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Reminder that the "normal" cisgender male amount to fantasize about being a woman is never.

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Let's play some rapid-fire with Tao 🙂‍↕️

Watch Gastronauts before this week's season two premiere only on Dropout

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Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

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still being active on tumblr is camp

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sometimes an online creator seems like an asshole but like. not in any way that registers as dangerous or problematic or 'dont support their content' its more like. wow i sure am glad i dont have to be friends or coworkers with that guy. do u know what i mean.

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"i do not dream of labour" is one of the worst pseudo-marxist taglines that western leftists have co-opted because when you ask them what they do dream of, they say traveling, studying, and creating art. broski, who's flying the plane to take you to prague? who's the security at the library with the texts you're studying? who are the clerks in the museum showcasing your art? like bro, you do dream of labour. you just dream of someone else doing it so you don't have to! you merely want to outsource the labour and make it invisible.

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the passive ambivalence this site has towards GenAI and its environmental impact all in favor of winning an argument or being haughty is disgusting and none of you actually care about the global south or black communities.

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Activists from 44 countries plan to launch the largest civilian flotilla in history at the end of August in an effort to break Israel’s siege on Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to the starving population of the enclave.

The Global Sumud Flotilla, along with three allied initiatives, will send dozens of boats from Spanish ports on 31 August and Tunisian ports on 4 September, aiming to establish a humanitarian corridor and confront what organizers call Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

“This summer, dozens of boats, both large and small, will set sail from ports across the world, converging on Gaza in the largest civilian flotilla of its kind in history,” said organizer Haifa Mansouri at a press conference in Tunis hosted by the Joint Action Coordination for Palestine.

The mission brings together four groups: the Maghreb Sumud Flotilla, the Global Movement to Gaza, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, and Sumud Nusantara.

August 5, 2025.

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reblog if you're corny and insufferable

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I think maybe I don't talk about how, as a former Sex Worker, these completely braindead talking points from SWERFs about the industry make it impossibly hard to have nuanced conversations about the actual risks, dangers, and broken stairs that exist in the industry. Imagine if, when people were working to make movie sets safer for talent and crew, some group was like "MOVIES DANGEROUS ABOLISH ALL FILM" and people nodded in agreement with that take and caved to it?

Like the industry IS exploitative often because having a conversation about regulation that actually moves toward legislation is nearly impossible. Politicians are afraid to touch the requests of actual industry workers because they will be bombarded by harassment groups, labeled as "groomers" or worse for even discussing our issues.

Instead it can feel like the conversation boils down to "Sex Work is empowering" vs. "Sex Work is rape" and those things are both absolutely insane, because sex work is a damn job???? It's not either of those things without additional information. My day job now sure as fuck isn't empowering. And I get threatened and assaulted here more than I did in any strip club, despite it being a "normal" job. The only difference is that I have avenues to escalate those things here, and people generally take me seriously when I do. Sex Workers need avenues like that too but you paranoia-stricken, self-centered, infantilizing mobsters don't want our actual needs to be met.

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I don't know. This is far too reductive, of course, but I kind of think that there is a very real and notable difference between the way that violence was treated in the 1960s Star Trek, which was written in the shadow of nuclear armageddon twenty years after the bloodiest war in human history (and largely by people who had fought in that war), and in the newer series, where the writers' experience of violence comes primarily from action movies and video games.

Like, I think that there's a tendency of people in the present to imagine that people in the past were naive and...I really don't think that history bears this out. I don't think that subversion is always clever just because a trope can be subverted. I think that imagining that your enemy might be an actual moral actor with whom it's possible to reason is actually a great deal more mature than imagining your enemy as a bloodthirsty monster who will kill by nature.

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as a person who lost a loved one to addiction, i would rather have them be able to use safely in a sterile environment with safe equipment, where they can 100% know the drug is not laced with something deadly, and live- than them dying because they didn’t know what the drug contained, or because no one was there to make sure they weren’t ODing, or because they used dirty equipment in a dirty environment.

again more simply put, i would rather have my dead loved one continue using drugs in a safe manner and stay alive, than die the way they did because the stigma around substance use is not only dangerous, but lethal.

harm reduction saves lives.

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I haven’t been on tumblr for quite as long as a lot of people but over several years I’ve noticed this interesting gradual sorta,, shift in the general culture? that it went from this mostly depressed, nihilistic outlook where people would regularly joke about hating themselves and being hopeless and depressed, to a wave of vehemence of “STOP hating everything actually the world is Good and you deserve love!!!” type posts, to now, where those aggressive ‘PSAs’ have faded away and instead I regularly see people romanticizing simple things like stars and hot tea and rainy mornings, and waxing poetic about their friends, and just trying to put love out there. and I don’t know exactly what that means (someone who knows more than me could probably say something smart about generational expression and trauma or popular perception of mental health and whatnot), but I do know that it makes my heart very full to see people learn to love the world and themselves by extension, and a whole userbase adopting healthier coping mechanisms, and therefore teaching the younger users to do so as well. I might just be following different people, but I really do think we’ve grown. everyone has grown. five years ago it wasn’t unusual for the next post on my dash to be a scathing commentary on why nothing matters or an anon ripping into someone they barely knew or someone complaining about how pathetic their interests are. now I have mutuals who get excited and spam reblog art of cows and friends I see tagging each other in pictures of frogs and strangers writing paragraphs about how much I matter. it makes me happy. idk. just an observation I wanted to make. I think people are good and everyone’s just trying their best at the end of the day

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andrew bridgman = the undisputed champion of birthday texts

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If a girl is to do the same superman thing where he takes off his disguise, we just look pervy. Not the same effect

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Tumblr continues to be a deeply racist and overwhelmingly white website. Making fun of a Palestinian woman seeking help amid a genocide because your English speaking head is too far up your own ass to consider that other languages have words similar to yours but with entirely different meanings.

The name رحاب "Rehab" (The "H" is pronounced "Ḥ", not like the English "H" in the word rehabilitation. Here's what it sounds like.) is a very common feminine name in Arabic.

The least we can do for Rehab for having to put up with this nonsense is share her fundraiser and donate if possible. Rehab is dying from hunger.

Her campaign is vetter by @gazavetters and her number is #410 on the spreadsheet.

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"It's so fucked up women have to do sex work to survive" so trueee it's so fucked up we live in a capitalist society where you need to do work you don't want to do just to be alive. I'm so glad we're talking about ALL the jobs that are forced onto people, especially women, that are full of harassment. Thank God we're not just focusing on jobs that are already heavily stigmatized and shaming women for doing what's necessary to survive, even though every single person has to do that but for some reason it's immoral when it's a stripper instead of a fast food employee