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Also to be clear if you put the new Harry Potter show on my dashboard I will be unfollowing and probably blocking you. JK Rowling is responsible for the death and pain of too many trans people to count in my country and I cannot tolerate her new way of trying to gain cultural and financial power in any way shape or form.

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the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor

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Things about T'lyn from Star Trek: Lower Decks that I think make it clear that her character and arc are allegorical for autism

Her methods and ways of thinking are considered unorthodox and impolite by other Vulcans

Fixates on objects and interests even when it's not logical to do so (very unusual for a Vulcan)

Prone to whims and gut feelings (not logical, VERY strange for a Vulcan)

Actively has to hide (mask) her personality quirks around other Vulcans

Dresses differently from other Vulcans

Emotionally unstable, at least by Vulcan standards

Considered unsuited for working on a Vulcan ship (unemployable), gets forcibly transferred to a human ship

Has feelings of inadequacy and isolation from her inability to fit in with other Vulcans

It is suggested in the episode Empathogical Fallacies that she has a condition called Bendii syndrome, or "something with similar symptoms"

I rest my case

Autistic individual

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Fight the power

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not to say things on main but it’s kinda fucked up that the mockery and torment of fat people, especially fat kids, is still considered socially acceptable

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Just a little PSA for all our mental health (and chronic pain*) spoonies out there! A lot of doctors neglect to mention this little side effect, which means a lot of us are suffering extra from the heat without knowing why.

*Many psych meds are used to treat chronic pain as well, if you didn’t know!

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hi! im an iranian-american artist struggling with chronic illness, inability to access vital medications, & impending unemployment. if you want to support me, please follow my VGen for commission openings or toss a little tip my way via Ko-Fi! thank you always for your support!!

in the meantime, i'd like to shine a little light on some of my iranian ocs 🫶

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THE FUCKING ICE REPORT AAAAAAAAAAA

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[video description: a man playing saxophone in front of a large pipe. everything he plays echoes back through the pipe, resulting in a call-and-response type song. the person behind the camera claps along to the beat. end description.]

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Obviously not expecting a (white) American site to gaf about today so lemme talk a bit more about Windrush Day and the Black British experience:

I feel like the Black British experience is constantly one of work and struggle. Our parents and grandparents lived through colonial and post colonial (using the term lightly) rule just to end up working and serving the imperial core, targeted by the same government that invited them here. A lot of the time its phrased as a choice but in reality what else could they have done? Ts and Cs apply bc for some West African Brits their parents were middle class back home but for me and others our families grew up in poverty in places still recovering from slavery and colonialism.

Britain whitewashes the history of Black immigrants, literally in the sense we're not taught our own history of Black people in Britain and metaphorically by applying British individualist myths; that as long as you work hard, don't complain about it and love Britain you can be British too. But it erases, ignores and distorts the truth that the British state used our community as nothing more than a labour force to rebuild after WWII and actively targeted Black British communities with police surveillance, brutality and systemic racism. All whilst denying it of course and turning their nose up at the very accusation. Very British.

Black British contributions, West African and West Indian to be more specific don't just apply in terms of work but in terms of shaping culture. 'Roadman' has become a meme and a caricature (including by some Americans on here ik u lot love 'chav') with barely any connection to its Black British roots, even when the term gets used as an insult to mainly Black working class men or used as a British version of 'thug'. The grime scene is undeniably a staple of Black Britain yet it is pathologised and judged, moral panics about Black people's violence and yet capitalised and profitted off of by non Black Brits as an aesthetic. Everybody wants the tracksuits, the tunes and the terminology innit. To be 'road' means to be Black British yet when its time to talk culture, nobody wants to credit it us. All of a sudden its 'London culture'.

But it isn't all doom and gloom. There's so much history and culture here in our spaces. I'd be lying if I said growing up where I did was easy. But it has shaped my outlook and made me and I'll carry that with me forever. Our grandparents and parents came here with so little and made so much out of nothing. And I'll always honour that. Justice for the Windrush generation.

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rip to all the “fuckyeah___” blogs that carried our society at one point </3

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Finally figured out how to permanently disable google assistant on phone

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anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

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And this is why I will never take anyone who jumps in front of a bullet to defend gen ai seriously