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I drew the gang,

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the Columbia University arrests are worse than they seem. They're arresting protesting students for trespassing. It goes without saying students cannot meaningfully "trespass" in the common areas of a university they attend. So Columbia University has suspended all student protestors from their institution, in the process revoking their access to housing, their belonging, and most crucially damaging their academic futures. We are witnessing full scale silencing and removal of anyone of conscience from the next generation of academia.

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my advice to you is to never waste your time trying to fit into a club or hobby or any community who makes you beg for acceptance and approval just to participate when you could do the alternative—get involved in a niche and endangered hobby run primarily by old people.

i wanted to learn how to hunt ruffed grouse and train bird dogs so i sent an email to my local chapter of the ruffed grouse society explaining that getting into wildlife groups is intimidating to me because I’m trans

and all they saw was that someone under 60 wanted to learn to hunt grouse & several months into my mentorship I was told that like 7 old guys argued over me until they had to pick a number between 1 and 100 to decide who got to personally mentor me.

imagine vying for the acceptance of some gatekeeping weirdos when your mere interest could be inciting verbal combat among retirees

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#friend in grad school was named after a Dr. Who companion #and was surprised i was able to guess her brother's name based on that #i also knew someone who had a deal with her spouse that she could name any girl children and he could name any boys #so their three kids ended up named jadzia nerys and robert

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Sometimes I see a respected mutual in my notes and remember they follow me and I'm like. Should I apologize for what I'm doing here. But they did choose to be in my house

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Maybe this is the wrong platform to pose this question given the average tumblr user but

Is it just me or did our generation (those of is who are currently 20-30 ish) just not get the opportunity to be young in the 'standard' sense?

Like, everyone I talk to who's over 40 has all their wild stories about their teens and 20s, being young and dumb, and then I talk to my friends and coworkers and classmates, and we just... dont.

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Communists and anarchists will spend all day talking about abstract concepts and structures like capitalism and the state, but willfully ignore the very real, tangible curse placed upon me by the foul necromancer

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I don’t remember where this story was from but it was about how the writers older brother died when he was young and years later had a son who, had never met the brother had the same mannerisms as him. Ok I think I remember the key words were “my son drinks from the water fountain like my brother” or something

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morning mobility routine

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"Growing up assigned male and going up assigned female are both miserable traumatic experiences in different ways" and "gender itself is a system of control" are ideas that need to enter mainstream queer analysis.

Idk dude I just think if yr assessment of the situation boils down to "women are oppressed and men are the oppressors" yr always going to have at least a little bit fucked up views about trans women. Yr always going to think that we're like, trying to dodge accountability for being male or something.

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Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

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One thing I absolutely love about being an autistic advocate is helping people find the autistic community. There are so many amazing people in this community that have created some incredible resources to help teach people about autism from an autistic perspective.

I'm so proud of this community, and am honoured to be a part of it.

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*Sees a thoroughly rusted Cybertruck abandoned by the side of the road*

Me: "Wow, how far in the future did we go?"

My time-traveller friend: "About two weeks."