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I absolutely HATE getting catfished by those hawaii flower print shirts at the thrift

Like you see the sleeve and it’s washed out and you think you scored so you pull it off the rack just to have a palm tree and massive flower staring back at you and you want to murder someone

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Crazy? I was crazy once…

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Hey Siri how I stop early onset senioritis

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honestly i never thought the phrased “i want that twink obliterated” was like a sexual thing. like when i read the phrase i imagine “a meteor like the one that killed the dinosaurs is summoned from the heavens and hits the twink in question” type situation

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Happy pride you gay nerds

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Whatever happened to the Starbucks boycott? The go-fund-mes? I hardly see pro-Palestine content getting more than 2,000 likes on Instagram.

I’m afraid they’re being shadowblocked. People are dying and trying to document their suffering and moderators who have no idea what hunger is like are shadowblocking them.

Did people see a trend? Were empathy and compassion just fads??

I wish I didn’t have to see people suffering because that would mean there was no war. But now I don’t see people suffering and there is war, and that is terrifying.

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A snail with a bright yellow shell cracked into three. You could see it against the pavement made black with rain, all you have to do is look down.

To an extent, I understand it. There’s so much that’s up, we have to be looking towards it. The sky, the clouds, the endless space above them. Hopes and aspirations live up, not down.

Everyone always says, “Look up! Look up!“ It makes sense why, I mean, look at the buildings we have up there. Giant skyscrapers and high rises brushing the clouds with their penthouse rooms. The cranes that built them reaching up just as much, straining to touch the Earth’s ceiling.

But we can’t just live up there, look at how much higher it goes. So we build planes, we can move around up there instead of standing still.

And we looked past it, so we built rocket ships. We blasted out of the Earth and went further, and we saw how much more there is up there.

There’s so much life and hope and happiness up there, where the air is thin and the stars shine brighter, but there’s just as much life down here, too.

Down with the blades of grass each moving their own way through the wind, down with the flowers blooming in the cracks between the brick roads, down with the snails on the rain-blackened pavement.

But no one ever thinks to look down.

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“AI makes art accessible and affordable!”

Have you never made a drawing with the ketchup on your plate with your fork? Have you never thought about the fact that cave paintings were made with dust as paint and rock as canvas? Have you never doodled on your quizzes or tests or homework papers?

Tell me your life revolves around capitalism and its hatred for creativity without telling me your life revolves around capitalism and its hatred for creativity 😭🙏

"Ai makes art accessible and affordable!" Yeah shut your trap already. All the traditional art you see here is done on notebook/the blank side of worksheets, with only a cheap ass pencil and an eraser I found on the floor of my math class. The only thing stopping you is your unwillingness to learn. So stop typing prompts, and pick up a damn pencil!

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On binary transphobia and misogyny (with scenarios!!)

I’ve found as of late that it seems most binary transphobia stems from an internalized belief that women are inherently less-than. Maybe this is a cold take, but I want to explore it anyways.

When I say “binary” transphobia, I am referring to people born as male or female who transition to the “opposite” gender. So, males who transition into women and females who transition into men. Note that they stay the same biological sex (you cannot alter your chromosomes) but change gender. This is possible because while sex is stagnant (unless one has some sort of chromosome disorder), gender is a construct meant to place certain roles on different people. Sex is important to differentiate from gender because one is a concrete biological definition and one was made to oppress.

Now, women and people who present more feminine typically face greater oppression and hatred than men and masculine presenting people. The thing about this binary is that in our current situation in this post, there are four things someone can be:

Male/man

Female/woman

Male/woman

Female/man

Notice how there is only one situation in which someone is neither a woman nor female. This would be a cisgender man. In the present day, many people present their gender as “matching” their sex. Cisgendered women usually dress and act more feminine while cisgendered men usually dress and act more masculine. This means that many people who are less educated about such topics do believe sex and gender are interchangeable terms. They believe all females are women and all males are men, and that both sex and gender are not something you can alter (when in reality, only sex is unalterable).

This also leads to assumptions about presentation. A cisgender man with long hair and softer facial features could be mistaken as a female, and then treated as weird for dressing masculine. On the contrary, he could be treated as weird for looking feminine while being a man. This is due to the idea that women should dress and act like women and men should dress and act like men.

