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So back when I was a senior in undergrad, my partner went through, like, the craziest nervous breakdown I'd ever witnessed in my life. And like, maybe it makes me a back girlfriend or whatever but I was kind of like, "I'm gonna mind my own business on this one."

So my partner gets super close to two other students in his program. He was a film student so his senior year was being capped off by him making a movie. He decides he's going to make a movie about him turning into a salmon. He gets crazy into it. He starts eating salmon for every meal. He buys a bunch of salmon-related stuff. We found a T-shirt at Goodwill with a salmon on it and he thought it was divine intervention that he was doing the right thing. He walks into the freezing-cold Puget sound fully clothed several times to "get into it." He watches videos of salmon spawning and is like, "Nothing is more poignant than this." He gets a tattoo of three salmon on his arm.

The entire time the two students he got really close to are fully enabling him. It's a folie á trois sort of situation. They're out until six in the morning doing creepy art school shit and encouraging his (possibly no longer fictional) desire to become a salmon. My partner has an answer for everything. "Salmon get eaten by bears," I say. "That's a cool as fuck way to die," he says blithely. "And Salmon are free of the yoke of capitalism."

And if I dared to say, Hey, this is....getting a little odd..., he would throw a full-scale tantrum. I'm not supporting his dream (I wasn't sure at this point if it was his dream to be a filmmaker or his dream to become a salmon). I'm basically like, okay. Be a salmon! Fuck!

We had been dating for five years at this point and this behavior was such a left turn that I just decided to ignore it. And then after all that he basically went back to normal after graduation. Sometimes he'll be like, "That was weird, huh?" and has nothing more to say on the matter.

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See I misunderstood how atoms worked as a small child! I determined that all that was holding me back from phasing through objects was my lack of skill. So I decided to full send it and run at a bookshelf! I instead crashed and hurt myself. Turns out that it wasn’t lack of belief.

"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level

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My preferred way to watch the Star Wars movies is 4,5,1,2,3,6. Not saying this is objectively the best way, but it preserves most of the plot twists. In this order, the PT functions as an extended flashback after Vader reveals himself as Luke's father, showing what happened to him and providing context for both Vader's internal conflict and Palpatine's machinations in RotJ.

Additionally, the birth scene in RotS when Padmé names the second baby Leia becomes a kick in the teeth for first time viewers. If you watch OT then PT, you already have that information. If you watch PT then OT you don't even know those characters yet. This way it becomes a reveal that follows up on Yoda's "there is another" line and Leia being able to sense Luke with the Force in ESB. It works as well as any version of that reveal possibly could given the framework.

Also this way, you see Anakin's whole fall to the Dark Side, and then the next thing you turn on is RotJ, and Luke's first appearance in that movie has him lightly Force-choking Jabba's guards while wearing black Jedi robes similar to Anakin's in RotS. It offers just that little bit more uncertainty over whether Luke actually could fall.

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Am I a bad person for killing flies that come into my home? Are we all bad people for doing so? Should we be catch and releasing them like we do moths, spiders, and butterflies? Are they just experiencing mass speciesism?

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Trying to scam people who are posting about their financial issues is a super scummy thing to do.

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I’m rooting for the people!!

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I’ve been working my furry little tail off the past few days trying to move, run a pay what you want yard sale, post stuff on marketplace, and prepare for being homeless. Luckily my family has collected a ton of expensive shit that we have been able to sell! I have made over $900 the past few days selling everything!! Most of it actually came from the yard sale too.

I’ve finally made enough to recoup the cost of the moving truck and more! My neighbors have all been exceedingly generous and one of them sent me $100 just to help 🥺

I was outside in 100-105F heat all day yesterday and I’m pretty sure I gave myself heat exhaustion. I threw up this morning, all my joints hurt like hell, and I’m just feeling like heck.

My dad and I are planning to roadtrip up to Washington and stop at all the national parks on the way! I’m really excited and hope this will be great bonding time with my dad. It sucks that we are going to be homeless but WA has better resources for us.

If you feel like being generous and opening your wallet to help me out here are my money apps:

Cashapp: $queerglowcloud

Venmo: @queer-glowcloud

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having anti punitive justice morals sucks because you want to say "man that guy sucks he should get hit with hammers until he dies" but you also want to make it clear you don't think anyone should be put in charge of the 'hit people with hammers until they die" machine.

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I’m manifesting West Coast Secession next year….

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all day every day I preach

you can't throw bricks at cops? okay. support the people who can. feed them on the front lines. stash changes of clothes for them. bring/donate masks for actions. get them out of jail. do jail support. help set them up with jobs and housing (many people lose those two things when they have charges). help pay legal bills. be a shoulder to cry on (a lot of this is very stressful!). I could go on

there is so much that you can do to support front liners! don't let your inability to do direct action keep you away from helping

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they went off with this

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As an ostomate I was thinking about how cool it would be to make an art piece out of a years worth of pill bottles and ostomy garbage (not used bags obviously lol).

I want there to be programs where they look at how manufacturers can create less waste. How cool would it be if you could sterilize your ostomy bag and just change the adhesive parts?

hello physically disabled person reading this. it is not your fault that your medical supplies are made from a lot of single use plastic and you can continue using them guilt free. your health comes first. thank you for existing.

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[ID: a black man with explaining hands with the subtitles “… and I took that personally”]

I read an AITA post a few weeks back about a woman who liked having snacks in the bath when she's had a long day (a result of residual trauma iirc - the bath was her safe space). Her brand new husband of three weeks, a man twice her age who had no job, made her pay all of his bills and do all housework, and spent all day every day gaming because he wanted to make it as a Twitch streamer, had always been fine with this; but, on the day in question, had whisked her bath snacks out of her hands as she was on her way to the bathroom and tried to bin them, telling her it was time to 'break her of that filthy habit in his home'. She told him if he ever actually paid anything towards the house she owns outright he might get a say, took her snacks back, and had her lovely bath. He was since giving her the silent treatment.

(Obviously the judgement was an avalanche of 'NTA and also he's abusing you', which she agreed with, and decided to kick him out, so happy ending.)

Anyway I told my husband about this and he was outraged. "I would never do that!" he told me, furious. "I would find it adorable if you had bath snacks!"

Since then, every time I try to have a bath (which I only do as a rare treat) after about ten minutes there has been an anxious scrabbling at the bathroom door.

"Elanor!" he says. "Do you have bath snacks? Do you need anything?"

My answer is irrelevant. He brings me wine and poptarts. Now I have bath snacks. I'm a bath snacks person. Last time he was literally sleeping on the sofa when I went for the bath. Somehow this still happened. I now have an eager bathroom butler. How did this happen. I have never been so decadent yet bewildered.

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I’ve been waiting since March to post this...

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hey sorry not to be an asshole but I saw someone say that a sports team posting about pride month was "pandering" and I need you to log off and touch grass because now more than EVER it's important that large institutions (and especially those that could easily be right wing like sports teams) show the fuck up for queer and trans people. especially trans people. so no it is not "pandering" to take a stand for a marginalized group of people that are currently under attack for trying to play sports. be so fucking for real

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hey in case you didn't know trans inclusive terminology in healthcare is not about protecting peoples feelings, it's to stop insurance companies from going "well it says here that hysterectomies are a procedure performed on WOMEN and you keep insisting that you're a MAN so we do not in fact have to cover that have a nice day and eat shit"