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Public Service Announcement
The below is copied wholesale from a Friend:
A Public Service Announcement
If I tell the truth about my desires, will the therapist despise me? Even have me committed?
In a world where some Republicans are trying to recriminalize same-sex relationships, finding a good counselor can feel both dangerous and uncertain if you're LGBTQ or kinky. Most have us have heard over and over that sadists are all serial killers, masochists desperately sick would-be murder victims, and queer folk plotting to recruit innocent people to our wicked cause. We've all heard about brainwashing "cures" for gay and lesbian people. And the recent news of public mockery, hounding, bullying, and suicide remind us that despite some social advances, our struggle to be accepted is not over yet.
When at 14 I first sought help for my mental-health issues, I was told that if I were just a better Christian I wouldn't get depressed. Imagine the reaction I'd have gotten if I'd told the doctor I was bisexual and kinky.
So if you're looking for a counselor who won't tell you you're crazy because you have unconventional desires, check out the kink-aware professionals list (https://ncsfreedom.org/resources/….
Too many of us have killed ourselves. We deserve to live. Good therapy can help us accept ourselves, untangle doable fantasies from those best left as daydreams, and form healthy relationships despite society's relentless pressures to conform to the heterosexual norm.
Share this link. The life you save might be your child's.
A Public Service Announcement
If I tell the truth about my desires, will the therapist despise me? Even have me committed?
In a world where some Republicans are trying to recriminalize same-sex relationships, finding a good counselor can feel both dangerous and uncertain if you're LGBTQ or kinky. Most have us have heard over and over that sadists are all serial killers, masochists desperately sick would-be murder victims, and queer folk plotting to recruit innocent people to our wicked cause. We've all heard about brainwashing "cures" for gay and lesbian people. And the recent news of public mockery, hounding, bullying, and suicide remind us that despite some social advances, our struggle to be accepted is not over yet.
When at 14 I first sought help for my mental-health issues, I was told that if I were just a better Christian I wouldn't get depressed. Imagine the reaction I'd have gotten if I'd told the doctor I was bisexual and kinky.
So if you're looking for a counselor who won't tell you you're crazy because you have unconventional desires, check out the kink-aware professionals list (https://ncsfreedom.org/resources/….
Too many of us have killed ourselves. We deserve to live. Good therapy can help us accept ourselves, untangle doable fantasies from those best left as daydreams, and form healthy relationships despite society's relentless pressures to conform to the heterosexual norm.
Share this link. The life you save might be your child's.
I'm going to JAIL!
Hi folks,
I’m taking part in a charity fundraiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (Jerry’s Kids). This involves collecting donations.
While I hate to beg, this is a very good cause, so I was hoping you would consider making a small donation to help out.
It’s easily done online: https://www.joinmda.org/MyLockup/M…
My arraignment will be tomorrow - May 18, at 5PM. I must have full bail by then so please, if you're considering giving, even a few dollars each from several people will be a great help.
To those of you who have already contributed - my great thanks! This is a very good cause and I personally appreciate your support.
I’m taking part in a charity fundraiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (Jerry’s Kids). This involves collecting donations.
While I hate to beg, this is a very good cause, so I was hoping you would consider making a small donation to help out.
It’s easily done online: https://www.joinmda.org/MyLockup/M…
My arraignment will be tomorrow - May 18, at 5PM. I must have full bail by then so please, if you're considering giving, even a few dollars each from several people will be a great help.
To those of you who have already contributed - my great thanks! This is a very good cause and I personally appreciate your support.
Job Op
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Quick at-home test for swine flu now available, free!
The swine flu alert system:
Today's alert level is: Piglet
The swine flu alert system:
| OMGWTFBBQ!1eleventy! We're all going to DIE!!!! | |
| Tha-th-th-tha-that's all, Folks! | |
| Slimy, but satisfying! | |
| Heeeeeyaaah! | |
| It is hard to be brave when you're only a Very Small Animal. | |
| For crying out loud. They're all in boxes, you idiot | |
| Goodbye, Charlotte. I love you. |
Today's alert level is: Piglet
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Academic Earth - A library of free video lectures from MIT, Harvard, Stamford... It's Hulu for hungry brains!
