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Listen. You ARE nature. You’re an entire ecosystem. Your flesh sculpted from the dirt. Your blood brewed from rain water. Thousands of creatures living inside of you, on your skin, who wouldn’t be alive without you just like you wouldn’t be either without them. You are born from the forest and the sea. Be kind to yourself.

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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.

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what? oh sweetheart no, you're not weirding me out at all. you're weirding me in. keep talking, freak

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not sure why obsession with trains is seen as an autism thing when i think any reasonable human being with joy in their heart should be at least a little obsessed with trains. decently reliable public transport? with a rhytmic soothing motion but steady enough on long distances that you could read or draw while riding? getting to see the sights as you speed past? 10/10 best way to travel.

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I think something that bothers me about the leftist/ queer hatred and fear of men and masculinity is the finality of it. "All men are horrible all the time" leaves no room to expect better of men. Men do a lot of gross terrible shit, but it isn't inherent to being a man. Men can, and sometimes are, wonderful people who do good things. It should be expected that men are good and kind people, and men who aren't should be shamed for that. But it feels like bad behavior is the expected default setting of men, and we can't expect or demand better.

I worry about especially young men hearing that messaging. Constantly hearing that you are inherently a monster or a predator or an asshole is going to have an impact. Instead of ending the conversation at "men have done horrible things to women and gender minorites for centuries", I wish there could be a better picture of healthy masculinity. We've talked about toxic masculinity so much I worry that's the only way we see men anymore.

To be clear, I don't think women need to take on the labor of teaching men how to be good men. Men need to learn how to be good men and teach that to other men. I don't know, I just feel like if we, (especially men) held men to a higher standard maybe some of us will live up to it.

It reminds me of the people who push for a revolution but have to vision of what a better world looks like. We have to imagine a better future for it to come into existence.

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This is the largest mass killing of trans people in recorded history and “constitutes a grave breach of international humanitarian law.” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed the strike was intentional without going into further detail.

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The disturbing thing nowadays is that resistance as spectacle has cut loose from its origins in genuine civil disobedience and is becoming more symbolic than real. Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are fun and vital, but alone they are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.

Arundhati Roy - Public Power in the Age of Empire, 2004

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i dont think usamericans rly understand how prevalent their culture is. english is taught in schools. we hear about usa news, watch usa shows and movies, know usa actors, read usa books, listen to usa music, have usa brands. i have a shirt somewhere with some usa flag motive from like 15 years ago. cant remember why i even have it. why were they even selling that in croatia. your books and culture are everywhere, you dominate social media, and then come on here whenever someone gives even a middle criticism and act like spoiled children because someone wants you to open an atlas

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Most plushies do have souls, but are not alive.

Squishmallows do not have souls, but are however alive.

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Multipolarity is not automatically emancipatory. It can reproduce the same hierarchies under different banners. The Global South, if it is to be more than a rhetorical device, must hold new powers to account—rejecting both Western imperialism and new forms of authoritarian capitalism. We must contend with a sobering reality: The US may be willing to destroy the world before it surrenders its imperial self-image. This suicidal impulse—visible in its economic warfare and cultural nihilism—should not be underestimated. If empire cannot imagine a future in which it does not lead, it may instead choose to make that future unlivable for everyone else. We are entering a new terrain of struggle, not a utopia. And that terrain demands clarity, coordination, and vision. If the US empire is willing to end the world before it ends itself, then our challenge is not only to survive its decline but to shape what comes next.

8 May 2025

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talking about Rosie The Riveter, fun fact: while the We Can Do It picture has become the most-well known depiction of her in modern times, it wasn’t really a famous image when it was made–in fact, it wasn’t even intended to be her

the most famous depiction of Rosie The Riveter during WWII was probably Norman Rockwell’s painting 

note what she’s resting her foot on

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“Advice to young activists today: Stop trying to understand the 1960’s and build a movement around something that you did not live through or understand, or a movement like the Black Panther Party that went through many changes of policy and program during its 16 year existence. Show respect to movements and activists of the past, understand what they went through, even work with them where that is helpful, but do not make the mistake of building your movement today around anything other than the material conditions and forms of oppression that exist now. Do not be afraid to think in an original sense about police terror, mass imprisonment, homelessness, mass unemployment and poverty, and so many forms of oppression that are worse now, or that did not even exist as a mass problem in the 1960’s. This is a different time, so you have to think, resist and organize in this time.”

— Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin (via fullpraxisnow)

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*psychically telling everyone this* Not every post you make about generalized transandrophobia has to specifically mention trans women do that.. thanks

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"oh homeless people are just gonna use your money to buy drugs" and? and?? the government uses my tax money to buy bombs and cops, you think I care if someone in a shitty situation uses money I gave them to feel marginally less shitty? fuck off!

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Do you want to be politically pure in theory or help your neighbor. Is it fruitless to help your neighbor because there's no Perfect Pure way to do it ?

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You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.