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It is so annoying when people respond to "the queer community has an anti-masc problem" with "well society loves and praises masculinity!" Okay... yes... but that's not what we're talking about 😭 The queer community ≠ society as a whole. Also? The society that praises masculinity does NOT praise queer masculinity. Cishet society does not praise butches, masculine trans people, or anyone who is masc in a queer way. And unfortunately, many queer people have this same problem.

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PERIDOT: [Grumbles] -clOdding- [Grumbles]

PERIDOT: stupid- just stand-!

PERIDOT: Okay…!

PERIDOT: I think it’s working!- I mean- of course it’s working!

PERIDOT: *AhEm* Log date; 8/6/3:

PERIDOT: This is Peridot, officially announcing my presence on Tumblr dot com! I Know I’m amazing.

PERIDOT: My previous log hosting site has tragically become inadequate for my needs.

PERIDOT: Now I can safely catalogue my every thought forever on this random unknown ‘website’!

PERIDOT: Behold! Internet void site, a glimpse into the deep, dark mechanisms of my mind!

PERIDOT: NYEHEHEH

PERIDOT: Peridot out.

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Your immune system getting weaker when you're stressed has got to be the dumbest stress response ever like oh you've been having a horrible terrible no good week? Let Me Make It Worse.

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The thing about aggressive age-verification procedures is that they're a sign of a low-trust society. It's the sign of a society that expects people to be lying a lot. That's not a good thing for a society to be, even absent other factors.

I've spent the past few months living in Austria, and one of the things that has really impressed me about this country is how much it... trusts me. Transit works via the honour system. Nobody tries to card me when I buy beer. When I explained my usual prescription to my doctor here, she didn't try to persuade me I wanted something else instead. You can buy a vibrator from a vending machine.

And it all just works. The transit system is well-funded, the ERs are not full of dead drunk teens (it's hard to do too much damage to yourself with the weak-ass beer here, especially if comparatively few people drive), and nobody seems particularly fussed about it. This is the safest, cleanest, and happiest city I've ever seen. I live in what is broadly considered to be the worst part of town, and it's miles more pleasant than the nice parts of some North American cities I've lived in.

Nothing destroys trust more than enforcement. And if you have enough trust, you don't need enforcement. Isn't that better?

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Like I knew I was a fast reader but I didn’t know I was “three books in one flight” fast. I’m the most fuckable person at the airport taxi stand

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Mechtober Day 20: Redesign

Redesign of my own Hades!Ashes design from 2021. Unsure which I actually prefer but in the end they’re just different vibes so 🤷

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if you work with kids 80% of your job is just this

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characters apologizing for things they have no control over. mumbling sorry while losing consciousness. feeling ashamed of a bleeding wound. embarrassed when an infection sets in. deep seated feverish guilt when they need to be carried, when their legs won't keep them upright anymore and they lean heavy on a friend, slurring apologies..........

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working with little kids is so dangerous. you get one kid who has a unique way of speaking & then spend the rest of your life with an internal monologue like “me’s go bathroom?”

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this guy posted this video called “unethical money making hacks” and was like “i’m selling bullshit art!” and he was buying prints from kmart and covering them in joint compound and making interesting shapes in the joint compound and then selling it as “textured wall art” like sorry bro that’s just regular art you made art i know it feels like bullshit but you’re actually just making art rn

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two million people starving to death because it's geopolitically convenient and we're all expected to go about our day normally like the casual cruelty on display for the past two years has been so insane to me like i'm not even trying to make a point it's just truly something i can't wrap my mind around

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Jimmy, you're in Final Fantasy now. You're bigger than i pictured.

i am final fantasy (all of them)

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two million people starving to death because it's geopolitically convenient and we're all expected to go about our day normally like the casual cruelty on display for the past two years has been so insane to me like i'm not even trying to make a point it's just truly something i can't wrap my mind around

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i just think any website that shows you ads before you're allowed to see content is too big for their boots. what happened to the humble sidebar ad. my old wise friend the unintrusive banner ad. i'll even take pop ups at the bottom of a video over this.

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watching ‘murder, she wrote’ and

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…corporate needs you to find the difference between these two pictures—