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managed 4 hours last night, but it's 4:30am & i cannot find sleep again. outside is too loud, room is too warm, & the open window is only pulling in the loud ambience of distant traffic. i can feel huge vehicles rumble in the distance. occasionally a train will blare its usual pattern, a warning before it crosses a street. i don't even know where the nearest crossing is, nor the tracks closest to here.

the way this building folds forms a funnel for all the sound it can grasp. the way it crumbles and leaks makes its shape feel purposeful, as if it lives and knows it must borrow the voices of its neighbors as it cries for help. its tears only welcome the rot, cascading the evidence within the walls.

inside the building has a heartbeat, or at the very least it breathes. it circulates water within, but the sinks run dry every once in a while. its veins recede with its strength. when the water returns, i have to let it run to bleed the pipes.

i understand what it means to live like this. i find myself silently trying to comfort it right along with myself. yet my own disdainful comments continue in a steady stream. i watch the words hit the walls and seep in immediately.

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what do you think of that man vs bear thing that’s been going around on tiktok?

i think it’s just yet another social media stunt to try to normalize radfem rhetoric in broader society.

people are trying to normalize the idea that men are inherently violent and dangerous, and with the way trans discourse has been headed over the last few years i hope people can understand that the idea that men (whether they mean “males” and are including trans women, or they mean “people who identify as men” and are including trans men) are inherently dangerous (because of their biology or the hrt they take or simply because of the word they use to describe themselves) is very cut and dry radfem rhetoric. it’s rhetoric that has been a huge motivation for a lot of the anti trans laws we’ve been seeing. not to mention the way racialized men, including cis men, tend to be targeted for violence because of this rhetoric.

so yeah i think people are falling head over heels for terf propaganda yet again and as someone who’s been the victim of misogynistic violence at the hands of several men, i’m tired of having to tiptoe around (particularly cis) women’s feelings while they normalize rhetoric that is getting me and my trans siblings and my poc friends harassed and killed.

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teamwork 🐝

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Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.

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fucking adhd. I have to run a con on my own brain to get anything done.

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picture this, i give you a glass bottle and tell you to open it, but bottle openers are forbidden, how do you do it?

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#boys will be boys being dudes

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"self-stabilising cabins" are definitely one of the more cruel deals with the devil that people tried out. what if you could have a room on a ship that doesn't sway around so you can set down drinks and stuff in it. sounds pretty cool. also having this room will make your ship sink and kill you

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the impact "bnuuy" had

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this man is the one true ally

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Read the statement below

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lizard-slugcat mimic concept thingy

#aw i love this!

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whenever people are like “SKETCHING CIRCLES IN SAI IS SO HARD” im like

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Man, i love looking at classified government documents