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new picrew game?

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tagging: @nonbeenaryyy @stormy-blue-skies @ghastly-parody @kalmiaa-kid @ultra-pea-on-a-cloud @sapphos-leather-jacket @piratewwx​ @queer-fandom-enby​

(ID: A picrew of sapphos-frog-earrings, with the credit “Makowka” in the lower right. They are framed from the shoulders up facing the viewer, and are smiling slightly. She has pale skin and pink freckles, blue eyes, and short pink hair. They have light blue glasses and strawberry earrings, and are wearing a loose tan crewneck sweater over a white turtleneck, with a grey bead necklace over the turtleneck. There are sparkles by her face, and the background is the lesbian pride flag with a light pink circle framing her face. /End ID)

ID copied from @sapphos-leather-jacket

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I’m Ace so we’re on different sides of the spectrum, but I definitely love and accept all my Aro siblings.  You’re marvelous, and I’m always happy to say it.  I always have a virtual hug ready and waiting.

okay so i just figured out im aromantic and im really struggling to come to terms with it (it doesnt help that the people ive turned to didnt react particularly well) so if anyone has a second to spare, could you... idk tell me youre proud of me? or that you accept me? please and thank you

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That depends.  How far back do you want to go?  There’s an argument to be made that almost everything we use now is rooted in a female invention at some point.  Do you want to have no tools but rock?  No medicine, technology, or any of that?  I could survive that way.  Can you?  Women have invent just as much as men and maybe in modern day many of the more necessary day to day items.  Anti-feminists aren’t on the winning ground there.

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i dont fucking trust ppl who r neutral on ace ppls place in the lgbtq community. they fucking belong here. by saying youre "neutral" or "dont care/dont want to pick a side" youre literally making things worse. i wont fucking tolerate it. asexuals are lgbtq and you can fucking die mad about it.

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stop telling your teenage daughters who say they don't want kids that they'll change their mind

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I know Valentine’s Day can be hard for us asexuals and aromatics, so I just want to send out this PSA...

1) you are amazing and perfect the way you are

2) you don’t need to do anything you don’t want to today (or any other day). You don’t owe anyone something your uncomfortable with.

3) don’t let the pressures of the day get you down.

4) just remember tomorrow is half off chocolate day so hold tight!

Have a great day guys!

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Transgender lesbian woman tears gender stereotypes apart in viral video

You have probably heard it before: “Wearing a dress does not make you a woman!”

Over at twitter, Eva, a lesbian transgender woman, published this amazing video in response, showing the world what kind of stupid stereotype this is (embedded above).

Eva writes:

Jokes aside, early on in transition I would worry so much about if I wasn’t trans enough because I genuinely enjoyed some of the ways I was masculine before I came out.

Re-contextualizing that through the frame of lesbian masculinity has made me feel so much more at ease, and it’s made me so much more comfortable with those parts of myself than as I ever did trying to express them as a man.

I love my shoulders. I love my arms, my muscles. I love wearing suits. I love being tall. I love having a deeper voice. I love having a strong jawline. I also love having long hair, gentle curves, and painting inch long wings over my eyes. I love being trans 

Via LGBTQ Nation.

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CNN headline writer is *so* done.

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there seem lot positive for ppl who struggle but manage school, but not much for ppl who fail, who drop out, or never able go in firstplace

so just wanting shoutout at fellow ppl who couldn’t manage, who never been able, & may never be able. we’re worth love, too, no matter what knowledge got in head - we’re more than just number.

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I’d be happy to be a non-sexual member of a polycule that gets to take you out to all your guiltiest nerd hobbies.  You want to go to the textiles museum.  Bitch I am there.  Help you research your franco-russian history dissertation.  Yes sir!  Help you find a newly identified invasive insect in our region for documentation.  Mmm mama yes.  You need someone as emotional support to dress up as your favorite character from a show and meet and greet the creator and or actor/actress?  I will be your OTP partner for that pairing.  I would also be very happy to sit quietly and enjoy things at home for no other reason than your company.  I just don’t want to have sex.  Anybody need that in a polycule?

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one time when I was 13 I took a mirror selfie with a digitial camera in the dressing room of a community theatre and there was a whole apparition in it. A man's torso and arms and legs. Totally and clearly manifested. We all freaked out about it for a day & then absolutely moved on. Then I lost the SD card. Who does that?????

