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got correctly diagnosed as being abrasive bc im unhappy on the internet which is embarrassing. going offline for a bit!

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ok time to stop having opinions

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my most crank opinion is that microplastics literally do not matter as a health concern bc by definition they're inert. they're an ecological concern, yeah. i helped my mom with a little lit review and the general vibe is like, well they could theoretically be a vector by which dangerous things like pathogens or heavy metals or chemical compounds could come in your body but they're just hanging out there. and given that heavy metals are still being found in all kinds of food everywhere in the world, public health has to chase that.

#despite yk the communism and the way i take decolonisation seriously

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Look at the BABY that showed up in my yard <3 Sooo tiny. About the size of an adult female rat (just with more fluff)

And this scrub jay that likes to bully me lol. Hes been visiting when im gardening and divebombs me until I move and let him get any worms I dug up. (ive been trained by this bird to just move when he makes this noise that seems to be the bird equivalent to an "ahem" so hes stopped divebombing lol) Today he seemed very??????????? about me laying on the ground to get baby skunk pics lol

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I love to find people who style themselves as scholars of fascism who repeat hindutva apologia like hindutva isn't fascism bc hindutva ideology does not necessarily imply violent reorganisation of society or dictatorship because there is a theoretically possible hindutva (much like a good zionism) that won't do violence or dictatorship. real people living in india under a steadily declining democracy? citizenship laws? lynchings? state sponsored dispossession of muslims?murdered journalists? race mixing fears like love jihad? we're just hallucinating the increased control of the sangh over everything.

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#no

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<justice for blonde women 2k24>

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half the tech adjacent people on tumblr consistently invoke the spectre of "woke" and talk about feminists like they're stuck in gamergate era discourse. why would tech be excused from the general mens right backlash in society? especially when tech has long had what we euphemistically call a diversity problem?

"men in tech are fine" we are only a few years out from men at google writing screeds about how all the women at their company are actually genetically inferior

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"men in tech are fine" we are only a few years out from men at google writing screeds about how all the women at their company are actually genetically inferior

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old people are so right about sitz baths

#they help with so many of my issues :)

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"Everyone is complaining about the exact same things, yet everyone keeps writing the exact same things", or "A chorus of 'I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?'":

Paul McAdory on Garth Greenwell:

Lauren Oyler on Jia Tolentino:

Ann Manov on Lauren Oyler:

An excerpt from Lukács Studies in European Realism, posted to Twitter just now by an author whose last novel was described to me as "a guy who thinks being gay and doing an MFA is the most interesting thing in the world":

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No see results option, I'm forcing you to perceive yourself. rb for more results plus

#irl im spacing out lol #being offputting

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So a little over a month ago I was reached out to by @peterkats, a gay refugee currently living in a camp with a small group of other gay and trans refugees.

Peter has, to put it mildly, had a fucking time of it. In his home country, Uganda, his partner was murdered for being trans. He stayed for some time in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya with a group of gay and trans people (pictured above), but violence from police forced them to move, and they're currently in a refugee camp run by the UNHCR. (I've been asked not to explicitly name the country but you can probably figure it out.)

Unfortunately this has not in any way been a reprieve. They've managed to flee right into an impending famine, and if that's not enough, they're still facing violence from police and other refugees, and general indifference from the UNHCR medical staff - who are also facing supply shortages. But it's not completely hopeless. When Peter contacted me, he needed money for food - I sent him some via an intermediary and he was able to get quite a bit (the exchange rate seems to be favourable). With help, things can be quite different.

We've stayed in touch since then, talking about our respective lives, the lgbtq situation in different countries, even videogames and music. He's a really sweet guy, despite it all still trying to find a place he can live free. For real, I would not survive any of this shit.

Recently a couple of people in Peter's group have caught malaria. They are currently sleeping on bare mats without mosquito nets. There seems to be some confusion about the exchange rates but as far as I have been able to gather, about €150 (~20,000ssp) gets a mattress and €10(~1000ssp) a malaria net. The UNHCR have not been able to provide any medication except paracetamol, and it's raining which promotes mosquito activity, so this is kind of an emergency.

I would very much prefer if the new friend I've made doesn't die of starvation or malaria. Unfortunately, I do not have the money to support Peter and his group alone. I've sent him money for one mattress (via PayPal for expediency, it won't show up on GFM), and I would be immensely grateful if you would be able to contribute a bit to getting them another (which would be just about enough to keep six people safe from mosquitoes if sleeping three to a mattress).

Beyond that, these guys are prohibited from working so they would definitely benefit from food money. And if anyone has an idea for a long term plan to get them somewhere safer where they're less likely to get bashed, I am sure Peter would appreciate hearing about it. We talked a bit about the UK asylum process but getting everyone here would be very difficult (passports, flights etc.).

But still like, I can only do so much on my own, and I want to give these guys a fighting chance. So if you could pass this around and donate if you can spare a bit? I'd be insanely grateful.

#signal boost

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Apparently the Nvidia ceo cheerfully says "this is gonna be a lot of pain and suffering" when some tasks are identified and attempted. New levels of grindset unlocked

#omg so do i

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Congratulations to Marcille DungeonMeshi for achieving Pathetic Little Man status on tumblr, a hard glass ceiling for many female characters to break. I look forward to calling you my sopping wet beast and poor little meow meow for fandom days to come. Keep trucking babygirl, you'll bag Falin one day

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#is me reblogging this post biasing the results #anyways for the 75% of you who don't #feel free to listen to pm modi's most recent speech

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This is a great onion headli- uh. Uh oh