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i still need money, quite badly actually. i’m starting a new job this week and i’m relieved to be back at work after my last job kicked me out in march. but i have no idea when my first paycheck is and my start date already got delayed from the 17th. losing precious hundreds every day folks!
please help my queer mexican family. even reblogs bring us closer to stability. we’re almost there. nearly two years of chaos and we’re almost there. i just need a little more time.
i don't really like the "love confession" thing in general because it's usually just not that simple
would they know they're in love? would they be able to articulate that? would they be willing to?
like 2 months ago i saw a single lobster in the grocery store tank that'd somehow lost a rubber band and every other lobster was huddled in the opposite corner of the tank in a big lobster pile (presumably because the freed lobster was an asshole about having a free claw) like. im done with crab in a bucket mentality. You're not even trying to pull everyone else down to get out and climb up yourself, you're just being a dick. Unshackled lobster in a tank mentality
I would actually go as far as to say that MOST abuse is unintentional. I think most people will go through their lives without ever experiencing intentional abuse. People are abusive because they're selfish, because they're stressed, because they care more about what society thinks they should do than the impacts of their actions on their children and partners, because they think what they're doing is correct, because they've made it make sense in their own heads, because they think they can fix their victims, they think they can fix their relationships, they think they can stop you from leaving, they think they can make you a better partner to them, they think that means you need to do what they want. We've sort of constructed mental illness in a way that doing this shit to other people counts as a form of mental illness because it is anti social behavior in the literal sense— it is behavior that causes social harm.
I don't say any of this to excuse it. I think everyone needs to be more aware of this because if you think abuse has to be intentional you will never realize you are capable of abusive behavior. You will never realize you are being shitty to the people you love, because YOU know what you mean, YOU know you don't mean any harm. But you're doing harm. You need to pay attention to the impact you have on other people, and you need to do it all the time, Especially when you feel least capable of doing so. Sorry! You live in a society. Get your head out of your ass.
I humbly offer this contribution.
It's really funny that redditors convinced themselves that the stupid Tiananmen Square copypasta is going to get chinese people forcefully disconnected from their internet service or something while the UK government will get your ass if you complete the sentence "Soldier F is ___" and has actively worked with google and with social media websites to censor posts or search results about Soldier F
Like 90% of the shit people make up about China is actually true for the UK
In case the links ever go down, Soldier F is David James Cleary, a British paratrooper.
He murdered two Northern Irish people in Derry, in occupied Northern Ireland, who were demanding their civil rights on what was later called Bloody Sunday, January 30, 1972. He wounded five more. In total 13 Northern irish unarmed protesters demanding equal rights were murdered by British paratroopers that day, with one additional person dying later on from their wounds.
Maybe I'm too confrontational but I don't like when people associate "choosing peace" with doing nothing, sometimes choosing peace is ripping the band-aid already
I understand that sometimes we're too tired to confront things, but that's not peace, my brother. You're clearly still in a bad place, that's the lesser evil
I love wasting my babymaking years! I love contributing to low birth rates! countdown to menopause! #fruitlesswomb
having free control over our endrocrine systems and the ability to change our genitals is currently inextricably tied to trans rights, and for good reason, but frankly i don't think it even needs to be. it should just be a matter of bodily autonomy, and that should be universal. if a cis dude wants tits and a pussy i think that would be fine. if cis women want a dick or nothing at all that should be allowed i think. people shouldn't need to be transgender to be allowed to change their bodies. free the nipple, enlarge the nipple, remove the nipple. whatever the fuck you want. i dont know if there's a term for this belief but i hold it very strongly. everybody biohack yourselves NOW
When you're fat you're not allowed to be masculine because "you're too soft", not allowed to be feminine because "you're too big", not allowed to be androgynous because "you're too big and too soft".
Fatphobes just want to degender and dehumanize us.
But as a fat person you can be whatever you want to be, don't listen to bigots.
nothing will make me click off a recipe faster than "and the best part: only 250 calories!!!" ONLY 250???? I'M TRYING TO HAVE THE ENERGY TO LIVE. YOU NEED THOUSANDS OF CALORIES PER DAY FOR THE MOST PART. why would I ever in my life make a dinner that doesn't contain enough energy to sustain my whole Being Alive Deal. 600 at the absolute minimum or I close your stupid website
'robin how do you always stay warm in the winter when you don't wear many warm clothes?' I eat a lot of food so that my body has energy to work with! to burn! I'm an endotherm. I produce heat. you do too. you will produce MORE heat if you have more fuel to burn. humans have INCREDIBLE fat storage adaptations. it's built in!!!! why wouldn't I take advantage of that??? I love swimming for hours and cycling in the winter and using my brain a lot and having energy left over at the end of a day. and so I eat food. so that I can do these things and have fun.
"you'll get fat" mayyyybe [: and I'll look absolutely killer with a shirt tucked into low waisted pants with a nice leather belt. how exciting!
OP I need you to know this post singlehandedly got me to start eating three eggs every morning instead of two and suddenly my job where I'm on my feet constantly doesn't feel so exhausting, I owe you my life
YES! YES! I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU!
“i don’t want to start all over” you’ve bought into a trap that works against you and keeps you where you never were meant to stay. it is in your best interest to start all over hundreds and hundreds of times. i start all over in the middle of the day if i must. i have been thousands of people in my one body and my one life. i hope to be thousands more. the only power we have is to start all over and over and over and over.
this is the only way to slow down time as you grow older and time grows faster. it breaks up the days, they’ll feel less like they’re happening without your attention and intention. every day feels purposeful, different, a moment in time when you let yourself change and start all over and leave something behind and start something new. it’s the only way to make time last and make time matter—do and be something new. be someone new. you can never lose your grasp on time when you move with it instead of trying to stand still against it. everything moves, even your cells die and live and change, so you must too. there is no other truth.
claiming EU is an innocent "external force" for selling poisoned fruit to hundred millions of Black and Brown people is a new kind of racist bootlickerism
EU incentives our governments to buy the poisoned food. It puts them on an economic gun point where poisoning their own population is more profitable than protecting us, EU does this on purpose because it benefits from this, this way it gets the best food we produce for cheap and dumps the poison on us for expensive prices it makes profits from. EU is the one encouraging our governments to do this in the first place, but no, they are blameless White "external forces" and us savages are evil for naming them when we should only villianize our non white countries according to people like you. People like you think the evil White people do are simply natural "external forces" and it's the third world's fault for being oppressed, but you can't make us buy into the victim blaming
Literally 😭