Imagine you're a dead man who finally concentrated the energy to physically manifest in a photo, perhaps to reach out to the living world, and the girl in charge of the only evidence of your post mortem existence in this realm forgot to take her adderral that day.

that's the reality for that man. I just lost him and forgot about it until three minutes ago.

do u think he's vengeful now

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Bringing It Back! 💝

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sometimes I think about how red is the first color in the visible light spectrum to be absorbed in ocean water

and how many deep-sea creatures evolved to be red as a stealth adaptation, making them near invisible when there’s little to no light present

and it makes me think. If there’s never any visible light present in these animals’ lifetimes, if no ROV shines a little flashlight in depths that would otherwise not have light, would these animals ever get the opportunity to actually be red? that might be a stupid question.

imagine being a little deep sea creature and having no idea you’re red until something comes along and shines a light on you except you still wouldn’t be able to tell because you’re probably colorblind. anyway. I don’t know where I was going with this post

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So Your Temperate Home is Suddenly an Arctic Hellscape

As -10F hits area’s of the US who’ve never seen such temperatures in living memory, I wanted to give some tips from a Minnesotan who’s lived with these temps as a part of my life for 37 years.

1) Don’t Get Cocky. People used to these temps may laugh at our southern neighbors freaking out about the cold because yes, some parts of the US get such temps regularly every year. These people are being ignorant assholes. Our houses are mandated to have insulation that few of your homes will have. We pretty much all have huge puffy coats, and have well established winter weather gear drives for homeless and poor folks every year. We have expensive, well equipped infrastructure for cope with these temps and with large amounts of snow. You don’t. When it comes down to it, Minnesotans know to respect the cold temps- it’s just that a lot of the ways that do it are so commonplace as to be invisible to those who already have these habits.

2) Don’t go out wet. Dry your hair or stay inside. You will loose a lot of heat if you’re wet. Same for sweat, and wet diapers. And clothes with snow on them are now WET CLOTHES. Change into dry clothes as soon as possible.

3) If you have a shitty car battery or a car that sometimes struggles to start, then try not to use it. You’re unlikely to get the kind of temps where it’s impossible to start an engine (I’ve only experienced those temps a few times. Once my eyelashes froze shut and I almost froze to death in my own back yard. Don’t be like young me. Respect the cold.) If your car doesn’t start, you could be stranded somewhere, and realistically your area’s emergency services may be pretty overrun. 

4) Very cold air doesn’t hold moisture well. Plan for extra hydration for people, pets, and plants. Even if your staying in- most home heaters pull cold air from outside, then dry it out even MORE in the process of heating it. Dehydration is a thing. Even if your home’s heater has a humidifier attached to it (if you’re not sure, then it probably doesn’t.) it’s a good idea to drink extra water. Right now I have a few pots of water just left out by heaters to evaporate as much as possible. My mom used to just heat huge camping pots on the stove all day in cold temps. Remember, dry nasal passages really muck up your bodies ability to fight airborne illness. This is not a great time for that.

5) Help out homeless folks in your area in any way you can. These temps can and do kill. And since we have more evictions than any society can conscionably defend this year, we have high numbers of homeless people. Which means area supports for unhoused folks are often underfunded and over-taxed. 

6) Let your faucets drip. I know nobody likes to waste water but if your pipes freeze they will literally explode. Your home will flood. My mother’s kitchen got completely destroyed and it traumatized my childhood dog. Justa  bit of moving warm water will safeguard you from that.

7) Do. Not. Burn. Propane. Indoors. 

8) Plan for potential power outages. Ice on the lines can cause this and again, your infrastructure isn’t prepped for this. Unplug anything in your home you’re not using to do your part to help prevent rolling blackouts.

9) Driving on ice is a SKILL. Your roads may be filled with people who do not have that skill. Please please, stay off the roads if you can- even if you have this skill these roads will not be prepped and will, again, be full of people who don’t know how to do this because it just hasn’t come up that much in their life.

Stay safe and stay kind, folks! 

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Amazon workers in Alabama are attempting to unionize

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Amazon is texting workers multiple times a day.

Amazon has anti-union posters in the bathrooms.

Amazon managers are using temp workers to advertise “Vote No” on unionizing, knowing they’re leveraging economic power and vulnerability.

Amazon and the city traffic management colluded to change the traffic signals so that drivers have no time to stop and talk to union organizers.

Workers begin voting Monday (2/8/21) on whether or not to unionize. This would be the first union in Amazon.

This comes days after it was revealed Amazon was stealing drivers’ tips.