Now that we have a basic understanding of how society views gender, sex, and the roles people should adopt based on such labels, we can get into the transphobia that comes into play.

Let’s say we have a male named Max. Max grows up and realizes he isn’t a man, but a woman. Max decides to tell her closest friend, John, that she feels like a woman and is going to transition. Max says to John, “John, I have to tell you that I feel like a woman and I’m going to transition into the woman that I’m meant to be.”

John thinks about this and responds, “Max, you know I want what’s best for you, but are you sure? I mean, think about it, Max. You’re a man, why would you want to be a woman?”

Let’s break John’s response down. First, he ties Max’s sex with her gender. He says, “You’re a man,” even though Max has stated otherwise. John confuses Max’s sex, male, with her gender, a woman. But next, John says, “why would you want to be a woman?” This is where misogyny comes into play.

The world is built around men in most aspects, and therefore men have a lot of privileges that women don’t. Even though many people may say that they don’t realize these things, they subconsciously do. The mere thought of a man choosing to give up his privilege that comes with being a man is absurd. John, possibly unknowingly, is one of those who believe that no man in his right mind would ever give up the power that being a man is, and is therefore confused and disbelieving when one of his friends states she is doing just that.

John’s internalized misogyny keeps him from accepting that his friend could possibly be a woman, as she gave up that privilege. Thus, in this situation, he perpetuates transphobia in trying to convince Max that she isn’t a woman, because ‘why would a man ever want to be a woman?’

Now, in a world where there is less misogyny and people begin to dismantle the patriarchy, the situation could go like this:

Let’s say we have a male named Max. Max grows up and realizes he isn’t a man, but a woman. Max decides to tell her closest friend, John, that she feels like a woman and is going to transition. Max says to John, “John, I have to tell you that I feel like a woman and I’m going to transition into the woman that I’m meant to be.”

John thinks about this and responds, “Max, you know I want what’s best for you, but I’m not quite sure I understand your reasoning for this feeling you have. However, I’m your friend and I want to support you through this. I’m glad you felt that you were able to tell me how you feel.”

Max responds, “Thank you for your honesty, John. I know it might be hard to understand, but I’m grateful for your friendship and support through this.”

Honestly, this is how all of these types of interactions should go. In this world, the patriarchy still exists, hence why John is not fully understanding of Max’s situation, but John still supports his friend.

Now we have a second situation. Let’s say we have a female named Jayden. Jayden realizes one day that she isn’t a woman and wants to transition into a man. Jayden decides to tell his closest friend, Dan, about his transition. Jayden says to Dan, “Dan, I want to tell you that a I feel like a man, and I’m going to transition into the man I am.”

Dan says to him, “Jayden, I’m not too sure how this is going to go for you. You’re female, even if you say you’re a man people won’t accept it. You won’t be a real man.”

Let’s break this response down as well. Dan says “You’re female.” This is a correct statement, but technically irrelevant. You can be female and a man, male and a woman, or other genders despite your sex. Dan, like John, is tying gender to sex when they are separate ideas. Then Dan says, “You won’t be a real man.” This is indicative of internalized misogyny, as the idea that a woman could ever ascend past that title to a man is unheard of.

Misogyny and the patriarchy were created to give men the majority of the power while keeping women down through oppression. If there is a female that is able to get to the privilege of men, the whole idea of the system collapses because it wasn’t built to have people be able to change their level in it.

Therefore, when trans men enter the situation, the sentiment that they won’t be “real” men is made in an attempt to fix the collapse. If we decide that being a “real” man means being male, then females won’t be able to access the privilege of men, keeping the patriarchy intact.

Now, in our ideal world, the situation could go something like this:

Let’s say we have a female named Jayden. Jayden realizes one day that she isn’t a woman and wants to transition into a man. Jayden decides to tell his closest friend, Dan, about his transition. Jayden says to Dan, “Dan, I want to tell you that a I feel like a man, and I’m going to transition into the man I am.”

Dan says to him, “Jayden, I’m not too sure how this is going to go for you, but I want to support you. I might make some mistakes because this is new to me, but I’m glad you felt comfortable enough to tell me.”

Jayden responds, “Thank you Dan. I understand that this might be difficult for you to adjust to, but in time it will be natural. I’m appreciative of your friendship and support.”

