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"Because I said so" straight up isn't as good an answer as you think it is.

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people are absolutely EVIL about the boundaries of "picky eaters". no, they do not have to try it. yes, they can know they don't like it without having eaten it before. no, they probably have not suddenly grown a taste for the food they've said they hate. no, they probably are not going to like it in the Special Way This One Place Cooks It. yes, you are being a bad friend if you try to "trick" them into eating it anyway

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Ok, so some rather incredible drama has been going down in Martha's Vineyard. It all started when pierogi purveyor, Good Pierogi, lived up to their name when they refused to sell Alan Dershowitz - noted dirtbag lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump - their wares. Dershowitz then accused owner Krem Miskevich - themselves Jewish - of being antisemitic. He also repeatedly misgendered Miskevich, who uses they/them pronouns, and accused them and their spouse Lily Rose of being antisemitic for protesting a festival that featured zionist musician Matisyahu. Miskevich had also cited their close friendship with a number of SA survivors as reason not to sell to repeat predator-defender Dershowitz.

Luckily, the support for Good Pierogi has been significant, the community seems to really relish the opportunity to heckle the fuck out of Dershowitz, and it's yielded some excellent headlines:

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“Tiny round rain frog wakes up, yawns, rubs his eyes, then squeezes himself into his tiny hole”

(via)

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"Some of us only got branded 'villains' because we didn't care how many innocent people we hurt" isn't quite the crushing argument that Catman thinks it is, though.

Secret Six #6 - "Who needs Friends, Anyway?" (2025)

written by Nicole Maines art by Stephen Segovia & Rain Beredo

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The last film I saw was The Fisher King, so I'm gonna be ok.

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Thieves Guild

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i think one of these days mr beast is going to snap and go missing for a year. and they’re going to find him butt ass naked on the highway at 3:56 pm reciting video scripts to himself and then never be seen again and people will debate if it was real or not for decades

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In my experience as a third culture kid who travels a lot the best indicator that you as a non-x is appreciating x culture is if the locals actively invite you to participate in it with them

Yes, you are allowed to buy those handmade Inuit winter clothes if an Inuk is literally selling them to you. They would not be offering you a price point if they didnt want you to buy and wear them. And you might discover that theyre the best winter clothes youve ever worn because of COURSE they would be if theyve kept this culture warm in harsh winters for thousands of years.

Yes, you are allowed to join those Cambodians in that local holiday theyre celebrating during your visit if they literally invited you to it. They would not have invited you if they didnt want you to participate. And in the process you might learn a lot about a culture you never wouldve interacted with and you can all have a laugh together about your clumsy but genuine attempts at getting your footwork right in one of their traditional dances.

Yes, you are also allowed to ask if you can participate in something from the local culture you are visiting. Sometimes you will get "sorry, thats a closed practice" but in my experience most of the time you'll get "of course, let me show you how to do this!" And in my experience people tend to appreciate when others make an active effort in sharing their culture and wont stone you to death if youre clumsy about it while youre learning. I guarantee that the local children doing all of this for the first time too make the same mistakes you do and they can tell if youre being disrespectful or genuine.

So much "cultural appropriation" discourse really starts to sound like "you cant participate or visit any other cultures if youre from a Colonial Culture and have to stay in your little box and never relate to other people"

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my parents visited today and their latest item of ‘what people you knew in school are up to lately’ gossip was about the absolutely BONKERS thing they’re trying to talk their friend out of doing to her daughter. I’m still in shock tbh

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what a clown

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Sebastian in the sun, looking SO grown up! (7 weeks old today!)

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Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor

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how can ppl say cats dont have feelings like. 

when my cat got deadly sick she refused to eat a single thing and it had been days but when i started crying she ate just a little bit, and upon seeing how happy it made me, kept doing it whenever she could.

now whenever im sad or crying she finds wherever i am with a mouthful of food and eats the pieces one by one, every time looking up at me making sure i was watching her eat it all because she knew it made me happy. and it DOES make me happy

i love cats!!! 

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Ever since i was a boy i wanted to pay the highest cost of living on the continent to be a disposable animation studio intern

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i dont actually know many if any disabled people who are against the word disabled like the backlash & desperate need for a different term seems to come primarily from abled people who see equate “disabled” with bad/broken/stupid/pitiful & want to solve that by cyclically switching to a friendlier word rather than actual doing the cultural & internal self reflection necessary to tackle WHY any word for us quickly becomes an insult/“negative” word in the modern lexicon