hey @staff why the hell did you ban a trans woman for saying that trans women belong in women's shelters?

@medusadyke was reported by terfs for saying that trans women need and deserve to be in women's spaces for their safety and wellbeing, and subsequently banned by staff.

trans women belong in women's shelters, bathrooms, dressing rooms, and i don't care if it makes some cis women uncomfortable. their safety takes greater precedence over your discomfort. terfs eat shit. it's 2025 and we still have to fight over basic shit like this.

Gofundme

Our financial situation is really desperate at the moment, and my mom set up a gofundme to help. Mom has been out of work since October and has run out of savings. I have severe gastrointestinal issues that result in me having a very restricted diet and preventing me from being able to work. My health has only been getting worse, and the disability system is a nightmare.

With any luck, Mom will get a new job soon and everything will be alright, but we're struggling in the meantime. If anyone can help, we would appreciate it a lot.

https://gofund.me/72431f72

I'm not able to work right now due to my health, so I decided to open up a ko-fi. If you enjoy my writing or want to help out, feel free to head over there. No pressure, though! I'm considering putting original writing projects on there rather than fanfiction.

Hello! We really need help paying for groceries. If anyone has anything to spare, it would mean a lot. Thank you for your time!

Because I remember disinformation being spread around the last few elections and I’m sure assholes will bring it back:

i think we should always take predominant sexes and races for psychiatric disabilities into question.

are men really more likely to be antisocial or narcissistic, or are women just overlooked because ASPD/NPD are seen as too "aggressive" for them?

are women really more likely to be borderline or histrionic, or are they just seen as so "hysterical" that they have to be feminine?

are black people more likely to have schizophrenia or ODD, or are labels of "psychosis" and "defiance" simply used to further dismiss, oppress, and imprison BIPOC?

are white people more likely to have autism and ADHD, or are doctors just more willing to accept that white children are disabled and not just "bad?"

oppressive biases are everywhere in psychiatry. never take psychiatric demographics at face value.

teaching yourself how to deal with mildly annoying inconveniences is imo an essential part of treating the disabled people around you with compassion and no i'm not kidding

sometimes you have to share a public space with someone who has loud verbal tics. sometimes a chronically ill friend will have to cancel plans because of a flare up even if you were really looking forward to hanging out with them. sometimes an autistic person will talk over you or interrupt you because they missed a particular cue. sometimes people who struggle to take care of themselves will smell bad. sometimes people with intellectual disabilities will need you to give them more detailed, patient instructions, even if it seems simple to you. sometimes you will need to give up your seat on the bus for a physically disabled person even if you don't want to move.

accommodating disabled people is not always easy or comfortable; being an ally means doing it anyway.

I'm not buying from Etsy now

Here is the goggle doc on what to do! Even if you don’t need to live in New York, you can message the tourism board.

Do you live in New York state? Do you like being able to protect yourself from covid in a public space LEGALLY? Please do this.

If you do NOT live in New York state, please reblog this.

wtf new york

You shouldn’t have to be trans to get any sex characteristic-related surgery. It’s not a limited resource. Plenty of cis men get implants and cis women get breast reductions. From Colby Gordon today and Leslie Feinberg in Transgender Warriors (1996).

united states FDA announces recall of Gay Awakening

...as well as hundreds of other canned coffees from over 100 different roasters, sold nationwide in stores and online.

snapchill LLC is recalling ALL of their canned coffees because of unsafe manufacturing processes resulting in potential contamination that can cause botulism.

botulism is one of those major bummer types of food poisoning where you can have a really miserable few days, and then die. especially without emergency medical care. most people exposed will not get sick, but among those that do, shit gets bad. if you think you might have botulism, you have to go to the emergency room as soon as possible.

some of the early symptoms are weakness, tiredness, drooping eyelids, dry mouth, and difficulty speaking. that weakness and paralysis eventually moves onto the organs and muscles that keep the body alive. symptoms of botulism usually show up within a day or two after exposure, but can take up to 10 days to kick in.

