions to make dark blue paint (I mix the blue and the black) I am not flexible or strong I am sitting in the audience at an off-brand Cirque du Soleil But at 9 a.m. there is a stretching meetup To do motions for all bodies And someone in my class Is getting assistance Because she cannot lift her leg back for bird dog (I need the mirror to find the right angle but I can do it) I do not smile with my teeth I am being shamed by a dentist who grew up with fluoridated water But about 40 minutes away is a dentistry college To get a lot of care at a discounted rate And another patient in the class Is inducing a commotion After his tooth came out in the impression goo (I am getting six fillings and replacing the broken-off cap on my broken-off buck tooth)

I am not confident in interviews I am getting cheerful, confident, impossible advice from neurotypicals But my 10-year severance package included this seminar To teach us how to write modern resumes And the teacher for the class Is gently correcting my former coworker That no, we do not need to start with "Objective:" in the 21st century (I get contacted for a lot of gig work, which isn't ideal, but it beats unemployment) I am not always not the worst person in class I am bowling a 16 and dropping physics mid-semester But I am not the worst at everything To be honest with myself I am not the worst at most things And everyone in the class Is trying and learning and improving At something they cared about enough to make an effort for (I bet I can find a sign language class now that I don't work nights anymore)

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Am I wet? Am I on my period? Did I pee my pants?- next on wtf is going on down there.

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"No protester should be able to evade justice by wearing a face covering

That's why we're banning them.

Offenders could receive up to a £1,000 fine and a month in prison."

mask off, full blown fascism

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my career advice isn't "do what you love" it's "do what will give you the most money without making you want to kill yourself"

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Okay but let’s not over look the fact they they used a dead fish- not even a live one, so there genuinely couldn’t have been any change because the fish is dead, just for that extra kick.

one of the best academic paper titles