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“Do it scared” “do it badly” it’s time to drop the guide for do it alone

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The full set!!!

then everything changed when the fire nation attacked.

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Why do things keep happening??? I just want things to stop happening. I need a pause from exiatence!!!

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@strange-aeons HAS SUCCSEEDED IN ACCIDENTALLY BECOMING A CROAKERVERSE CHARACTER AND THUS MURDERING THE MUPPET JOKER

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I want to ask someone about how good parents react to things but idk anyone who had good parents growing up

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Girl: *Is nice to me and butch* Me: *falls in love immediately*

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How do I become somebody's weed smoking girlfriend?

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long distance feelings

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Post-Gender World

I wanna talk about a hypothetical post-gender future: Imagine a world where all children are raised gender neutral, being able to pick any and all clothes, toys, activities, etc. with nothing being thrust upon them. All children are offered hormone blockers before they start puberty because of the myriad (thank you Heathers) of reasons someone might want to delay growing (scared, unsure of what they want their body to grow into, medical reasons). Then, between the ages of 14-20, everyone is encouraged to choose both a name and a set of, what we today call, neo- or xeno-pronouns to be their own. To use myself as an example, I've chosen the name Fable and to keep my story theme might use tale/tale/tales/taleself. There's a long list of pronouns to choose from and it is common for people to make up their own. Although people are only expected to choose new identifiers once, most people change names and pronouns between 2 and 4 times as they learn more about themselves through age and experience. There's a handful of people who are constantly changing identifiers to the point it gets confusing. This may come from black-and-white thinking (this is what I am right now and so I will always be this and need to change everything about myself to match it) and impulsivity (I've found what I am and am going to declare it immediately with no further thoughts), but it can also come as a form of play (today I'm playing Princess so I'll use the name Antoinette and go by Heir/heirs/heirself, tomorrow I'll dress up as a rabbit and use bun/buns/bunself and be called Peter).

In this world, 'male' and 'female' and 'non-binary' (and specific labels under those umbrellas) are a thing of the past. Instead of using premade goalposts to align yourself between, you are taught how to create your own goalposts for identity/self-expression and how to figure out where you align on these newly created axis. No one really cares what label you use for your gender and many people don't even think about it, instead choosing what puberty to go through based on what specific by-products of that puberty they may want and getting surgeries or area-specific hrt to correct ones they may not. Sexuality is also rarely labeled. As opposed to today's heteronormativity there's a pannormativity meaning that the norm is to not really care about what's in someone's pants until you're either planning out how you want to have sex or actively having sex, and even then it's purely so you know what you physically can and can't do together. The only sexualities that survived from today are asexual and aromantic as allonormativity sadly still prevails. But, just because romantc and sexual attraction is assumed doesn't mean people are discriminated against or ridiculed for not meeting those assumptions, its just that people on the ace and aro spectrums have to declare that they are. What do you think about this world? What do you like or dislike about it? How does it mesh and conflict with your concept of your own gender? What would your name and pronouns be in this world?

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🫵 STOP! you are doomscrolling. tell me your favorite animal instead

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An incomplete list of things that employers commonly threaten that are 100% illegal in the United States

"We'll fire you if you tell others how much you're making" The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 specifically protects employees who discuss their own wages with each other (you can't reveal someone else's wages if you were given that information in the course of work, but you can always discuss your own or any that were revealed to you outside of work duties)

"If we can't fire you for [discussing wages/seeking reasonable accommodation/filing a discrimination complaint/etc], we'll just fire you for something else the next day." This is called pretextual termination, and it offers your employer almost no protection; if you are terminated shortly after taking a protected action such as wage discussion, complaints to regulatory agencies, or seeking a reasonable accommodation, you can force the burden onto your employer to prove that the termination wasn't retaliatory.

"Disparaging the company on social media is grounds for termination" Your right to discuss workplace conditions, compensation, and collective action carries over to online spaces, even public ones. If your employer says you aren't allowed to disparage the company online or discuss it at all, their social media policy is illegal. However, they can forbid releasing information that they're obligated to keep confidential such as personnel records, business plans, and customer information, so exercise care.

"If you unionize, we'll just shut this branch down and lay everyone off" Threatening to take action against a group that unionizes is illegal, full stop. If a company were to actually shut down a branch for unionizing, they would be fined very heavily by the NLRB and be opening themselves up to a class-action lawsuit by the former employees.

"We can have any rule we want, it's only illegal if we actually enforce it" Any workplace policy or rule that has a "chilling effect" on employees' willingness to exercise their rights is illegal, even if the employer never follows through on any of their threats.

"If you [protected action], we'll make sure you never work in this industry/city/etc again." Blacklisting of any kind is illegal in half the states in the US, and deliberately sabotaging someone's job search in retaliation for a protected action is illegal everywhere in the US.

"Step out of line and you can kiss your retirement fund/last paycheck goodbye." Your employer can never refuse to give you your paycheck, even if you've been fired. Nor can they keep money that you invested in a retirement savings account, and they can only claw back the money they invested in the retirement account under very specific circumstances.

"We'll deny that you ever worked here" not actually possible unless they haven't been paying their share of employment taxes or forwarding your withheld tax to the government (in which case they're guilty of far more serious crimes, and you might stand to gain something by turning them in to the IRS.) The records of your employment exist in state and federal tax data, and short of a heist that would put Oceans 11 to shame, there's nothing they can do about that.

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Holy **** oh right okay. So I was about to make a post about how using speech to text has already been a game changer for me but as you can see by the line of asterix at the start of this post the bloody thing auto censors swear words. (Yet bloody got through, ig Because it is a description and also British slang.). Hint: the word I was trying to say there starts with F and ends with K.

Oh and guess what else you can't say you can't say? **** [Nipples]. had to type that myself. penis is ok but **** [clitoris] isn't, and all my attempts to say "clit" were Misunderstood, which may just be my speech but at this point I am not willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Vagina is OK too but every time I say it there is a moment when an * shows up on screen first before the full word does. this doesn't happen when I say the word penis.

It is completely heinous. Anybody who needs speech to text is immediately forced to comply with the rules set out by people in a position of power and then enforced by a machine — a machine that is a very powerful accessibility tool. Imagine trying to dictate a letter to a doctor or fill in an E consult with speech to text, only to have words of your anatomy censored as if they are taboo. there is already far too much stigma around genital physical health — and note that I could say genital but can't say **** [clitoris] — for it to be okay for these words to be censored.

And even if somebody just wants to swear In a message to their friends or write smut/**** [pornography], they should be able to. There is no justification for this feature. No reason for it to be default.

I'm trying to find a way around this. There is a settings icon on the little speech to text bar that comes up, but this only gives me options For the speech typing launcher, auto punctuation, and to set the default microphone. it's making me extremely angry

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crafting a plane launcher with chopsticks by 小小折纸手工

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Watching Unsleeping City S2 for the first time and it is WILD seeing start-of-transition Ally. HRT really is magic!

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*standing casually in front of a pig trough* ummm...I think you should all believe that pig! I mean, if pigs would eat humans then you might need to check my pig trough. But they don't so you DEFINITELY DO NOT need to check my trough. Ever.

Yeah ok Mr Pig 🤣

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This took a while but...milkshakes :3

Plus some extras

For @elefunt

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Why dont we just get rid of ce/bce ad/bc and just use -year?