this type of contamination and poisoning often happens as a result of unsafe canning practices, and basically rule #1 when starting a canning business is "do not give people botulism." botulism can be a lot of why eating canned food from damaged cans can be really dangerous.

worth noting that the FDA says no cases of botulism have been tied to this recall yet.

so the manufacturer realized they were canning coffee in a way that might kill people. you still want to take this seriously.

below the cut is the entire list of recalled products, including gay awakening drag bean coffee. and holy shit is it LONG. if you drink canned coffee in the united states or know someone who does, check this list or the list offered by the FDA link above.

lot of interesting names here. at the very least this recall is happening before anyone apparently got sick. try not to be the first. and if you think you or someone you know may have gotten botulism from any of these coffees, make sure you report it to the FDA.

if you live in the united states and have canned coffee, you might also have botulism waiting to strike. check the list and stay safe.

it is really important to know that this was not the fault of the coffee companies. the canning company, snapchill, fucked things up for absolutely everyone here.

This actively happened in my lifetime, and I’m in my 30s. A lot of us experienced it in real time and no one stopped it. No one helped us.

When I was 16 we would hang out outside and inside the library. We ranged from a group of 20 to a group of 3-4 people on any given day, because us 16 year olds also hung out with whatever other kid was around the area. (Mostly younger siblings and then their friends.) We never did anything wrong, never mind illegal. We were never loud in the library and were always polite to the staff. We sometimes got a little loud outside on the street when there was some contest thing going on, but not very often. We mostly hung out and talked about stuff going on in our lives.

Then one day someone called the cops on us.

And the cops showed up all ready angry, then started yelling at us for doing nothing. They couldn’t even come up with a real reason to be there yelling at us, other than to demand to know if we were a ‘gang’. When one of my friends started crying, I turned to tell her that it would be ok. The cop grabbed me, screamed at me to not look away when he was talking to me, then demand I get in the cop car and go down to the station. It took almost an hour for my mother to find out where I was because I didn’t have a cellphone at the time and the cops had just fucking kidnapped me. For comforting a friend while they screamed at us. And you know what happened?

We never hung out like that again. None of us. We all got banned from the library for a year. Again, all of this for literally no reason. They told us we were ‘misbehaving’ for simply hanging around outside being kids. And then we had no where to go. Some of those kids were forced back into their abusive homes. I literally never saw half of them again. Ever. And I lived in that town for several years after that.

So, yeah. They just started kicking us out from the outside years ago and not a single adult or group of adults gave a shit.

June 21, 2024 - Namibia's high court has declared the "sodomy law" that criminalised gay sex unconstitutional!

Namibia inherited the apartheid-era law banning “sodomy” and “unnatural offences” when it gained independence from South Africa in 1990. [link]

IF YOU ARE A TRANS FEMME GET YOUR THYROID CHECKED, ESPECIALLY IF YOUVE NOTICED A DROP IN LIBIDO OR AN INABILITY TO MAINTAIN A STABLE WEIGHT

It isn’t a big deal if you have hypothyroidism, you just need to take an artificial thyroid hormone called Levothyroxine…but don’t let it go untreated!!! It’s super fucked up doctors don’t regularly check our thyroid when we start HRT

Specifically get your thyroid-binding globulin levels, since according to these articles your thyroid hormone levels might appear normal despite this occurring

Good to pass on! I'm a cis female who's 4th generation hypothyroid, so I know this is not a thing to ignore.

Note: the dosages for thyroid meds, while absolutely essential, are tiny. Unfortunately, this means the generic version of the med is sometimes not exact enough for some people. I'm one of them, as is my mother. I'm all for generic meds, but I can't use this one. If you get prescribed thyroid meds but aren't seeing improvement, talk to your doctor about this. It may also help to actually get an endocrinologist rather than a gp for this, if you can.

hey guys if you actually care about mexicos water crisis please consider boycotting brands like coca cola and heineken. they are the ones running mexico's water supplies dry. I am aware of the "mexicans drink too much coke lmao" stereotype but it is because they have made us dependent on their brand, making it so in certain places of mexico, a coca cola bottle is cheaper than water. all thanks to our ex president Vicente Fox <3

Translation: liters of water extracted annually.

