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i would trust weird al with my drink at a party. granted he may put one of those capsules that expands into a sponge animal in it,

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my friend s. all so pretty & lovely

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my prison abolition post continues to generate incredibly stupid comments already addressed in my prison abolition post.

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fsr people love to bring up land back but never actually in context of the canadian indigenous people that started the phrase and movement. also ill see people talking about it and using it basically "im being progressive and antiracist" but also like explicitly using it in a super vague tokenizing way where they dont actually seem to be invested in or care about what land back actually means ..?

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This is Pixel, my Porygon2. She gets really excited when touching carpet - like hilariously so. I always figured it was because real life textures are kinda new and exciting for a digital creature. @realpokemon

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The third one looks cool

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PervertWorld

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if you are an intersex and/or trans person who does not use they/them pronouns the minute you disagree with someone you suddenly get hit with they's and them's.

it's still misgendering even if it's they/them pronouns

my pronouns are in my pinned and my bio. I make it explicitly clear that I do not use they/them pronouns. the minute someone dislikes me they think it's okay to misgender me.

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What I was taught growing up: Wild edible plants and animals were just so naturally abundant that the indigenous people of my area, namely western Washington state, didn't have to develop agriculture and could just easily forage/hunt for all their needs.

The first pebble in what would become a landslide: Native peoples practiced intentional fire, which kept the trees from growing over the camas praire.

The next: PNW native peoples intentionally planted and cultivated forest gardens, and we can still see the increase in biodiversity where these gardens were today.

The next: We have an oak prairie savanna ecosystem that was intentionally maintained via intentional fire (which they were banned from doing for like, 100 years and we're just now starting to do again), and this ecosystem is disappearing as Douglas firs spread, invasive species take over, and land is turned into European-style agricultural systems.

The Land Slide: Actually, the native peoples had a complex agricultural and food processing system that allowed them to meet all their needs throughout the year, including storing food for the long, wet, dark winter. They collected a wide variety of plant foods (along with the salmon, deer, and other animals they hunted), from seaweeds to roots to berries, and they also managed these food systems via not only burning, but pruning, weeding, planting, digging/tilling, selectively harvesting root crops so that smaller ones were left behind to grow and the biggest were left to reseed, and careful harvesting at particular times for each species that both ensured their perennial (!) crops would continue thriving and that harvest occurred at the best time for the best quality food. American settlers were willfully ignorant of the complex agricultural system, because being thus allowed them to claim the land wasn't being used. Native peoples were actively managing the ecosystem to produce their food, in a sustainable manner that increased biodiversity, thus benefiting not only themselves but other species as well.

So that's cool. If you want to read more, I suggest "Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America" by Nancy J. Turner

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Attempted to colour the value practice.

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You can teleport one (1) single individual live seagull into any time or place in history. Where would you choose to put it to best fuck with peoples' heads and cause as much confusion as possible?

I'd pick Tutankhamun's tomb, just behind the sealed door, 30 seconds before the seal is broken and the tomb is opened. Imagine throwing that into the curse myth - just as these people are about to crack open the greatest cold one in history, knowing that this is what they'll be known for from hereon, they open the door that must not be opened, and out scatters a frantic, deeply baffled bird, entirely healthy and intact, fluttering away never to be seen again, with no apparent way of how it got in.

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The trope where people don't recognize each other because it's been so long since they last interacted and they've both changed so much that they're basically strangers UNTIL one of them does their Signature Thing™ and the other just stops dead because oh. It's YOU. All at once it's so clearly you

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More people need to understand how extremely Western-centric, and dare I say maybe even USA-centric the transandrophobia discourse is, as are other queer discourses, and just general claims. I know I have spoken on this before but it is genuinely frustrating to see this, "Well this law was passed that means men have privilege and as a transgender male you get that too", "This law was passed targeting [group] and not men so clearly you are less oppressed", "This law does not expressly target non-binary people so do not worry you are safe", without specifying what country or what type of people it is affecting.

Telling someone else that your queer historical figures are the ones that fought for everyone's rights genuinely can hurt from the other side. Everyone's rights? What do you mean everyone? I'm not seeing transgender people recognised and protected everywhere. And by everywhere I mean everywhere in the world. Queer cultural imperialism enables discrimination through erasive oppression.

Non-binary people are not recognised legally in some countries. Transgender people are not recognised legally in some countries. Intersex people still experience high rates of medical abuse. Transgender women have more legal protections from discrimination than transgender men in some countries. And of course vice versa. Any queer demographic should not use these occurences against another demographic because it is genuinely not universal and I would say failing to recognise this is extremely defaultist.

A person's nationality and ethnicity can and will intersect to impact their experience and that needs to be considered and understood instead of being brushed under the rug with "Oh well I wasn't talking about you", "I've never heard of that", "That isn't my experience", "That never actually happens here though".

Educate yourself instead of erasing international perspectives that are just as important. everybody speaks on these issues and denounce experiences with such ignorance it hurts. Transmisogyny, transandrophobia, exorsexism, and intersexism all operate to different degrees in different countries, and no single person should ever be allowed to generalise a whole group of people by one experience or perspective.