Even though Dan may be unfamiliar with the idea of being transgender, he realizes that his friendship with Jayden means more than not quite understanding something.

TL;DR, binary transphobia stems from the fact that the only people who never experience womanhood are cisgender men and the patriarchal system is built around them. Due to this system, both women and females are oppressed and are expected to stay in their respective levels, females as women and males as men, and it is absurd to think that males could want to lose their privileges as men and that females can gain those privileges as men.

Please be kind to anyone in your life that comes out as transgender. It’s a hard thing to do, telling people you that care about that you’re not who they thought you were, and knowing they could abandon you because of it. The queer community’s foundation is transgender people, we have existed and will continue to exist in a world not meant for us.

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I want you to think about something: If you skipped a meal, intentionally or unintentionally, would you be able to function properly? Does your body have the nutrients stored to sustain itself? If you grew increasingly hungry, could you eat something filling enough to fill your stomach?

If the answer to those questions is yes, I want you to imagine what it is like for those who answer “no.” The people who would be risking their health and wellbeing if they missed getting the nutrition they need. The people who are already so malnourished that their bodies are failing them. The people who can’t just get up and get a snack.

The borders to Gaza have been closed for far too long; aid neither enters nor leaves and Palestinians are constantly starving. Food prices are sky-high because no outside sources are provided whatsoever.

Adults can no longer feed themselves because they need to feed their kids. Kids can no longer feed themselves because the adults who would have been feeding them are dead. People are malnourished and hungry and suffering from starvation while airplanes fly overhead, polluting the air with emissions and noise and while people are killed by bombings.

Save for those who cannot help it due to medical issues and EDs, when you skip a meal, intentionally or unintentionally, think about what those consequences are for people less fortunate. How the little nutrients from one meal could keep someone’s ability to walk. How the boost even one small meal provides could be the difference between an annoying ache and a stabbing hunger pang.

When you go out to eat, pass on an extra side or dessert and donate to those who will need it more if you’re able; whether or not they are in Palestine, there are people starving. People don’t ask for much, but having sufficient food and housing should be a human right, no matter what those in charge of Israel and the United States say. Be sure to recognize your privilege in the choice to forego a meal and be secure in that decision.

If this post comes off as white saviour complex I am deeply sorry, I’m not sure what classifies as such but if it is please alert me so I can change my wording.

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it is october 2025. tottmnt 2 drops. all the voices are ai. nicolas cantu is in court. micah abbeys voice has dropped 7 more octaves from s1. brady noon narrates another 20 episodes as splinter. casey jones has not been introduced. just put the sequel in the theater gng🥀

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(Wow, two posts within a business week of each other? James, you’re acting crazy!!)

I recently went to America (No, I am not from the US, I’m Canadian), and I was in LA. Specifically, Disneyland.

I went on a band trip, and while it was amazing and a completely wonderful experience, I noticed something kind of odd.

In Canada, we have many recycling bins EVERYWHERE. Bins are sorted by type of recycling, like flexible plastics and glass and soda cans and paper. These bins have different colours corresponding to their respective recycling, and I see these bins everywhere I go.

My school? Bins in each hallway. The mall? Bins in the food courts. Campgrounds? Blue bins separate from the trash bins.

But in America, there are two bins. One for trash (and most bins are for trash), and if you’re lucky, a mixed recycling bin.

Maybe it was just because I was in a tourist city in tourist places (Disneyland, Santa Monica, etc) but it was concerning. All food waste went straight to the trash, as did paper and plastic.

Please, if you’re American, tell me if this is how it is everywhere because that certainly isn’t how it is here.

If that is how all of the US is, I have a new understanding of why it is usually Americans who people like to use as examples of why we need recycling.

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One thing I think about a lot is that I came out as trans AFTER starting high school, and that means two things:

1) Half of my grade 8 class still misgenders me

2) The best photo of me to exist, ever, is my yearbook photo from grade 8, pre-transition 💔

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I’m actually done w politics forever but hey at least Poilievre lost his own riding

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⭐ Tcoptp ⭐

Okay, listen, I already miss all the characters of this fic, oh my god.

FF from @motswolo, thnks for this masterpiece ❤️