Had to explain to a friend today that any mention of "adrenochrome" in almost literally any context is a wildly concerning neo-Nazi dogwhistle, so uh... just in case anyone following me is part of today's lucky ("lucky") 10,000, here's the run down:

In the 1970s, some researchers theorized that the compound adrenochrome could maybe be the cause of schizophrenia and did some studies on it (spoiler alert: it was not actually the cause of schizophrenia). Separately, a close chemical relative and derivative compound is a hemostatic medication. These are pretty much the only things that adrenochrome has ever been used for in real life. A very small number of biotech companies still synthesize it, mostly for research into other derivatives of it that could maybe also be used in surgery or as hemorrhoid medications. But there's not any irl medical use for adrenochrome itself at this time.

SEPARATELY FROM ALL OF THAT IRL STUFF there is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews and/or Lizard People kidnap children, harvest their blood in order to make adrenochrome, and use it as an elixir of eternal youth.

Now you may be thinking, gosh, that sounds a lot like Blood Libel... and you would be correct! All adrenochrome conspiracy theories are at their core just repackaged Blood Libel with a vaguely sci-fi-esque coat of paint, and almost all of the ones where we know the exact origin of the conspiracy theory were created by literal neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

If you see any mention of "adrenochrome" and it's not in the context of "a small biotech company is researching it in the hope of developing new hemorrhoid meds", that is a MAJOR dogwhistle and red flag. It's a dogwhistle on about the same level as "1488", and no, I am not exaggerating when I say that. If you see someone making adrenochrome jokes, block, report, and don't touch anything of theirs with a ten foot pole. If they are not a neo-Nazi or white supremacist themselves, then at minimum they are someone who is deep enough into neo-Nazi and white supremacist social circles that they are making neo-Nazi and white supremacist in-jokes. Don't interact with them, and for fuck's sake, don't platform them; this is fundamentally not just some funny internet meme that you can laugh off.

Someone in the notes brought up "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", and they're right that that is a bit of an interesting complication, and so I think it's probably worth adding an explanation for people who are confused.

The book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (and the movie that was based off of it) mentions "adrenochrome" in the context of recreational drug use – which, to be clear, is not a thing the adrenochrome has ever been used for, or even could be used for. This is like if a book or movie talked about "snorting hydrocortisone at the club".

What seems to have happened, as best I understand it, is: "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" was written by Hunter S. Thompson, who did absolutely spend time in deeply creepy far right social circles, including social circles with legit white supremacists and neo-Nazis, because he was a journalist, and was writing about the dark side of various counter cultural movements of the late 1960s and 70s, many of which absolutely had a white supremacist fringe. He seems to have confused the "adrenochrome" that he was occasionally hearing about with one of the irl stimulant drugs that was actually being used by these groups (probably dextroamphetamine), and thought that "adrenochrome" was just another street name for an irl recreational drug.

If you encounter someone talking about "adrenochrome" as though it is a street name for a recreational stimulant that has basically the same effects as dextroamphetamine, they are probably thinking of the drug as it is portrayed in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", and they are not necessarily a neo-Nazi.

IF, on the other hand, you encounter someone talking about adrenochrome in a context which implies that it has anything to do with remaining young, or that it's extracted from the blood of kidnapped children, or that it's used only by "the Elites", or anything else even remotely in that direction, that's 100% neo-Nazi shit, or, best case, sometimes it's neo-Nazi shit that has been filtered through Qanon.

Please don't fall into the trap of "this one movie used the term adrenochrome to refer to a different recreational drug, so idk, maybe this person who wrote about Hillary Clinton taking adrenochrome is thinking of that." In my experience, the vast majority of uses of this term are using it in the neo-Nazi / white supremacist sense, not in the "idk I think it's a street name for an upper, maybe?" sense. "Maybe they're just thinking of 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'" is the adrenochrome equivalent of "maybe they're tagging this post 88 because it's a Chinese lucky number". It's possible, but it's rare, and context clues and common sense should pretty easily sort out the two uses from each other.