Self-ID is not permitted in certain countries and states and yet you continue to speak of the privilege transmascs and trans men are afforded simply by telling other people they're a man. In places without self-ID, oftentimes it will do more harm than good to speak about one's trans experience without being legally or physically transitioned. sometimes, when FtX and FtM people, and intersex people, say they do not see how they have the privilege that apparently comes with being male or masc-identifying or not fitting the gender binary in a way that is pleasing to you, however they do that, it is because they genuinely do not have it and you are not looking at this from anything other than your own perspective or the perspective influenced by your country.

Your laws are not my laws. Your experiences are not my experiences. And I will not treat them as such.

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More people need to understand how extremely Western-centric, and dare I say maybe even USA-centric the transandrophobia discourse is, as are other queer discourses, and just general claims. I know I have spoken on this before but it is genuinely frustrating to see this, "Well this law was passed that means men have privilege and as a transgender male you get that too", "This law was passed targeting [group] and not men so clearly you are less oppressed", "This law does not expressly target non-binary people so do not worry you are safe", without specifying what country or what type of people it is affecting.

Telling someone else that your queer historical figures are the ones that fought for everyone's rights genuinely can hurt from the other side. Everyone's rights? What do you mean everyone? I'm not seeing transgender people recognised and protected everywhere. And by everywhere I mean everywhere in the world. Queer cultural imperialism enables discrimination through erasive oppression.

Non-binary people are not recognised legally in some countries. Transgender people are not recognised legally in some countries. Intersex people still experience high rates of medical abuse. Transgender women have more legal protections from discrimination than transgender men in some countries. And of course vice versa. Any queer demographic should not use these occurences against another demographic because it is genuinely not universal and I would say failing to recognise this is extremely defaultist.

A person's nationality and ethnicity can and will intersect to impact their experience and that needs to be considered and understood instead of being brushed under the rug with "Oh well I wasn't talking about you", "I've never heard of that", "That isn't my experience", "That never actually happens here though".

Educate yourself instead of erasing international perspectives that are just as important. everybody speaks on these issues and denounce experiences with such ignorance it hurts. Transmisogyny, transandrophobia, exorsexism, and intersexism all operate to different degrees in different countries, and no single person should ever be allowed to generalise a whole group of people by one experience or perspective.

Self-ID is not permitted in certain countries and states and yet you continue to speak of the privilege transmascs and trans men are afforded simply by telling other people they're a man. In places without self-ID, oftentimes it will do more harm than good to speak about one's trans experience without being legally or physically transitioned. sometimes, when FtX and FtM people, and intersex people, say they do not see how they have the privilege that apparently comes with being male or masc-identifying or not fitting the gender binary in a way that is pleasing to you, however they do that, it is because they genuinely do not have it and you are not looking at this from anything other than your own perspective or the perspective influenced by your country.

Your laws are not my laws. Your experiences are not my experiences. And I will not treat them as such.

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More people need to understand how extremely Western-centric, and dare I say maybe even USA-centric the transandrophobia discourse is, as are other queer discourses, and just general claims. I know I have spoken on this before but it is genuinely frustrating to see this, "Well this law was passed that means men have privilege and as a transgender male you get that too", "This law was passed targeting [group] and not men so clearly you are less oppressed", "This law does not expressly target non-binary people so do not worry you are safe", without specifying what country or what type of people it is affecting.

Telling someone else that your queer historical figures are the ones that fought for everyone's rights genuinely can hurt from the other side. Everyone's rights? What do you mean everyone? I'm not seeing transgender people recognised and protected everywhere. And by everywhere I mean everywhere in the world. Queer cultural imperialism enables discrimination through erasive oppression.

Non-binary people are not recognised legally in some countries. Transgender people are not recognised legally in some countries. Intersex people still experience high rates of medical abuse. Transgender women have more legal protections from discrimination than transgender men in some countries. And of course vice versa. Any queer demographic should not use these occurences against another demographic because it is genuinely not universal and I would say failing to recognise this is extremely defaultist.

A person's nationality and ethnicity can and will intersect to impact their experience and that needs to be considered and understood instead of being brushed under the rug with "Oh well I wasn't talking about you", "I've never heard of that", "That isn't my experience", "That never actually happens here though".

Educate yourself instead of erasing international perspectives that are just as important. everybody speaks on these issues and denounce experiences with such ignorance it hurts. Transmisogyny, transandrophobia, exorsexism, and intersexism all operate to different degrees in different countries, and no single person should ever be allowed to generalise a whole group of people by one experience or perspective.

Self-ID is not permitted in certain countries and states and yet you continue to speak of the privilege transmascs and trans men are afforded simply by telling other people they're a man. In places without self-ID, oftentimes it will do more harm than good to speak about one's trans experience without being legally or physically transitioned. sometimes, when FtX and FtM people, and intersex people, say they do not see how they have the privilege that apparently comes with being male or masc-identifying or not fitting the gender binary in a way that is pleasing to you, however they do that, it is because they genuinely do not have it and you are not looking at this from anything other than your own perspective or the perspective influenced by your country.

Your laws are not my laws. Your experiences are not my experiences. And I will not treat them as such.