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While the Large Hadron Collider may in fact not have destroyed the world yet, the very existence of it is to blame for some very strange anomalies.
For example, a miniature black hole seems to have formed not so long ago directly beneath my couch. What's peculiar about it is not that it's there - theoretically, miniature black holes can pop in and out of existence anywhere and any time - no, what's interesting is that it is a very selective and stable miniature black hole.
Most miniature black holes, you see, are indiscriminant about the nature of the matter and energy they attract and give off radiation at a rate faster than that at which they absorb energy. So, they appear, suck up a little bit of whatever is around, and promptly disappear in a puff of logic.
This one is stubborn. It's too small to absorb matter - otherwise the couch would be gone by now. I suppose it absorbs light to a certain extent since it is pretty dark under the couch. And it does attract dust bunnies and cat toys. But any ordinary miniature black hole could do that too.
Unlike your typical black hole, which radiates x-rays, this one emits exclusively gluons, the sub-atomic particles that cause protons and neutrons to stick to each other tightly enough to form atomic nuclei. Furthermore, this particular miniature black hole seems to only attract "bottom" quarks.
These two anomalies are what is responsible for the fact that as soon as I get home after work and briefly sit down on the couch, the gluon emissions attract my "bottom" quarks and keep me firmly planted there for the rest of the evening. It's a problem since there are plenty of things I think of during the day which need doing when I get home, but once there I seem to cross the event horizon and no subsequent events transpire. Sure, I am able to move my fingers a little, but hardly more than Steven Hawking, resulting only in a change in the channel on the TV. Once in a while I manage to establish an oblong, elliptical orbit between the couch and either the kitchen or bathroom, but the couch is a gravitational well I just can't escape.
It is only the formidable attraction to my wife, who gets home from work close to midnight, that helps me break free and escape to the relative safety of bed. I've lost count of the number of times she has saved me from a fate worse than death - having my "bottom" quarks collapse into a quantum singularity, rendering me a Higgs boson for the relative infinity preceding the unavoidable heat-death of the Universe.
It's yet another of the myriad reasons I love my wife. She has complete control over space-time.
For example, a miniature black hole seems to have formed not so long ago directly beneath my couch. What's peculiar about it is not that it's there - theoretically, miniature black holes can pop in and out of existence anywhere and any time - no, what's interesting is that it is a very selective and stable miniature black hole.
Most miniature black holes, you see, are indiscriminant about the nature of the matter and energy they attract and give off radiation at a rate faster than that at which they absorb energy. So, they appear, suck up a little bit of whatever is around, and promptly disappear in a puff of logic.
This one is stubborn. It's too small to absorb matter - otherwise the couch would be gone by now. I suppose it absorbs light to a certain extent since it is pretty dark under the couch. And it does attract dust bunnies and cat toys. But any ordinary miniature black hole could do that too.
Unlike your typical black hole, which radiates x-rays, this one emits exclusively gluons, the sub-atomic particles that cause protons and neutrons to stick to each other tightly enough to form atomic nuclei. Furthermore, this particular miniature black hole seems to only attract "bottom" quarks.
These two anomalies are what is responsible for the fact that as soon as I get home after work and briefly sit down on the couch, the gluon emissions attract my "bottom" quarks and keep me firmly planted there for the rest of the evening. It's a problem since there are plenty of things I think of during the day which need doing when I get home, but once there I seem to cross the event horizon and no subsequent events transpire. Sure, I am able to move my fingers a little, but hardly more than Steven Hawking, resulting only in a change in the channel on the TV. Once in a while I manage to establish an oblong, elliptical orbit between the couch and either the kitchen or bathroom, but the couch is a gravitational well I just can't escape.
It is only the formidable attraction to my wife, who gets home from work close to midnight, that helps me break free and escape to the relative safety of bed. I've lost count of the number of times she has saved me from a fate worse than death - having my "bottom" quarks collapse into a quantum singularity, rendering me a Higgs boson for the relative infinity preceding the unavoidable heat-death of the Universe.
It's yet another of the myriad reasons I love my wife. She has complete control over space-time.
CA Prop 8
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And for all you geeks out there who are either still willing to go trick-or-treating, or those of you geeks who are obliged to take your child processes to do the same, here is The Candy Code.