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Kinda nonhuman because mental illness, kinda nonhuman because not being properly socialized as a kid, kinda nonhuman because queer, kinda nonhuman because angry at humanity, kinda nonhuman because longing for the unconditional love of a pet and it’s master, and kinda nonhuman because secret sixth thing.

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Normalize being kind & supportive for no reason

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this tweet is a foundational text for terminally-online bi people everywhere because let's face it, many of us are the grungler, but "whatever happened to beauty" legsweeps me every single time

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Pinkwashing as a concept is astonishing to me because it operates under the assumption that everything Israel does is for global PR.

Jews have a 6,000 year history of being more chill about gay people than (most) other religions. Jews overwhelmingly favour Queer rights in the diaspora, where Israeli law doesn’t affect us. Kabbalah regards Adam Kadmon, a genderless or multi-gendered being, as the first human, and says that their gender identity made them significantly more divine. Ancient Israeli laws documented in the Talmud make room for multiple different forms of intersex conditions.

But yeah Israel having a pretty good record on Queer rights is just because the Jews care desperately about our global image in the media. Israel having the biggest pride parade in Asia is exclusively a marketing tool that somehow convinces people to hate Palestinians. And clearly the Israeli government just handed down these Queer rights from on high to please the West. It’s not like normal Queer Israeli citizens have organized well-documented, long and difficult struggles against their government for equality and representation.

“Pinkwashing” my ass. Queer people in Israel fought hard for those rights. If Israel ceases to exist, those rights will disappear. They have good reason to be scared of Hamas, the Houthis and Iran, regardless of if they’re Queer Jews or Queer Palestinians or Queer Bedu. And yet Queer Israelis were protesting Netanyahu’s government and policy decisions before October 7, and they continue to protest what’s happening in Gaza now. They should be the sort of people you look up to instead of the sort of people you dismiss offhand. They aren’t a PR stunt. They’re human fucking beings.

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i bet i could make a successful automotive company by just looking at everything Tesla has done and just doing the exact opposite.

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"love every trans girl before it's too late" you don't though, not really. Unity and Love until she's annoying. Unity and Love until she's unfuckable. Unity and Love until shes not conventionally attractive. Unity and Love until they don't want to use she.

It's always someone else's problem, the charitable soul, not yours. Then the charitable soul is distant, or overburdened, and there is no charity to be found, and thus it is Too Late, and then where are we?

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also god forbid you express concern about not being able to keep weight on to people around you; if I hear "i wish i had your problems" from some fatphobic dipshit one more time...

fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it'll say "eating a lot of food causes diabetes" and you're like oh dang what? I thought we didn't know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says "we still don't know what causes diabetes" bruh they're just making shit up to give people eating disorders

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i took a shot in the dark and searched "cargo bike", and that did the trick!

specifically, this is a mid-loader cargo bike.

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yes yes, Tesla truck bad etc etc; but can we talk about that bike?

I've never seen one like that before, and i kinda want one for getting groceries.

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“I can’t be a trans man on the internet” go the fuck outside then dude. Signed a trans woman who has had enough of your bullshit posts

I’m gonna use this ask to make a point.

Trans guys if you get an anon claiming to be a trans women that says rude/bigoted shit, don’t believe them. Transphobes have admitted to pretending to be trans women and sending bigoted asks to trans men.

If you get an anon ask saying weird shit claiming to be from a trans women - always remember anons can lie about who they are! 9 times out of 10 it’s just some cis person lying to paint trans women as evil bigots.

And everytime I see a trans man fall for the bait and start saying transmisogynistic shit I just sigh.

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these are rpg classes, to me

Four French perfume bottles, c. 1890s-1930s.

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apparently Tumblr's response to "do something about all the transfems getting deactivated" was to add a new "deactivated" pfp and a cute little animation when you try to go to their blog.

feels a bit like a city who, when asked to do something about the living conditions of the homeless, starts investing in more aesthetically pleasing hostile architecture.

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ngl, I think modern "user friendliness" was a mistake entirely.

a computer is a tool, and an extremely powerful one; why would you try to make it approachable to someone with no experience or training? i wouldn't make a "new user friendly" table saw, or welding torch, or forklift; why the hell are we trying to do that for computers?

Technophobes need to apologise for "just put it in plain English you stupid machine!" because, well for one the decline in accurate error messages in favour of simplicity has contributed to the rise of tech illiteracy, but also because now whenever an "app" has a net connection error it will pop up a box saying something like "oo ooopsie! Your super duper feed went poo poo. We'll try again soon!" which having said to me by a corporation is about 8 million times worse than having to hear the word "network".

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