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have you lot heard about the tiktoker who’s taking on the actual government over a parking ticket? because she’s a hero

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if you can accept that there will be trans men who look virtually indistinguishable from cis women, than you can accept that there will be trans women who look virtually indistinguishable from cis men. either by choice or by circumstance. and if you can't respect them the same as you would anybody else, you need to examine why that is

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I grew up in a family that depended on disability benefits. I remember the sobbing panic attack my mum had when David Cameron introduced austerity measures that meant my dad would be reassessed and might be declared "fit for work". My dad was diagnosed with a brain tumor when I was 1 year old and slowly declined despite surgery and treatment for 25 years until he died 3 years ago. There was no possible world where he would have been able to work, the tumor and the process of removing it left parts of his brain while destroying others, but the reassessment standard was to be able to walk up and down a couple of steps and lift a light object overhead. The change to benefits policy was in retrospect obviously based on the idea that there are infinite mindless menial jobs for lazy people who are trying to "get away" with being on benefits.

My family being kicked off disability benefits was a constant threat that I felt present throughout my childhood, and even the looming threat of it and the stress that it put on my mother made my already difficult, sad and isolated childhood terrifying. Changes to disability benefits that systematically eject people from money they need to survive ruins countless lives. People never imagine disabled people having families, probably because society tells us to imagine the disabled as less. The reality of these policies is a font of generational and community trauma visited upon the working class by those in power.

Starmer is explicitly trying to cut disability benefits by £5 billion, there isn't a way to pitch the changes to PIP that doesn't involve ruining scores of lives.

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possession horror where the thing possessing the autistic character causes them to behave in a more neurotypical way. autistic possession horror where the thing inside you is easier to communicate with than you are, the thing inside you doesn’t have a flat affect, the thing inside you doesn’t let your body stim, the thing inside you is how you were told to behave and you can only do it when you are no longer you. autistic possession horror where you will never forget that everyone liked it better than you before they found out something was controlling you. autistic possession horror where they know what’s inside you isn’t you and debate whether it would be easier for everyone to leave you like this anyway. you agree. reblog.

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therapist: "See, if you'd taken these last few months to actually rest, reflect, think introspectively, and work on yourself, instead of spending every single day sitting at your desk with every muscle tensed going 'I just need to lock in--'"

me: "I'm this close to locking in though"

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The Family 'Chu! ⚡️

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since apparently this is controversial, reblog with your country in the tags and whether or not you think noodles and pasta are the same thing

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🍎🌸🐉

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I’m becoming so obsessed with driders. this is bad

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omfg i went snooping and yalll. im.

i think that caitvi kinktober thing shifted to a new blog name. calling it nsfw month now

and im looking at the rules and this change and im CACKLING

THEY LITERALLY TOOK THE KINK OUT OF KINKTOBER AKFKFGKGKHK

moved it to november. this is so fuckin funny to me

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i went to "mad at me" island expecting to find people i knew, something i understood. but when my boat landed, standing upon the shore were a million empty husks wearing my own face. every foot of the island was occupied, and everywhere i went, they watched me with contempt. they never spoke, never breathed. they simply watched. no matter how i grovelled and begged, snarled and cursed, tried to hide or kicked and hit, they simply stared. the hatred in their gaze was inescapable, but i could hardly return it, knowing that their doomed existence was of my own creation. knowing that the hatred was nobody's but my own. in the end i just wept, unable to stand the relentless gaze of my own infinite glare.

the guy who i accidentally cut off in traffic last week was there also

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there's been plenty of pushback against youtube's plan to age-check users by using an AI to analyze everyone's watching habits, but amidst that, i spotted this playlist circulating among some teens:

(picture is a reconstruction to protect the kids identity)

interesting! they're trying to trick the AI by watching videos that have a primarily adult viewer demographic? well im a curious fella so naturally i have to take a look-see, and

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You can fight AI in indie publishing by leaving reviews.

Seriously.

Ai-generated garbage is flooding the self-publishing market. It works as a numbers game- put out ENOUGH fake crap and eventually someone’s aunt will buy them the ebook as an unwanted gift, and you’ll have made two dollars. This tactic works at SCALE, which means real independent titles are now a needle amongst a haystack of slop.

If you have read a book this year that has less than 5 reviews, your rating is an algorithmic spotlight on that needle.

A one sentence review helps. Really. A star rating helps if you really can’t think of anything to say, but if you can muster up even “I laughed at the part about the tabby cat” you are doing indie authors a favor like you cannot believe.

(Also if you left a review on one of my books this year I am kissing you so softly on your forehead and I adore you)

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MEGA DRAGONITE!!! ˚₊‧꒰ა ✦ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

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✨️ The Enrichment has Enriched! ✨️

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sometimes you gotta bite the bullet and put "text your friend whom you love and genuinely want to talk to" on your to-do list because otherwise it is not getting done

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someone invents a recipe > their child loves it > they grow up and replicate it for their own child > their child loves it > they grow up and replicate it for their own child > their child loves it > they grow up and replicate it for their own child > their child loves it > (this continues indefinitely)